In honour of the Baylight Whale arriving at Halton Mill, we are hosting a celebration of all things whale, with arts and craft workshops, story-telling, music, yoga, food and drink, and family fun. From 10am - 12pm, local artists welcome kids and big kids alike to come and create some friends for the whale, which will then be suspended from the ceiling alongside it. After lunch (bring your own picnic, cake and coffee/tea will be available), there will be storytelling, under the sea yoga, music and why not enter our competition to name the whale?! Check out the recent Lancaster Guardian article for more information, and book onto the workshop on the tab below! We can't whale to sea you ;-)

This powerful exhibition honours the lives and work of journalist Dom Phillips and Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira. The opening night on Wednesday 23 July at 6.30pm features guest speaker Romina Celona, graduate student anthropologist at the National Museum in Rio de Janeiro and visiting scholar in Paris, who will give an introduction to ‘Indigenous peoples in Brazil: defending territories and traditions’ . There’ll be refreshments and Brazilian snacks. And the evening will finish with Afro-Brazilian dancing - Louise Gibbons from Northbound Dance will be teaching us all some tropical moves! Free entry – all welcome (donations will go to the crowdfunder for ‘Musical Journeys ‘25’ – a transatlantic music and dance cabaret planned to take place at Halton Mill in the autumn, which is raising funds for the Dom Phillips Institute and two music projects in the Amazon.)