Nantwich Food Festival will stage its popular annual awards this year with a lockdown twist.
For many years, local foodies have voted in their thousands in the Nantwich Food Awards to choose their favourite food and drink establishments, producers and retailers.
By Claire Faulkner
Theatre lovers who have missed out on live shows in lockdown can tune in to Nantwich Players for a first “live stream” production.
The group will present one of the first live-stream productions post Covid-19 from an amateur theatre organisation in the UK this Friday, July 17.
Organisers of Nantwich’s annual Words and Music Festival have vowed to stage something a little differently this year.
The coronavirus pandemic means the usual week-long festival of packed live performances across dozens of venues in October cannot go ahead.
By Jonathan White
A Nantwich poet has published poems about dyslexia: straight for the heart.
Helen Kay wrote a pamphlet about chickens back in 2016 and since then Helen and her sidekick chicken puppet, Nigella, have been clucking away at many local venues.
Nantwich Museum is marking its 40th anniversary with an online exhibition.
The museum, which opened in January 1980 in the former Nantwich Free Library, aims to preserve the history of the town and its locality.
The postponed “Pride in the Park event” scheduled to take place at Queens Park in Crewe has now been set a new date – as a a “Virtual Pride” event.
Virtual Pride 2020 will take place on Saturday July 25 from 2-7pm.
Nantwich Museum wants people’s experiences of the Covid-19 pandemic to provide a lasting historical record of the event.
Letters, short statements and photographs are sought, with the aim of gaining an insight into how everyday life in Nantwich changed during the pandemic.
Cheshire East Libraries are to host a new digital Summer Reading Challenge organised by The Reading Agency.
Although library buildings are closed, the Challenge will be delivered through virtual services and e-lending platforms.
Nantwich Museum has launched a new website to keep residents up to date during the COVID-19 pandemic closure.
Museum staff, who meet “virtually” each week, say they improved website will feature updates on stories of Nantwich Buildings and notable people.
Mid Cheshire Community Rail Partnership has launched a children’s art competition called “My Cheshire Poster Awards”.
It aims to provide a teaching resource for children who are unable to go to school due to the Coronavirus pandemic.
Nantwich Museum staff have launched a digital version in a bid to keep people engaged during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The facility like many others has been forced to close during the current lockdown conditions.
Nantwich Players Studio has scooped a top honour at the latest festival to be held before the Coronavirus shutdown.
The Studio team entered “Girl in the Machine” by award-winning writer Stef Smith.
As events and festivals fall by the wayside across Nantwich and Cheshire, we wanted to try and bring some cheer to your lives.
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