Wreath Making
Christmas is coming! Livewire are giving a Wreath Making demonstration at Stockton Heath library on Saturday 13 December. Please book tickets through Livewire – lespin1@livewirewarrington.org. Should be fun!!
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Small Things Like These
One of the best films of 2024 starring Cillian Murphy. While working as a coal merchant to support his family, Bill Furlong discovers disturbing secrets kept by the local convent. He uncovers truths of his own, forcing him to confront his past and the complicit silence of a small Irish town…
The Ballad of Wallis Island
A Fresh Big Hearted Comedy. The film follows an eccentric lottery winner who lives alone on a remote island and dreams of getting his favourite musicians back together. His fantasy turns into reality when his bandmates and former lovers accept his invitation to play a private show at his home…
Martin Edwards Literary Event
We are delighted that renowned crime writer, Martin Edwards, has agreed to return to introduce his newest book “Miss Winter in the Library with a Knife”. This will be, quite literally, “hot off the press” as the official publication/launch date is only one week prior to our event! With clues…
Crime Reading Week 2025
Swish will be supporting this year’s Crime Reading Week being held at both Central and Padgate libraries.
Students at the Warrington Academy
Join author and historian Dr. Bill Cooke as he explains the history of the students at the Warrington Academy. It is well known that the Warrington Academy was one of the high points of Warrington’s long history but credit for this is usually given to the men who taught there.…
Three Famous Warringtonians
Join author and historian Dr. Bill Cooke as he explains the history of Warrington’s medieval churchmen. Over the course of Warrington’s long history there are three medieval churchmen who changed the world in ways still felt today. Robert Hallam, Thomas Penketh and Richard Bancroft, all Warrington born and bred, rose…
Papal Elections
Friday 14th March, 7pm for 7:30pm Join author and historian Dr. Stella Fletcher as she explains the history of Papal Elections (Conclaves) When popes exercised political power, their selection process was a matter of intense interest to secular rulers. That political dimension has not survived into the twenty-first century, but the…
2025 Film Nights
7:30pm, Friday, 4th April 2025. Ralph Fiennes leads a top-tier ensemble, including Stanley Tucci and Isabella Rossellini, in an entertainingly juicy adaptation of Robert Harris’s novel
Thelma
Film Night – 7:30pm, Friday, 20th December 2024 93-year-old Thelma Post lives alone in Los Angeles. Her aimless but loving grandson Daniel “Danny” Markowitz often visits and looks after her needs despite not taking responsibility for his own life. Although Thelma is close with Danny, she finds his constant assistance…
