End of the Season

Open Days at VB ended in November. I decided to take some pictures of the volunteers in action:

Lesley and Jenny - shop volunteers

The shop was very busy – people buying Christmas presents?

 

Link to Twitter added

There is now a link to @victoriabaths on Twitter in the “Victoria Baths Online” panel – down the RH side of page. If the snail’s pace of this inexperienced blogger is too slow for you then our twitterer will keep you happy.

New pages added

There are now two new pages:

Events, which will detail anything coming up which is connected with this blog, and

Victoria Swimming Club, which has monthly swimming sessions at Levenshulme Baths.

Restarting blog

Finally I have manged to log on to this blog – I’m a volunteer at Victoria Baths and have taken on updating this blog. Hopefully I will now be able to keep it up to date.

As a start, I’ve put on a new page for the VB History Archive (see tab above)

Barry

A Visitor’s Viewpoint

A very quick video here – just a clip of one visitor’s response to her day at the Baths’ recent Open Day.

Visit to Victoria Baths

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Manchester’s Aspiring Architects

Last Sunday saw the younger generation take over Victoria Baths’ open day. Visitors flocked to the building to take part in a series of Family Design Workshops aimed at budding architects. The activities, organised by Chartered Architect Jane Leach, with support from Manchester Women’s Design Group, were designed to give children a taste of what architects do and why their role is important.

Aspiring Will Alsops took part in everything from tile-printing and stained glass making, as well as designing bespoke homes for their favourite cartoon characters. Meanwhile, the adults enjoyed the usual tours and Open Day goings-on, as well as contributing to an Emotion Map of the city created by Manchester Women’s Design Group.

Family Design Workshop

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The Family Design Workshops were part of Manchester Architecture and Design Festival 2010, which runs until 15th May.

You can also listen to Jane, Lorenza (MWDG) and Urun (MADF2010) discussing plans for the workshop HERE.

Whodunnit at Victoria Baths?

On Friday 23rd April, a team of lawyers from New Charter Housing Trust Group turned super-sleuths to unravel a murder mystery that played out around the building. The guests were ably assisted by Detective Sherlock and his hapless assistant, Inspector Clueless, as well as medical expert Dr Pat Aulogie, and loyal butler Jeeves. Watch the video if you dare, to see what happened and who killed Henrietta Fanny Hoof…

Murder at the Baths

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Gorton Visual Arts are blogging!

Image from Gorton Visual Arts' blog

Quick update – I’m delighted to see that since we visited them a couple of weeks ago, Gorton Visual Arts have started blogging about the development of their soon-to-be-exhibited Our ‘Ouse Project. It’ll be really interesting to follow their work process. Look out for GVA at Victoria Baths later this summer, too.

VISIT THE GORTON VISUAL ARTS BLOG

Meet the Artist: Marie

Here’s an interview with one of Gorton Visual Arts’ longest-standing members, talking about her involvement with the Victoria Baths project, her love of rust and how she began a second career as an artist at the age of 68.

Watch Marie’s video:

Meet the Artist – Marie

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Meet the Artist: Yvonne

I caught up with Yvonne, Gorton Visual Arts’ resident cartoonist, to find out about her current work,  her involvement with the Victoria Baths project and what inspires her.

Watch Yvonne’s video:

Artist Profile – Yvonne

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