Category: Things to do!

What’s on for Children: Easter 2022

WHATS ON FOR CHILDREN EASTER 2022

The following events are taking place in Watchet during the Easter Holidays. This is not a definitive list, if you have an event to add please let me know info@lovewatchet.co.uk

Everyday of the Easter Holidays
Easter Egg Hunt at Doniford Farm Park, Collect your Hunt form from the farm shop, follow the Easter Trail around the farm park and discover the hidden word to collect your egg £3.

Saturday 9th April 10.30am-1pm at Watchet Visitor Centre
Rope making in the Boat Museum with Chris. Suggested Donation £2

Saturday 9th April 11am-1pm at Knights Templar School
Easter Eggsravaganza!
Egg Hunt, Meet Moon the Unicorn, Story Telling and More.

Monday 11th April 2-4pm at East Quay
In the story, Rechenka’s Eggs, Babushka always wins first prize for her exquisitely hand-decorated eggs.
Join us for the first of our Easter holiday family workshops as we read the story of ‘Rechenka’s Eggs’ and create some of our own Ukrainian-inspired decorated eggs using a variety of techniques such as marbling and tape batik.
Washed, handblown or hardboiled eggs are available to buy and decorate at £1 each, or you can blow/hard boil your own to bring down and decorate. Donations welcome.

Tuesday 12th April-Friday 15th April
Pick up your trail sheet for the Rechenka Egg Hunt in Watchet! Activities in the Boat Museum, trails and more!
Available from the Visitor Centre.

Tuesday 12th- Thursday 14th April 2-4pm at East Quay
Come and join us this Easter as we embark on making a large-scale spring garden here in the East Quay Courtyard (or Creator Space if the weather is not on our side). For the next 3 days, we will make new elements of this collaged installation, with lots of opportunities for collaborative mark making and process art, along with more intricate outcomes too.
Children’s work will remain with the installation, but please leave a name and contact number attached to your child’s piece if they have made something they would eventually like to keep.
The work will be displayed in East Quay’s Creator Space.
Collage installation plan:
Tuesday 12th April – Mark making and stencilling – garden leaves and vines
Wednesday 13th April – Crazy critters

Thursday 14th April 10.30am-1pm at Watchet Visitor Centre
Rope Making with Chris. Suggested Donation £2

Tuesday 19th April to Friday 22nd April 2- 4 pm at East Quay
We will be creating props for our Maritime Mayhem Weekend on 28th and 29th May. Our workshops are free, but a donation to ContainsArt is welcome.
Each workshop is suitable for all ages.
Tuesday 19th April – Hats and Head dresses
Wednesday 20th April – Cow Mask making
Thursday 21st April – Model Cow making
Friday 22nd April – Giant Maritime Canvas

Moon at the Minster!

THE MOON COMES TO TAUNTON
St Mary Magdalene Church plays host to the world-famous art installation by Luke Jerram.

Taunton Moon at the Minster
Museum of the Moon is a touring artwork by UK artist Luke Jerram.

Measuring six metres in diameter, the moon features 120dpi detailed NASA imagery of the lunar surface. At an approximate scale of 1:500,000, each centimetre of the internally lit spherical sculpture represents 5km of the moon’s surface*.

Over its lifetime, the Museum of the Moon will be presented in a number of different ways both indoors and outdoors, so altering the experience and interpretation of the artwork. As it travels from place to place, it gathers new musical compositions and an ongoing collection of personal responses, stories and mythologies, as well as highlighting the latest moon science.

The installation is a fusion of lunar imagery, moonlight and surround sound composition created by BAFTA and Ivor Novello award winning composer Dan Jones. Each venue also programmes their own series lunar inspired events beneath the moon.

The moon has always inspired humanity, acting as a ‘cultural mirror’ to society, reflecting the ideas
and beliefs of all people around the world. Over the centuries, the moon has been interpreted as a god and as a planet. It has been used as a timekeeper, calendar and been a source of light to aid nighttime navigation. Throughout history the moon has inspired artists, poets, scientists, writers and musicians the world over. The ethereal blue light cast by a full moon, the delicate crescent following the setting sun, or the mysterious dark side of the moon has evoked passion and exploration. Different cultures around the world have their own historical, cultural, scientific and religious relationships to the moon. And yet somehow, despite these differences, the moon connects us all.

Museum of the Moon allows us to observe and contemplate cultural similarities and differences around the world, and consider the latest moon science. Depending on where the artwork is presented, its meaning and interpretation will shift. Through local research at each location of the artwork, new stories and meanings will be collected and compared from one presentation to the next.

Opening Hours…

Friday 18th March – Thursday 31st March 2022

Friday 18th: 7pm – 9pm
Saturday 19th: 10am – 2pm / 7pm – 9pm
Sunday 20th: 7pm – 9pm
Monday 21st: 10am – 2pm
Tuesday 22nd: 10am – 2pm
Wednesday 23rd: 10am – 2pm
Thursday 24th: 10am – 2pm / 7pm – 9pm
Friday 25th: 10am – 2pm / 7pm – 9pm
Saturday 26th: 10am – 2pm / 7pm – 9pm
Sunday 27th: 7pm – 9pm
Monday 28th: 10am – 2pm
Tuesday 29th: 10am – 2pm
Wednesday 30th: 10am – 2pm
Thursday 31st: 10am – 2pm / 7pm – 9pm

(Times subject to change)

Pricing…
FREE (No booking required)

Photograph: Loretta Whetlor

Welcome to Watchet 2022

Have you ever wondered where you find out what events are going on in Watchet?

Welcome to Watchet 2022

At the end of 2021 things began to get back to some kind of new normal. We were able to have a number of local events, not as we had previously had, but with reduced numbers, extra precautions and with social distancing.

As we enter 2022 we begin to prepare for a year of social activity, one eye on new regulations and one eye on new variants!

New event dates are being added on a daily basis to the Watchet Calendar, the 40s weekend has just been agreed for the 10th and 11th September and plans are afoot for a food festival. The Watchet Music Festival will take place in its regular slot of the August Bank Holiday and this year the Carnival will resume.

The Queens Platinum Jubilee will be celebrated and there is a Maritime event too.

All these days and dates can be found on the lovewatchet event pages.

Keep up to date with your local events and if you’re coming to Watchet on holiday, make sure you book your accommodation in advance!