Mash is a new space for art in St Helens. Mash will feature the best in contemporary arts, design, photography and film that the region has to offer.

Located in St Helens town centre, Mash also offers great organic food in its cool cafe bar, unique local handcrafted gifts and jewellery in its shop, as well as a fully equipped photography/film studio for hire.

Mash Gallery will launch with two great events:
Wednesday 26th May @ 6.30 : 'Brand Spanking: New work from Stephen Ball & Nicola Ellis'
Thursday 27th May @ 8.30pm : 'Pomp : The Artists Social Club'

NOTE - there is no music-net meeting today (8th June)

Music-net meetings will merge with the arts network meetings for the next few months. Owen Hutchings, Arts Engagement Officer for the Council, has been doing a great job of inviting speakers to the arts network meetings which are held on a thursday from 4-6pm. We encourage everyone to attend the meetings on:

24th June - Godfrey Pilkington Gallery
29th July - Citadel
26th August - Citadel
30th Sep - Citadel
28th Oct - Citadel
25th Nov - Citadel

Tom McGrath, 38, drummer of The Lancashire Hotpots and known as Willie Eckerslike, was found dead this week. A police spokesman has said his death is not being treated as suspicious. Tom was one of the band’s founder members and also a St Helens College lecturer.

This month's meeting - May 11th - is cancelled. Apologies from the music-net team.

The concert at the United Reformed Church on Saturday evening (8th May). In the Sinfonietta’s Festival of British Musicseries, was a remarkable event. It’s not every day that a distinguished string quartet performs in St. Helens, and it was pleasant to see how many people were attracted to the event. The Castlefield Quartet from Manchester (Rachael Drury, India Patel, Anna Smith and Doug Badger) took on two rarely heard and formidably demanding major works, whose essence they fully grasped and projected with conviction and polished unanimity.