What’s on in Harlow

Harlow Museum & Walled Gardens

Muskham Road, Harlow www.harlowmuseum.com

01279 446222

Open 9.30am to 3.30pm (last entry 3pm) every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.

Harlow’s Heroes –Blue Plaque Competition

Tuesday 7 March 2023 until Tuesday 25 April 2023

Ages 4 to 14.

Take part in Harlow Museum’s competition to design a blue plaque. Create your own to celebrate individuals that live and work in Harlow who make a difference to you or the community. It could be someone from history, school, or your family.

The Coronation of His Majesty The King and Her Majesty

The Queen Consort will take place at Westminster Abbey on Saturday 6 May 2023. Across the Coronation Weekend, there will be further opportunities for people to come together in celebration of the historic occasion.

Harlow Council’s Civic Pride Community Fund will support events to mark this occasion during the month of May. Grants of £50 up to £500 can be applied for and used to fund events like street parties.

Applicants must also apply separately for a street party. Applications for Coronation street parties must be made online by 12 April 2023 and held over the Coronation Weekend. This gives us time to carry out the relevant consultation.

Street parties are a brilliant way to build a friendly community. We encourage street parties and want to make it as easy as possible for you to arrange them.

The Civic Pride Community Fund yearly budget is £10,000. For the rest of the year we will focus the fund on applications that aim to provide support to residents who are affected by the current cost of living crisis as well as those that bring people together to support mental and physical health and wellbeing.

For more information on the Civic Pride Community Fund and organising a street party visit www.harlow.gov.uk

There will be an awards ceremony on Saturday 20 May where you will be able to see the plaque entries displayed.

Download the template from our website and return it to Harlow Museum to enter.

Neurodiversity Celebration Week

Saturday 18 March

Drop-in activities from 10am to 3pm. During Neurodiversity Celebration Week is a time to challenge stereotypes and misconceptions about neurological differences.

We recognise the many talents and advantages of being neurodivergent, but sometimes it feels like we need to hide our true selves to fit in.

At the museum come make a mask that expresses your true self, or drop into our Walled Gardens for a seed sowing session, have a feel of the different types of seeds and soils.

Grow your own fruit and veg

Tuesday 4 April 2023

It’s the perfect time to start thinking about growing your own fruit and veg. Come along to the Walled Gardens to learn about planting and the different types of things you can grow. Sow a seed and taking it home! Book your place on the Harlow Museum website.

Paint a flower or plant

Thursday 6 April 2023

Drop-in activities from 10am to 3pm. Paint a flower or a plant that you can see in the Walled Gardens to add to a collage that will be displayed at the museum.

Easter Egg Hunt

Saturday 8 April 2023

Drop-in activities from 10am to 3pm. Harlow Museum & Walled Garden’s annual Easter Egg Hunt is back. Follow a trail to find something hidden around the museum and gardens, find them all to collect a prize.

Make a bug hotel for minibeasts and insects

Tuesday 11 April 2023

Make a bug hotel for minibeasts and insects in the garden. Take part in making a safe place for creepy crawlies to shelter and protect themselves from predators. Book your place on the Harlow Museum website.

The Wild Escape

Thursday 13 April 2023

Drop-in activities from 10am to 3pm

Come and make your own comic, imagine that one of our animal objects has become alive and is now loose in the museum, what will they get up to?

Let your imagination run wild. The Essex Book Bus will also be outside - pop in to discover the books you can get from your local library and listen to some storytelling.

A musical community –combatting isolation through music

Online workshops for parents

Courses to help parents improve their relationship with their child, understand what is driving your children’s challenging behaviour and help your child to express and manage their emotions.

Running over 6 weeks via zoom on various days and times throughout 2023. If you are a parent living in West Essex and would like to take part, please fill out an online form at www.yctsupport.com/refer or call 01279 414090

Musicbox

Katherines common room, Katherines, Harlow, CM19 5NP

Every Friday 10am

Adult music sessions. Come in, talk, and play music together.

Rock the Park

Sunday 28 May 2023

Harlow Rock School community music festival is back at Harlow Town Park Bandstand. Vendors, performers and sponsors can contact Rockthepark@ harlowrock.school

Gibberd Gallery

Civic Centre, The Water Gardens, Harlow, CM20 1WG

Seeing Things

Saturday 15 April to Saturday 24 June 2023. 11am to 4pm Mon-Sat (Closed Sun & Bank Holidays)

A major exhibition of work by Lee Grandjean. Lee spent his teenage years in Harlow between from 1962-68, living in a flat overlooking Barbara Hepworth’s ‘Contrapuntal Forms’.

His sculpture ‘Chorus’ is located in the grounds of St. John’s ARC. This is his first solo exhibition in Harlow, covering his work from the 1970s to date. For more information, visit: www.sculpturetown.uk or call 01279 446404.

The Wild Escape Family Arts

Afternoon

Harlow Town Park, near The Bandstand, Park Lane, Harlow

Saturday 22 April, 2pm to 4pm

Join artists Suman Gujral, Jordan Cook, Irena Posner and the Harlow Art Trust for fun family arts activities in celebration of International Earth Day. This is part of the Wild Escape, a major new project uniting hundreds of galleries, museums and schools in a celebration of UK wildlife and creativity.

For more information, visit: www.sculpturetown.uk or call 01279 446404

Razed Roof’s show: InForm’23 Harlow Playhouse, Playhouse Square, Harlow CM20 1LS

Thursday 18 May 2023 2pm matinee and 7.30pm evening

Razed Roof is an inclusive company of performers, resident at Harlow Playhouse. ‘InForm: 2023’ is an uplifting production sharing stories about Harlow New Town and its community, performed in conjunction with a celebration of our civic sculptures.

Tickets £15 (£12 concessions) available at www.harlowplayhouse.co.uk

Improve your balance and mobility

A strength and balance service is available for Harlow residents who would like to improve their mobility. Social.Active.Strong offers a free 12week programme of activity to help you build strength, improve mobility and help sustain your day to day activity levels.

For information and to register for free classes call 07510 383146 or email sas@harlow.gov.uk

Event and activity information is correct at time of going to press. Please always check first with the event organiser by calling their contact number or by visiting the relevant website.