Family Friendly Weekend for Bee Seekers in Manchester
The Bee in the City world-class sculpture trail was inspired by Manchester’s celebrated worker bee emblem which has been part of the city’s heraldry for over 150 years and is synonymous with Manchester’s pioneering and creatively industrious spirit – pollinating progress and renewal.
In a couple of weeks Bee seekers and Bee lovers have the chance to see all the giant Bee in the City sculptures together for one last time before they are auctioned off to raise funds for the Lord Mayor of Manchester’s We Love MCR Charity.
Bee in the City’s celebratory Farewell Weekend, a fantastic family friendly event, will run from Friday 12 to Sunday 14 October at HSBC UK National Cycling Centre in Manchester. Families are encouraged to ‘collect’ any Bees to complete their trail hunt, take selfies with their best Bee pal, meet members of the colony they haven’t yet seen, and take a final look at the bee-autiful designs. There will be lots of other family-friendly activities at the Farewell Weekend. Explore all things bees and pollination with Pif Paf theatre company’s show Bee Cart and join in with Egg People’s interactive performance Waggle Dance, a high impact, interactive, playful, walkabout act the whole family will be buzzing about. There will be BMX demonstrations led by the HSBC UK National Cycling Centre team, and hula-hopping sessions from Bee in the City’s Health and Wellbeing Partner Well Pharmacy. The Farewell Weekend also boasts live music from the Skiband, an irreverent and engaging street band from West Yorkshire with a massive repertoire of songs, as well as wax candle making with Manchester and District Beekeepers’ Association. There will also be a variety of the finest street food and an art fair featuring a number of the artists from the trail including Kim Hubball, Adam Pekr, Meha Hindocha, Jayne Ford and Helen Russell.
