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Take Over 2022 - a round up!

21st Nov 2022

Our free annual arts festival is over for another year, here are a few of our favourite moments in pictures...

Weekend 1

Kids washing hands and smiling at camera
Image credit: Radka Dolinska
Ella writing poem on the outside of the window at The Book Stop on a ladder.
Image credit: Radka Dolinska
Two people partaking in MUSH, dipping hands in sourdough mother
Image credit: Radka Dolinska
David Hoyle wearing a dress made of teddy bears, with pink smoke in the background.
Photographer credit: Lee Baxter

Weekend 2

Exhibition display in Kirkby
Image credit: Radka Dolinska
Street view of St Helens with Sonia's installation being built
Image credit: Radka Dolinska
Participants pulling party poppers
Image credit: Radka Dolinska
Poster reading 'Don't kill trees' in shop window
Image credit: Radka Dolinska
Members of the team at the window as Jenny talks about the cloakroom to people on the street
Image credit: Radka Dolinska
Figs in wigs celebrating with a table in the audience
Image credit: Radka Dolinska

Weekend 3

Group of people entering the installation
Image credit: Radka Dolinska
Kids writing and drawing in response to the show
Image credit: Radka Dolinska
Kid's watching the show
Image credit: Radka Dolinska

Thank you to all the amazing artists and communities who so generously shared their time and creativity with us over three beautiful weekends. Big thanks to Lowri Evans for being such a wonderful host. And to all the amazing venues from Imaginarium to Lucem House, The Book Stop to the Citadel. Here's to Take Over 2023!

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