About this Event

Milk gets on the road and heads down the road to the newly refurbished MERL (Muesuem of English Rural Life)



Join us for a lively evening of drinks, food, music, activities and presentations, inspired by the MERL dairying collections.



The evening will include:



live music from Amber & the Professors Quartet, playing a selection of jazz, swing, originals and pop with a vintage twist!

pop-up cocktail bar by Milk (bar in Reading)

'Cheesy' silent disco

cheese tasting

butter making

the MERL Sensory Cow (record your own moo!)

Daisy, the milking cow

'Make a Milk carton' craft activity based on the University's RESET Milk project

dairy colouring sheets

milk marbling and ice-cream making science demos

a dairy object trail around the galleries

pop-up display of objects, books, archives and films about dairying

object handling

readings from and the screening of ‘Flurry’, a new online commission by artist and researcher, Melanie Jackson

a Q&A with Melanie Jackson and Dr Rachel Garfield, Associate Professor of Art Fine



http://www.reading.ac.uk/themerl/whats-on/themerl-lates-milkingit.aspx