Manchester’s Printworks will be celebrating the return of the city’s Manchester Flower Festival later this week with a new ‘Honeyworks’ programme which boasts four very special events combining bee keeping, honey tasting and cocktails.
Taking place on Friday 26th and Saturday 27th May, Printworks will be celebrating their rooftop bees by hosting a ticketed event in their newly refreshed rooftop garden featuring four active beehives, each with their own Queen bee and 100,000 worker bees producing honey.
Working in collaboration with expert beekeeper, Damson from Hive5, the two-hour events will kick off with an exclusive beekeeping experience, where visitors will receive expert training on beekeeping with Manchester’s bees on Printworks’ rooftop. There will also be an opportunity to check out an internal glass hive, featuring a Queen Bee along with all her worker bees.
The beekeeping experience will be followed by a tasting session with Decorrum , a multi- award-winning spiced rum featuring honey produced from Manchester Printworks’ own beehives.
Visitors will then be invited to a fun cocktail making masterclass with Printworks’ Brazilian Bar, Floripa, where they will be shown all kinds of shaking tips from expert mixologists whilst making a line-up of bee-themed cocktails on their terrace.
Don’t forget to check out Printworks’ entry for the Manchester Flower Festival as the complex has transformed seven of their outside planters. Created in collaboration with Giraffe Flowers, The Honeyworks Bee Garden Planters will be filled with honeybee favourite flowers and plants, along with honeycomb inspired displays and gold bee ornaments.
The Honeyworks events will take place on Friday 26th May at 4pm & 5pm and Saturday 27th May at 12pm & 1pm. Tickets are £20 with all proceeds donated to Forever Manchester to help support the great work they do funding over 1000 community projects across Greater Manchester each year.
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