Arts
LeeTz Presents: Live Music at the Bluecoat
Join us for an afternoon of performances from young and emerging artists including sets from Remée and Jed Timms. This event focuses on the next generation of Liverpool musicians, and is a chance for young performers and music fans to network and connect. Sun 2 Mar 2pm Free, drop in
Blick Bassy
A Cameroonian singer-songwriter deeply rooted in the African continent is set to perform in Liverpool this April. The critically acclaimed Blick Bassy has been described as ‘a force of nature’ and is known for his vibrant live performances. On his latest album Mádibá, released in 2023, Blick has chosen to address the environment, particularly the...
Mutli-Colour Lino Cut
‘Linocut printing involves cutting away from a block of linoleum, and inking and printing the uncut areas. When you place your carved, inked up block face down on a sheet of paper, the printed image will appear as a mirror image to how you have carved your block. Areas you have cut away will remain...
Bluecoat Archive Drop-In Day
A unique opportunity to dig deeper into the history of the Bluecoat! We’re interested to hear your own Bluecoat stories and how you’d like to make use of the archive, including online through our Library. Explore the history of Liverpool’s oldest city centre building and the UK’s first arts centre, through a selection of photos,...
Bahar Noorizadeh
Bahar Noorizadeh is an artist, theorist, writer and filmmaker based in London. Her work explores the histories of neoliberalism, speculation, finance, fiction, credit, value, the weird and the unknown. In Free to Choose, she explores the credit banking system as a time-travelling machine through a story set in Hong Kong that spans decades. Free to...
Christopher Kulendran Thomas
Christopher Kulendran Thomas’ work explores the complex legacies of imperialism. A British artist of Sri Lankan-Tamil descent, Christopher has been using artificial intelligence technologies over much of the last decade to examine the foundational fictions of Western individualism. His new exhibition, Safe Zone, features two bodies of work that manifest the historical mediums of soft...
Meet the artist: Chris Shaw
Chris Shaw’s photographic series captures the battle between nature and the urban landscape in his hometown of Wallasey. The images show the resilience of plants as they break through tarmac and emerge from the water of the docks. Making the weed his subject, Shaw takes a traditionally unwanted and invasive species and shows the beauty...
Lanre Bakare: We Were There
To celebrate the publication of acclaimed writer Lanre Bakare’s first book. Hear from the author and special guests at Tate Liverpool. We Were There: How Black Culture, Resistance and Community Shaped Modern Britain is about a Black Britain that for too long has been unknown and unexplored – the one that exists beyond London. Lanre...
Shiraz Bayjoo: Ile de France
Shiraz Bayjoo’s film Ile de France explores the diverse landscape and history of Shiraz Bayjoo’s home country, Mauritius. The artist uses moving image to examine the impact of colonialism which remains visible across the island today. You’ll see the country’s rugged coastline, French graffiti found in early settlements, sugar plantations overgrown with plants and vines...
In conversation: Maria Fusco
Award-winning working-class writer Maria Fusco will be reading from her recent book Who does not envy with us is against us. This will be followed by a discussion with fellow working-class writer Mike Pinnington, co-founder and editor of The Double Negative. Fusco’s book is a collection of essays on working-classness, capturing experiences and emotions that...
