Arts

Liverpool Arab Arts Festival connects digitally for 2020

Liverpool Arab Arts Festival, the UK’s longest running annual festival of Arab arts and culture, returns in July, connecting artists and audiences from across the UK and beyond in a…

‘RISE’-ing up in lockdown

Twelve brand new arts commissions by Culture Liverpool will show how female artists from across the world have responded creatively to the Covid-19 pandemic. In a special online legacy project,…

Liverpool Gears Up For Chinese New Year Celebrations

On Sunday 26 January, the Chinese New Year festivities will see traditional Chinese culture blended with modern performances to create must-see street, stage and music acts, aerial demonstrations, family workshops,…

CONSULTATION TO BEGIN ON MERSEY MUSIC MASTERPLAN

A public consultation on a masterplan aimed at transforming the epicentre of Liverpool’s musical heritage is to begin next week. Starting on Monday, 21 October the public will be invited…

Huge projections to light up the Dock for Winter

Royal Albert Dock Liverpool has announced plans for a new Winter attraction offering a series of large-scale projections to light up the inner-quay side of the Merseyside Maritime Museum, launching…

Constellations to come to earth and light up Liverpool City Region

AN arts project designed to inspire local communities to rediscover their local neighbourhoods and spend time stargazing is being launched across Liverpool City Region. Constellations Presents brings a different artist…

New exhibition at FACT invites you to feel the future and imagine a world without division

Opening at FACT on 1 November, you feel me_ invites visitors to an alternative world: a mystical space free from division and bias and a sanctuary for healing. From 360°…

Huge outdoor artwork to take over Wirral waterfront for UK first

  One of Europe's most exciting artists is heading to Wirral waterfront this week to create an extraordinary large-scale mural on 'The Dips' in New Brighton. Saype – who started…

Fab Four’s ‘Holy Grail’ performance takes centre stage

On Saturday 24 August, the Cunard Building venue will showcase what has been hailed as the ‘Holy Grail’ of lost tapes which contains footage of the only ever live appearance…

Celebrating Liverpool’s leading trans pioneer

As part of the city’s RISE programme which celebrates extraordinary women, Uncovering April Ashley’s Archive and Exploring Liverpool’s Trans Lives will launch at Liverpool’s Central Library on Thursday 4 July. It focuses…

River Festival Liverpool Returns!

The River Festival is back! Gaia Located in Britain’s biggest cathedral, Liverpool Cathedral, the artwork called ‘Gaia’ (meaning the personification of the earth), will hang majestically in the Grade I…

LIMF 2019 Line Up Revealed!

International hip-hop legends, Grammy-nominated artists and a Liverpool music institution join Disco Classical with special guest Sister Sledge featuring Kathy Sledge for the award-winning festival’s seventh anniversary. Liverpool International Music…