Arts
Under the Apple Tree: A Creative Workshop with Storytelling
An art-making workshop and storytelling performance for the whole family. Starring acclaimed performer Gav Cross and inspired by the work of Blue Room artist Alfred Beesley. “The apples are in the soil. They come up and grow big like sunflowers”, Alfred Beesley. Bring along the family and have a go at making your own strange...
Earth Day Print Party
At this special Earth Day print party, participants will be upcycling their old clothes with printmaking. Participants will be able to choose from a variety of fun designs based around the themes of recycling, upcycling and reducing waste. Children will be able to pull the screens themselves with a facilitator supervising if they choose to,...
Still Life & Screen Printing
Spend time drawing your own botanical still life and turn it into an original screen printed piece of art, using UV exposed screens and experimental screen printing techniques to add colour. During this one day course you will spend time drawing, from still life, a positive for screen printing your own piece of art. After...
Beckett: Unbound
University of Liverpool’s Institute of Irish Studies and The Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies at the University of Notre Dame’s Keough School of Global Affairs, in association with Unreal Cities are pleased to present Beckett: Unbound 2024. Tracing Samuel Beckett’s closings and undoings of space across disciplines, locations and environments, our 2022 festival explored the...
The Reader announces season of open-air theatre in Calderstones Park
The Reader charity, based in Liverpool’s Calderstones Park, has announced a season of open-air theatre shows for the summer featuring Shakespearean favourites and Sherlock Holmes. The performances will bring one of the city’s hidden historic gems back to life. The Art-Deco style theatre stage built in 1947 hosted everything from performing dogs and ventriloquists to opera...
Julia Midgley: Drawing a Record
Kirkby Gallery is delighted to announce our new exhibition – Julia Midgley: Drawing a Record, opening 15th April and running until 17th August 2024. Julia Midgley is a Printmaker and Reportage artist. Over decades of practice, Julia’s drawings have recorded society at large, illustrating her observations on location. By acting as a fly on the...
Fawlty Towers Basil’s Twin
Comedy Dining are pleased to bring you a further instalment from Fawlty Towers. New guests have booked into the hotel one of whom says he is Basil’s Twin Brother can this be true?! Mr O’Reilly is carrying out builders works we all know that Sybil will not be happy about this. Why have Interpol arrived...
Earth’s Murmurs exhibition at the LAKE gallery
Two artists, working with very different media, explore their emotional connection to the landscape: Bridget Greenwood and Valerie Wartelle. Bridget Greenwood is a contemporary abstract artist based in Cheshire, whose paintings explore her fascination with the landscape. Colour has always been Bridget’s starting point and is central to her work. She sketches outside to record...
Julia Midgley: Bicentenary Sketchbook – A Window on LJMU’s 200th Anniversary Year
Liverpool John Moores University will look back on its milestone Bicentenary year at an exhibition of work by artist Julia Midgley created during her residency throughout 2023. As Artist in Residence, Julia visited the LJMU campus regularly during the year to capture everything from open days to public lectures, to student projects and graduation celebrations, using her...
In The Sky With Diamonds
Acclaimed London artist Lucy Temple is bringing her extraordinary hand painted, geometric water colours to the iconic Royal Liver Building in Liverpool. This is Lucy’s first solo show outside London and she feels honoured and excited to introduce her work to the city’s creative and innovative audience. “Everything starts with a circle” Lucy reminds us. ...