Festival
Carnival Of Creativity
Mark your calendars for an unforgettable day of excitement and creativity at the Carnival of Creativity in St Helens town centre! Love music and dance? Passionate about stories and poetry? Adore unique, handcrafted items? Eager to learn a new creative skill? Bring your family and friends to celebrate the vibrant creative culture of St Helens!...
Body Mapping: Exploring Disability Arts From Indonesia
Join Jogja Disability Arts and DaDa for an exploration into disability arts practice in Indonesia. Jogja Disability Arts is an organisation based in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Using art and the cultural model of disability, JDA aims to create space and access for meaningful participation for disability artists in Indonesia. JDA actively advocates models for inclusivity and...
BlackFest 2024
BlackFest is an award winning festival that boasts an inclusive programme celebrating theatre, film, spoken word, poetry, music, dance and visual arts, providing a safe space for experimentation, excellence and connection within arts. Our collaborations with artists, organisations and the community has encouraged the creation, appreciation and access to this celebrating and centring Black Arts...
BlackFest 2024: Fashion Fest Finale – Closing Ceremony
BlackFest Fashion Fest Finale features various local and UK national designers, models, poets and musicians. It is the first time we are collaborating with FutureYard an award-winning music venue in Birkenhead. We are going over the water to bring BlackFest to the Wirral. Featuring Bluboy, Kingfast, Lu, Angela, Shak, Betty Salvan, Conduit, D Rebal, John,...
BlackFest 2024 Spoken Word Poetry Night
Come on a poetic journey with us at our BlackFest 2024 spoken word poetry night! Our spoken word poetry night will feature an exceptional line up of emerging and established poets and spoken word artists an immersive and experimental. Meet the line-up: Angela Burnell – Angela’s poetry pulls from personal experience, shedding light on womanhood,...
BlackFest 2024: Elodie Chousmer-Howelles and Stella Marie Lorenz
BlackFest 2024 Lunch time concert presents an afternoon of melodic connection, featuring Violinist Elodie Chousmer-Howelles and Pianist Stella Marie Lorenz. A varied programme of works will be performed in this lunchtime recital, including Beethoven, Coleridge-Taylor, and Amy Beach. Elodie Chousmer-Howelles, rose to prominence as a BBC Young Musician 2018 string finalist. Elodie made her debut...
BlackFest 2024: Granby Residency Visual Arts Exhibition
BlackFest 2024’s grand launch is taking place at Granby Winter Garden with a solo, visual arts exhibition as part of our Granby Artist Residency featuring Oke Ugonna. Oke Ugonna is leading a visual arts workshop exploring the process of creating landscapes and teaching you his methods and techniques. He would categorise his art practice into...
BlackFest 2024: Festival Launch at Granby Market
Join us for a day of networking, creativity and celebration of Black art, businesses and culture! BlackFest 2024 will launch at Granby Market – Liverpool’s most original and friendly community market, run entirely by volunteers. The market is open on the first Saturday of every month from 10am to 3pm, showcasing the talents, spirit and...
Festival of Summer at Royal Albert Dock
Royal Albert Dock Liverpool is continuing its programme of feel-good activities throughout August with its ‘Festival of Summer’. Starting with spectacular DJ sets from some of the best DJs in the North West for Pride in Liverpool through to unforgettable music, food and drink festivals taking place on Liverpool’s iconic waterfront, we’ve got your summer...
Liverpool Urban Sketchers 10th Anniversary Event
Liverpool Urban Sketchers are celebrating their tenth year of drawing and painting around Merseyside with a weekend of workshops presented by well-known Urban Sketchers, and on-street drawing sessions at which more than a hundred artists—amateur and professional, locally based and from farther afield—will be sketching on location across Liverpool city centre. The group are also...
