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FIFAe announce first-ever multi title ‘FIFAe Next Gen’ event in Liverpool
FIFAe has announced its first-ever multi-title football esports event which will take place from 28 August to 1 September. The event will feature Football Manager alongside eFootball™, celebrating football and esports alike together with different communities. Following the significant interest generated by the new approach to featuring different football esports titles, the FIFAe Next Gen...
Liverpool looks for next generation of Global Majority creatives
Liverpool’s Royal Court in partnership with Shakespeare North Playhouse, Curious Minds, Everyman & Playhouse Theatres, is launching its Mentor Creatives programme to help develop and nurture Global Majority creatives working right across the artistic sector. The programme is designed to support writers, directors, actors or designers within the artistic community to help them take their...
Young disabled artists and actvitsts challenge the arts sector with a new manifesto
Over 60 Deaf, Disabled, and neurodivergent young people and young adults from across the country have teamed up with Liverpool Theatre Company 20 Stories High and Graeae Theatre Company based in London to create The Access Manifesto: A New Chapter for the Arts. Working with groups from Liverpool, London, Leeds, Chester, and Manchester, Maisy Gordon...
Works by Anish Kapoor Unveiled to celebrate Liverpool Anglican Cathedral’s Centenary
Liverpool Cathedral is set to celebrate its 100th anniversary in 2024 with a unique exhibition by the celebrated artist Anish Kapoor running from 10 August – 15 September 2024. The exhibition, Monadic Singularity marks Kapoor’s first solo show in a UK cathedral and his first major solo exhibition in Liverpool since his seminal 1983 exhibit...
Biggest ever March with Pride in Liverpool
Liverpool City Region’s LGBT+ community and its allies today called for their voices to ‘Be Heard’ as more people than ever before joined LCR Pride Foundation to March with Pride. A record-breaking 25,000 people marched from St George’s Hall to Liverpool Pier Head with thousands more lining the streets. The annual march ended at Pride...
Splash Tours Liverpool arrives at Royal Albert Dock in time for summer holidays
Liverpool’s newest and most exciting visitor attraction, Splash Tours Liverpool has arrived and will launch next week as one of the best things to do in Liverpool this summer holiday. The eye-catching pink and blue amphibious vehicle will welcome its passengers on board at the Royal Albert Dock and delight them with a 60-minute land...
SGH170 Festival to celebrate the old and the new
St George’s Hall is set to mark its 170th anniversary by inviting a host of Liverpool’s most talented performers into its iconic spaces. From comedians to singer-songwriters from jazz to rock’n’roll, the final programme of events for the SGH170 Festival, curated by Culture Liverpool and the St George’s Hall team, has now been unveiled and...
Dave Kirby is back at Liverpool’s Royal Court with Lost Soul 2
After seven hit shows over two decades, Dave Kirby is back at Liverpool’s Royal Court with a brand new show. The writer of Brick up the Mersey Tunnels, Council Depot Blues, Reds & Blues is back at The Court with the smash hit sequel to Lost Soul! Smigger’s having a mid-life crisis. All he wants...
Everyman Rock ‘n’ Roll panto cast announced for Rapunzel
It’s time to get ready to let your hair down and party, as although it may be July, plans are already underway for one of the biggest and brightest shows of the year, as the cast for the Everyman’s Rock ‘n’ Roll panto Rapunzel is unveiled. An ensemble of exceptional performers, features familiar friends returning and...
The Holly Johnson Story opening date announced
National Museums Liverpool, Homotopia and DuoVision Arts announce opening of The Holly Johnson Story – an exhibition celebrating the life and legacy of pioneering LGBTQ+ icon Holly Johnson. Opening at Museum of Liverpool on Saturday 14 September 2024, The Holly Johnson Story explores the incredible life of Holly Johnson and his meteoric rise to fame,...
