Poetry
Roots & Resilience at The Bluecoat
Are you a young person with an interest in history? Do you want to learn new skills and share your creative practice? Join us to explore our history as the UK’s first arts centre, and think about our legacy as part of the story of Liverpool, its people and its artists. At Weekly workshops, we...
Liverpool MakeFest 2024
Go Green in the Library with Liverpool Makefest 2024 Liverpool MakeFest Returns to Liverpool Central Library this year and is Going Green! Liverpool MakeFest is the UK’s biggest FREE ‘Maker’ event, a one day hybrid technology, arts and craft festival where Makers from across the UK get together to share and show their projects to...
Write to Work
Calling all aspiring writers! Want to be part of creative discussions, connect with professional writers and gain access to resources aimed at taking your writing skills to the next level? Sign up for our FREE award-winning, one-day Write to Work course and immerse yourself in a day filled with knowledge, inspiration, and valuable resources. Write...
Alley Cat
Alley Cat is a guided audio play exploring cat calling and public sexual harassment. The audience will be taken through the streets of Liverpool while hearing real stories and expereinces of the women that live here. Each performance will begin on Hope Street by ‘A Case History’ suitcase sculpture, and will last approximately 45 minutes....
Music and Poetry
Kunst Site presents the fifth instalment of its Music and Poetry event, a cosy evening filled with live music and spoken word performances by various local and Manchester based artists and visual projections by illustrator Ana Ortuño. Located at Quarry, the event will be held indoors with plenty of seating opportunities Live Music from: Three...
DaDa Cabaret Online Premiere
The DaDa Cabaret night is an explosion of emotions and ideas – fun, uplifting, challenging, extravagant, silly, and politically charged all rolled into one dazzling event! Let our showcase of Deaf, disabled and neurodivergent acts lit up your nights with a sparkling array of cabaret entertainment. DaDa Cabaret had a dazzling line up of artists,...
Liverpool Book Market
Book fairs are back at the Bluecoat! Browse a fantastic selection of books from a range of local book sellers, including Kernaghan Books and still Out-of-Print of Smithdown Road. More stallholders to be announced soon. 11am – 5pm. Free entry. Fri 26 – Sat 27 April Fri 24 – Sat 25 May Fri 21 –...
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 Haunted Body Workshop with Joelle Taylor
We are delighted to welcome Joelle Taylor, winner of the 2021 TS Eliot Prize and the 2022 Polari Book Prize to Quaker Meeting House for The Haunted Body, a masterclass in writing. Joelle will take participants through some of her tried-and-tested techniques used to create her poetry collection, C+NTO & Othered Poems, and her new...
Leechcraft with David Ward
WoW are delighted to host the launch of Dave Ward’s Leechcraft, a haunting new poetry collection teeming with folkloric power. This mesmerising work dips into ancient mythology, weaving spells that will surely echo in the minds of readers for years to come. Leechcraft is a sharing of wisdom and healing, dreams and desires, rooted in...