Reading
Heritage Open Day – Docklands Trail
Free heritage open day at Collingwood Docks, with free drama sessions for 8-13 year olds and storytelling. Saturday 13th July, join ArtsGroupie CIC at this exciting heritage site for free drama workshops, storytime, and a whole host of activities with our friends at Docklands Trail. Discover the history of North Liverpool & Bootle Docks by...
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...
An Evening with Celia Imrie
Join Olivier Award-winning actress Celia Imrie as she takes us on a journey through her illustrious career and captivating new novel, Meet Me at Rainbow Corner – inspired by the resilience and camaraderie of women during the Second World War. Celia has forged her career on and off screen, renowned for her unforgettable performances in...
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...
Polari at Writing on the Wall
London’s award-winning LGBTQ+ literary salon comes to WoWFEST 2024. The inimitable Polari founder and author Paul Burston, presents a dazzling line up of award-winning talent; the multi-talented Rosie Garland, Irish wordsmith Ciaran Hodgers and the legendary Gerry Potter. Paul Burston founded Polari in 2007. The salon has been welcomed at the Southbank Centre, The British...
Turning a Book into a TV Series: Ashleigh Nugent
Ashleigh Nugent and Tom Thostrup, co-founder and Managing Director of 2LE media, will talk through the process of how Ashleigh’s electric debut novel, Locks, was optioned for TV. Locks was published by Picador Books in 2023 and received rave reviews, including 4 out of 5 stars in the Daily Telegraph. Later that year, he secured...
Lights Bearing West: Book Launch with Tony Wailey
Tony Wailey’s latest book, Lights Bearing West, is about memory, place and distance, messages sent, delivered, picked up, put down, kept or discarded. Going away, having adventures and coming home, whether these adventures are first hand or tenth hand, is part of everyone’s trilogy in Liverpool – even for those who have never left the...