Tour
Voices on the Streets: A Sound Journey Through Liverpool
Voices on the Streets is a collection of original poems and conversations about Liverpool’s places, people, culture and history. These pieces were created by local community groups as responses to research from the University of Liverpool’s English Department into topics such as migration, poetry, environment and identity. Join us for a group walk along the...
Liverpool Irish Festival 2024
Liverpool Irish Festival, the UK’s largest Irish arts and culture led festival, is back with an incredible programme for 2024. The annual festival features over 35 events across 10 days with activitiy for children and adults alike. The festival officially launches at the Liverpool Irish Centre on Thursday 17 October with performances from Sue Rynhart,...
Legs On Wheels & Cheery at the Kazimier Stockroom
Legs On Wheels return to the Kazimier Stockroom for a night of explosive, intricate and downright beautiful music. Support from art-pop wonder Cheery. Veering effortlessly through groovy head-bopping passages, explosive math-punk frenzies and delicate jazz-tinged dreamscapes, all draped in catchy melodies and rich lyrical imagery, Legs On Wheels have garnered a growing and dedicated following....
Marble Cake
Two actor-writers are bringing their new play, Marble Cake, to Liverpool’s Hope Street Theatre this week for Black History Month. Sparks fly when two estranged dual-heritage siblings are reunited, forcing them to reflect on their differing perspectives of the world, their race and each other. This play tackles issues of multi-ethnic identity, abandonment, and family...
George Garrett Walking Tour
The George Garrett Walking Tour covers the L1 postcode area, touring a landscape that has changed (and continues to change) dramatically. The tour explores the life, writings and activism of George Garrett a ‘militant advocate of tolerance’ who travelled the world and whose work explored the poverty and struggle of the working class in the...
Great War to Race Riots Walking Tour
The Great War to Race Riots tour explores anti-black race riots that occurred in Liverpool and other seaports across the country in 1919. This tour covers the area now known as Chinatown and the Baltic Triangle, which at the beginning of the 20th century was a densely populated and multicultural neighbourhood known locally as ‘sailor...
L8 Activism Walking Tour
The L8 Activism Walking Tour invites you to take a stroll down the beautiful tree-lined Victorian Boulevard and explore the history of Liverpool 8, the traditional home of the black community since the mid 20th century. This tour charts the area’s development since it’s the origins as a merchant class neighbourhood in the mid-late 19th...
Dorothy Kuya Walking Tour
The Dorothy Kuya Walking Tour explores the impact of Dorothy Kuya’s anti-racist activism in modern Britain as we explore the Liverpool and the L8 area. Dorothy Kuya (1933-2013) was one of Liverpool most prolific anti racist campaigners whose activism spanned seven decades. Born in Liverpool to a West African father and white English mother, Dorothy...
Liverpool & Slavery Walking Tour
The Liverpool & Slavery Walking Tour was developed and inspired by our Dorothy Kuya Archive Project, in collaboration with National Museums Liverpool. During the project our team revealed the extent of Dorothy’s involvement in the establishment of the Atlantic Slave Trade Gallery, Slavery Remembrance Day and the International Slavery Museum. Along with Liverpool activist and...
Identity Crisis
Identity is a complex and puzzling thing – a conundrum for many. What is it exactly that defines you? The colour of your skin? The postcode in which you were born, or now reside? Religion? Phina Oruche is now putting her narrative back in her own hands. Identity Crisis sees her play nine characters: black, white, young,...