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Liverpool based production tops charts on Netflix

Liverpool-based production The Irregulars has topped the Netflix charts in its premiere week of worldwide streaming. The highly anticipated supernatural Sherlockian spin-off is set in Victorian London, but the majority…

Liverpool’s LightNight presses ‘Play’ for 2021 

Open Culture launches crowdfunder to support arts festival return Liverpool’s LightNight, a one-night arts festival will return on Friday 21 May 2021 with the theme of ‘Play’. The popular annual…

Local author launches fundraising campaign for new Builder Book project

Award-winning Merseyside author, Natalie Reeves Billing, is preparing to launch her latest project: Builder Book boxes filled with books and activities designed to promote creativity and literacy. Natalie, who is…

New Exhibition at dot-art Gallery: Out of the Darkness

dot-art Gallery's new exhibition Out of the Darkness will be open to the public from 17th April – 5th June and will showcase the works of Merseyside based artists Madeleine…

Liverpool marks 32nd Hillsborough anniversary

Liverpool will mark the 32nd anniversary of the Hillsborough tragedy tomorrow [Thursday, 15 April]. Acts of remembrance will be held from the afternoon but people have been asked not to…

The Good Business Festival Announces The First In-Person Business Gathering

The Good Business Festival today announces its launch event ‘Change Business for Good’, the first in-person, live business event happening in the UK since the first national lockdown in March…

Platform your work this summer

Bluecoat invite artists and performers to develop new programme for children. Bluecoat, Liverpool’s centre for the contemporary arts, is seeking expressions of interest from artists, performers, comedians, dancers, makers, musicians,…

Liverpool theatres to re-open with a joint commitment to play their part for theatre makers and audiences

Three Merseyside theatres – the Everyman & Playhouse, Royal Court Liverpool and Unity, have announced a long-term commitment to working together, as theatres in the region begin plans to re-open.…

Attention Liverpool! Rugby League World Cup 2021 tickets now on general sale to mark 200 days to go

Today (Tuesday 6 April) marks 200 days to go until the opening fixture of Rugby League World Cup 2021 (RLWC2021), and to celebrate this milestone, general admission tickets are now…

Government confirms national events pilot to take place in Liverpool

The Government has announced details of the pilot events to be held in Liverpool, as the city follows in the footsteps of Amsterdam and Barcelona by participating in a science-led…

Bluecoat to receive £111,264 from second round of the Government’s Culture Recovery Fund

Bluecoat in Liverpool has received a grant of £111,264 from the Government’s £1.57 billion Culture Recovery Fund to help the organisation recover and reopen. More than £300 million has been…

Summer Arts Markets return to Liverpool Cathedral

Open Culture’s Summer Arts Market will once again take over Liverpool Cathedral this June. Following the success of their first socially-distanced Winter Arts Markets last year, on Sat 5 &…