What’s On
Liverpool is a vibrant city, with plenty of activities to suit all tastes. Find out what’s happening and when with our handy ‘What’s On’ calendar.
Bees: A Story of Survival
Bees: A Story Of Survival is a visually stunning and immersive adventure that explores the epic tale of these incredible creatures and their essential relationship with the natural world. In a unique partnership with the award-winning artist Wolfgang Buttress, Bees: A Story Of Survival is a beautiful harmony of art and science featuring cutting edge technology. Using sculptural sound...
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...
Brickworks
Iconic works from the Tate collection turn the humble brick into the hero in a new display at Tate Liverpool at the new gallery space at RIBA North. Consisting of sculpture, photography and works on paper Brickworks shows the diverse ways that this material has been used to make art. Shown in Liverpool, a city...
Harun Farocki: In Comparison
See Harun Farocki’s 61-minute film In Comparison at Tate Liverpool + RIBA North. It showcases the different traditions and methods of brick production across the world, including brick burning, brick carrying and bricklaying. It investigates the colours and sounds of different cultures through their literal building blocks. Farocki was a pioneering filmmaker and theorist. He...
Into the Wyld
Material Matters presents Into the Wyld: a festival of contemporary art at the Williamson Art Gallery & Museum exploring the continuing legacy of the medieval poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and its unique connection to the Wirral. From 1st August to 21st December 2024 the Material Matters Collective will be in residency at...
Now you see me: Chris Day
‘Now you see me’ is a stunning blown glass and mixed media modular installation. It will be shown in Room 9 with the painting that inspired it – The Card Party by Gawen Hamilton (1698-1737). Chris Day rediscovered his love of art after twenty years working as a heating engineer. He studied ceramics and glass...
Ever Forward
An exhibition celebrating the Liverpool Everyman Theatre at 60. In 1964, as the Beatles embarked on their first world tour and the Metropolitan Cathedral was still under construction, Martin Jenkins, Peter James and Terry Hands opened the Everyman. They had no mission statement, no business plan, no carefully prepared marketing material. What they had was...
Carving Out Truths
The Walker Art Gallery has worked closely with young people from Liverpool’s Black and Global Ethnic Majority communities to research and reinterpret its internationally-renowned sculpture collection. Carving Out Truths presents a number of ground-breaking interventions at the Gallery, examining the origins of the collection and focusing on individuals and stories that have previously been excluded....
The Unity Theatre Autumn Season 2024
Unity Theatre are back with the debut season from new Artistic Director, Eli Randle. After an uncertain 2023, the jam-packed new season is a shout of confidence and forward thinking from Unity Theatre. Featuring over 45 new events, this is one of the most ambitious season announcements ever from the industry-leading mixed arts venue. With...
The Unity Autumn Workshops
Since taking the reigns at the Unity, Eli Randle has made clear her intention to nurture the talent and community that orbit not only Unity Theatre but the North West in general. Unity have already introduced two new programmes of affordable and free workshops for creatives and families to enjoy over the summer. This new...
