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.
Prescot Elizabethan Fayre
Step back in time and enjoy an array of Elizabethan activities and attractions for all the family. This long-running event is a firm favourite in the Prescot calendar and celebrates its connection to William Shakespeare and the town’s rich Elizabethan heritage. There will be a variety of traditional activities and exciting performances for all on...
Tell Me How It Ends
It’s Liverpool, 1987. The AIDS epidemic threatens a generation of Queer people left with no one to turn to but themselves. Across the world, groups of Lesbian women hold out their hands to help – and right here in this city, Aster sits by Marc’s hospital bed… watching, wondering and reading. Tell Me How it...
Julius Caesar
Rome 44BC. Egotistical Emperor Julius Caesar is sweating (and it’s not just the heatwave). His liberal Senators are a stabbing pain in the backside. They’ve had enough! Rome is in chaos, trust in the government is weak and the emperor’s fate is written in the stars (or the ‘entrails of a goat’). The peasants are...
Uncanny: I Know What I Saw
Due to PHENOMENAL demand, the sell-out hit show Uncanny : I Know What I Saw with Danny Robins is back in 2024! In 2023 Danny asked the questions – do ghosts exist? And if not, why do we see them? 25,000 people at theatres across the country came to find out the answers, in the...
Japanese Stab Stitch Bookbinding
Create a set of beautiful hand bound books using 3 traditional Japanese stitching techniques. ‘Japanese bookbinding or ‘Stab Binding’ is an ancient form of bookbinding that is beautiful, easy for beginners and endlessly customisable. The basic Japanese version of stab binding is called Yotsume Toji, which roughly translates to “four holes”. This is because the...
Coptic Stitch Bookbinding
Learn how to create a handmade book from scratch and bind it using Coptic stitching. Coptic stitch bookbinding (also called Coptic bookbinding) is a way of binding pages of a book together without the use of glue or staples. Like other types of hand binding, its origins are ancient. A Coptic stitch is a type...
Lovestruck
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Bay Bryan: Songs & Stories from ‘The Meadow’
Stripped down to the roots and performing solo, Bay Bryan transports us into the mesmerising alt-folk world of his concept album ‘The Meadow’. Songs and storytelling intertwine to make for an intimate and immersive experience. As heard on BBC 2’s The Folk Show with Mark Radcliffe, Bay’s music is accessible yet complex with a philosophical...
The Merrymakers
With music featuring in almost all of Shakespeare’s plays, it created an entertaining and vibrant means of storytelling to capture an Elizabethan audience. Join acclaimed performer and provocateur Jennifer Reid, and her invited guests, for an evening of open-air Folk Music and song. The Sir Ken Dodd Performance Garden will come alive with The Merrymakers,...
Africa Oyé
This summer, the son of music legend Bob Marley, Julian Marley, and a female supergroup, Les Amazones d’Afrique, will headline the acclaimed Africa Oyé Festival this summer. Africa Oyé, the UK’s largest free celebration of African music and culture, takes place annually in Liverpool. Beginning in 1992 as a series of small gigs in the...
