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.
Art Plays Games
Explore a free exhibition dedicated to showcasing games created by digital artists and independent video game developers. From 5 September 2024 – 27 April 2025, FACT are transforming their first-floor gallery into a space for games created by digital artists and independent video game developers. Fun, playful and suitable for gamers and non-gamers of all...
BlackFest 2024
BlackFest is an award winning festival that boasts an inclusive programme celebrating theatre, film, spoken word, poetry, music, dance and visual arts, providing a safe space for experimentation, excellence and connection within arts. Our collaborations with artists, organisations and the community has encouraged the creation, appreciation and access to this celebrating and centring Black Arts...
The Flowers Still Grow
The Flowers Still Grow brings together a series of projects that showcase long-term collaborations between photographers, creative writers, and local communities in Anfield and Garston. Each project celebrates the people who make up these communities whilst reflecting their concerns, experiences, and aspirations of the society around them. People of Anfield and Childhood is a garden,...
Actors Lab
A Space for Play & Experimentation: Actors Training and Professional development. Actors Lab is back! This year, we’re looking for four exciting actors based in Merseyside to develop themselves as actors making work in community spaces. The course takes place in two parts. – The first part are weekly training sessions from September – December...
The Holly Johnson Story
In the 1980s Britain was changing. Social and political unrest led the way for a cultural revolution, set against a backdrop of synth-pop music and experimental sounds. The ‘80s was a time of innovation and rebellion, punks, and new wave bands, and at the forefront stood Holly Johnson. The Holly Johnson Story celebrates Holly’s creative...
Autumn 2024 Creative Courses with dot-art
dot-art is back with an Autumn programme of Creative Courses in a range of mediums and venues across Liverpool. Treat yourself to a creative course or art workshop in an inspiring Liverpool location with dot-art. Discover your inner artist, try something new and develop your skills across a range of fantastic venues: Bluecoat, Victoria Gallery...
Baby Book Club
Baby Book Club returns this September with a course of six weekly sessions designed for parents and carers with babies aged from 3 to 12 months. Baby Book Club is a is a great way to spend quality time with your baby, meet new friends, develop your skills and learn innovative storytelling techniques that will...
Total Stranger
Step inside the beautiful Bridge Cottage in Port Sunlight to discover an eye-catching exhibition of photographs by Francesco Mellina. Each photograph captures the Liverpool music and club scene in the late 1970s & early 1980s, including the early days of Dead or Alive’s Pete Burns who grew up in the quaint village. It is the...
Mildred’s Albert Dock Art Trail
Mildred, Tate’s art-loving cat, wants you to help her find 6 artworks posted around the inner quay of the Royal Albert Dock. Collect a free Art Trail booklet from Tate Liverpool + RIBA North at Mann Island or The Nest art & design shop at The Royal Albert Dock. Follow the map on the back...
Stitching Souls: Threads of Silence
Stitching Souls: Threads of Silence is an installation by British Trinidadian artist Karen McLean. It proudly celebrates and showcases the Walker Art Gallery’s newest acquisition by the artist. McLean has been working closely with the Walker since 2022, drawing inspiration directly from the gallery’s internationally renowned art collections. The display explores Liverpool’s colonial legacies, exploring...
