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.
For Your Pleasure: 15 Years Of DuoVision
For Your Pleasure: 15 Years of DuoVision is an exhibition using photography and film to reflect on and celebrate the fledgling queer club culture of the 90s in the UK, curated by guest curators DuoVision, and supported by Homotopia. “Once upon a time there were cities where squats were legal, rents affordable and old nightclubs...
Dovecot Dreamkeeping Society Workshops
Knotty Ash and Dovecot Park residents are being invited to share their dreams to help shape a special festival commissioned by Liverpool City Council as part of its Creative Neighbourhoods Programme. Join us for weekly creative community workshops open to all ages at Dovecot Multi-Activity Centre on the following dates: Thursday 6 February, 4.30pm –...
Chinese (Lunar) New Year craft at the museum
As we look forward to our Lion Dance display at the museum on Sunday 23 February, we are getting creative! Come along and make something special to celebrate Lunar (Chinese) New Year as we enter the Year of the Snake, in this free craft activity for all the family to enjoy. ‘Join in and make’...
In My Liverpool Home -Photography Exhibition
South Liverpool Photographic Society (SLPS) will be hosting its third photographic exhibition at Sefton Park’s Palm House from 5 – 10 February 2025. With a theme of “In My Liverpool Home,” you can expect to enjoy images of some familiar sights from in and around Liverpool, as well as some unfamiliar ones. In this exhibition...
Guided Tours at Liverpool Town Hall
Liverpool Town Hall Guided Tours are back, allowing visitors an exclusive opportunity to explore one of the finest surviving town halls of the 18th century! A base for the city’s Lord Mayor and all civic business, the Town Hall was established back in 1749 and is much revered, due to its masterful Georgian architecture. Passing...
Shiraz Bayjoo: Ile de France
Shiraz Bayjoo’s film Ile de France explores the diverse landscape and history of Shiraz Bayjoo’s home country, Mauritius. The artist uses moving image to examine the impact of colonialism which remains visible across the island today. You’ll see the country’s rugged coastline, French graffiti found in early settlements, sugar plantations overgrown with plants and vines...
The Plant that Stowed Away
Through art in the Tate Collection, The Plant that Stowed Away traces the connections between the trading history of cities like Liverpool and the global movements of plants and people. This display is inspired by the Weeds of Wallasey series by Wirral-born photographer Chris Shaw which highlights the battle between nature and the post-industrial landscape...
Farah Al Qasimi: Everybody was Invited to a Party
Following on from Lee Tsai, the Bluecoat will screen Farah Al Qasimi’s Everybody was Invited to a Party, which takes inspiration from ‘Iftah Ya Simsim’, a 1980s Arabic version of Sesame Street, and borrows text from translation books found in London. The film features hand-sewn puppets, voiced by the artist, and captures moments where language...
Going To The Match Creative Commission by Marge Bradshaw
Following the loan of ‘Going to the Match’ by L S Lowry, The Williamson Art Gallery and Museum have commissioned award-winning photographer Marge Bradshaw to work with Liverpool Trans and Enby FC. Funded by Arts Council England, Marge will produce a short social documentary and portrait photography series in response to Going to the Match....
Philip Wilson Steer: In Conversation
Born in Birkenhead, Philip Wilson Steer was a pioneer of impressionism in Britain during the late nineteenth century. Studying in Paris in the 1880s, he was exposed to this radical way of painting after seeing works by the likes of Degas and Manet. With his loose approach to painting and depictions of scenes that were...