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.
PVTV Fringe Flicks: Viy (1967) and Short Films
Join us for a free evening of offbeat cinema at Fringe Flicks, featuring Viy (1967), a Soviet horror classic directed by Konstantin Yershov and Georgi Kropachyov. Adapted from Nikolai Gogol’s novella, Viy is celebrated for its groundbreaking practical effects and eerie narrative, making it a landmark in Soviet cinema. The film tells the story of...
BlackFest 2024: Visual Arts Workshop – Kassessa Gandara
Join Kassessa Gandara a self-taught visual artist from Angola. He creates different concepts and translates them into different artistic expressions, through live events, stages, exhibitions, digital prints, sculpture and painted mediums. He will be sharing his practice part discussion led on your creative identity, processes in he diaspora, inspiration. With an arts workshop.
BlackFest 2024: Visual Arts Workshops – Ridwa Horreh
Join Ridwa Horreh for a workshop in Reclaiming Black Femininity: An Exploration of Identity, Beauty, and Empowerment. Ridwa is a student at the University of Nottingham’s Cultural, Media, and Visual Studies Department. As a passionate photographer, Ridwa has collaborated with social media influencers, an experience that sparked her interest in exploring identity and representation. Ridwa’s...
BlackFest 2024: Visual Arts Workshop – Cara Walker
Cara Walker is a visual artist dedicated to cultural liberation and the advocacy of creativity, with a particular focus on amplifying the Black voice. Her workshop – The Clean slate – her exhibition will be discussion led looking at portraiture and the exhibition developed from a 3 month artist residency at the Wales Millennium Centre....
BlackFest 2024: Sustainable Cooking – Land and Cultivation
Join BlackFest for another sustainable cooking workshop with Michelle Odwyer – Bay Tree Cooking. Explore our roots and tap into ancestral wisdom during this eco-friendly cooking workshop. Featured in the Liverpool Echo, Michelle Odwyer was originally inspired by her grandmother to become a chef and offer budget healthy cooking classes. Michelle Odwyer set up Bay...
After the Act
After the Act is a new 1980’s-inspired musical about pride, protest…and abseiling lesbians. Thatcher’s Section 28, which banned the “promotion” of homosexuality in schools, was the landmark legislation that silenced a generation, offered a global blueprint for LGBTQ+ oppression and galvanised a community. After the Act is funny, camp and unapologetically queer but also a...
In Conversation: Alice Rawsthorn
Join Tate Liverpool for a special talk with award-winning design critic and author Alice Rawsthorn. Rawsthorn will respond to works and themes in the gallery’s Brickworks display and she’ll talk about the design history and evolution of bricks. Alice Rawsthorn is an award-winning design critic and the author of critically acclaimed books on design, including...
River of Light 2024
River of Light is an annual free event that provides an outdoor illuminated gallery on Liverpool Waterfront, a loop, featuring light and sound from local, national and international artists. This year, 12 large scale installations will be presented by some of the best light artists in the world, all inspired by the theme of ‘Play’. Visit...
KATHAKALI (The classical dance drama of Kerala, Southern India)
Liverpool Malayalee Hindu Samajam proudly brings the mega event of Kathakali ( Katha – story, Kali – Play) and Chenda for the first time ever in the North West. Liverpool proudly will host this power packed event on the 26 th of October 2024 at the Cardinal Heenan Catholic School Arts Hall. Kathakali is one...
Rajhesh Vaidhya with Sai Giridhar and Kousic Sen
The second evening concert of the season features the world-renowned Indian classical musician Rajhesh Vaidhya. Rajhesh, a maestro of the veena – a traditional South Indian stringed instrument – is set to captivate audiences with a specially curated set of ragas chosen for the evening. Rajhesh’s unique style, characterized by exhilarating speed and the use...
