Community Post Type: Callouts

A welcoming group open to ages 18+ using theatre to explore a range of social and political issues.

No experience necessary.

Saturday, 31/5

11am – 2pm

St Michael in the City

For more details, visit here 

 

Creative activities exploring a range of themes relevant to women today.

An inclusive space open to all women.

Every Tuesday

1pm – 3pm

Venue: Unity Theatre

Find out more here

 

Are you an artist or professional working with young people?

This year in the UK 38,792 children and young people will enter the care system. In 2023, a total of 83,840 children and young people were looked after.

This training will explore how creativity can support the wellbeing, personal and educational development of care-experienced children and young people.

Attendees will:

• be introduced to the policy / strategic context of the care system;
• unpack terminology around care and young people;
• discuss the benefits of creative work for care-experienced children and young people;
• consider aspects of good practice in working with care-experienced children and young people;
• explore practical approaches and creative ideas for the work.

To apply, visit here

Held: 22 May

The Tung Auditorium, the world-class concert hall based at the University of Liverpool’s Yoko Ono Lennon Centre, is now accepting applications from community music organisations across Merseyside for Affiliate status for the 2025–2027 academic years.

This exciting opportunity, open to two community organisations, offers access to professional-grade facilities and collaboration with the University’s Department of Music. The selected organisations will benefit from up to three concerts per year in The Tung Auditorium on a partnership basis.

Affiliates will be featured as official partners and included in the venue’s public event programme print and online publicity, they’ll be able to access to high-spec in-house technical equipment and backstage facilities on concert days as well as Box Office, Marketing, Front of House and Technical support.

In return, Affiliates are expected to publicise that they are an Affiliate of The Tung Auditorium and host at least one collaborative event per year involving the Department of Music, such as a concert alongside, or workshop with, students, supporting research or performing student compositions as a part of programming.

Application Process

Applications will follow a two-stage process, beginning with an Expression of Interest due by noon on Friday, 30 May 2025.

Please view the full Affiliate scheme information with full details of how to apply here https://thetungauditorium.com/our-venue/affiliate-organisations
Shortlisted applicants will be invited for a venue tour before submitting a final proposal.

Organisations are encouraged to demonstrate how affiliation will support their growth and suggest innovative ways to contribute to University life.
The Tung Auditorium and the Department of Music particularly welcome applications from groups under-represented in the arts and academia.

BlackFest are proud to announce the 2025 festival commissions are officially open. They would love to introduce the theme this year: that has organically developed which is looking at the ‘MASCULINE + MASCULINTY,’ and centring the energy. Artists can also consider these themes and again your work does not need to be bound to any theme.

They have centred a lot of great Black Men that will be contributing to the festival this year. Announcements coming soon!

2025 – This year’s commissions in spoken word, fashion, theatre, music for their annual rhythms night featuring live music and DJs; Visual Arts; and – new for this year – introducing COMEDY + Scratch at Shakespeare North playhouse + more!

BlackFest 2025 is set to run in the autumn, from 22nd September to 31st October 2025

Their annual festival programme spans venues across Liverpool that will showcase music, spoken word and poetry, theatre, fashion and more with venues to be announced in the coming months.

Be a part of 2025 celebrating Black Arts! APPLY NOW! Via this Link

Future Yard are calling on their amazing community to help support the next generation of musicians in Birkenhead! 🎸 🥁

Is your old guitar gathering dust? Not finding much use for that keyboard nowadays? Put your unwanted equipment straight into the hands of young people on our learning programmes and inspire a new wave of music makers in Birkenhead and beyond.

Find out how you can play a part in encouraging even more beginner musicians to kickstart their journey and make music education more accessible – they really appreciate your help.

Email: enquiries@futureyard.org

Visit their website here

The DoES Liverpool Boost Membership was introduced to celebrate the 10th anniversary of DoES Liverpool – the amazing coworking and shared workshop space in the Fabric District of Liverpool. Boost membership gives two people the opportunity to use the space free of charge for six months either with an allocated desk or by having 24-hour access to the workshop.

As things continue to be difficult for people due to inflation, fuel prices and all the economic woes we’re dealing with at the moment they thought it would be worth pointing out that boost membership is open to anyone, even existing paying members. If 6 months free membership would help you out at the moment then feel free to apply, of course if you’re not already a paying member you are still welcome to apply.

Applications are open until 11:59pm on Saturday 31st May 2025, any applications received after this point will not be considered. They will endeavour to announce the winners as soon as possible afterwards.

Apply here

Closing date: 31 May

Bidston Observatory are offering spaces for up to 20 overnight stayers and 10 day visitors for transgender, non-binary and intersex

✨️Free activities, including:

Trauma Release Work embodied session
Hairdressing
Funding sessions
DJ workshops
Experimental sound improv sessions
Woodland walks
Fireside rage
Movie nights

Held: 6 – 8 May

📨Email enquiries@bidstonobservatory.org for more info and to book

Cass Art Liverpool invites you to enter The Cass Art Prize 2025

The Cass Art Prize 2025 presented by The Cass Group, aims to champion contemporary art from across the UK and the Republic of Ireland, with a £10,000 cash prize and a free stand at The Other Art Fair in spring 2026 awarded to the overall winner of the competition. There are additional prizes worth £15,000 including a Students Award, an Art Educators Award and more! Plus a prestigious group exhibition at Copeland Gallery, London in autumn 2025.

Enter by midday 13th May 2025.

Find out more and enter at cassart.co.uk/thecassartprize

Works will be judged by a respected panel of guest judges with extensive knowledge and experience across the art industry, and there are category prizes specifically for oil, watercolour, acrylic, pastels, drawing and sketching, 3D artwork, mixed media and printmaking to ensure a wide range of art is represented.

New prizes this year include, the Pastel Award – supported by Sennelier, the Emerging Artist Award – supported by Arches for artists aged 35 and under, the Over 65 Award – supported by Mark Cass for artists aged 65 and over and the Judge’s New Talent Award – supported by Soho Review; a solo show at Soho Revue kindly offered and selected by guest judge India Rose James.

Have you been helped by The Whitechapel Centre? Did they help get you off the streets and into a home? Or advised you on how to prevent becoming homeless? Or supported a member of your family? Or have you volunteered with this leading Liverpool charity? Have you worked for them?

The Whitechapel Centre fights to end homelessness but sadly they are 50 this year. Sadly, because they are still very much needed, five decades later. Manager Ruth McCaughley said, “We’re not celebrating our 50^th birthday – we’ll only celebrate when homelessness no longer exists. However, we can reflect on the positive impact we’ve made and we’ll be marking our 50th with a series of awareness raising events as we reflect on all the lives we’ve helped transform. So, we’d love to hear from people who have been involved with the charity. Whether it was in the beginning in the mid 70s, or any time since. We want to gather together stories so that we can share them throughout 2025.”

If you have a story about how The Whitechapel Centre helped you / your family, or how working or volunteering for them has impacted your life, please email 50years@whitechapelcentre.co.uk or go to www.whitechapelcentre.co.uk/50years and fill in your details.

Background

The Whitechapel Centre provides vital services that can prevent people from facing a life on the streets. Open every day of the year, the charity aims to be there for those people facing homelessness to help them resolve their situation as quickly as possible. This includes daily services for rough sleepers, expert housing and benefit advice and health and wellbeing support. The charity also provides learning and education activities so that people can gain valuable life skills to help maintain a home, and their independence, such as budgeting, managing their health, smarter food shopping and cooking.