Social Economy Club free sessions.
The next monthly Social Economy Club date is on Thursday, May 28, at Street and a Half in St Helens, supported by MAKE CIC.
Join them for a relaxed networking and co-working session with STOs, creatives and other social traders from across the Liverpool City Region from 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm.
And future Social Economy Club dates for your diary are:
June 18 at Make Hamilton – reserve your space
July 9 at Knowsley – grab a spot
Kindred Open House free sessions
The next Kindred Open House free session is held online June 11, from 1pm to 2pm.
They’re more than an organisation – we’re a growing community of people who believe in doing things differently, together.
Join them online for a friendly conversation and meet the team behind Kindred to find out more about what they do here…
MuseologyX, a symposium exploring the roles museology can play in rapidly evolving and digital contexts. Sessions will focus on themes such as Space & Curation, Emerging Technologies & Digitial, and Ecosystems.
Speakers and chairs include Alison Fell, Charles Forsdick and Dan Hicks, Torgeir Rinke Bangstad and Sarah Arens
Monday 1st June, 9.30 – 17.30 at The School of Law and Social Justice Event Space, University of Liverpool
For free tickets, visit here
Digital change in the cultural sector isn’t really a technology problem – it’s a leadership challenge. Most cultural leaders already know their organisation needs to work differently in a digital world. What’s often missing is the time, support, and peer space to work out what that actually means in practice.
Leading Change in a Digital Age is a free, six-month leadership programme designed to fill that gap. Delivered by The Space and supported by Arts Council England, it brings together a small cohort of cultural leaders to step back from day-to-day pressures and focus on how to lead meaningful, sustainable digital change.
To apply and for more details, visit here
The offer is for organisations to express interest in becoming Into Film Filmmaking Clubs for 26-27. Through this programme, selected organisations will receive:
To express interest in being selected for this programme, please fill in this form: Filmmaking Club | Expression of Interest by Wednesday 20th May. Into Film will then be in touch on Wednesday 10th June with the outcome of your application and next steps.
Creative Youth Practices 1 – Introduction Overview of Masculinities
21st May 2026
Heart of Glass in partnership with Artist and Educator, Fiona Whelan, Rialto Youth Project and Create invites you to this one-day professional development opportunity for practitioners interested in making socially engaged art and engaging in creative projects with boys and young men using an art and youth work approach
For registered SMEs or CICs proposing breakthrough innovation in the music sector across the Liverpool City Region.
MusicFutures is launching the first round of its Music Innovation Fund to support small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) developing the next generation of inclusive and sustainable music technologies, experiences, tools, and business models.
We are looking to support ambitious, forward-thinking projects across the Liverpool City Region (LCR) that have the potential to transform the music sector. Your project can be at any stage.
Successful applicants can receive up to £20,000 in funding, plus additional tailored support, to accelerate R&D, prototype development, testing, and deployment of innovative solutions.
Projects must be fully defined and ready to start by October 2026.
For information on Guidance, Eligibility and how to apply, please go to: musicfutures.co.uk/opportunities/music-innovation-fund.
Cheshire Dance are releasing a new Dance North West NOW Action Plan that they’re aiming to secure both short and long term investment for. To help secure better investment in dance, they need YOU!
Cheshire Dance‘s resources celebrate the North West’s vibrant, exciting, and high-quality dance work – and call for better support.
They’d love to feature North West artists, organisations and groups within the published Action Plan, so please get in touch with the following to be featured…
– Name and short bio of your organisation, group or project that you’d like to be featured
– One landscape and one portrait high quality image representing the chosen organisation, group or project (plus image credits: Photographer, Dance Artists)
– Ways for people can get in touch with you e.g. email address, social media or other contact.
Above content to be sent to daisy@cheshiredance.org by Fri 22 May 2026.
Please note this opportunity is limited, therefore they will have to make choices depending on the volume of content received.
One day workshop for performers. Archetype training is fully embodied, physical and vocal, a way of experiencing different ways of being, of thinking and sounding.
DISCOVER YOUR FULLEST VOCAL RANGE AND POTENTIAL and refresh your performance skills with an immersion in Shakespeare’s words in the company of Hero, Fool, Huntress, Mother, Sage and Trickster (and others). We’ll play with Shakespeare and allow Shakespeare to play (with) us.
Please bring a short monologue or sonnet of your choice. (10-14 lines)
Sunday 31st May 10 am to 4 pm
24 Hope Street, Liverpool
£30
Booking essential, limited places.
flloyd@thundersmouththeatre.com
Physical and vocal skills training for all creators.
Bookings now open for this one-off opportunity to explore new ways of developing characters, and for handling the best kind of text – Shakespeare’s. Flloyd Kennedy (AD of TMT) has been coaching actors in the UK, USA and Australia for the past 40 years. Now based in Liverpool, she is delighted to share her approach to skills training. www.ThundersMouthTheatre.com/workshop for more details
Collective Encounters are delighted to announce that we have been awarded funding to run a year long programme of workshops, performances, professional training, and other events, using creativity to improve health and wellbeing in Liverpool City Region.
Over 11 months, artists and residents will co-create powerful participatory theatre, touring performances and artist development, to engage underrepresented communities in telling their stories, making connections, and steering health policy.
The whole thing kicks off in May with some free community events, inviting people in Liverpool, Knowsley and South Sefton to explore what ‘fairer health’ would look like in their neighbourhoods. Also in May, our Radical Joy Cabaret will set the tone for the kind of performance, participation, and politics you can expect throughout the year.
Read on to find out about how you can get involved. More activities will be announced, so keep checking their social media and newsletters for updates.
Free community events
What would fairer health look like where you live? Collective Encounters is hosting free community events in Knowsley, South Sefton, and Liverpool.
In each area, a relaxed introductory session will provide a chance to share your thoughts and experiences, meet others, and find out about a series of workshops you can take part in during the summer. It’s a no-pressure introduction. No previous creative experience is necessary. Come along and try it out!
Centre 63, Old Hall Lane, Kirkby L32 5TH: Tuesday 19 May, 10am – 1pm
Netherton Library, Glover’s Lane, Sefton L30 3TL: Wednesday 20 May, 12 – 2:30pm
Kuumba Imani Centre, 4 Princes Road, Liverpool L8 1TH: Thursday 25 June, 10am – 12:30pm
For more information, click on the dates above or contact Abi:
abi@collective-encounters.org.
Radical Joy Cabaret
Joy can be a radical act of resistance in this time of austerity. Head along to find out how we can use joy to mobilise and fight back.
Performed by Collective Encounters’ Adult Theatre for Social Change group, the cabaret will weave a story of radical joy through songs, sketches and scenes, and will reflect on the world through the lens of our assets, not our deficits.
The Brink, Parr Street, L1 4JN: Saturday 23 May, 7pm
Tickets: pay what you can
Access: BSL interpretation, integrated audio description, step-free venue
Join their regular groups
Adult Theatre for Social Change company, alternate Saturdays 11am-2pm, St Michael in the City L1 5BD – open to all aged 18+
Women in Action, Tuesdays 1-3pm, Unity Theatre – open to women aged 18+ trans and gender non-conforming inclusive
Online Drama Group, one Friday a month 1-3pm, Zoom – open to all aged 18+
Black Maternal Health creative peer support group, one Friday a month 12-2pm, Black-E L1 5EW – open to Afro-descendent mothers aged 18+
For more info, visit here