Event type: Comedy

Event cancellation notice
We are sorry to advise that all the #LIF2021 The Mersey Mash events have had to be postponed until 2022. This means the community conversations, and recording sessions, can no longer run as part of this year’s Festival.

We remain committed to collecting these stories, and creating the film, but life-circumstances for the project’s owners means we are not able to run the events in October as originally planned. Please stay tuned for further sessions, most likely to be scheduled for 2022’s Festival.

Original listing
As close to the Festival as we can possible make it, Doug will present The Mersey Mash, a magazine-show film that collects and tells the stories you told during #LIF2021, particularly those gathered at Mixers 1-5.

This is an evening to see yourself onscreen and to witness stories from the community you live in. Fresh from the Festival, this is a chance to revel and reflect, chat and critique; in the homely surrounds of the Centre, alongside the people who make it great. This is an exchange between audiences and documentarists; people and places. After this screening, the film will be re-tweaked before its online release, so this is a behind the scenes of the process of filmmaking.

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Image (c) DaBrick.

We are proud to state this event is linked with Black History Month and the Cuture Liverpool programme.

Event cancellation notice
We are sorry to advise that all the #LIF2021 The Mersey Mash events have had to be postponed until 2022. This means the community conversations, and recording sessions, can no longer run as part of this year’s Festival.

We remain committed to collecting these stories, and creating the film, but life-circumstances for the project’s owners means we are not able to run the events in October as originally planned. Please stay tuned for further sessions, most likely to be scheduled for 2022’s Festival.

Original listing
After the interviews, the events, the laugher and the tears, The Mersey Mash reaches its final destination – the end edit. The final cut.

Doug Devaney and camera tech Barry will finally let their 2021 expedition go, free to be watched by all and sundry! A document of the Festival, their findings and of the people that make up Liverpool’s Irish community, The Mersey Mash bears witness to the people, places and events we shared, along with the islands that influenced us all.

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Image © DaBrick.

The streaming link will be available, here, on the day.

We are proud to state this event is linked with Black History Month and the Cuture Liverpool programme.

A sound performance by Derry‐based multidisciplinary artist Edy Fung.

Continuing our annual Art Arcadia residency and virtual work with Edy from 2020 and 2021, we now witness Edy ‘in real life’. Extending her research writing (done for for Liverpool Irish Festival’s St Brigid’s Day programme 2021, see Retrospective Future Gazers), which mapped the Royal Charter’s failed-return to Liverpool against the history of weather forecasting, Edy continues to tell the story of the weather, this time using sound performance.

Press release
26 Oct 2021. Download here.

Event cancellation notice
We are sorry to advise that all the #LIF2021 The Mersey Mash events have had to be postponed until 2022. This means the community conversations, and recording sessions, can no longer run as part of this year’s Festival.

We remain committed to collecting these stories, and creating the film, but life-circumstances for the project’s owners means we are not able to run the events in October as originally planned. Please stay tuned for further sessions, most likely to be scheduled for 2022’s Festival.

In place of the recording, on board the Pride of Sefton, we have organised four boat tours for the same day, whcih document the hostory of the docks including limited sections on slavery and the Black experience. These are free, but must be booked, which you can do using the event links below:

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Original listing
Across the Festival, Doug Devaney (and his camera man and recordist, Barry) will be collecting your stories.

Why? They will be brought together to create a ‘magazine film’ -called The Mersey Mash- which we’ll present to attendees, at the Liverpool Irish Centre, on 2 Nov.  It will form a record of #LIF2021 and give Doug more information for his podcast The Plastic Podcasts (plasticpodcasts.com).

To collect these recordings, Doug et al will run the following drop-ins, which we’re calling Mersey Mash Mixers! You don’t have to sign up, but if you have an interesting or meaningful story to tell about Liverpool, Liverpool Irish or Irish connections, Doug would love to hear from you. You can drop-in to any of the sessions (or more than one if you’ve a few stories and fancy a change of scene) within the times shown. Doug will be there to listen, question and record! Pop along.

Image © timajo
The Mersey Mash: Mixer #5
12pm-5pm, Fri 29 Oct. Onboard the Pride Of Sefton, moored at Albert/Salthouse dock. Free, no booking necessary

Liverpool is famously married to the sea, so this series of story-swaps wouldn’t be complete without spending some time on a boat. We’re finishing our series of drop-ins, bobbing up and down on the water, courtesy of the Pride Of Sefton (a canal barge), taking in the glories of Liverpool’s industrial and maritime history. We’d like to hear what you have to say about Liverpool’s past and its future, so bring your stories -and sea legs- to this historic boat, dock and waterway.

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We are proud to state this event is linked with Black History Month and the Cuture Liverpool programme.

Event cancellation notice
We are sorry to advise that all the #LIF2021 The Mersey Mash events have had to be postponed until 2022. This means the community conversations, and recording sessions, can no longer run as part of this year’s Festival.

We remain committed to collecting these stories, and creating the film, but life-circumstances for the project’s owners means we are not able to run the events in October as originally planned. Please stay tuned for further sessions, most likely to be scheduled for 2022’s Festival.

Original listing
Across the Festival, Doug Devaney (and his camera man and recordist, Barry) will be collecting your stories.

Why? They will be brought together to create a ‘magazine film’ -called The Mersey Mash- which we’ll present to attendees, at the Liverpool Irish Centre, on 2 Nov.  It will form a record of #LIF2021 and give Doug more information for his podcast The Plastic Podcasts (plasticpodcasts.com).

To collect these recordings, Doug et al will run the following drop-ins, which we’re calling Mersey Mash Mixers! You don’t have to sign up, but if you have an interesting or meaningful story to tell about Liverpool, Liverpool Irish or Irish connections, Doug would love to hear from you. You can drop-in to any of the sessions (or more than one if you’ve a few stories and fancy a change of scene) within the times shown. Doug will be there to listen, question and record! Pop along.

Image © timajo
The Mersey Mash: Mixer #3
11am-1pm (not 2pm as in some listings), Thurs 28 Oct. Liverpool Irish Centre. Free, no booking necessary

Wednesdays were traditionally the day for the tea dance at Liverpool Irish Centre, back in the Mount Pleasant days. This Wednesday will see an extra pair take their place on the floor (or near to it) as Doug and Barry set up their talking shop at the Boundary Road Liverpool Irish Centre for three hours of chat, char, and cha-cha-cha. In between waltzes -and seeing whether Liam’s got white pudding in at the shop- they’ll be there to hear your stories of how the Irish changed Liverpool, and how Liverpool changed the Irish.

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We are proud to state this event is linked with Black History Month and the Cuture Liverpool programme.

Event cancellation notice
We are sorry to advise that all the #LIF2021 The Mersey Mash events have had to be postponed until 2022. This means the community conversations, and recording sessions, can no longer run as part of this year’s Festival.

We remain committed to collecting these stories, and creating the film, but life-circumstances for the project’s owners means we are not able to run the events in October as originally planned. Please stay tuned for further sessions, most likely to be scheduled for 2022’s Festival.

Original listing
Across the Festival, Doug Devaney (and his camera man and recordist, Barry) will be collecting your stories.

Why? They will be brought together to create a ‘magazine film’ -called The Mersey Mash- which we’ll present to attendees, at the Liverpool Irish Centre, on 2 Nov.  It will form a record of #LIF2021 and give Doug more information for his podcast The Plastic Podcasts (plasticpodcasts.com).

To collect these recordings, Doug et al will run the following drop-ins, which we’re calling Mersey Mash Mixers! You don’t have to sign up, but if you have an interesting or meaningful story to tell about Liverpool, Liverpool Irish or Irish connections, Doug would love to hear from you. You can drop-in to any of the sessions (or more than one if you’ve a few stories and fancy a change of scene) within the times shown. Doug will be there to listen, question and record! Pop along.

Image © timajo
The Mersey Mash: Mixer #4
2pm-4pm (not 11am-2pm as in some listings), Thurs 28 Oct. Pagoda Chinese Community Centre. Free, no booking necessary

No man is an island, and the Liverpool Irish Festival isn’t just about coming from ‘over the water’. Doug and Barry are particularly delighted to have been invited to hold the fourth of the drop-ins at the Pagoda Chinese Community Centre (Henry Street), courtesy of Pagoda Arts.

The Chinese and the Irish communities have been significant and historic influencers in shaping the nature of the city, as individual and shared communities. If you’ve got anything to say about how they’re similar, or how they’re different; where they meet or diverge or if you’ve got a tale that you think needs to be heard, you’ll find a pair of open ears ready to receive you.

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Comhaltas and the Armagh Rhymers take it in turns to play fun (spooky) games and music, to dance and play along with, whilst the veil between our world and ‘the Other’ is at its thinnest.

We invite you to bring along the  kids -in their best creepy dress-up (or not)- and hope adults will play along.

We welcome false eyes and teeth, wigs and props (whether you need them or not!). So, grab the green paint, webbing and bat toy; ready your ‘mwah-ha-has’ and bolt on your tiger feet…this ought to be a fun Monster’s Ball!

Activities are mainly geared for kids between 4-10 years old, with adult supervision. Kids aged 18-100 years old are also welcome to play, but should be child-supervised!

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Event cancellation notice
We are sorry to advise that all the #LIF2021 The Mersey Mash events have had to be postponed until 2022. This means the community conversations, and recording sessions, can no longer run as part of this year’s Festival.

We remain committed to collecting these stories, and creating the film, but life-circumstances for the project’s owners means we are not able to run the events in October as originally planned. Please stay tuned for further sessions, most likely to be scheduled for 2022’s Festival.

Original listing
Across the Festival, Doug Devaney (and his camera man and recordist, Barry) will be collecting your stories.

Why? They will be brought together to create a ‘magazine film’ -called The Mersey Mash- which we’ll present to attendees, at the Liverpool Irish Centre, on 2 Nov.  It will form a record of #LIF2021 and give Doug more information for his podcast The Plastic Podcasts (plasticpodcasts.com).

To collect these recordings, Doug et al will run the following drop-ins, which we’re calling Mersey Mash Mixers! You don’t have to sign up, but if you have an interesting or meaningful story to tell about Liverpool, Liverpool Irish or Irish connections, Doug would love to hear from you. You can drop-in to any of the sessions (or more than one if you’ve a few stories and fancy a change of scene) within the times shown. Doug will be there to listen, question and record! Pop along.

Image © timajo
The Mersey Mash: Mixer #1
12pm-5pm, Fri 22 Oct. Brahms Suite, Liverpool Philharmonic Dining Rooms. Free, no booking necessary

Fri 22 Oct starts the opening weekend of the Liverpool Irish Festival, and the first of Mersey Mash Mixers. What better way to kick both off than with a coffee (or a pint) and a chat, in the Brahms Suite of The Phil? Doug and Barry will be there with camera and mic for anything you want to tell them about your story, your family’s story, Irishness or Liverpool. Or even all four. Whether it’s the time your Gran stepped off the train at Lime Street; when you met your wife at an Irish Centre dance or how you couldn’t move half-a-mile from Bold Street without hitting a green bar, they want to hear it.

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We are proud to state this event is linked with Black History Month and the Cuture Liverpool programme.

Event cancellation notice
We are sorry to advise that all the #LIF2021 The Mersey Mash events have had to be postponed until 2022. This means the community conversations, and recording sessions, can no longer run as part of this year’s Festival.

We remain committed to collecting these stories, and creating the film, but life-circumstances for the project’s owners means we are not able to run the events in October as originally planned. Please stay tuned for further sessions, most likely to be scheduled for 2022’s Festival.

Original listing
Across the Festival, Doug Devaney (and his camera man and recordist, Barry) will be collecting your stories.

Why? They will be brought together to create a ‘magazine film’ -called The Mersey Mash- which we’ll present to attendees, at the Liverpool Irish Centre, on 2 Nov.  It will form a record of #LIF2021 and give Doug more information for his podcast The Plastic Podcasts (plasticpodcasts.com).

To collect these recordings, Doug et al will run the following drop-ins, which we’re calling Mersey Mash Mixers! You don’t have to sign up, but if you have an interesting or meaningful story to tell about Liverpool, Liverpool Irish or Irish connections, Doug would love to hear from you. You can drop-in to any of the sessions (or more than one if you’ve a few stories and fancy a change of scene) within the times shown. Doug will be there to listen, question and record! Pop along.

Image © timajo
The Mersey Mash: Mixer #2
11am-2pm, Tue 26 Oct. Kuumba Imani Millennium Centre. Free, no booking necessary

“We all come from somewhere else” is the motto of The Plastic Podcasts (Doug’s series of interviews with members of the Irish diaspora). Nowhere is this better reflected than at the Kuumba Imani Millennium Centre (Princes Road, Toxteth). With a plentiful supply of tea and biscuits, Doug and Barry will be there to hear and record your tales; not just on Irishness, but on family, race, mixed heritage and the changing face of the city.

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We are proud to state this event is linked with Black History Month and the Cuture Liverpool programme.

Presentation of short film Hold the Sausage and interview with its makers and IndieCork Director Mick Hannigan, presented on Liverpool Irish Festival’s YouTube channel.

We are no longer able to air Cal’s full film, for licencing reasons, but you can see it, alongside others from the programme, here on iPlayer.

In this short film, comedy meets chaos as Saoirse’s Nanny learns of her new lifestyle choices. Watch the drama unfold as Saoirse is interrogated by her Nanny after refusing her Sunday roast sausages. Saoirse is a contemporary Irish Catholic teenager, showcasing the progressive youth and nature of Northern Ireland – ‘wrecking’ her Nannie’s nerves in the process.

As well as screening this film, spectators will meet its director, Cal Freeman, and lead actor, Chloe Muldoon, who are interviewed -exclusively for the Festival- by Mick Hannigan (Director IndieCork). You will hear how Cal was commissioned by New Creatives North, a filmmaker program funded by BBC Arts & Arts Council England, providing real industry insights for new makers.

Interested in modern Irish and Queer identity, and ‘reclaiming space’ for the north (at the centenary of the formation of Northern Ireland), Cal and Chloe provide a vantage in to the world of millennial filmmakers, all whilst having a merry giggle along the way.

After the premiere, it will be available to watch below.

Image (c) Finn Harvey.