Come along and help us celebrate this triple-whammy event, which includes a ceílí, with Irish music for all the family.
The event is the ‘Grand Opening’ of Movema World Dance Studio, with taster-workshops for everyone in all your favourite dance styles! We will also be celebrating Movema’s seventh birthday (hurrah!) with special dance and music performances from our performers and community groups, alongside secret surprise guests! In addition, visitors are encouraged to take part in raffles and competitions, with all proceeds going to stage two of our development to provide showers, studio mirrors and other facilities to communities using our studio. Come and celebrate with us and allow us to show our thanks you for your support over the past seven years.
Movema are running this event in collaboration with Tinderbox Fairs, Red Brick Vintage Ryde and The Wild Loaf
Come along to this unique, Grade II listed pub, full of curios and character to join in the weekly toe-tapping music session. Famed for its collection of artefacts, murals and ship’s tables (front lounge), this pub is a must see!
A fun and inclusive class for all the family, including traditional ceílí dances with a bit of set dance and sean-nós (Irish ‘old style’ tap dance) thrown in.
Movema are a multi-award winning company specialising in dances from around the world and long-time collaborators with the festival. These weekly classes are led by Director Maria Malone, who regularly calls at ceílís around Merseyside
A fun and inclusive class for all the family, including traditional ceílí dances with a bit of set dance and sean-nós (Irish ‘old style’ tap dance) thrown in.
Movema are a multi-award winning company specialising in dances from around the world and long-time collaborators with the festival. These weekly classes are led by Director Maria Malone, who regularly calls at ceílís around Merseyside
All musicians are welcome to join in with this session hosted by The Caledonia.
Focussing on Irish music and its American ties, the session will go with the flow of the folks who show up.
Last orders at midnight
A fun and inclusive class for all the family, including traditional ceílí dances with a bit of set dance and sean-nós (Irish ‘old style’ tap dance) thrown in.
Movema are a multi-award winning company specialising in dances from around the world and long-time collaborators with the festival. These weekly classes are led by Director Maria Malone, who regularly calls at ceílís around Merseyside
As part of the ninth Liverpool Biennial, jointly presented with Bluecoat a series of new commissions by Irish artist Dennis McNulty under the title Homo Gestalt, which includes a data driven installation in Bluecoat’s Vide, a digital app and an off-site performance work set around New Hall Place, a 1970s 13-storey brutalist style office located in Liverpool’s commercial district.
McNulty is interested in regulatory systems – mechanical, technological, managerial, financial, biological, cognitive, social – and how their structures, constraints and possibilities affect our behaviours and environment. For this new body of work he draws on fictional and real world sources, such as More than Human by science-fiction writer Theodore Sturgeon, which describes a scenario in which multiple humans blend abilities to act as a single organism. McNulty pairs this idea with the ‘multinode’, a concept developed by pioneering cyberneticist Stafford Beer to describe a collective biological or mechanic decision-making entity. The result is Homo Gestalt, a collective technology, performed into existence by audience participation.
Homo Gestalt forms part of Liverpool Biennial 2016’s Software episode, pointing to a broader social and cultural understanding of technology beyond pure technical applications
Bluecoat Display Centre is delighted to present a solo show of stunning hand blown glass by the Irish glass artist Catherine Keenan. Catherine says “The physical rhythm required to work with molten glass is what I fell in love with. I wish to communicate the vitality and exuberance of the making experience. I like to be playful with the material and hope that my pieces themselves are joyful in the use of colour and pattern”.
Catherine Keenan’s fascination with hot glass began while studying at the National College of Art and Design, Dublin. Graduating in 2006, she is currently Resident Artist at Flowerfield Arts Centre, Portstewart. Keenan has since won many awards and is presented in important national collections including Ulster Museum and the National Museum of Ireland
How did Liverpool react to the 1916 Easter Rising in Dublin?
What do we know about the Liverpool people who took part? Curated by library and Records Office researchers, with archivist Helena Smart, this exhibition of artefacts tells a forgotten chapter of local input in to Ireland’s history, providing a fascinating insight into the library itself, its resources, and local history.
Told through documents, photographs and articles from materials ordinarily held by the Liverpool Record Office and Central Library, additional material has come from the Liverpool 1916 Commemoration Committee
Take this walk though Liverpool’s historic Rodney and Hope Street areas, discovering colourful characters and long-lost histories.
Who was the White Angel and where is she now? Who came for the weekend and stayed for 20 years? And, did a Bishop really get stoned?
