Explore the fascinating world of trees and woodland ecology through art this Easter holiday
Join our free activities where you can experiment with simple texture rubbing techniques to discover the unique patterns and surfaces of tree bark, leaves and other natural materials. Use your artworks to create your own woodland scenes. From busy insects and birds to leafy canopies and forest floors, we encourage you to celebrate the life that thrives in woodland environments.
Be inspired by artworks in Tate’s collection that explore habitats, green spaces and natural forms. Check out Ai Weiwei’s Tree, Max Ernst’s Forest and Dove, Zoe Leonard’s Tree Fence, 6th St. (Close-up), Menashe Kadishman’s [title not known] and Tacita Dean’s Majesty for inspiration!
Our Learning Space is open every day for visiting families – a space to relax and create with art games, colouring-in, books, toys and more!
Share your experience with us on social media using @tateliverpool and #TLfamilies.
Join us for fun-filled day of family-friendly activities for World Bee Day 2026.
Bees are one of our pollinator superheroes, we couldn’t grow all our fruit & veg on the farm without them – this day is about celebrating their hard work and helping protect them for years to come!
Help our bees to survive and thrive by building new habitas to take home or join us at our Seed Bomb Station to create your own wildflower mix; plant it at home to make sure bees can find food in your outdoor space.
Booking is essential, head to our website to register your place. If you have any problems booking, please get in touch with us by emailing farm@kindling.org.uk.
Identify the sights and sounds of the birds we have at the farm by taking part in this blissful dawn chorus walk.
Join us for a guided walk around the farm to explore the changing songs and habits of birds during the nesting season. This event will take place early in the morning when the calm, early morning air helps birdsong travel further – it is a beautiful experince! The walk will be guided by ecologist and long term volunteer at Kindling Farm, Andrea Sarkissian who has been carrying out regular bird surveys here at the farm and will share her wealth of knowledge about the activity she has discovered and how our sustainable farming methods are helping birds thrive.
Please bring binoculars if you have them and a small notebook to write down your findings (we will have some here for people to use).
This activity is aimed at beginners and can be suitable for all ages. However, please be mindful that it does involve walking across uneven ground for over an hour and being quite quiet so that we don’t scare the birds away, so it might not suit everyone!
We’ll be serving coffee and sweet breakfast treats from 7.30am, the walk starts promptly at 8am.
The cost for this event is £5 including breakfast – kids eat half price!
Booking is essential, please visit our website to register your place. If you have any problems booking, please get in touch with us by emailing farm@kindling.org.uk.
Join us for a walking tour of Merseyside’s pioneering agroforestry farm.
As part of this year’s national Agroforestry Open Weekend, we invite you to join us on a walking tour of the Northwest’s very own 78-acre organic agroforestry farm!
Led by Kindling Director, Stuart Jones, you’ll learn about the heritage varieties we have onsite and the prominent role they play in our farming system and the wider food supply chain.
This activity is open to everyone with an interest in food and farming. All ages are very welcome to join us! However, please be mindful that our farm is not accessible for prams or pushchairs and the tour will involve 2 hours of walking.
Booking is essential, pleave visit our website to register your place. If you have any problems booking, please get in touch with us by emailing farm@kindling.org.uk
Save your old garden tools from landfill by developing the skills (and confidence) to mend broken tools at this Repair Cafe.
This is a practical workshop facilitated by members of the Liverpool Repair Cafe, a worldwide initiative which invites people of all levels to come together and collectively learn how to fix old, worn-out stuff from one another.
For this workshop, we’re focussing solely on garden tools from spades and forks to strimmers and mowers. You can bring your own tools for repair and providing we have the parts you need, fix them together under the guidance of the Liverpool Repair Cafe team. Alternatively, develop your skills and confidence by practising with the tools we have onsite which are in need of a new lease of life!
We kindly ask for a donation of £5 towards any personal repais which helps us to cover the cost of materials.
This is a drop-in session; you are welcome to attend anytime between 10.30am-1.30pm.
Booking is essentail, please visit our website to register your place. If you have any problems booking, please get in touch by contacting farm@kindling.org.uk.
Unlock the ancient art of apple tree grafting and take your very own tree home with you.
This half day workshop will train you in the skills of grafting apple (and other fruiting) trees. You’ll be grafting scions (young cuttings) to rootstock at Kindling Farm under the guidance and training of Mark Simmonds. Mark has many years of experience managing orchards and looking after fruit trees and can help you get a grip on the science and practice of apple grafting. There are plenty of opportunities to talk through the process and Mark’s training sessions are always full of fascinating theory and history surrounding tree grafting.This is a practical workshop yet grafting is fairly low impact and involves no heavy lifting.
Grafting with knives involves carefully making safe cuts, which can be fiddly, but there will be plenty of opportunity to learn. If you have any access needs please let us know in advance and we will endeavour to meet them where possible. We’ll also be providing safety equipment.Booking is essentail, please visit our website to register your place. If you have any problems booking your place, please email farm@kindling.org.uk
An old fire station in Port Sunlight, a room in a former New Brighton greengrocer’s and a Georgian town house in Hamilton Square are just a few of the exciting spaces visitors are invited to explore during this year’s Wirral Open Studio Tour.
Taking place over the weekend of 13-14 June 2026, the event will see more than 90 artists across the peninsula welcoming the public into their creative spaces.
Founded in 2009, this will be the 16th edition of the annual celebration of Wirral artistic talent, which is a rare opportunity to meet artists, find out more about their creative processes and even take home a piece of unique art.
The artists’ work spans a wide variety of styles, media and subjects, including painting, printmaking, ceramics, sculpture, glass, textiles, photography, woodworking and jewellery.
A free tour brochure is available online at wirralarts.com or you can pick up a printed copy at galleries, cafes, community centres and libraries in the run-up to the event.
A selection of studios are also open on Friday 12 June 6-9pm.
Pictured: Daniel Meakin in his studio.
Leap Dance Festival’s day of free dance activity in the heart of Liverpool City Centre returns. Enjoy outdoor performances and workshops from the region’s leading dance artists.
Expect to see a wide variety of dance styles and colourful characters throughout the day at Liverpool One.
Produced by Chaos Arts CIC for Leap Dance Festival 2026
Following the hugely successful event last year, our community dance event simply had to return to Sefton Park Palm House.
Groups from across Liverpool City Region, of all ages, abilities and backgrounds, will perform in a range of styles. Last year, we cheered on 14 different groups with performers spanning seven decades in age.
There will also be free taster sessions taking place throughout the day, inside and outside this iconic venue, offering the chance to try something new (and maybe discover a hidden talent!)
Produced by Chaos Arts CIC for Leap Dance Festival
Reflecting on four decades as an artist, Nina Edge is joined by art historian and curator Alice Correia and the Bluecoat’s Bryan Biggs to discuss her long engagement with the arts centre.
The panel will consider the development of Edge’s art as reflected through the archive, from early shows at the Bluecoat to inclusion in Tate Britain’s Women in Revolt. The challenge of documenting such a broad multidisciplinary art practice will be addressed alongside wider questions about how art histories are made and what is excluded from them.
Event supported by DACS whose grant has enabled Edge to develop her own archive, and The National Archives.
