John Mitchel’s GAA Club, in partnership with LivIrishFest, hosts this unique event at Liverpool’s only dedicated GAA pitch.
Past players from the club battle it out with visiting teams from Ireland in a not-to-be-missed morning of everyone’s favourite sport. Come along for a great day of football, fun, and catching up with friends old and new. Everyone welcome – players, supporters, families and friends.
This is an outdoor event in October. Please come along with waterproofs and/or sun cream as needed and be ready to get muddy and/or grass-stained!
Second-hand September alert: Real-life Vinted Without The Fees on Lark Lane
Slowdown Sundays returns to Lark Lane with affordable autumn wardrobes, live music, and more.
Where: Lark Lane Old Police Station
When: 21st September 2025, 11:00–15:00
Affordable pre-loved fashion pop-up Slowdown Sundays is back Sunday 21st September in Lark Lane, for one day only (and entry is free!). With emphasis on autumn and winter wear, you can get a full wardrobe refresh without the Vinted fees!
Organisers Life in Colour UK and Zero Fashion UK created Slowdown Sundays with three clear aims: building a slow fashion community whilst making fashion affordable to all and reducing the environmental impact of fast fashion. Buyers will be helping reduce the staggering 92 million tonnes of textile waste each year and the resulting 10% contribution to global greenhouse gas emissions.
Following the success of the July pop-up, and high demand for a return, Lark Lane Old Police Station visitors can expect:
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Up to 30 personally curated stalls with fashion for all bodies
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Live music from the Penny Lane Jazz
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Mindful textile crafts
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A chance to try circus skills with Sarah Han Creatives
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A chance to win a personalised colour analysis with any purchase
One July visitor wrote in: “It was so relaxed and easy to look around compared to regular shops. I felt brave and tried on pieces I wouldn’t have and left with 4 items I love for less than £30 (shoutout to my new favourite Levi’s for £5)!”
‘We can’t wait to build on the success of the first event and help even more people find joy and creativity in pre-loved treasures’ say organisers Life in Colour and Zero Fashion UK
Entry is free, and no booking is required.
Follow the journey on Instagram: @lifeincolouruk and @zerofashionuk.
Fancy having a go at Gaelic football? This event is open to all age groups whether keen Gaelic Footballers or total newbies!
To kickstart the event, coaches will be there to welcome everyone, offering a great opportunity to find out a bit more about the game and John Mitchel’s GAA Club. Here’s your chance to meet club members and even play a bit of Gaelic Football. There’ll be ‘blitz’ sessions for young ones, from fully qualified and checked coaches (guardians to stay throughout).
A kids’ Gaelic Football Tournament kicks off at 2.30pm.
This is an outdoor event in October. Please be ready with waterproofs and/or sun cream as needed and be prepared get muddy and/or grass-stained!
Join Liverpool Irish Festival‘s John Maguire (also of ArtsGroupie) on a revealing journey through Liverpool city centre. Spectators will hear about how the Victorian tragedy of the Irish Famine changed Liverpool’s streets. Trail walkers will learn about how locations were used for sanctuary, nourishment and safety. They will also hear and understand the benevolence of Liverpool’s people. Using a new trail app, headsets and recent Walk of the Bronze Shoes experience, your guide will really help you to walk in the shoes of Liverpool and Irish people 180-years ago.
This walk leaves at 11am. (There is a later walk at 12.15am.) Bookers for this walk are asked to gather from 10.45am at the Pilotage Building (near the Museum of Liverpool), for a tour taking walkers up to Fenwick Street and back. The walk will last approximately 45mins.
Bookings for these walks close at 5pm on Fri 17 Oct 2025.
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This year at Squash we’re celebrating our 10th annual Harvest Auction Fundraiser! Come slong for a magical eve of comedy and fun, win some locally grown and made harvest delights, and help raise funds for communities close to our heart, including:
- Squash’s own ‘Soup It Forward’ initiative, making sure neughbours in need can eat free in the Squash cafe, especially going into the colder months
- local charity Habibti Liverpool who support the medical staff and children at Al Sabeen Hospital in Sanaa, Yemen
- the African Caribbean Centre, a thiriving L8 hub, empowering a healthy, connected community
- the Union of Agricultural Work Committees, a Palestinian non-governmental organisation dedicated to supporting farmers and promoting sustainable agricultural practices. Following the attack on the Local Palestine Seed Bank on July 31st this year by Isreali forces, twinned organisation Exeter Seed Bank are fundraising to help restore and protect remaining seed sources in Palestine.
If you can’t make the auction but would like to donate please do so here.
Growers and Cooks! Have you grown something you’re really proud of this year? Or made an amazing jam? Donations of home or allotment-grown fruit & veg and preserves, ferments, or other delicious homemade seasonal treats can be dropped off at Squash on Saturday 13th, Wednesday 17th, Thursday 18th, Friday 19th between 10am and 4pm.
Harvest Competition! The catagories for our annual harvest produce competition are:
-BEST WONKY FRUIT OR VEG
-BEST SQUASH/ PUMPKIN
-BEST PRESERVE (jam/ chutney/relish/ferment- entries require a whole jar and a sample for judges)
-BEST DRESSED AT THE HARVEST AUCTION (get your best Autumn kecks on!)
-BEST IN SHOW
If you would like to enter, please note this on the Auction Lot Entry form when you drop off your goods
For more info or to donate an auction lot email clare@squashliverpool.co.uk or call 01517077897
He may be very busy checking lists, preparing gifts, checking lists (again), feeding the reindeer, polishing his boots, but he’s never too busy to visit one of his favourite places – the Bluecoat!
With a sackful of silly stories and a last-minute chance to check which list you might be on, Father Christmas invites you to a Winter Warmer full of family-friendly giggles, noise, and nonsense! This 60-minute show includes a chance for every family to meet, greet, and chat with Father Christmas—and take your own photos with the help of our friendly Elf.
Father Christmas has been bringing his silly storytelling shows to sold-out venues across Merseyside for over five years. His cousin and fellow storyteller, Gav Cross, has finally convinced him to bring this unique show to the heart of Liverpool!
Available Dates:– Sat 29 Nov*- Sun 30 Nov*- Sat 6 Dec- Sun 7 Dec- Sat 13 Dec- Sun 14 Dec- Sat 20 Dec- Sun 21 Dec
(*Scratch Weekend)
Available Times:– 11am-12pm- 1.30-2.30pm- 3.30-4.30pm
*Scratch Weekend, Sat 29 – Sun 30 Nov: Preview performances at discounted price! See Father Christmas test out his stories in preview performances at a slightly discounted price. £7.50 per person.Ticket Prices from Sat 6 Dec:
General Ticket: £13 per personFamily Ticket: £47 (Family of 4, minimum 1 adult and 1 child).
During this simplified, beginner friendly day course you will learn how to turn a treasured image into a UV stencil screen. Once you have your screen made, you’ll be talked through some fun and easy screen techniques to add colour to your prints. You’ll finish the workshop by using our screen-beds to ink and print your one-of-a-kind artwork onto paper in a small edition that you can take home with you.
£70 (all materials included)
Just Browsing is a group exhibition that allows audiences to browse tactile works of art. The exhibition borrows from the retail area around Bluecoat’s gallery to offer an experience of art that can be touched, worn and bought to take home. Artists in the exhibition use textiles, ceramics, and scent to connect with audiences in a variety of ways.
The exhibition features works and products from artists Bruce Asbestos, Ffion Evans, Garth Gratrix, Ivy Kalungi, Lou Miller, Sufea Mohamad Noor, Lewis Prosser, Ben Saunders, Daniel Sean Kelly, Chester Tenneson, and Carla Wright.
This exhibition is part of our season Felt, which features a programme of exhibitions and events that allow audiences to go beyond looking, but also to touch, wear, hold, and take part, and experience art in new, hands-on ways.
Go behind the scenes of the beautiful game and explore how football stadiums have shaped cities, local neighbourhoods, and communities for over 125 years.
Home ground celebrates the stadium as a cultural landmark and a place of weekly pilgrimage, where thousands gather in hope, pride, and passion. From early terraces to today’s bold arenas, stadiums reflect the identity of the places they belong to.
Inspired by Everton Football Club’s new Hill Dickinson Stadium, the exhibition features more than 50 stadiums from around the world. Through architectural models, photographs, film, and archive material, you will see how stadium design has evolved, and why it matters.
Alongside material from club and city archives across Europe, highlights in the exhibition also features works of leading contemporary architecture practices. These include Herzog and de Meuron who designed the Allianz Arena in Munich which is the first stadium in the world with a fully colour changing LED exterior as well as Meis/BDP; gmp von Gerkan, Marg and Partners Architects; Populous; and more.
See how architects have shaped the stadium, solving complex challenges to create shared experiences, and designing spaces that unite fans.
Whether you are a lifelong supporter or a curious visitor, our Home ground exhibition at RIBA North and Tate Liverpool invites you to see football stadiums as more than sports venues, as unique expressions of place, identity, and design.
Complementing our work on the annual Liverpool Irish Famine Memorial, last year’s Walk of the Bronze Shoes has created a new annual opportunity.
For those who don’t know, in 2024 members of our Festival team walked a pair of bronze shoes from County Roscommon (northwest Ireland) to Dublin (east coast of Ireland); sailed them to Holyhead and took them from Seacombe to Mersey Ports, to walk them to Clarence Dock Gates and on to the Famine Memorial. Why?
The bronze shoes are a marker of the National Famine Way in Ireland and Liverpool’s pair — teamed with 15-pairs in North America — are the first to form the Global Irish Famine Way.
Clarence Dock is where 1.8+m Irish Famine poor came into Liverpool. The Great Hunger commemoration memorial (unveiled in 1998) at St Luke’s Bombed Out Church remembers the 300k+ that stayed in Liverpool, the 1m+ that sailed overseas and the 2m+ that died. The journey between the two locations is indicative of the struggles of those sent here.
We’ll repeat the Clarence Dock to St Luke’s Bombed Out Church walk annually, until we find the bronze shoes a permanent home and we welcome you to join us.
This time our group will be led by a time-travelling Liver Bird, a bird cyborg who has travelled through time experiencing displacement due to conflict, famine, economic hardship and climate change. Stewards will help people walk the route. Information will be provided at the site that morning. A small informal ceremony will start the vigil, with walkers from the Walk of the Bronze Shoes,
This activity has been made possible with funds from The National Lottery Heritage Fund.
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