Calling fans of all ages! Join us on Saturday 8 November 2025 for a day of drop-in activities, creative workshops, talks, exhibition tours, games and music, celebrating the cultures, communities, and spaces of football.
Contribute to a collective banner, build a stadium using recycled materials, try drawing like an architect, and join a curator tour of the exhibition. Play some games, grab a matchday pie while they’re hot, and share your favourite matchday experiences through comics drawing, a memory wall, and conversations.
The festival day is organised as part of the latest exhibition at RIBA North + Tate Liverpool, Home Ground: the architecture of football. The exhibition runs 15 Oct 2025 until 25 January 2026.
The day runs from 10am to 5pm on Saturday 8 November 2025 at RIBA North + Tate Liverpool. Entry is free, and can be booked via Eventbrite.
Curator tours will also be running at the following times on the day:
– 10.30am to 11.15am
– 12pm to 12.45pm
– 2pm to 2.45pm
These curator tours are free, but must be booked in advance via the Eventbrite link.
More details of the scheduled activities for the day will be available on riba.org and the Eventbrite listing.
You’re invited to commemorate 200 years of the Liverpool School of Art at the Private View for Back to the Drawing Board: 200 Years of Art Education, an exhibition to showcase some of the known and lesser-known histories of art education in Liverpool.
The Private View will include small speeches from people associated with the School, drinks and light bites, a screening of Michael Swerdlow’s film Liverpool College of Art: Timelines, and a chance to explore the archive material in more depth.
16 Oct 17:00-19:00
LG and G FloorsMount Pleasant Campus Library29 Maryland StreetLiverpoolL1 9DE
The building is wheelchair accessible. Email archives@ljmu.ac.uk for all enquiries.
The exhibition will continue to run from 16 Oct – 19 Dec.
If you can’t make the event but are still interested in the Liverpool School of Art’s history, LJMU Special Collections & Archives manage the archival papers of the School which are available to browse here, and you can visit anything from our many collections by appointment anytime Mon-Fri 10:00-16:00.
The Liverpool School of Art, the second oldest School of Art in England and creative heart of this city, turns 200 years old in 2025! As part of the Being Human Festival and as one of the many celebrations for the School’s bicentenary, you’re invited to participate in making a huge map to identify the people and organisations which connect in any way, shape, form, or time to the School since its formation in 1825 – discovering the creative ecosystem of Liverpool’s art education history in the process.
This event will run concurrently with the exhibition Back to the Drawing Board: 200 Years of Art Education based in the same building, and will hopefully contribute to further exhibit work as part of the ongoing celebration activities.
- Fri 7 Nov 13:00-16:00
- Sat 15 Nov 11:00-14:00
Mount Pleasant Campus Library 29 Maryland StL1 9DE
All are welcome – you don’t have to have been a student at the Liverpool School of Art to attend! Light refreshments will be provided.
The building is wheelchair accessible, but please email archives@ljmu.ac.uk if you have any specific access questions or concerns.
If you can’t make the event but are still interested in the Liverpool School of Art’s history, LJMU Special Collections & Archives manage the archival papers of the School which are available to browse here, and you can visit anything from our many collections by appointment anytime Mon-Fri 10:00-16:00.
This event is part of Being Human Festival, the UK’s national festival of the humanities, taking place 6 – 15 November 2025. Led by the School of Advanced Study, University of London, with generous support from Research England, in partnership with the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the British Academy. For further information please see https://www.beinghumanfestival.org/
Root around in our box of materials to find everything you need to create your own tree-inspired creations.
From ancient English oaks to evergreens, be inspired by artworks in Tate’s collection that explore woodland habitats, green spaces and natural forms. Check out Ai Weiwei’s Tree, Giuseppe Penone’s Trees of 12 Metres, 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.
Accessibility
Tate Liverpool is temporarily located at RIBA North, Mann Island, a short distance (425m) along Liverpool’s iconic waterfront. There is step free access to the main entrance. There is a lift to the first floor gallery, or alternatively you can take the stairs.
- Toilets are located on the first floor
- The nearest Changing Places toilet is located at the Museum of Liverpool
- Ear defenders are available to borrow. Please ask a Visitor Engagement Assistant
Additional seating is also available. Please ask a member of staff if you require assistance.To help plan your visit to Tate Liverpool + RIBA North, have a look at our visual story. It includes photographs and information of what you can expect from a visit to the gallery.For more information before your visit:Email visiting.liverpool@tate.org.uk
Marking Turner Prize-winning architecture collective Assemble’s new publication Building Collective, Alice Edgerly from Assemble will be in conversation with Hazel Tilley and Eleanor Lee from Granby Four Streets.
Assemble have transformed the definition of a successful young architecture practice by working on temporary, small-scale, community-based projects, often reusing sites and materials. Their projects range as widely as a brewery in rural Japan and a train depot in Arles, France. In 2015 they won the Turner Prize for their work with Granby Four Streets in Toxteth, Liverpool. For this project they worked closely with local residents to renovate derelict housing in the area.
Biographies
Assemble
Assemble are a London-based collective who work across the fields of art, design and architecture to create projects in tandem with the communities who use and inhabit them. Their architectural spaces and environments promote direct action and embrace a DIY sensibility.
Granby Four Streets
Granby Four Streets is an ongoing community-led project that aims to rebuild Granby in Toxteth. Once a lively and diverse community in Liverpool, the neighbourhood was nearly made derelict and fell into a state of disrepair. Starting from 2011, regeneration schemes brought these streets out of dereliction and back into use.
ABCL1 24 Newington, L1 4ED
6pm Thursday 2nd – 6pm Sunday 5th Oct 2025: 72 hour Interactive Collage Experience & art exhibition
8pm – Late Saturday 4th Oct 2025: ABCL1 closing event with; Art, music, video art & performance. Headline DJ @11pm. Nibbles & mxers provided BYOB
Since Covid ABCL1 has operated more as a private members club than a public gallery space. As our members moved on to bigger and better things we are putting on one last extravaganza over the first weekend in October. Artist Matt Kilp will be finishing his site specific collage installation & exhibiting some of his other work alongside the work of previous ABC members and other local artists. This show will run for 72h only & will be open to all souls around the clock, so you can come whenever suits you. On the final evening (Sat 4th) there will be an open bar with mixers and nibbles (byob) live music, performance and video art. If you would prefer a more relaxed experience feel free to come at any other time. We are operating an open door policy. Just come inside and up the stairs.
Contact: Matt Kilp jesuisgino@gmail.com for additional information
You’ll be buzzing with excitement with our bug-themed activities in our Learning Space this October half term! From dragonflies to beetles, take inspiration from the creepy crawlies in Tate’s collection to construct multi-coloured neon replicas of your favourite bugs. Use the materials from our pick ‘n’ mix recycled craft box to make a 3D model of your bug.
Check out John Hoskin’s Black Beetle, Louise Bourgeois’ Spider, Mark Wallinger’s King Edward and the Colorado Beetle, Yinka Shonibare’s Grain Weevil and Andy Warhol’s Happy Butterfly Day 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.
Accessibility
Tate Liverpool is temporarily located at RIBA North, Mann Island, a short distance (425m) along Liverpool’s iconic waterfront. There is step free access to the main entrance. There is a lift to the first floor gallery, or alternatively you can take the stairs.
- Toilets are located on the first floor
- The nearest Changing Places toilet is located at the Museum of Liverpool
- Ear defenders are available to borrow. Please ask a Visitor Engagement Assistant
Additional seating is also available. Please ask a member of staff if you require assistance.To help plan your visit to Tate Liverpool + RIBA North, have a look at our visual story. It includes photographs and information of what you can expect from a visit to the gallery.For more information before your visit:Email visiting.liverpool@tate.org.uk
As RIBA North’s Home Ground: The Architecture of Football display kicks off, we invite you to join Tate collection artist, Neville Gabie and Liverpool photographer Emma Case, as they discuss art, sport and the spaces we create for play.
You’ll learn about Gabie’s residency at Tate Liverpool at the turn of the millennium. and we’ll look back on his subsequent work in Liverpool and his reflections on the city today.
Gabie will discuss his ongoing archive, Grassroots and Tarmac, which explores diverse cultures by way of their shared obsession for football and reflect on his time as artist in residence at the 2012 London Olympics.
Case will discuss RED, a community archive project that she founded which shares Liverpool fan’s photos and stories. You’ll discover what’s next for The RED Caravan – the mini museum she designed to share those stories.
Away from football, explore her work across Liverpool and it’s diverse communities and learn how, through her photography, she captures a continually evolving sense of community in the city.
Biographies
Neville Gabie
Neville Gabie, is known for creating work that responds to people and places. He works across a range of media including sculpture, film and photography. Gabie was artist in residence at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park for the 2012 London Games. He has worked extensively with communities across Liverpool, including a residency at Tate Liverpool, 1999-2000 and the later Up In The Air project which ran over a number of years in Sheil Park. Gabie’s work is included in Tate, Arts Council Collections and The Olympic Museum.
Emma Case
Emma case is a photographer and film maker based in Liverpool. Alongside a successful commercial career, including commission from top fashion brands, Case has a deeply rooted social practice. She founded the Red Archive to share LFC fan’s photos and stories. She has worked extensively with communities across Liverpool and has been regularly exhibited at Open Eye Gallery, most recently with The Flowers Still Grow exhibition. Case regularly works with Tate Liverpool on a range of community arts-based projects.
A new photographic exhibition in Liverpool is set to tell the story of Toxteth’s Black musicians of the 1950s and 1960s, whose influence reached The Beatles and beyond.
This autumn, the University of Liverpool’s Victoria Gallery & Museum (VG&M) presents Toxteth: The Harlem of Europe. Running from 11 October 2025 to 26 April 2026, the free exhibition features portraits by Liverpool photographer Ean Flanders. Alongside striking new images of musicians from that era, Flanders also captures portraits of their descendants.
Presented in partnership with local charity Mandela8, arts development organisation Northern Roots, and the VG&M, the exhibition draws on the knowledge and memories of community figures such as singer Ramon “Sugar” Deen and Carol Phillips – daughter of Harold “Lord Woodbine” Phillips, and elders who were active in the area during this era.
Toxteth: The Harlem of Europe celebrates Toxteth’s Black musicians from across two decades, telling the story of a generation whose talent and innovation helped shape the sound of modern British music.
Legends from Liverpool’s music scene feature, including: Chris Amoo and Dave Smith from The Real Thing, Garry Christian from The Christians, Ramon “Sugar” Deen from The Harlems, Joe Ankrah and Alan Harding from The Chants, female harmony group Distinction, and reggae artist Ramon Judah, who continues to champion Liverpool 8’s rich musical tradition today.
Made on Merseyside 2, aims to celebrate the cultural/creative industries in our area. There will be a focus on film, TV, music and writing.
At the heart of the exhibition are objects and photos, films and documents which shine light on the many fascinating stories which have shaped our local cultural landscape.
Highlights will include an inspirational documentary on the making of the cult film classic, Letter to Brezhnev, as screenwriter Frank Clarke is from Kirkby and many of the film locations are local to Knowsley/Liverpool.
Kitty and Her Accordion is a poignant short documentary that delves into the life of Kitty, a working-class Mum in 1950s Liverpool, who was constrained by societal expectations that stifled her dreams of becoming a musician.
A celebration of the 1960s TV series Z Cars, the first series of which was filmed in and around Kirkby, and an exploration of the work of local author of stage and screen Alan Bleasdale will form part of the exhibition, along with a look at The End, a unique magazine created in 1981 in Stockbridge Village (then Cantril Farm) by founding editors Phil Jones and Peter Hooton and focusing on local life, music, football and fashion.
Also featured, will be Amazon Studios and their independent record label ‘Inevitable’. Beginning life as Liverpool Sound Enterprises in the 1970s, Amazon Studios became a central site for the local post-punk music scene, responsible for early recordings by many local bands such as Echo and the Bunnymen, Dead or Alive, Wah! and China Crisis; they also recorded the original film score to the Letter to Brezhnev film, amongst many others.
Accompanying the exhibition will be a range of talks, events and workshops.
