A Diwali celebration featuring live music, dance, magic, henna, and storytelling from Indika Festival, and Bundo’s desi twist on brunch.
Bundobust are teaming up with Indika Festival for a celebratory Diwali brunch. Expect live music, dance, magic, henna painting, storytelling and fantastic food.
Your ticket includes three menus from Bundo’s desi brunch menu, alongside unlimited chai and magical entertainment.
INDIKA festival of Indian arts and culture takes over the Liverpool City Region this November.
As part of the festival their Story Hunters will hold a very special Diwali session, with time for children to explore the Storybarn, take part in some Diwali inspired storytelling, and create their own magical tale and craft.
Embark on a mesmerising journey through ‘The Forest Dream,’ a breathtaking fusion of dance styles that will immerse you in a powerful exploration of our planet’s climatic crisis. Join us as we shed light on the urgent issues plaguing our world, such as deforestation and unbridled industrialisation.
Through the enchanting lens of Indian mythology, this production unveils the extraordinary tale of ‘The Forest Man of India.’ Witness his unwavering dedication to reviving the Majuli islands, nestled in the mighty and sometimes tempestuous Brahmaputra river. Experience the profound bond he shares with the goddess of forests, ‘Aranyani,’ whose very existence now hangs in the balance.
Immerse yourself in the harmonious fusion of Carnatic music, western soundscapes, and the seamless integration of Bharatanatyam, Kuchipudi, and contemporary dance forms.This intergenerational masterpiece speaks volumes as it reflects the struggles faced by our present and future generations, delivering an urgent call to mend our ways.
Join the team on 17 November from 4-8pm for Liverpool ONE Christmas LIVE! Expect an evening full of non-stop music, singing and dancing from hundreds of local schoolchildren and community groups as they perform across multiple stages, helping to spread the yuletide cheer as Christmas swings into action at Liverpool ONE.
You will be wowed by aerial performances who will take over Paradise Street, showcasing their skills 13ft high off the ground! Enjoy the return of the much-loved pop-up pantos, giving you a sneak peek to the festive performances from some of the best well-known venues across the region this Christmas.
The event will see three additional areas becoming a focal point for up-and-coming local talent over on Thomas Steers Way, Peter’s Lane and the Galleria by the entrance of ODEON featuring 100 youth theatre performers, three community choirs, 30 Christmas elves, and appearances by Santa too!
Visitors can also expect to see the return of much-loved Christmas reindeer light installations throughout various locations, neon trees on Paradise Street, festive angel wings and plenty of twinkling Christmas lights and decorations across Liverpool ONE.
This is the perfect opportunity to get the whole family together to start getting into the Christmas spirit.
Liverpool ONE will be bringing a fancy dress competition, scary characters and all things frightful this October for Halloween!
On Sunday 29 October, Liverpool ONE will be hosting a special spooky event with Radio City from 12pm – 5pm. This will include a spooky fancy dress competition, ghoulish guests and zombie dancers.
Witches, wizards and zombies are all welcome, as are scary versions of Paw Patrollers or Peppa Pigs or anything our creative younger customers would like to add to the mix.
For more information visit: https://www.liverpool-one.com/event/halloween-party/
Help raise money for the Whitechapel Centre! Free music all weekend at the Smithdown Weekender.
A free weekend of music across your favourite venues on the street, the Weekender also features DJs, art and literature.
Click here to donate to the Whitechapel Centre.
This year’s festival, themed Gods & Monsters, marks 20 years of Homotopia. From 11 November until 2 December 2023, visitors can expect a range of cutting edge entertainment – from visual arts to theatre, live music and performances, with a focus on queer history and heritage.
For 2023, Homotopia is asking visitors to consider how to “foster a sense of community and mutual care in the face of an increasingly intolerant society – and how to build a space of love and respect for those within the LGBTQ+ community who are often most demonised within the mainstream”.
Clash of the Titans: Homotopia Opening Party
Saturday 11 November – Content, Cain’s Brewery Village
Forget everything you think you know about wrestling shows and feast your eyes on FIST CLUB – a London based queer cabaret and pro wrestling night, coming to a ring near you. Bringing a dynamite mash-up of fantastical comedy, sensational drag performers & hard-hitting live wrestling from the most exciting grapplers around – we’re here to prove that wrestling isn’t just drag for straight people, it’s drag FOR EVERYONE!
Exhibition: Bernice Mulenga
Tuesday 14 November to Sunday 17 December – Open Eye Gallery
Bernice Mulenga is a British -Congolese photographer with a distinct aptitude for archiving, documenting and interrogating the world around them. Mulenga’s work centres on their communities- Black queer global and local, Black British, London nightlife- and the experiences within them—most notably in their ongoing photo series #friendsonfilm.
Their work also explores reoccurring themes surrounding identity, sexuality, grief, darkness and family. Their work continues to influence the development of queer aesthetics and documentation of LGBTQIA community.
Young Homotopia: Aladdin Love
Tuesday 14 November – Unity Theatre
Step into a whole new world of enchantment and laughter with Young Homotopia’s dazzling twist on the classic pantomime, Aladdin. Prepare to be spellbound as we take you on a journey through the bustling streets of Agrabah, where love knows no boundaries and the power of self-acceptance reigns supreme.
Liv Wynter: How To Catch A Pig
Tuesday 14 November – District
How To Catch A Pig, is a sell out night created by artist and activist Liv Wynter as a celebration of creatives who also organise against the state, with a focus on queer and trans performers. Their band press.release are residents, alongside resident artists Toby and Aidy Evans Jesra, and DJ’s Sad Queers Club and Basura.
Really Fabulous Family Cabaret
Saturday 18 November – St Helens Library
For this specially curated event for Wonder Arts, St Helens Libraries and Homotopia we get interactive. A group of marvellous highly skilled performers bring you a rip-roaring ride of fabulousness. Song, dance, and specialty acts share the stage to bring you a joyous fest of a show.
Ally Activation Workshop
Sunday 19 November – Granby Winter Gardens
In this workshop, we will explore how to stand up as better allies for our trans siblings, particularly in a time when trans identities and trans lives are often under attack in the public sphere. We’ll explore the basics concepts relating to gender identity, reflect on where we hold power to create change and how we can come together as a community to champion trans rights and ensure all members of our community feel safe and supported to be their true selves.
EAT ME Weekender: Cave
Friday 24 and Saturday 25 November – Williamson Tunnels
EAT ME presents CAVE: a two-day occupation of the Williamson Tunnels where participants and audiences will “create, play, rest and party” through an innovative programme of workshops, installations, discussion groups, cabaret and club nights.
Documentary Film Night: Tops
Tuesday 28 November – FACT 6.30 pm
Self-proclaimed future award winning documentary filmmaker Amy Pennington presents their landmark documentary series TOPS. On the question that defines trans masc experience in the UK today…
“What TOP did you wanna wear after TOP surgery?”
Quiz with the Queers
Thursday 30 November – Sefton Park Palm House
Join the queer pub quiz by Liverpool duo, German drag king Franz Genau and Dan Chan as they test your knowledge of myths and legends. Guests are encouraged to dress up as monsters or gods for extra points to win the prize.
Liverpool Irish Festival 2023 will take place from Thursday October 19 to Sunday October 29, 2023, across the city. The festival celebrates Irish culture and heritage through a variety of events, including music, theatre, film, spoken word, visual arts and academia.
Liverpool Irish Festival celebrate its 21st Festival this year. In honour of this, the theme for this year’s Festival is ‘anniversary’.
The line-up includes an array of Irish artists and contributors including internationally acclaimed Irish folk singer and actor, Lisa Lambe, who shares her new project, NightVisiting at The Tung Auditorium.
Fun activities for families can be enjoyed at Museum of Liverpool and the Liverpool Irish Centre on the Family Day and the Samhain Céilí.
Deep dives into anniversaries are made across the Festival:
See here for the full line-up of events for Liverpool Irish Festival 2023.
St. Helens, UK – ReCharged Music Festival invites music enthusiasts to a journey through time celebrating St Helens’ music scene, past and present. Taking place on September 16th, 2023, this event promises to be a soul-stirring celebration of the Borough’s rich musical heritage.
The ReCharged Music Festival is presented in three distinct parts. The main event takes place in the evening of the 16th of September at The Citadel in St Helens, transporting music lovers back to the late 80s and early 90s, a pivotal era that birthed iconic bands and artists who emerged from the heart of St. Helens.
The evening lineup includes renowned acts such as Poisoned Electrick Head, Android 80, The Bordellos, Dan Wilson & The Counterfactuals, and TUT. These legends, hailing from the very fabric of St. Helens, are set to grace the stage once again, igniting nostalgia and rekindling the fervour of yesteryears.
The historic Citadel Theatre, known for its cultural significance and pivotal role in the artistic landscape, serves as the perfect backdrop for this unforgettable voyage into the past.
Brian Carney, of Android 80 and also a founding member of Poisoned Eletrickhead, who now resides in Belgium is returning to his home town for the gig. He said: “I am excited to take the stage at the ReCharged festival, where we will celebrate and validate the creative eruption that defined St. Helens during the 80s and 90s. The Citadel has hosted many of my memorable performances, making ReCharged an immensely nostalgic gig for me.
Liverpool Biennial is the UK’s largest festival of contemporary visual art. The 12th edition is still open until 17 September 2023, giving viewers a last chance to see the excellent exhibitions.
There are a host of exhibitions still running, including ones at FACT, Tate Liverpool, Bluecoat and Tobacco Warehouse. Below are some of the festival highlights still open to view.
At FACT
Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński’s ‘Respire (Liverpool)’ (2023) references the precarity of Black breathing and proposes breath as a means of individual and collective liberation.
Discover LuYang’s vast digital universe in their retro-futuristic arcade installation. Combining their own understanding of Buddhist teachings with aspects of neuroscience and digital technology, LuYang’s exhibition makes you question: how is a physical life different to a digital existence?
Join FACT for an evening of music and conversation centred around Belinda Kazeem-Kaminski’s Liverpool Biennial commission.
This event is inspired by the soundscape that Belinda Kazeem-Kaminski and Bassano Bonelli Bassano created in collaboration with participants from Liverpool who all work with their breath. The group includes actors, singers, teachers, activists, and therapists, amongst others.
At Tobacco Warehouse
In Unit 1, visual artist and poet Julien Creuzet presents a series of suspended abstract forms and intricate sculptures, grouped together to create a complex installation which threads together a range of source imagery including historical African sculptures, abstracted landscapes and compositions inspired by engravings and paintings.
Melanie Manchot’s new film project, ‘STEPHEN’ (2023), blurs the lines between fact and fiction to examine addiction and recovery. Commissioned by Liverpool Biennial, the film was created with a mixed cast of professional actors and local people from the recovery community.
Rahmi Hamzi’s painting, ‘Parasite’ (2021), emerges from her examination, deconstruction, and reconstruction of botanical shapes, creating associations with the human body, femininity, and sexuality.
Tate Liverpool
In the Wolfson Gallery, Torkwase Dyson’s abstract work ‘Liquid a Place’ (2021) is composed of three striking structural objects, which appear as both static and fluid simultaneously. The curved constructions are excavated by triangular voids within their centres, signifying a gateway, a shelter, or the sailing route upon which 2.4 million enslaved Africans lost their lives.
Fátima Rodrigo Gonzales presents several works from her ‘Holograms’ series (2020-2022), alongside a newly commissioned textile work, ‘Contradanza’ (2023). Both explore how fashion photography often copies and extracts from aesthetics and traditional dress of indigenous people and cultures for commercial purposes.
Guadalupe Maravilla’s ‘Disease Thrower’ series (2019) are autobiographical constructions which are at once sculptures, shrines, wearable headdresses, and healing instruments, reflecting on the artist’s own experiences as an undocumented migrant and cancer survivor.
Bluecoat
Kent Chan’s ‘Hot House’ (2020 – ongoing) is an installation and project space which questions the relationship between climates and cultures, and the influence of heat and humidity on our bodies and minds.
Benoît Piéron’s work deals with the uncertainty of life, death and immunity. His practice reappropriates and transfigures the medical environments and materials that surround him – hospital sheets and gowns, IV drips and waiting room furniture – to create something new, joyful, and full of life.
Raisa Kabir’s work, titled ‘Utterances: Our vessels for the stories, unspoken. Subaqueous violence. Sea. Ocean…’ (2016-present) encompasses woven text, textiles, sound, video, and performance to convey and visualise concepts concerning the cultural politics of cloth, its associated labour and networks of extraction.