Hazy Magazine Issue #4 Launch

Hazy Magazine will be celebrating the release of Hazy Issue #4, a publication involving creatives from the UK & Germany, through a launch night at Boxpark Liverpool.

Hazy Magazine Issue #4 will be for sale at the event and will be available for pre-order through our Big Cartel website in the coming weeks, alongside other Hazy Magazine Products. There will also be a curated photography & art exhibition featuring work from creatives involved in Issue #4, alongside live performances from DJ Amber Rose and rapper Eze who feature in this issue.

Bar will be open for the duration of the event and food stalls will also be open at the beginning.

If you want to physically connect to creativity and network with other creatives, then this is not an event to miss. There will be limited copies of Hazy Magazine Issue #4 available on the night so make sure you get yours before they’re all gone!

Plays For The People

Join acclaimed theatre maker Andy Smith and award-winning applied arts practitioner Lynsey O’Sullivan for a day of play, discussion, and action.

This day will see three performances of plays from the ongoing project PLAYS FOR THE PEOPLE: A CITIZENS’ ASSEMBLY, HOW CAN WE BE MORE ANTI-RACIST? and THE ACTIONS). These plays tackle the climate emergency, inequality and political activism. They are plays designed to be read aloud together and then discussed. They are plays where the people in the room play the people in the play. Plays that ask questions of acting in both a theatrical and ethical sense.

Audience-participants for this special event will each be given a copy of a new publication containing the plays. Over the course of the day, through the activity, they will be trained in how to undertake performances themselves. Following it, they can then organise them for their own communities and constituencies, free of any charge.

All are welcome. Lunch will be provided. We’d like people from diverse places to join us – arts and educational institutions, community and grassroots organisations, freelance artists and interested individuals. For this reason, tickets are being offered on a pay what you can afford basis between £15 and £45.

They suggest a price of £15 for freelancers and individuals, £25 for teachers, youth workers and those representing smaller arts organisations, and £45 for participants representing bigger institutions such as arts centres and universities. Please do consider paying what you can, as it will allow us to offer bursary places and support for those who for whatever reason are not able to afford to attend.

If you are interested in coming along and would like to talk to about one of these places, please visit Andy’s Website.

The Royal Standard: Studio Open Day

The Royal Standard: Studio Open Day

At TRS, they are proud to host a vibrant community of 20+ artists in the heart of Liverpool. We’re excited to invite you to our Studio Open Day, where you can explore our creative space and catch a glimpse of where the magic happens.

This is a unique opportunity to discover our artists’ studios, social spaces, and gallery area. Some of the artists will open their door to give you a mini studio tour, don’t miss out!

The Black Researcher as living and bod...

The Black Researcher as living and bodily archive: Racial trauma, resistance, and community transformation with Guilaine Kinouani

Although the whiteness of the curriculum and the violence of the archive continue to come under vast amount of scrutiny and criticism from all academic fields (Teo, 2002; Hartman, 2008; Peters, 2015), there has been little interrogation of their possible consequences in terms of both psychological and physical health for researchers and scholars who are racialised as Black.

Yet those whose work and studies involve delving repeatedly into these cultural and historical reservoirs, must routinely witness the atrocities contained therein. The loud silence of empty spaces speaking of purposefully erased stories. The normalisation of dehumanisation, commodification and pathologisation. A key role for the community at large.

In this process, their bodies as living and community archival devices (Kinouani, 2024) will become permeated, imprinted, and often altered by the scholarly encounter.

In The wretched of the earth, Fanon (2004), establishes the devastating pathology of white supremacy and white domination during decolonial wars. Further, he observes that the (post) traumatic effects of white violence on the intellectual colonial subject, which relied heavily on epistemic means, was more transformative and enduring in terms of identity and psychological disturbances.

The invisibilisation of whiteness-related risks associated with scholarly work highlights structural anti-Blackness. If Black intellectual work within white institutions likely pauses risks of racial traumatisation, spaces that centre resistance, and safeguarding for the Black body and the black mind need to exist. This is the purpose of this intervention. To illuminate mechanisms of harm, risks, and mitigation, but also to re-cast the role of the Black researcher in relation to the community, using African epistemology.

Guilaine Kinouani is an award-winning writer, psychologist, group analyst, and thinker. She is the founder of Race Reflections. She taught critical psychology, social sciences and Black studies at Syracuse before her PhD at Birkbeck. Her first book Living While Black (2021) exposes the impact of racism on Black minds and bodies. Her second book, White Minds (2023) is a psychosocial exploration of the quotidian workings of whiteness. In her upcoming co-edited collection: Creative Disruption: Psychosocial scholarship as praxis (2025), contributors explore power, knowledge, memory, embodiment and the of potential of multidisciplinary approaches in fostering epistemic disruption. Guilaine’s current thesis examines whiteness and the afterlives of colonialism and enslavement in the clinic using Afro-analytics, a frame she is developing to rethink racial trauma, inheritance, transmission and associated issues of communication and embodiment within the Black diaspora.

Schedule:

  • 12pm – welcome, lunch and networking
  • 1pm – talk and discussion to follow

Collections in Focus: Pre-Raphaelites ...

Join them at the Walker Art Gallery for a guided tour of their Pre-Raphaelite collection. The Pre-Raphaelites were a group of reactionary young men who came together in London in 1848 seeking a return to the principles of the early Renaissance.

Tour guides will reveal the captivating stories behind pieces produced by members of the Brotherhood and their circle, and how Liverpool artists embraced Pre-Raphaelitism.

Highlighted art includes work by John Everett Millais, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Holman Hunt, Ford Madox Brown and work produced by Morris & Co.

Tours are on Wednesdays and Saturdays at 1:30pm | Sundays at 10:30am

Creative Health Exchange for Collabora...

Calling creatives, commissioners, health providers, community/voluntary sector organisations and individuals with lived experience connected to arts and health.

Health inequities are on our doorstep – avoidable and unfair differences in health across the Liverpool City Region which, if left unaddressed, will only get worse, resulting in poorer health outcomes for the most vulnerable people in our region. Whilst these issues are complex, we believe that a community-led, creative health approach – coupled with advocacy – provides a way to do things differently and drive real change.

This event is designed to bring together people from the creative, voluntary, and health sectors to:

Showcase innovative work addressing health inequity that has created change
Strengthen networks
Explore new collaborations and innovative ideas for joint action to promote and improve health equity.
This is a celebration event with conversations, music, performance, and taster workshops for creative, health, and voluntary sector professionals and volunteers.

What you will gain by attending:

Information about what is happening in the region
Opportunity to attend taster workshops/creative sessions
Networking across the creative, health and voluntary sectors
Free lunch (there is such a thing!)
The event is free, but spaces are limited, and registration is required.

Showcase your work

They want to highlight the great work that has or is being done in the Liverpool City Region. You can present your work on a stand or put forward a piece of work (film/music/performance) to be showcased as part of the staged event.

Please note that places are limited and so you are not guaranteed a showcasing opportunity. To be considered for showcasing please add details of what it is you would like to showcase using the registration form.

Let’s come together to reimagine how creativity can transform health and wellbeing.

The Secrets of Sudley House

Take the opportunity to discover some of the secrets of Sudley House. Join their Participation Team for a family-friendly look around this wonderful historic home, and together uncover some of the secrets of the house and of George Holt and his family.

Find out more about Sudley’s wartime past, the House’s hidden safe and much more.

Each Secrets of Sudley House session has a limited number of tickets available. £5.00 per adult and £2.00 per child aged 6 years to 17 years old.

Art After Dark

Make CIC is proud to announce the launch of Art After Dark, a brand-new evening event celebrating Birkenhead’s thriving creative scene through exhibitions, open studios, and community-driven activities.

Taking place on Friday 21st March, Art After Dark invites visitors to explore the town’s artistic heart, with local creative spaces opening their doors for a night of discovery and connection. The event aims to foster collaboration between Birkenhead’s creative organisations, encourage engagement with the local arts community, and bring new energy to the area’s cultural offerings.

The event will feature contributions from several key local organisations, including Hamilton Vault Studios, Spider Project, Make It Happen, the Williamson Art Gallery, Bloom, Rathbone Studios, Future Yard and Landlines Studio with more venues and participants to be announced. Each location will showcase unique exhibitions, open studios, and creative experiences, offering something for everyone — from art enthusiasts to curious newcomers.

As the driving force behind this initiative, Make CIC will host a resident showcase at the Hamilton creative hub, highlighting the incredible talent nurtured within the space. From visual art and design to crafts and sculpture, the showcase will feature a diverse range of work from the Make community.

This event is free and open to all ages!

Art After Dark is part of Wirral Borough of Culture 2024 legacy. Wirral Borough of Culture is a year celebrating Wirral’s story, its people, and its places. The programme features a diverse line-up of culture, arts and heritage across the whole borough and shines a spotlight on Wirral’s creative community, with inclusion and environmental sustainability at its heart.

Event

Wirral Borough of Culture 2024 is co-ordinated and part-funded by Wirral
Council, with funding from Liverpool City Region Combined Authority and the
UK Shared Prosperity Fund.

Deaf led tour – transport

Join the team in this new opportunity for deaf and hard of hearing visitors to join a tour of their wonderful transport collections, led by a deaf guide.

For the tour on 19 April only the British Sign Language guide will be interpreted so that hearing visitors can accompany their deaf or hard of hearing friends and family on the tour.

The tour is free but places are limited so please book your ticket early.