Discover the history of music events at the Bluecoat! Browse a selection of posters, programmes and more from our archive with the Bluecoat’s Director of Cultural Legacies, Bryan Biggs.
They’re interested to hear your own Bluecoat stories and how you’d like to make use of the archive, including online through their Library.
Sat 24 May, 11am-4pmFree, drop in
In May, we celebrate International Dawn Chorus Day! Kindling Farm invite you to mark this annual celebration by joining us for a Dawn Chorus Walk.
You will be guided by ecologist and long term volunteer at Kindling Farm, Andrea Sarkissian who will help you identify the sights and sounds of the birds they have on site. Andrea has been carrying out regular bird surveys here at the farm and will share her wealth of knowledge about the activity and habitats she has discovered.
The walks will start promptly at 8am. Join them from the earlier time of 7.30pm for coffee and a sweet breakfast treat!
Please bring binoculars if you have them and a small notebook to write down your findings (they will have some 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!
They suggest wearing sturdy, waterproof footwear – walking boots are ideal. As this event is an early start, it may be a bit chilly so please dress accordingly. And of course, we never can trust the weather so it’s best to bring a waterproof!
You must register to come to this event as facilities and parking are limited.
As the heart of the Community Launch of the Liverpool European Festival 2025, St Luke’s Bombed Out Church will burst into life with music, movement, and colour in a vibrant celebration of Europe’s rich cultural heritage.
From midday, the iconic venue will host a lively and family-friendly programme featuring cultural stalls, exhibitions, and performances representing communities from across Europe—including Poland, Romania, Greece, Ukraine, the Nordic countries, and many more.
Visitors will also be invited to explore a striking photographic exhibition inside the church, capturing the everyday lives, traditions, and contributions of Liverpool’s European communities. Through a compelling mix of portraits, candid scenes, and cultural moments, the display highlights the deep-rooted presence and lasting impact of European heritage in the city.
Free and open to all, this vibrant event offers a unique opportunity to experience Europe’s diverse cultures—right in the heart of Liverpool.
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!
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 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.
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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
Launch party for Sean Watkin’s debut novel, Black Water Rising at LEAF on Bold Street.
Copies of the book will be on sale on the night.
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.
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.