Event type: Other

Meet the Maker with Ruth Ball

This Saturday 24th May from 2pm – 4pm, meet local renowned designer enameller & silversmith Ruth Ball.

Ruth utilises the fusion of glass on metal to produce a diverse collection of products. These range in scale from fine jewellery pieces and bespoke objects to larger wall based artworks. Items are made as “one-offs” or in small batches as limited editions.

Join us for an informal meet the maker with Ruth where she’ll share the inspiration behind her pieces, and demonstrate some of the hand engraving techniques she uses to create her amazing pieces.

Drop in anytime between 2pm and 4pm to enjoy a 10% discount on all of Ruth’s work during the event. No booking necessary—just pop by!

MAKE YOUR OWN CYANOTYPE JOURNAL 

MAKE YOUR OWN CYANOTYPE JOURNAL 

with Little Vintage Photography and Paper & Spine 

 

 

Date:  Friday 6th June 2025

 

Time:  9.30AM – 5.00PM

 

Location: BALTIC CREATIVE CAMPUS, LIVERPOOL L1 0AH

 

 

Join us for a day of creativity in a great location at the centre of Liverpool’s vibrant creative quarter!

 

Learn new skills in a relaxed and friendly space with experienced practitioners. Have fun making your own A5 hand-bound journal with beautiful blue and white cyanotype print detail.   

 

Work with analogue photographer and darkroom educator Little Vintage Photography, who will introduce you to the beauty of Victorian cyanotype prints. You will then make your own cyanotype paper and create your own prints. Then, with artist facilitator Paper & Spine, learn how to incorporate your cyanotype prints along with other decorative paper and materials to create a unique 120 page hand-bound journal with a soft-cover. 

 

You will    

 

– Mix chemistry and learn how to make your own cyanotype paper

– Create beautiful cyanotype sun-prints and a bookmark! 

– Make personalised ‘signatures’ from your cyanotypes and other decorative papers  

– Add a hidden pocket! 

– Hand-stitch and bind your pages to a soft vegan-leather cover       

– Add a secure fastening. 

 

No previous experience necessary. Small group workshop with limited places. 

 

18+ 

 

All Tuition and materials are included and tea, coffee & cake.

 

£140.00 

 

For Bookings & Info https://www.littlevintagephotography.co.uk/cyanotype-journal/

or Email rachel@littlevintagephotography.co.uk

 

Gift Vouchers are available. Email: workshops@paperandspine.co.uk

MAKE YOUR OWN CYANOTYPE JOURNAL 

MAKE YOUR OWN CYANOTYPE JOURNAL 

with Little Vintage Photography and Paper & Spine 

 

Date:  Friday 6th June 2025

Time:  9.30AM – 5.00PM

 

Location: BALTIC CREATIVE CAMPUS, LIVERPOOL L1 0AH

 

Join us for a day of creativity in a great location at the centre of Liverpool’s vibrant creative quarter.

Learn new skills in a relaxed and friendly space with experienced practitioners. Have fun making your own A5 hand-bound journal with beautiful blue and white cyanotype print detail.   

Work with analogue photographer and darkroom educator Little Vintage Photography, who will introduce you to the beauty of Victorian cyanotype prints. You will then make your own cyanotype paper and create your own prints. Then, with artist facilitator Paper & Spine, you will learn how to incorporate your cyanotype prints along with other decorative paper and materials and create a unique 120 page journal with a soft-cover and fastening. 

 

You will     

 

– Mix chemistry and learn how to make your own cyanotype paper

– Create beautiful cyanotype sun-prints and a bookmark! 

– Make personalised ‘signatures’ from your cyanotypes and other decorative papers  

– Add a hidden pocket! 

– Hand-stitch and bind your pages to a soft vegan-leather cover       

– Add a secure fastening. 

 

No previous experience necessary. Small group workshop with limited places. 

 

18+ 

 

Included: All Tuition and materials. Tea, coffee & cake

 

£140.00 

For Bookings & Info https://www.littlevintagephotography.co.uk/cyanotype-journal/

or Email rachel@littlevintagephotography.co.uk

 

Gift Vouchers are available. Email: workshops@paperandspine.co.uk

Aquarium Behind The Scenes Tour

Please be aware this event is for adults and children ages 6+. Due to the nature of the behind the scenes environment this is to ensure the safety of visitors. Children under 16 must be accompanied by an adult.

Ever wanted to know what it takes to look after all the amazing animals in our aquarium?

Wonder no more! Why not book onto this 20 minute guided tour with one of their knowledgeable aquarium team members. 

You’ll be taken into their back of house facilities to see how they look after the animals in our care. 

Each tour will have a maximum of 10 visitors and is for years 6+. They also ask for a minimum ratio of 3 children to 1 adult.

* Please can you collect a consent form at the front desk when you arrive at the museum, please hand this to your guide at the meeting point (level one by the fish tank) 10 minutes before your tour starts.

BOARC – SSTRAPP: Synthesizing Space

We are delighted to announce that artist, lead producer, DJ, of the collective Distribution of Power, and analog synthesizer researcher  Zara Truss Giles will be coming back to lead this SSTRAPP three-day weekender together with Inigo and Maeve, and we’re sure its gonna be just as amazing as the first one we did with them back in October 2023 (Synthetic Disruptions). This will be a special SSTRAPP because we are working in collaboration with the incredible Iklectik Art Lab, who have generously loaned us their spatialized sound system.

In the theory sessions in the mornings we’ll have presentations about space, synthesis, spatial perception in auditory cognition, and spatialized composition and sound diffusion. We will use our usual diagramming method for discussing and working through the ideas together in groups. In the afternoons Edu and Isa from Iklectik will demonstrate how their spatial sound system can be used and Zara and Maeve will lead us on a practical exploration of spatialized sound synthesis.

Bidston is an anti-racist, trans-inclusive, intersectional feminist space where we welcome everyone who abides by this accountability agreement.

There are no requirements for attending, everyone is welcome, whatever their knowledge, abilities, etc., and the theory and practice should be accessible for those with no background in them.

We recommend arriving at Bidston sometime on Thursday so we’re ready to start working on Friday morning, but if you can’t make it then you can still join later. 

It is possible to participate with or without accommodation. We will do collective meals together, which is also an optional extra cost. The cost for participating in the workshop are as follows:

Workshop fee: On a sliding scale from £20-£30 per day, or £60-£90 for the total three days. Please pay more if you can, the lower end of the scale is for those who really couldn’t afford it otherwise, the cost is very cheap for what you’re getting!

Accommodation fee: On a sliding scale from £30-£40 per day, or £90-£120 for the total three days. If you’re struggling financially, e.g. on benefits, get in touch and it may be possible to reduce the cost.Meals fee: £15 per day

If you’d like to join, please get in touch by sending an email to sstrapp@proton.me

Recurring events in Liverpool

Liverpool is a city full of Irish culture. There is always something happening that you join in with. Below is a lit of regular and recurring activities, delivered by our that you can pick up at any time.
Liverpool Irish Centre
The Liverpool Irish Centre runs a shop full of Irish produce, open 7-days a week. It receives Irish food deliveries fortnightly on a Wednesday/Thursday. The main bar hours are Fri and Sat, 2pm-midnight and Sun, 12.30pm-9pm, with live music 4/5pm. Follow them online to stay up to date with events. The venue is a hireable space and can be booked for parties or functions. The recurring programme looks like this:

Monday

Gardening class,10am, The Shed
Comhaltas, 6.30pm

Tuesday

Sequence dancing, 1pm
Liverpool Irish Choir, 6.30pm

Wednesday

JJ’s lunch club, 1pm
Yoga, 6pm
Irish language, 6-8pm
The Lowlands, 7pm
Liverpool Irish Fluteband, 7.30pm

Thursday

Tea dance/Bingo, 1pm
Irish language, 6pm
Bolger-Cunningham Irish dance, 6.30pm
Liverpool Irish Rovers social run, 6.30pm

Friday

25 cards, 9pm

Saturday

Bolger-Cunningham Irish dance, 10am
Tin whistle class, 10.30am, The Shed.

In addition, Liverpool Irish Rovers run regularly through the week. Contact them directly to join. The Centre runs Supper Céilí on the last Wednesday of every month at 8.30pm and hosts a monthly seisiún on the third Sunday of every month.
Comhaltas
Running classes regularly at the Liverpool Irish Centre, Comhaltas is your go to organisation for anything relating to Irish music. See day listing above for class times.
Conradh Na Gaeilge Learpholl
Irish language is on the rise again, not least because of the astounding work done at community level by groups such as Conradh Na Gaeilge Learpholl. Based at Liverpool Irish Centre, there are all sorts of lessons to join in with. Look at the day lists above for details of Wed/Thurs clubs. They also host Lon Gaeilge sessions at 12.30pm on the first Friday of every month at The Railway on Tithebarn Street. Guests to this are invited to bring 10 new words per session to use in conversation. Conradh Na Gaeilge Learpholl are the lead organisers of the annual Tony Birtill memorial lecture and scholarship.
Irish Community Care Merseyside
With 60-years of Irish community championing, Irish Community Care Merseyside is a first port of call for those needing to access welfares services. It undertakes year-round work to improve life-chances and build communities.
Liverpool Irish Famine Trail
Conserved and updated by Liverpool Irish Festival, the Liverpool Irish Famine Trail has an app and self-guided maps that you can take yourself through. There ar recurring walks taking place across the year – see our events page using the Events menu above, or this link.
The Institute of Irish Studies, University of Liverpool
An academic centre of excellence with a year round programme of events, talks, activities and archives to share. Sign up for their events mailings.

Liverpool Irish Famine Trail lecture (online)

Liverpool Irish Famine History Group Leader, John Maguire, and Festival Director, Emma Smith, present a Liverpool Irish Famine Trail lecture.

Initially provided on 23 Feb 2023, Armagh, Banbridge and Craigavon Borough Council commissioned the lecture. It featured within their Irish Famine Lecture series under The Impact of Irish Refugees in Shaping Liverpool.

The lecture details the 7 plaque and single memorial site that form a part of the trail. It doesn’t feature all 15 sites, which includes sites of Irish influence. This was to introduce people to the geography of the city and the movement of the Irish Famine poor through it. Thus, providing a focus for an overview lecture. More details on all the Trail sites can be found by

downloading a print-at-home map, and/or
visiting our enhanced Googlemap

which detail all 15 sites.

Armagh, Banbridge and Craigavon Borough Council have made this lecture publicly available, meaning you can now watch the recording of the lecture and the lively Q&A that followed, here:

We have been informed that on some devices the film above does not present itself. If you have a blank space above, use this YouTube link to see the film directly (URL: https://youtu.be/I8Ax8RNxsmg).

This was lecture 11 in a run of 12 provided over six weeks. Interested in other lectures? Please visit Armagh, Banbridge and Craigavon Borough Council’s YouTube page, to find lectures from this series and others.

Buy the book: Liverpool Irish Famine Trail: Revive.

Museum of Liverpool – self-guided Irish trail

For families wanting to find our about Irishness in Liverpool, the Museum of Liverpool’s self-guided tour may be just the thing!

The trail considers

the Calderstons spiral
the Great Port
Liverpool’s Irish battalion
the Overhead Railway
Liverpool Irish Centre
David Jacques’s Irish Emigrants Entering Liverpool (painting)
religion discrimination (The Other, film)
court housing
Kitty Wilkinson and James Larkin.

Click here to download a PDF to print out and take with you (or collect one from the information desk on the ground floor).

First uploaded for 2020. Reuploaded following Museum update: 22 March 2023.

 

Variety Lunch Club

The Royal Court Variety Lunch Club runs throughout the year with matinee performances in the main theatre.  Variety Lunch Club is open to anyone who wants to enjoy an afternoon of entertainment, a bowl of Scouse and a cup of tea all in the very best company. Tickets are just £4 or £7.50 including a bowl of finest home-made Scouse with bread roll and red cabbage. There is a special discount for groups with a free ticket for every 10th person (please call Box Office for details).Variety Lunch Club features the best in local entertainment with a variety of comedians, actors, singers and entertainers. Performers such as Pauline Daniels, Pete Price, Eithne Browne and Sean Styles have already made an appearance and the whole proceedings are compered by one of Liverpool’s brightest comedy stars, Sam Avery.Performance InformationStalls tickets are available with a bowl of Scouse for an extra £3.50.Tickets are available for the show alone in stalls, circle and balcony.If you are bringing a large group, every tenth ticket is free. Please call the box office on 0151 709 4321 to book. 

Please note – the bar will close 15 minutes before the advertised start time.

Highlights tour: exploring the Lady Lever Art Gallery collections

Discover more about the Lady Lever Art Gallery and the world-renowned paintings on display on our fascinating tour.

The tour will recount the history of the gallery. Our guides will take you through our exemplary collection of Victorian and Pre-Raphaelite paintings, uncovering the secrets behind some of the artworks on display.

Highlights include Bubbles and The Black Brunswicker by Millais, Lady Hamilton as a Bacchante by Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun, The Scapegoat by William Holman Hunt, alongside paintings by other masters including Turner and Burne-Jones.

Tour details

Tours are available Tuesdays and Thursdays at 11am and 2pm, subject to availability. Please check tour availability when you arrive. For group bookings please contact our Box Office by email tickets@liverpoolmuseums.org.uk or phone on 0151 478 4444 (10am-5pm).

MORE INFO.

Photo Credit: Pete Carr