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.
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.
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.
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.
They are generation hope, and in partnership with the Natural History Museum, they are exploring what changes we can make to benefit ourselves and the environment.
The theme of this year’s Earth Day (21 April) is ‘Our Power, Our Planet’. We believe that all of us have the power to:
What do you have the power to do? Head along and explore this question, make a pledge, and make tangible positive changes to your daily life that will help the planet.
This event has been developed by the Youth Engagement Forum, a group of 16-24 year olds at National Museums Liverpool. Young people are the future, and their voices must be heard.
Are you ready to explore the wild world of animals? Welcome to animal adventures!
Join our animal-themed Little Liverpool special combining a visit to the popular Little Liverpool gallery with extra animal-themed activities for our younger visitors to enjoy.
Little Liverpool special sessions have a limited number of tickets available so we recommend that you book in advance. Tickets cost £2 per child (aged 5 years and under) with a maximum of two accompanying adults and can be booked below or in person at the Museum of Liverpool.
Animal adventures takes place on Tuesday mornings at 11.15am and on Sunday afternoons at 2.15pm.