Murder Under the Spotlight! A Christma...

It’s Christmas in Chicago, 1928, and you’re exclusively invited to the glittering festivities at one of the city’s most prestigious film studios.

While the studio is known for its glamorous reputation in the entertainment world, there are whispers about its connections to some of the city’s more notorious figures, including ties to the bootlegging operations that have been shaking up the city. The guest list is rumoured to include not only Chicago’s finest from the screen and stage, but also a few individuals who may not have been formally invited. Behind the dazzling lights of the event, there’s a lingering sense of mystery, as secrets are carefully guarded, and not everything is as it seems.

But in a world of rumours and scandal, can you trust what the papers say? Join DBY Interactive for an immersive evening where you’ll uncover the secrets behind the studio’s success and perhaps expose its darkest truths. With the possibility of shocking revelations that could send shockwaves through the city, the stakes are high, and someone may be willing to do anything to keep their secrets safe.

This event will transport you to a glamorous but dangerous era, so come dressed in your best 1920s attire – be it flashy, casual, or even covered in tinsel for the holiday spirit. The best costume will win a bottle of fizz! Prepare for an unforgettable night filled with speakeasies, gangsters, prohibition, and thrilling murder mystery, with a delicious festive pie and mash to keep you fueled.

Earth Day

Now is the time for the unstoppable courage to preserve and protect our health, our families, our livelihoods…together. We must Invest In Our Planet, because a green future is a prosperous future.

Call to Action! As their exhibition Bees: A Story of Survival draws to a close they mark the interrelationships between this tiny creature and the future of our planet  – and they plan for action right now!!

Join them at World Museum to explore how we can all do our little bit for our local environment.  Create a bug hotel or simple bird feeder to look after their pollinators and make flowers out of used papers and think about how we can do more to reuse and not waste materials.

Quarry Fundraiser Pub Quiz w/ My Heads...

THAT’S RIGHT. Please don’t panic. It will be the greatest of all the quizzes. Pyrotechnics. Extravagant light shows. Hot studs and jacked babes. Father Christmas.

Bring waterproof clothing and a helmet and a weapon to protect yourself. Come and admire the gang one final time for the quiz to end all quizzes.

Any quiz you go to after this will pale in comparison, and you will smell the foul smell of pathetic imitation.

It’s Christmas. And it’s their anniversary. Celebrate the one and only year of quizzes. Celebrate the last quiz in Quarry, a music venue that is about to become a mausoleum.

Any money you spend here on tickets, drinks for yourself, or (most importantly) drinks for them, will be going into the Quarry go fund me fund, that ensures that Quarry may live on via spending all the money on a music venue in a boat that will sink upon purchase.

And please, buy them a pint. Go on, it’s the last one

KVNT 2.0

KVNT is a club night & celebration of women, trans and other queer identities.

Their line-up includes some of the most talented female, non-binary and trans DJs on the scene, including Glaswegian powerhouse DIJA (founder of TAQA) and Manny legend SELECTACEE (part of Sexy Lady Massive). The rest of their lineup will be announced on their Instagram @KVNTOFFICIAL.

Expect a night of female and queer ENERGY and unreal vibes with a multi-genre mix of baile funk, ghetto tech, jungle and funky bassy beats! They are honoured to have Cute Cartel performing, advocating and raising awareness for abuse/trauma. The energy they bring is unparalleled

LAST DANCE – A Strike A Pose NYE...

QUARRY will soon shut its doors for the final time. But before that happens, the Strike A Pose collective has been invited to throw a New Year’s Eve party in the gorgeous venue that they’ve called home for two years.

LAST DANCE is a disco with a few special live performances along the way. All profits will be split 50/50 – half will go to the performers, and half will go to the QUARRY 2.0 fund

Mamma Mia: Happy New Year!

Voulez-vous a New Year’s Eve extravaganza?

As the Orchestra prepare to bring you a Super Trouper showcase of the legendary ABBA, join us in the Music Room as we step back into the seventies in style.

Bold and brilliant, 70s trends were definitely colourful, and we’re throwing an event to match. From Babycham and Blue Lagoons to Lambrusco and Piesporter, you’ll be sipping on vintage classics while you groove to some of the decade’s biggest hits. And that’s not all – we’ll have a mouth-watering selection of retro canapes that’ll make you say Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! Think cheese and pineapple skewers, Turkish Delight, vol-au-vents, devilled eggs, cheesy puffs and, of course, prawn cocktail.

Bell bottoms and platforms still in the back of the wardrobe? Dig them out and come along in your finest 70s threads. And as you embrace your inner Dancing Queen, we’ll have an ABBA-themed photo booth set up to capture every one of those totally far-out looks.

A sparkling celebration of the disco decade, this is the perfect way to get the party started before we say Thank You for the Music over in the Hall. Buy your tickets now – knowing you, knowing us, it’s going to be a night to remember!

Mindful Glow: Candlelit Sound Bath Med...

This enchanting candlelit sound bath meditation offers you the chance to relax and heal the mind, release tension, open blocked energy channels, and generate new vibrational frequencies. You’ll leave feeling rejuvenated and ready to take the world by storm!

Highlights

– Experience the powerful revitalising effects of sound bath therapy and meditation to reset your mind and body.
– Join them for a transformational journey under the calming light of hundreds of candles.
– Sessions will be guided by an experienced practitioner with more than 10 years of experiences.
– Feel the sound waves and vibrations from Tibetan & crystal bowls, tuning forks, shamanic drumming, percussion instruments & voice.

Baby Book Club

Baby Book Club returns this January with a course of six weekly sessions designed for parents and carers with babies aged from 3 to 12 months. Led by artist Roger Hill, each session includes time for discussion and sharing, book recommendations and reviews, individual and group reading, plus fun activities centered around the weekly core story.

These sessions offer a wonderful opportunity to bond with your baby, make new friends, and foster a lifelong love of books through fun, creative storytelling. You’ll also be welcomed with a hot drink on arrival, as these sessions are designed with your comfort and relaxation in mind too.

It’s never too early to start reading with your baby—book now to secure your spot!

Thu 9 Jan – Thu 13 Feb, 10.30am-11.30am
£48 (for 6 sessions)

Ancestral and Systemic Constellations:...

A weekend of Spiritual Healing in the lineage of Burt Hellinger and Ron Young.

There comes a certain point in an individuals development when, no matter the wonders of the therapeutic approach or the will we put behind it, we find ourselves hitting a limit in our progression. Where questions of why something won’t release or reveal consume us and an unease persists that we can’t give explanation to. As our life experiences can’t give account for it, there is often a feeling of guilt for our failure to transcend it, furthering a sense of disconnection and longing. This point is a threshold. As this urgency burns within us we are pushed to go deeper, to surrender and connect back to the infinite intelligence and dynamic field of life that holds us.

Constellation Practice offers us such an opportunity. It invites us to move beyond doubt and self refusal as we witness others, without any background knowledge, embody aspects of the ancestral stories held within us. As they playout previously unseen relationship dynamics for the field of life to adjust and heal, we might be well reminded, that each of us arrived in this world without our own strategising or design and that this same force longs to take us forward, if we just open up to let it.

Opening the group circle in Constellational practice creates the conditions in which the phenomenology of embodied witnessing breaks down judgemental perspectives, destabilising stuck narratives and habitual thinking which restricts personal and collective growth. As a radically different approach to group healing it takes us beyond the limits of rational thinking. Revealing each human being as a constant evolution of movements, deeply interwoven and held by legacies of ancestry, material histories, environmental context, archetype and myth. it allows us to actively embrace such intricate complexity to bring change to personal circumstances and direction.

Developing on from least years teaching series ‘Love: you are that technology’, Fi Fane-James, Cathy Kamau and Stella Cairns will come together again to host this workshop. Trained across a multitude of practices and engage in different areas of study, this offering is not linked to any singular tradition or spiritual framework. Heavily indebted to Fi and Cathy’s root teacher Ron Young whose practice sits at the intersection of many wisdom lineages, the call is to come in the fullness of your own histories of faith and systems of belief.

Ron worked along side Hellinger from 2006-10, to develop The Big Field and The Deep Field Constellations, The Holy Spiritual Constellations and The Sacred Spiritual Constellations. We integrate these forms of the practice alongside movements from the original Family and Organisational work. Freely following what called for in the space we trust each work resonates to serve all in attendance.

More info on the practice and their bio’s can be found in the brochure.

PRICING

Residential option : £220 – £280

Cost inclusive of 2 nights accommodation, vegetarian meals and refreshments

(from dinner Fri – lunch Sun)

Non-residential option : £170 – £230

This includes site usage fee and all meals and refreshments

(dinner Fri – lunch Sun)

To book a place, contact info@positiveplasticityproject.com

Winter Wonderland

That Theatre Group presents a joy filled show about winters past. Memories of 100 care home residents provide the soundtrack to this multi-sensory extravaganza of striking visuals, enchanting characters, delightful puppets and sing-a-long Christmas classics.

That Theatre Group CIC produces work with and for older people living with dementia, Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s and other neuro-degenerative diseases. It tours to care homes, providing meaningful therapeutic engagement through theatre.

Winter Wonderland is created by the team that produced Spring into Summer and Songs for Europe, originally produced by Nwoko Arts. The company is currently piloting a model of a ‘theatre company in residence’, where a team of creatives are delivering regular activities with residents, their loved ones and staff. The impact of this programme is being researched by LJMU Faculty of Health & Adult Care.

That Theatre Group produced Krapp’s Last Tape, earlier this year, which saw the return of former Artistic Director, Graeme Phillips, to the Unity.