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Andrew Logan’s Jewellery Extravaganza

 

Andrew Logan is a British sculptor, jeweller, painter and performance artist. Creator and perpetual host of Alternative Miss World – the outrageous and ongoing, iconic and countercultural art /fashion event which he established in 1972.

Throughout all of Andrew’s work, he explores transformation, joy, celebration and beauty. His large scale mirror and glass sculpture and portraits can be found in art collections across the world. His smaller scale, wearable art pieces are unique, wonderful and collectable jewellery pieces that allow people to take a part of Andrew’s world with them wherever they go.

Perhaps his most incredible creation is The Andrew Logan Museum of Sculpture – which houses many of his most loved artworks as well as an archive of Alternative Miss World memorabilia in Berriew, Powys in Mid-Wales.

Traditionally staged at the Andrew Logan Museum of Sculpture over the August Bank Holiday weekend, the Jewellery Extravaganza performance celebrates the grand opening of Andrew’s Museum of Sculpture in Berriew, Mid-Wales in 1991. This year is The Andrew Logan Museum of Sculpture’s 35th birthday – it’s half-platinum!

Watch as a shimmering cascade of model-works-of-art, dressed by Andrew Logan and featuring make-up by the wonderful Rosie Hammick, descend upon the World of Glass, laden with eye-opening and delightful wearable art pieces

   

 

FLIPIM: THE Grassroots Regeneration Conference

Join us for a day of ideas, panels, and workshops, and we’ll hear from lesser heard voices alongside those who hold power and influence.

FLIPIM 2026: THE Grassroots Regeneration Conference

Inspiration | Activism | Connection

24th September 2026

It’s 2026 and FLIPIM is back!

For this year’s edition the grassroots are gathering in Birkenhead to flip the conversation on regeneration.

Community-led solutions are appearing in government policy as a way to turn around decades of decline in our neighbourhoods. The challenge now lies in execution; how can we leverage opportunities like Pride in Place to maximise the benefits for the areas where we live, work and play.

Join us for a day of ideas, panels, and workshops, and we’ll hear from lesser heard voices alongside those who hold power and influence, to ensure the future of our places can be built by everyone.

5 Core Themes for 2026

This year, we are expanding the agenda to dive deeper into the key pillars of community ownership and local resilience. Across our keynotes, panels, and interactive workshops, we will explore:

  • Housing: Securing genuinely affordable homes, resident-led housing models, and community land trusts.
  • Money: Exploring community wealth building, local investment vehicles, and keeping economic value within our neighbourhoods.
  • Culture, Leisure & Hospitality: Unlocking creative spaces, preserving independent venues, and reclaiming community-owned pubs, hubs, and social spaces as catalysts for local change.
  • Pride in Place: Ensuring local people have genuine agency, power, and ownership over their public spaces and surroundings.
  • Regeneration, High Street & Heritage: Transforming vacant buildings, protecting local history, and reviving town centres through grassroots action.

Making “Pride in Place” Real

We have a historic opportunity to show what happens when investment is met with community agency. Pride in Place will invest £5 billion over 20 years in 339 places creating the chance to make this happen.

Birkenhead finds itself a national “trailblazer” for the government’s programme. We know that true “Pride in Place” isn’t just about a new coat of paint; it’s about who owns the assets and who makes the decisions. The data shows that the grassroots approach can be transformative:

  • Community-led businesses and assets currently boast a 94% long-term survival rate, providing the stability our high streets desperately need.
  • Research confirms that resident-led regeneration doubles local business growth in disadvantaged areas compared to top-down models.
  • Research by Power to Change shows that community owned assets contribute £220 million to the UK economy, with 56p of every £1 they spend staying in the local economy

Let’s Take Action!

FLIPIM 26 combines high-level insights with hands-on workshops. Our schedule is designed to move from big-picture thinking to practical next steps.

  • Keynotes & Panels: We’ll host deep-dive conversations with policymakers, urbanists, and community leaders on the regeneration landscape.
  • Workshops to Activism: From Community Right to Buy to Highstreet Rental Auctions, we’ll host tactical sessions on navigating new and existing policy for taking community control of land and property.
  • The Carousel Problem Solving: We’ll use the collective intelligence of the room to find a way through common hurdles and unique challenges.
  • Time With Your Peers: Connect with a national network of people for radical honesty and shared expertise.

Join Us

If you believe that regeneration is most successful when it is built with communities, FLIPIM is for you. Whether you’re a local resident, housing activist, or simply looking for the “how-to” of grassroots power, we’ll see you in Birkenhead.

Tickets will include refreshments & food.

Harvest Power: Eco Open Day & Lughnasadh Gathering

 

This Lughnasadh / Lammas; the Gaelic fire festival marking the grain & fruit harvest, we’re coming together on Windsor Street to consider the past and future traditions of land, food, community, energy and place:

  • Make and taste flatbread from 12 noon with Edi! With heritage grain flour gifted by our pal Fred from Gothelney Farm & UK Grain Lab.
  • Squash building tours with architect and co-founder of People Powered Retrofit Marianne Heaslip – come and find out more about how we co-designed and built our eco community building. 11.30 and 1pm.
  • Visit the Travelling Power Station which will be rocking up to Windsor Street! The Travelling Power Station is an exhibition, game and space for having conversations about energy. It has been designed by communities for communities, putting people rather than energy systems at the centre. Participants need no prior knowledge of, or interest in energy. The Travelling Power Station centres fun, game playing, reflection, conviviality and care as crucial to the future of energy. Meet artist Josh and join in! With love and support from Two Up, Two Down, Zero Carbon Liverpool and the University of Manchester.
  • Add to the Lughnasadh altar with artists Tabitha & Clare
  • Visit the Co-Labouring with Soil exhibition at our community garden 12.30pm
  • Every Saturday is Sourdough Saturday at the Squash cafe – loaves and sweet bakes on sale from 10am!

AT SQUASH, 112-114 WINDSOR STREET, LIVERPOOL, L8 8EQ

Access info: The Squash building is fully accessible including level threshold entrance (shop/cafe) and ramp access to the garden. There is an accessible toilet. The Grapes Community Garden is a short walk from Squash, approx. 150 meters along Windsor Street. There is some uneven ground in the garden. 

 

Pride at Liverpool Cathedral

You’re invited to a special service to celebrate Liverpool Pride 2026

Liverpool Cathedral and Open Table welcome you to a reflective service that brings us together and celebrates the joy, vulnerability and visibility of Pride. Come and celebrate with us that all belong and have a home in our community.

Everyone is more than welcome and bring a friend!

Wyrd Wyrale

Wyrd Wyrale is a one-day cultural festival rooted in Wirral’s liminal identity, celebrating the wyrd, the overlooked, and the half-told histories of this hidden corner of England.

Taking place at Bidston Observatory, high on Bidston Hill and overlooking the Rivers Mersey and Dee, the festival brings together live music, performance, talks, storytelling, and unexpected encounters across the site. Once a place of watching and measuring the world, the Observatory becomes a gathering point for sound, story, and the unseen.

Across the day, performances will unfold from local artists including Common Folk, Flowershow, Grace Elizabeth Harvey, The Del Roswells, Wooden Tape, OORYA, and more still to be announced. Music, performance, conversation, and ritual move through the building and grounds, inviting audiences to wander, listen, and linger in the wyrd.

Wyrd Wyrale takes place within and around the Observatory building, home to the Bidston Observatory Artistic Research Centre (BOARC) — a self-organised, not-for-profit space dedicated to experimentation, communality, and unfixed ideas. For one day, Bidston Hill becomes a site of gathering: a celebration of Wirral’s wyrd culture, its in-between nature, and the stories that still cling to the land.

**It’s still possible to book accommodation for the night at BOARC.**

Prices start from £22 pp for a space in our 8 bed dorm.

£33 pp for a bed in a dorm of 3 or 4.

£44 pp for a double room (1 remaining).

Contact to book: enquiries@bidstonobservatory.org

Sound Objects: Rie Nakajima + Pierre Berthet / Rachael Gibson

Rie Nakajima & Pierre Berthet ‘Dead Plants and Living Objects’

Rachael Gibson ‘Into My Heart an Air That Kills’

Curated by Lola de la Mata and Kepla

We are very excited to host Brussels/London based duo ‘Dead Plants & Living Objects’ AKA Rie Nakajima and Pierre Berthet, and restage Rachael Gibson’s ‘Into My Heart an Air That Kills’ which received its world premiere by London Symphony Orchestra last autumn.

Acoustic shadows vibrate, touch and call out to one-another at ‘Sound Objects’.Offering immersive environments, both acts engage in small gestures to reveal an often overlooked sonic world. Reshaping the space and its air volume, we partake in their playful approach in embodied listening.

Rie Nakajima is a sculptor living in London, creating sounds using a combination of motorised devices and everyday objects for both performance and installation. She has presented her work internationally in art spaces ranging from Cafe Oto (London) to STUK (Leuven) and ShugoArts (Tokyo), as well as a major solo exhibition at IKON gallery, Birmingham in 2018. She is a member of O YAMA O, and frequently collaborates with artists such as David Toop, Max Eastley and Angharad Davies.

Pierre Berthet is a musician and installation artist from Belgium. Having studied percussion at Brussels Conservatory and Liege Conservatory with Fredric Rzewski, Berthet brings his music experience to sculpting sound objects and site specific installations, in music venues, galleries, outdoor spaces and more. As well as duetting with Rie, Pierre has worked extensively as a percussionist with renowned minimalist composers Arnold Dreyblatt and Tom Johnson.

Rachael Gibson is a Merseyside-based composer and guitarist, currently undertaking a PhD at the University of Liverpool. Her research explores how alternative notation practices and audio-visual technology can be utilised to examine the connection between the body, touch and performance. Recently, Rachael has participated in the LSO Soundhub Scheme (2024/25) and the Britten Pears Young Artist Programme (2023/24). Her work has been performed by ensembles including Riot Ensemble, Pixels Ensemble, and House of Bedlam.

Rie & Pierre will also be running family workshops at Crosby Library as part of At The Library’s Now Playing summer programme on Tuesday 4 August from 11am until 4pm. For more information and to book onto the sessions please visit atthelibrary.co.uk

 

Big Butterfly Saturday!

Big Butterfly Saturday returns to Kindling Farm for 2026! This family-friendly event coincides with The Butterfly Conservation’s annual nationwide survey of butterflies and day-flying moths. Our ever-popular Pollinator Walk will be back, offering families the chance to see butterflies up close. There’ll be green crafts as well for the kids, and Kindling Farm’s Big Butterfly Count – we can’t wait to see how many species you spot here. You’ll also meet the volunteers from Victoria Park Butterfly House and learn about nurturing butterflies at home from The Butterfly Conservation Trust. There are two opportunities to attend Big Butterfly Day; you can attend in the morning from 10.30am-12.30pm or the afternoon from 2-4pm. Please make sure you register for the right time slot on our website and book a space for everyone who will be attending on the day.

Kindling LATES

Kindling LATES is an evening of delicious food, live music and good company. At 6.30pm you will harvest seasonal, organic produce from our fields under the guidance of our growing team. Take your bounty back to our guest chef who will cook up a delicious two course meal. Sit down in our fields to enjoy the feast while listening to live music from local artists.   Vegetarian and vegan diets catered for. Our team will be in touch prior to the event regarding allergies, food intolerance and dietary requirements. Kindling LATES will take place on Friday 31st July & Friday 21st August from 6.30pm-approx 9.30pm. This is event is suitable for ages 18+ only.

You must register to come to this event as facilities and parking are limited; please make sure you register everyone who will be coming along – thank you!

Canopy FEST

Immerse yourself in the culture, heritage and science of trees. There will be activities for the whole family to enjoy as well as live music to enjoy in the courtyard. Join us for a guided Farm Tour to discover the trees that make up our landscape and the vital role that they play here, and beyond. We’re joined by local experts who will teach you how to ID different tree species and better understand the conditions they need to thrive. Explore tree folklore by taking part in art activities or reconnect with a tree’s history by participating in heritage crafts. You must register to come to this event as facilities and parking are limited. Please make sure that you register everyone who will be coming along on the day – thank you!

There are two opportunities to attend this event; you can attend in the morning from 10.30am-12.30pm or the afternoon from 2-4pm. Please make sure you are booking for the right time slot when registering your place.

NuYoga

 

Start your Sunday well with the interweaving of music, movement, breath and vibration. 

Practice heartfelt, embodiment focused yoga led by Nu Caratella of Heartstrong Yoga, in harmony with original, improvised music by our skilled and talented musician Andrew Barney to reconnect to yourself and leave you feeling uplifted and joyful.”

“Music and Yoga at the Phil exceeded my expectations! This special combination of live grand piano and Yoga brought me a level of relaxation and calmness that was exactly what I needed. As an affinity space for our creative Black and Global Majority community, I connected and networked as well. A special treat and I highly recommended”

“First yoga session, that was held at the Music Room in the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic was very special for multiple reasons. Beforehand, it was apparent from stepping into the door that I was very much welcome in the space, which was a very important thing for me as I have never tried yoga before. The atmosphere was warm and friendly. The session itself was really relaxing. It was a stressful time of the year for me as I was preparing for auditions at the time. Taking part in the yoga session relaxed my mind and released a lot of the tension that I was holding in my body. The highlight was the masterful display of piano improvisation that was performed throughout the session. I noticed as Andrew was improvising, he was able to feel the energy in the room, of the people taking part and the yoga instructor. Hearing what she was saying about the mind and the body in the moment and matching that through music, which was really impressive to me. It was a great experience overall and I’m looking forward to the next one.”

Please bring your own mat if possible and contact the organisers if you need one to be provided, or if you have any other questions. Please arrive no earlier than ten minutes before the start of the session.

The 27 September session starts at the earlier time of 11.30am.