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Family Hive Creative Sessions

Join Family Hive and their partners to make, play, create and grow together. Events will take place on the last Sunday of every month from September to November.

Family Hive events are a safe and welcoming space for connecting with creativity and community. All their events include elements of performance, play, making and more to fire your imaginations and create fun filled moments. For little people and their grown ups.

About Family Hive:

Family Hive is an L8 based creative organisation delivering dynamic arts events that bring local families and artists together to play, make, move and grow! Our work champions and celebrates everything about where we live, and promotes making our communities more inclusive and sustainable through creative activity. Family Hive creates safe, welcoming, inclusive spaces for the whole family to experience together, and love to collaborate with other local organisations to make magical things happen! At Family Hive you never quite know what’s around the corner… music, dance, theatre, painting, crafting, games, good food, joy, silliness and always a generous helping of big smiles.

For more information visit https://www.unitytheatreliverpool.co.uk/whats-on/family-hive-creative-sessions/

Curator Tour – My Garden, My San...

Join FACT for a special curator tour of their new exhibition, My Garden, My Sanctuary.

FACT’s Curator in Residence, Carrie Chan will lead the tour, talking about the inspiration behind her curatorial process, the exhibition and its themes of ancestry and self-discovery.

Take a closer look at each of the immersive artworks and uncover the research behind them, the technology used to create them and the journey they have taken from commission to presentation.

The tour will last approximately 45-60 minutes.

Open Mic Mondays with Dave O’Gra...

Join Seafoam Green’s Dave O’Grady, as he hosts a weekly open mic session at the Dispensary, Liverpool, every Monday night from 7pm.

Fine ales, fine company, and fine songs.

Want to get involved? Message Dave on twitter or instagram.

Black Hole – End of Time

Black Hole – End of Time is a large format immersive spatial light art experience. Using spectacular lasers, lighting, projections and special effects, synchronised to a striking, ear-tickling soundtrack.

Back by popular demand, Black Hole – End of Time 2022 is still the same amazing, immersive multimedia laser filled, mind-popping experience but returns with:

  • New spectacular projections
  • More immersive lighting effects
  • A blacker black hole
  • A meteorite from outer space

Discover or re-discover the story of Jim, his experiments and the black hole that blinked into existence behind his grandfather clock. Walk through time and orbit the black hole whilst it consumes your time, surrounded by stars that burst into colour, lasers in every direction, swirling white clouds at your feet and epic, kaleidoscopic projections of clocks and galaxies.

Enter space through the new star portal, a projection mapped colonnade of kaleidoscopic stars and galaxies. Walk through the spectacular cosmos and event horizon to reach a real black hole on the other side, floating in space above swirling white clouds of fog and below a sky full of colour-bursting stars and meteors.

In 2021, in just one night, their black hole consumed 6,000 minutes of your time. Whilst audiences orbited the black hole, walked on clouds and looked up to a spectrum of bursting stars, the black hole floated, motionless, but slowly eating time. And now it’s back to eat more of your time and all you’ll have left is a memory.

Visible only by an absence of light, the black hole confuses your sense of depth and space. Looking like a flat 2D disc from every angle, this floating, light-absorbing celestial object draws you in and starts to eat your time, bursting into life with lasers to a distorted and foreboding soundtrack.

Over three nights, Black Hole – End of Time will again mesmerise and enthral and if you felt like you were in Blade Runner in 2021, in 2022 you can add 2001 A Space Odyssey to the list!

Charity 1: Backup Tech (Company No. 1159168)

During Covid, when the live events industry was brought to a halt and to raise awareness of the UK’s 1,000,000 highly skilled industry professionals; all the technicians, designers, operators – the behind the scenes people who make live events happen.

The #WeMakeEvents charity raises awareness and vital funds for hardworking industry professionals and their families in times of financial hardship and ill health. Backup Tech is We Make Events’ chosen charity as the charity that provides financial and wellbeing support to technical industry professionals.

For more information, visit: www.wemakeevents.com and www.backuptech.uk

Charity 2: Friends of Old Christ Church (The Churches Conservation Trust Registered Charity No. 258612)

Old Christ Church is a volunteer-run community venue (saved from demolition in 1999), providing a space for everything from exercise classes and functions to beer festivals and model railway exhibitions – and now black holes and laser shows. During Covid, it, like many other venues had been unable to open and host events and yet still has bills to pay and fund repairs to the building.

For more information, visit: visitchurches.org.uk

The performance runs every 30 minutes and tickets are issued on a 30 minute time slot. For health and safety reasons, at certain points in the performance, audience may be held outside until the next cycle and audience within the venue will have their movements restricted for a short period of time.

One ticket per person (Eventbrite only permits one ticket per order, so for more than one ticket you need to make separate ‘purchases’).

Please present your ticket at the door and arrive 15 minutes before your alloted time.

Covid-19

All Covid restrictions have now been lifted in England. However, this performance operates on a one-way system, allows for social distancing and mask wearing is personal choice. At the venue, hand sanitiser is available as well as NHS Track & Trace QR codes.

Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/black-hole-end-of-time-2022-tickets-331410486687

Just Giving page: https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/black-hole-end-of-time?utm_medium=email&utm_source=ExactTarget&utm_campaign=20220727_&mi_u=52800276&mi_ecmp=LFCCFUK_Day1_SDNonActive

Silent Adventures

Royal Albert Dock Liverpool is excited to bring Silent Adventures, the UK’s latest craze which takes attendees on a silent walking and dancing disco tour, to the dock for two days on the bank holiday weekend, Friday 26th August and Monday 29th August.

Specially themed to tie in with the dock’s summer campaign, The Great British Seaside, Silent Adventures will take visitors on a disco tour around the dock passing through some of the most scenic spots on the estate, with iconic musical moments planned throughout.

Each of the tours are carefully planned out with a surprising amount of psychology running through their foundations. At the beginning, each participant will be made to feel at ease with their fellow adventurers and given a pair of high-tech headphones for their soundtrack, before their hilarious, neon leg-warmer wearing host will enhance the experience with instructions for choreographed dance moves to match the music.

With barriers broken down and the combined confidence of the group at the ready, participants will begin their silent disco adventure at Anchor Courtyard outside Madre before they embark on their singing and dancing adventure around the dock. The upbeat soundtrack has been carefully curated to cover a mix of genres and eras, to ensure the highest level of participation.

Three tours are available on each of the days, two family-friendly daytime sessions and an adult session. The family sessions will finish at Tate Liverpool, where children will be treated to a complimentary little takeaway bag including crisps, fruit and a piece of cake from the Tate Cafe, whilst the adult route will finish at Madre where participants can choose to keep the party going with an extended happy hour offering their renowned Margaritas for just £6.

Silent Adventures founder, Alan Cross, comments, “We’re so excited to bring Silent Adventures to Liverpool’s iconic Royal Albert Dock. It’s such a unique, mood-lifting experience that allows participants to lose their inhibitions and try something completely new, and this paired with the stunning setting of the dock will deliver a truly memorable experience that promises a feel good factor that will last for days on end”.

The family tour tickets are priced at £12.00, and the adult tour tickets are priced at £16.95, pre-booking is essential and tickets can be bought from:

Family tour (1 & 2pm) – https://bit.ly/3AxTzwN

Adult tour (6pm on 26th, 3pm on 29th) – https://bit.ly/3pqxHNm

Free Liverpool Walking Tour in English

You will find out about Liverpool’s early history and transition over the centuries from a town to a borough and, finally, to a city.

Places you will visit: From our start point, we will head to the Cavern Quarter, where you will get a review of The Beatles and the emblematic place that saw them grow, the famous Cavern Club. You will get to know about the fascinating history oh The Castle of Liverpool We will go down to Pier Head (World Heritage site), discovering the beautiful Three Graces, Church of Our Lady and Saint Nicholas and the official Beatles statues.

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We will discover the Royal Albert Dock and learn all about its history. Also discover the role Liverpool played in one of the most famous ships ever to set sail: The Titanic. Walking through the Royal Albert Dock, you will find out how the city became famous as one of the main docks in the country and one of the most important ports worldwide. We cover all it’s history related to the Atlantic Slave Trade, World War II, economic breakdowns and more.

After that, we will finish our tour at one of the greatest maritime landmarks in history, the world’s first wet dock. We will explain its significance to not only Liverpool but the whole world Do not miss this opportunity to visit the most famous attractions in the city with a local guide.

You will have the opportunity to visit important and historical places, such as: The Famous Cavern Club The official Beatles Statue St.Nicholas Church Town Hall The Royal Albert Dock Pier Head And more… Not only will you be guided you will be chaperoned

Please arrive 5 to 10 minutes before the start time of each tour. It is a walking tour, so it is recommended that visitors wear comfortable clothes. Bring a good attitude to tour Liverpool.

For more information, contact – Tours@liverpooltourkatherin.co.uk

National Poetry Day Celebration: The E...

Open Eye Gallery is actively rethinking what a gallery can be.

Head along on National Poetry Day to read your own poems or your favourite poem celebrating or reflecting on what ‘The Environment’ means to you.

They’d love to see you on 6 October 2022 – to hear you read and share poetry on environmental and ecological themes.

This event is a Liverpool celebration of National Poetry Day and Liverpool Year of the Spoken Word.

 

The World Reimagined

Ten large globe structures will make up a free public art trail across the Liverpool City Region, bringing to life the reality and impact of transatlantic slavery and inviting the public to think about ways to make racial justice a reality.

Running from 13 August to 31 October, there will be a walking trail of five large globes located around Liverpool city centre, with a further large globe in prominent locations in Halton, Knowsley, Sefton, St Helens and the Wirral.

The World Reimagined Liverpool City Region Locations:

  • Halton – Spike Island, outside the Catalyst Museum
  • Knowsley – The Court Yard, Court Hey Park
  • Liverpool: Central library; Liverpool Anglican Cathedral; Rialto (Berkeley Square); Liverpool One (College Lane); Martin Luther King Building, Albert Dock.
  • Sefton – Marine Gardens, Waterloo
  • St Helens – Pilkington’s World of Glass Garden
  • Wirral – The Priory, Birkenhead

Commissioned artists have created thought-provoking globes responding to themes ranging from ‘Mother Africa’ and ‘The Reality of Being Enslaved’ to ‘Still We Rise’ and ‘Expanding Soul’.

The World Reimagined forms part of the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority’s Race Equality Programme, which was established by Mayor Steve Rotheram in 2020.

The wider programme also includes a Race Equality Hub which is being co-designed with the local community.  With ring-fenced funding of £3.2m, this is the region’s biggest ever investment in tackling racial inequality.

For more information about The World Reimagined visit https://www.theworldreimagined.org/

Featured Image: Amy Bourbon – Credit liverpoolcityregion-ca.gov.uk

Windmill Walk Tour

Have you seen the Windmill installation on William Brown Street?

Winds of Change was commissioned by St George’s Quarter CIC and has been designed by artist Simon Armstrong of Design Laser Play in collaboration with artist Laura Pullig and with support from DoES Liverpool. The work was commissioned by Culture Liverpool and supported by Arts Council England.

It is a working windmill installation that celebrates the past, present and future of St George’s Quarter, its links to industry and the development of the city of Liverpool as a whole.

So why a Windmill? and why there?

William Brown Street was originally known as Shaw’s Brow, an area of Liverpool growing with industry, including potteries and also the site of a windmill. This inspired St Georges CIC with to recreate the windmill and return it to William Brown Street.

Shaw’s Brow was also a major centre for pottery in Liverpool with numerous kilns visible in the area and producing at the time the popular ceramics of English Delftware (the distinctive blue and white pottery originally produced in the Netherlands).

The collection of Liverpool Delftware held at the Walker Art Gallery provided inspiration, leading to a concept for the design and the technical aspects for wind generated power to provide LED illumination.

FREE Walking Tours from ArtsGroupie – 20 August, 11am and 3pm

Join John Maguire from ArtsGroupie CIC for a heritage walk around William Brown Street, formerly known as Shaws Brow, St Johns Gardens and St Georges Hall.

They will explore the rich history of the area, including the Mills that helped grind the grain into flour for bread making and the renowned cultural assets in St Georges Quarter. Meet at the windmill at 11am or 3pm.

Email artgroupie@outlook.com to reserve a space.

Everyman tour and afternoon tea

Enjoy a backstage tour of the Everyman followed by afternoon tea in the street cafe.

The tour: You’ll learn more about the work of their company and how they make theatre, discuss key milestones in their history and see for yourself some of the significant aspects of the redevelopment which saw them scoop the RIBA Stirling Prize for architecture in 2014.

Designed by Haworth Tompkins (Royal Court, Young Vic, National Theatre), the new building is a beautiful evolution of our radical and democratic theatre.

Your tour will cover Front of House, The auditorium, Backstage, Green Room, Wardrobe, Offices & The Portrait Wall.

Tours are held each Wednesday.