Celebrate Christmas with some special Festive Incy Wincy Rhymers this December!
The Reader’s sessions are for little ones, 1-4 year olds and their families. They’ll explore Christmas stories, festive favourites and seasonal nursery rhymes through storytelling and sing-a-longs.
Under 1s are free but will still need a ticket.
Session – 70 minutes
Please do contact storybarn@thereader.org.uk if you’d like to discuss how they can take any additional needs into account.
Join The Reader for some seasonal magic and discover how even the smallest beings can do something really big!
This Christmas they’re wrapping up warm and going on a brand new festive adventure around the park, based on the beautiful book Tiny Reindeer by Chris Naylor-Ballesteros.
Their self-led trails last around 60 minutes and are perfect for families with children aged 4-9, but all ages are welcome.
Every family receives a copy of Tiny Reindeer to share, as well as a map and pencil for every child.
Illustrations © by Chris Naylor-Ballesteros, from ‘Tiny Reindeer’ published by Andersen Press, 2021
Transforming the Liverpool City Centre into a playground of imagination, with big, bold, visual and spectacular parade!
Expect a horde of drummers, dancers, fire artists, and illuminated props making its way down Bold St, with a grand finale at Liverpool One!
Juliana Pinheiro Landim, Katumba’s Co-Founder says ‘We are thrilled to bring back the Katumba Halloween Carnival as part of our city’s Black History Month programme.
This year our theme is a crucial tale of the lasting and detrimental impact we have on our planet, and how our actions on the Northern hemisphere affect those in the Global South. Through our diverse programme and powerful performance art, we aim to inspire and ignite a determination in onlookers and participants to make change – for the future of our planet, and future generations’’
For more information, please visit www.katumba.co.uk/halloween
A pear dinner in six courses, with food inspired by different countries and cultures, accompanied by stories.
From West China, across ancient gardens of Afghanistan and Iran, over Roman and French orchards into the British landscape, the pear is the product of many cultures and countries.
In following its journey, they enter a discussion about who we think we are, how we have come to be, the boundaries we draw to create place and the complex relationship between place and personhood.
It could have been any food, any fruit, but here and now we choose the pear.
FEAST:PEAR is a pear dinner in six courses, with food inspired by different countries and cultures. This meal is part of a greater project, The Pear Project, which will see a long-term, North-West wide collaboration with artists, communities and organisations to plant pear orchards in this region.
Through care and cultivation, these orchards will become a focal point of storytelling and performance as well as addressing the importance of growing food locally and the climate crisis.
Free, booking required
This event is part of Take Over 2022.
Tickets and access information: https://www.heartofglass.org.uk/project-and-events/events/take-over-feast-pear
The world’s first ever cosmic game show for astrology lovers, bingo wingers and their sceptic friends!
Instead of numbers you’ll be counting your lucky stars, with this bingo game based on your own astrological chart.
Each player has a bespoke astrology bingo card which shows which sign every planet was in when you were born. It’s like a snapshot of the sky the moment you entered the universe. All you need to know is your birth date, time and location.
Figs in Wigs call out different combinations of planets and signs (like ‘Sun in Aquarius’ or ‘Moon in Virgo’) and you must dab it out on your card when you hear a match. The first player to dab out all of their signs and shout BINGO… wins!
Circling the bingo games is an interstellar programme of performance inspired by astrology, the cosmos and space featuring cosmic performances by Figs in Wigs and their special guests, including an astrologer who will give a short reading of the sky on the night.
This event is part of Take Over 2022.
Tickets and access information: https://www.heartofglass.org.uk/project-and-events/events/take-over-astrology-bingo
An immersive experience inside a 40 foot pyramid, sharing the stories of immigrants and refugees from across the globe.
Created in collaboration between international designers and refugee artists residing in Liverpool, Made of Stars shares real stories of hope and joy of displaced people, through epic soundscapes and film projections.
Entering the space, the room falls into darkness. It’s quiet and you become aware of your own existence. Then the pyramid comes alive and invites you in. Wearing a pair of headphones, you enter and experience epic soundscapes and film projections, created in collaboration between international designers and refugee artists living in Liverpool, sharing real stories of hope and joy of displaced people.
A high quality visual and sound experience from Liverpool-based theatre makers Turntable Theatre. We are all Made of Stars.
Show times
In St Helens:
11th – 13th November
1pm – 4.20pm (with shows starting at 1pm, 1.40pm, 2.20pm, 3pm, 3.40pm)
Running time: 25 minutes (please allow up to 40 minutes)
Free, booking recommended.
This event is part of Take Over 2022.
Tickets and access information: https://www.heartofglass.org.uk/project-and-events/events/made-of-stars
Fairytale Endings, the destination occasion wear store at Metquarter, will host a showstopping fashion show showcasing the latest collections at an event in the centre this week.
From 6:30pm – 8:30pm on Thursday 29 September, Metquarter’s ground floor will be transformed into a fairytale of fashion as the store displays a selection of its prom, party, evening, bridal, mother of the bride and occasion wear.
The fashion show will also shine the spotlight on some of Metquarter’s other retail tenants. Say It With Diamonds will provide jewellery for the show whilst Kurt Geiger will complement outfits with the latest shoes and bags from its Metquarter store. Customers will be treated to cocktail tasting samples from GPO and Metquarter’s resident spa Urban Calm will provide complimentary hand and arm massages.
Shoppers at the show will also benefit from exclusive discounts on the night including 10% off Fairytale Endings, 10% off certain treatments at Urban Calm and Metquarter’s newest skin clinic Élan will offer discounted rates for facials and laser hair removal treatments.
With customers of Fairytale Endings modelling the dresses, the event promises to be a big date in the calendar. Fairytale Endings’ huge selection of flawless and fabulous dresses for every event will provide women of all sizes with all the glam they need this Christmas, New Year, and beyond.
Gill O’Neill, owner at Fairytale Endings, said: “Whether you’re looking for the perfect outfit for a Christmas do, New Year’s Eve, a romantic evening or to say yes to ‘the’ wedding dress, we’ve got the perfect dress for you. Our fashion show is going to be bursting with glitz and glam and we’ll be showcasing some incredible looks. We really hope that all our of current customers and anyone else who is looking for a bit of glitz and glam joins us at the show to celebrate!”
Jennina O’Neill, Metquarter Centre Manager said: “We’re thrilled that Fairytale Endings will be bringing its catwalk show back for 2022 – I know that shoppers will be amazed by the dresses on display. We’re all looking forward to some glitz and glamour before the party season begins!”
For more information and opening times please visit https://metquarter.com/
Come celebrate Halloween in the Storybarn this October Half Term! Get in the spooktacular spirit and enjoy ghostly games and creepy crafts as we explore this delightful story by Riel Nason.
Sessions last around 90 mins and are perfect for children aged 4 – 9. Fancy dress welcome!
Be Young, Be Foolish, Be Happy at The Brain Charity’s Ice Ball at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Liverpool City Centre from 7pm until late.
As well as musical entertainment from Sonia, who represented the UK at Eurovision in 1993, you can expect delicious food and drink and an unforgettable celebration.
Liverpool pop singer Sonia, 51, released number one single You’ll Never Stop Me Loving You in 1989.
All five singles released from her debut album Everybody Knows – released in April 1990 – reached the UK top 20, with Sonia the first British female solo artist to ever achieve this.
Listen to Your Heart and buy an early bird ticket for The Brain Charity’s Ice Ball for just £75 when you book now.
To mark International Transgender Day of Remembrance, Trans people and their allies come together to share their voices, with speakers from across the trans community.
The event will culminate in a candlelight vigil to remember trans lives lost due to transphobic violence and oppression.
Hosted by the Museum of Liverpool.