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HedgeRose Healing Takeover Day!

Move over Norton – it’s HedgeRose Healing Takeover day! Come and join in on a very special day when Mima of HedgeRose healing takes over our lovely museum to bring you a day of exploration and relaxation!

During the day you will have the opportunity to build and walk the labyrinth, learn all about the herb garden at Norton Priory and how the herbs were used then and now, experience the truly mindful nature of the woodland and try various helpful meditation techniques. There will also be another chance to help to create the huge medieval tile mandala, mandala colouring in and the brilliant Paul Quigley will be teaching us all about bees while you create your very own candle to take home!

As if this isn’t already exciting enough, there will be yoga with Steph* in the morning and Pottery with Courtney* in the afternoon and stalls from local organisations.

*extra charges apply – more details soon!

This event is included with general admission (apart from pre-booked yoga and pottery sessions), plus children go free!*  Book online ahead of time for a discount! Pre-booking closes at 11:45 the night before your visit. But if you miss out, you can pay for General Admission on arrival!

The Doddy Day Happiness Show

By Jove, it’s time for some rib-tickling at the sixth annual Doddy Day Happiness Show!The Squire Of Knotty Ash liked nothing more than making people laugh so to celebrate his birthday each year we bring together comedians and singers to reduce an audience to helpless laughter once again.Adding to the festivities, Lady Anne Dodd will appear on stage in conversation with Tony Nicholson, sharing clips from Ken Dodd’s Happiness Show – The Lost Tapes.Signed books and DVDs will be available for purchase.As tradition demands the show will be ably hosted by MC Sam Avery and this year artists include:Tim Lucas, who has recently landed the role of Sammy in the UK Tour of Blood Brothers performs songs by artists such as Elton John, The Beatles, Frank Sinatra and so much more!Sioned Terry, a classical mezzo-soprano has toured with Britain’s Got Talent finalists John’s Boys Male Voice Choir and appeared with the late Sir Ken Dodd.Further hilarious and irrepressible acts are to be confirmed.
The full line-up will be full of familiar faces with one thing on their mind – making you laugh!
This show will be a celebration of all things Doddy so look out for jam butties, tickling sticks and plenty of fun.Prepare your chuckle muscles for a tattyfilarious day of laughter.Tickets are just £10 each so book soon to get more than your share of Happiness!

Museum Takeover

As part of La Feria 2025, this exciting free event offers a full afternoon of culture, music and movement that brings Latin America to the centre of Liverpool. Kicking off at Liverpool ONE, Entrada is a procession featuring street artists, live musicians and dance groups. Celebrating diverse cultures from across Latin America, the parade will make its way to the World Museum, filling the streets with rhythm, colour and festive spirit.In the afternoon, the museum will come alive with activity, with live music, dance performances, storytelling, and creative workshops. These will showcase the culture and heritage of Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, Mexico, Brazil, Costa Rica, Bolivia, Venezuela and more.

Community & Family Day: A Taste Of Latin America

Join La Feria at The Black-E for A Taste of Latin America, a free Community and Family Day marking the grand finale of La Feria 2025. This welcoming celebration brings people together through dance, music, food, and creativity.

With performances from artists including Tocha Trio (Peru/UK/Venezuela), Colibrí Mexican Folk Dance, DJ Muvelo (Costa Rica), and Grupo Rikcharishpa – indigenous Kichwa Otavalo musicians from Ecuador, the day promises a special experience filled with rhythm, colour, and connection. Families can take part in creative workshops and enjoy flavours from across Latin America at a selection of street food and artisan stalls.

Cured

For some people, a pilgrimage to Lourdes is an opportunity for prayer, contemplation and quiet self-reflection. But for Connor Fisher, a young, wheelchair-using scally, it’s just a chance to get his leg over! 

After lying his way onto the trip in order to pursue Rose, a woman he meets in the queue for a disability benefit reassessment, he proceeds to lead his fellow pilgrims astray. There’s Helen who is searching for that ever-elusive miracle; and then there’s Callum who speaks with a voice synthesiser and always has a witty put-down up his sleeve. 

But thanks to Connor’s influence, before long they end up doing pretty much everything Catholics hate!  

Join us for this brand new play by local writer and comedian Laurence Clark. It has been produced by Liverpool’s Royal Court in partnership with Birds Of Paradise.

Recent praise for Laurence Clark’s writing:

“jam-packed with laughs and a delight to watch” ★★★★★ One4review

“you’ll be clapping, singing, laughing, cheering” ★★★★ Fest

“Clark’s humour is warm & mischievous & although, at times, close to the bone… made me laugh and smile from beginning to end.” ★★★★ Broadway Baby

Produced with funding from Arts Council England. Cured was developed with the support of the National Theatre’s Generate programme.

Please contact the Box Office if you require wheelchair access or
you have any specific access needs.

Performance Information 

Stalls tickets are available with a meal (served at your table before the show) for an extra £14 for one course and £20 for two courses at evening shows Click here to see our menu or an extra £10 at matinees (scouse or blind scouse only). If you are eating with us please arrive at least an hour before the performance. 

Tickets are available for the show alone in stalls, circle and balcony. 

Audio Description and BSL interpretation will be integrated into the show and available at all performances.

There are bars in both areas for pre-show and interval drinks. Stalls will be open from 6:00pm.

If you are bringing a large group, every tenth ticket is free. This ticket will be automatically added to your basket on purchase. Meals and building levy must still be paid on your free ticket. 

NO BOOKING FEES ON THIS SHOW 

Please note – the bar will close 15 minutes before the advertised start time. £2 from every ticket bought will be donated to The Royal Court Liverpool Trust. For more details go to www.royalcourttrust.org

The Peaceful Hour 2

A Nice Day For A… Scouse Wedding

It only seems like last year that Julie and Tim first met but now they are preparing for a wedding. It’s not their wedding though, it’s Ange and Carl who are finally tying the knot. They’ve got everything that they need to be together forever. Love, trust, honesty and a dress with those puffy sleeves like Charlene off Neighbours.

It’s the night before the wedding and the lads are out on the stag while Julie and Edna are giving Ange a proper pamper. The problems begin when the stag do comes home early bringing chaos in its wake in the form of a local gangster with a point to prove.

Gerry Linford is back with an epic sequel to last spring’s exploration of the impact of scouse culture on a wet behind the ears social anthropology student called Tim. A show that’s full of heart, with plenty of laughs and an 80s soundtrack to die for, you need to pull on your stone-washed jeans, comb out your mullet and get down to The Court.

Written by Gerry Linford

Directed by Emma Bird

Performance Information 

Stalls tickets are available with a meal (served at your table before the show) for an extra £14 for one course and £20 for two courses at evening shows Click here to see our menu or an extra £10 at matinees (scouse or blind scouse only). If you are eating with us please arrive at least an hour before the performance. 

Tickets are available for the show alone in stalls, circle and balcony. 

BSL performance is on Tuesday 24 February (interpreter Kate Labno). Audio Described performance is on Wednesday 25 February (describer Anne Hornsby). To book please contact Box Office on 0151 709 4321 or email lauren@royalcourtliverpool.com. 

Captioning will be available for performances from 3-7 March. Please contact Box Office for more details. 

Circle and balcony will open at 6.45pm. There are bars in both areas for pre-show and interval drinks. Stalls will be open from 6:00pm. 

If you are bringing a large group, every tenth ticket is free. This ticket will be automatically added to your basket on purchase. Meals and building levy must still be paid on your free ticket. 

NO BOOKING FEES ON THIS SHOW 

Please note – the bar will close 15 minutes before the advertised start time. £2 from every ticket bought will be donated to The Royal Court Liverpool Trust. For more details go to www.royalcourttrust.org 

Please contact Box Office to book if you are a wheelchair user.

The Great Hunger 2-hour tour

 

Join Liverpool Irish Festival‘s John Maguire (also of ArtsGroupie) on an expanded walking tour of several Liverpool Irish Famine Trail sites, including Clarence Dock – the entry way for over 1.8m+ Irish Famine poor – and others in the town centre.

Spectators will hear how The Great Hunger changed Liverpool’s streets, learning how locations were used for sanctuary, nourishment and safety. Along the route, sites of Irish influence will also be marked helping to show the geographic memory of these times. Walkers will also hear about the benevolence of Liverpool’s people and on-going effects on the city today.

Using a new trail app, headsets and recent Walk of the Bronze Shoes experience, your guide will really help you to walk in the shoes of Liverpool and Irish people 180-years ago.

The walks leave at 2pm. Bookers are asked to gather in the 15mins prior at the Pilotage Building (near the Museum of Liverpool). The walk will last approximately 120mins.

Bookings for these walks close at 5pm on Fri 17 Oct 2025.

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Liverpool Irish Great Hunger Memorial

Since 2021, Liverpool Irish Festival has been working on revitalising the Liverpool Irish Famine Trail, which includes The Great Hunger commemoration memorial. Today, the Liverpool Great Hunger Commemoration Committee, Conradh Na Gaeilge Learpholl, Liverpool Irish Centre and its choir, the Deaf Choir in and Movema Dance partner with the Festival to lead a Great Hunger Memorial Service that marks the anniversary of An Gorta Mór (The Great Hunger), lasting 1845-1852 and beyond. 

Along with speeches, a Liver Bird performance and a minute’s silence, we’ll sing The Ullaloo together. Commissioned especially for The Great Hunger Memorial in 2024, by local musicians Ian Cantwell and Marty Snape, the Liverpool Irish Centre choir will lead the singing and the Deaf Choir will sign it to us.

“Birds, especially those that migrate or fly high, are often seen as symbols of freedom, migration and hope. In the context of refugees, these symbols take on deeper meaning, representing the journey, resilience, and aspirations of those seeking safety and a new life” – Movema. Linking with our theme of arrivals, we’ll consider those arriving in Liverpool to begin the next stage of their journey, here or abroad. 

Everyone is welcome. Please note that this is an outside event, and we may have difficulties with sound if it is rainy or windy. We recommend dressing for the weather and bringing seats or walking aids as needed. This is a standing service of roughly 30-minutes. We won’t have chairs available for everyone. People may gather in advance of the service to welcome the vigil walkers.

These activities have been made possible with funds from The National Lottery Heritage Fund.

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Liverpool Irish Famine Trail Vigil

Complementing our work on the annual Liverpool Irish Famine Memorial, last year’s Walk of the Bronze Shoes has created a new annual opportunity. 

For those who don’t know, in 2024 members of our Festival team walked a pair of bronze shoes from County Roscommon (northwest Ireland) to Dublin (east coast of Ireland); sailed them to Holyhead and took them from Seacombe to Mersey Ports, to walk them to Clarence Dock Gates and on to the Famine Memorial. Why? 

The bronze shoes are a marker of the National Famine Way in Ireland and Liverpool’s pair — teamed with 15-pairs in North America — are the first to form the Global Irish Famine Way. 

Clarence Dock is where 1.8+m Irish Famine poor came into Liverpool. The Great Hunger commemoration memorial (unveiled in 1998) at St Luke’s Bombed Out Church remembers the 300k+ that stayed in Liverpool, the 1m+ that sailed overseas and the 2m+ that died. The journey between the two locations is indicative of the struggles of those sent here.

We’ll repeat the Clarence Dock to St Luke’s Bombed Out Church walk annually, until we find the bronze shoes a permanent home and we welcome you to join us. 

This time our group will be led by a time-travelling Liver Bird, a bird cyborg who has travelled through time experiencing displacement due to conflict, famine, economic hardship and climate change. Stewards will help people walk the route. Information will be provided at the site that morning. A small informal ceremony will start the vigil, with walkers from the Walk of the Bronze Shoes, 

This activity has been made possible with funds from The National Lottery Heritage Fund.

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Guided tours of Museum’s Irish collections

In 2021, Liverpool Irish Festival began our custodianship of the Liverpool Irish Famine Trail. We formed a volunteer History Research Group (who’ve since undertaken 1,700+ hours of research) and released two books: Revive and Reveal (available in the Museum’s gift shop or here: liverpoolirishfestival.com/shop/). 

Having trained in tour creation and management – and thoroughly researched the Irish objects on display in Museum of Liverpool – the History Research Group now lead tours of the Museum of Liverpool’s Irish objects. Using live-link headsets, visitors will be guided through the collections, homing in on Irish objects. These headsets work over hearing aids.

These in-person tours additionally take in the Pilotage Building, just outside the Museum. Tours are anticipated to take approximately 45-60mins, depending on audience questions. These activities have been made possible with funds from The National Lottery Heritage Fund. 

People who’d like to visit the Irish objects tour in a self-guided trail (no booking needed) can use the guide map online liverpoolirishfestival.com/events/self-guided-irish-trail/ or may collect paper maps (for free) from leaflet holders in the Museum’s foyer. 

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