Performance - Uncover Liverpool

Fuego de los Muertos: Bring The Fire Project

What happens when you cross the bridge between the lands of the living and the dead?

Our protagonist, in a search for a lost love, wanders into an old graveyard. There he finds a magical artefact enabling him to dance with flames and discovers the secret art of fire levitation.

Woken by the light, the undead are rising…

Orchestrated by Lady Caterina, the fire drama is to follow. Witness comedic chases, flaming sword fights, passionate romance and stunning fire mastery. Can love conquer death?

This is an outdoor show that uses real fire.

There are 2 performances – 5:00-7:00pm and 7:30-9:30pm. Future Yard will remain open after the 2nd performance.

Nana Funk’s Christmas Party

It’s Chriiiiiiistmaaaaaaaaaas! And Nana’s back!

Downstairs at the Everyman presents a Christmas party not to be missed.

Following last Christmas’s festive delights, Nana Funk, Liverpool’s favourite all singing, all dancing Nana, will be lighting up Downstairs at the Everyman once more with some slightly dusty Christmas Sparkle.

Join Nana for an evening of chats, songs and laughing. It’ll be like Wogan, if Wogan was a Nana with a questionable hip and mysterious past. And that’s not all! Nana will have SPECIAL HOUSE GUESTS Dross & B Blü Romantic Expect laughter, songs and festive cheer!

Katumba Halloween Carnival 2025

Every autumn, the nights grow longer, the air turns colder, and the line between worlds begins to blur. Halloween has always been about more than just costumes and sweets – it’s a time to honour our ancestors, to gather in ceremony, to transform fear into celebration. This year, Katumba Halloween Carnival reclaims those deeper roots. Their theme for 2025 – “Ancestral Spirits, Ritual Fire” – weaves together the diasporic origins of carnival with the ancient pagan traditions of Samhain.

Born from rituals of remembrance, resistance, and renewal, carnival is a living space where communities gather to drum, dance, and light the darkness with rhythm and spirit. By fusing Afro-diasporic beats with the fire and folklore of Halloween, the procession becomes both a homage and a reinvention. A living ritual that connects past to present, ancestry to community, darkness to light.

Every October, Liverpool drumming and movement troupe, Katumba Transforms the Liverpool City Centre into a playground of imagination, with performances inspiring, and engaging audiences by creating big, bold, visual shows through unexpected spectacle of drums, fire, lights, dance, theatre and more.What began in 2012 as an impromptu, small gathering of drummers springing up in Liverpool City Centre for a dressed up parade on Halloween, has grown into one of Liverpool’s most anticipated annual celebrations — a fusion of carnival, culture, and community spirit.This year’s Halloween Carnival marks the grand finale of Katumba’s Black History Month celebrations, as participants from their Routes & Roots beginner sessions join the parade.

Starting at Bold Street, making it’s way through Church Street and Lord Street before culminating in an unmissable finale at Liverpool ONE, the carnival will also celebrate 10 years of Katumba – Liverpool’s leading large-scale drumming and movement organisation, renowned for creating inclusive public spectacles and community programmes that blend Afro-Brazilian, contemporary and urban influences. Join them in celebrating an incredible decade of drumming, movement, and community.

This year, there are even more ways to get involved!Every costume, every rhythm, every flicker of flame in the Katumba Halloween Carnival is created and carried by people from the local area. This year, Katumba are inviting YOU to take part in a host of workshops with a Halloween twist.Learn to: Craft everything you need for a real carnival, inspired by ancestral spirits Beat out rhythms that shake the streets alive Move, dance, and embody the energy of carnival…Then step into the procession itself!Join us at the following

FREE workshops:

Saturday 25th of October – Lantern MakingMake your very own lantern (no fire involved!) to light up Katumba Halloween Carnival – ages 5+

Saturday 25th of October – Circus Workshops

A chance to discover the magic of circus with silk ribbons, poi, juggling balls, devil sticks, hula hoop and spinning plate with Bring the Fire Project – ages 7+Sunday 26th of October – Katumba DrummingCome along to Liverpool One’s Halloween Party from 12pm and take part in a Katumba Drumming workshop – under 18’s

Sunday 2nd of November – Sounds & Sauna, An Evening of WellbeingMusic, movement and mindfulness, the best way to wind down and relax after our Halloween carnival with sound bath, mindful movement and a gorgeous wooden sauna to top it all off on the – 18+, ticketed

Book now at https://katumba.co.uk/halloween-carnival-2025/

Feel the drums. Honour the ancestors. Celebrate the spirits…

O Great Mystery: The Word Made Flesh

Liverpool Renaissance Singers under Musical Director Liam Owens will perform beautiful Christmas and Advent Music by composers Byrd, White, Tallis and Sheppard. Woven between ancient plainsong and polyphonic music the concer traces an arc between yearning and penitence to the awe-filled mystery of incarnation.

Programme will be available on www.liverpoolrenaissancesingers.org

Date: 6th December 7.30pm. Doors open 7pm

Venue Our Lady and St Nicholas Parish Church L2 8GW off Chapel Street Liverpool opposite the Liver Building and the Crown Plaza Hotel

Seasonal refershments after the event for donations

Tickets (£12 – children under 16 free and also registered disabled persons with a ticket owning carer) can be purchased at: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/liverpool-renaissance-singers/t-ejkjvl

Jack Frost’s Snow Time Adventure

Step into the enchanting world of Jack Frost where children and grown ups become part of the story!

Glide across an imaginary ice rink, take part in a friendly snowball fight and create cherished memories…

Jack Frost’s Snow Time Adventure is an immersive installation for the young and very young which offers a sensory and imaginative story experience which captivates and delights.

Audiences enter a welcoming tent-like space and are transported into the magical world of Jack Frost who travels the land to bring cheer to children.

Sarah Jones Everyday Normal UK Tour

Sarah Jones embarks on a UK wide speaking tour in late October/early November with her Everyday Normal sessions.The debate about trans people has become incredibly toxic. The Supreme Court Judgment of April 2025 has had major repercussions for the lives of transpeople in the UK. Each day brings a new report about trans activists or anti-trans activists. In the Everyday Normal sessions, Sarah explores the reality of being trans and of being outed as the first person to be ordained by the Church of England having previously made a gender change. We’ll think about the issues and the concerns of today and we’ll look to the future to see what that might hold.We’ll laugh together. We might cry. Everyday Normal is a life-affirming session for people who would like an entertaining exploration and who would like to understand trans issues for themselves.

St Bride’s Church Percy St Liverpool L8 7LT

The Snowy Day

One winter morning, Peter woke up and looked out the window

Snow had fallen during the night. It covered everything as far as he could see.

Discover a world blanketed in wonder in this brand-new dance adaptation of ‘The Snowy Day’, inspired by the award winning picture book by Ezra Jack Keats. Join Peter as he crunches through the snowy streets of his New York neighbourhood, in this intimate icy adventure.

Brought to life by Polka Theatre and Can’t Sit Still, the award nominated company behind ‘Oh No, George!’, ‘The Snowy Day’ is specially designed for 1-4 year olds and their grown-ups, featuring one dancer and original music by singer/songwriter Rob Green. Join us to experience the magic of fresh snowfall in Keats’ classic, heartwarming tale.

Queer Arrivals

Queer Arrivals is a deeply personal, music-filled journey by Irish singer-songwriter Gráinne Hunt, exploring what it means to come into queerness – and into oneself – later in life.

With original songs and intimate storytelling, Gráinne shares her experience of falling in love with a woman in her 40s and how that has transformed her understanding of identity, artistry and belonging.

Incorporating Gráinne’s partner Jules Stewart on drums and vocals, Queer Arrivals is a tender, honest, and powerful celebration of love, growth, and self-acceptance debuting at the Liverpool Irish Festival.

Joining them is HUSK – a Gaeilge-English electrofolk musician, blending traditional Irish music, folk and electronica, with 80’s synths, weaving between English and Gaeilge alongside púca punk queer magick energy. HUSK offers contemporary electronic music production and works with international talent across the Irish diaspora and beyond.

This is a unique collaboration, presented in partnership with The Unity with support from Culture Ireland. For more info, read a fuller description, here.

Troubled Waters

With over 4,000 miles of polluted waterways, Britain and Ireland’s rivers are in ruin.

This vibrant new tapestry of transporting tales winds through stories that have shaped our relationship with rivers, the lifeblood of our landscape.Leaping salmon, fishtail women, mythical raves & sacred springs… These enchanting and surprising tales present characters who question what is set in stone and find their own flow.With each meandering stream and rushing river, we dip our toes into vital waters and ask what new connections are found when we look with fresh eyes beneath the surface?–

Storyteller Corinne Harragin, who has been touring the UK for the last 10 years, uses physicality and humour to reanimate the written-down-ness of story with her own brand of oral performance. Finding pockets of enchanted forest within the hinterland of contemporary urban sprawl, she tells stories that re-centre marginalised voices and silenced histories, bringing fresh questions to ancient myths and folktales for adult audiences. Corinne is a regular guest performer for the touring ‘myth-off’ game show, Story Jam’s ‘Women Who Gave F*cks’.As a research associate at the University of Bristol, her current project Storying the Avon (funded by the Brigstow Institute) explores connection to water through storytelling. She also designs and delivers storytelling and presentation skills training for the universities of Bristol and Gloucestershire. She has recently completed an MA at The University of Bristol, in which she researched contemporary forms of oral storytelling.

MUSIC PERFORMANCE – SMOKE ROAD by Crystal Jacqueline and Icarus Peel

Our co-founder David Ward (as David Greygoose) has written the lyrics for Crystal Jacqueline and Icarus Peel’s album ‘SMOKE ROAD’ which will be performed at Rough Trade on THURSDAY 16 OCTOBER!

Crystal Jacqueline and Icarus Peel of The Honey Pot Collective celebrate the release of double album SMOKE ROAD (Fruit de Mer records) with lyrics by poet David Greygoose.

‘Darkly pastoral, gothic folk-psych and ominous cautionary tales. This is one road worth following to the end.’ – Shindig!

Tickets priced at £13.60

To book, click here – https://link.dice.fm/If1dcb4b55c4

To read the lyrics to the songs, visit https://www.davidwardpoet.co.uk/projects/lyrics—smoke-road

We hope to see many of you at this event!