Liverpool has played an important role as the port of departure for millions of people seeking new lives.
Travel back in time to Liverpool 1854 and meet their travelers on their way to a new land. Listen to their stories of tales of hope and fear, as the museum’s roleplayers bring to life the stories of emigrants who came through the port.
Join ArtsGroupie at the Liverpool Pier Head, outside the Cunard Building (the River Mersey side), as they explore Liverpool’s historic links to America.
From the city’s darkest history, like its abominable role in the transatlantic slave trade, to its illustrious music & culture exports; Liverpool’s connections to the United States run deep.
Learn hidden histories,and discover what made Liverpool a city to rival London; this and more on American Independence Day weekend.
Artsgroupie also lead other walking tours throughout the year, The Liver Bird Safari, a tour that highlights the over 100 Liver Birds hidden across the city; The Kitty Wilkinson Walking Tour, which takes us back to Victorian Liverpool to celebrate the life of Iconic Liverpool legend, Kitty Wilkinson, who overcame all adversity to become a pioneer of the public washhouse; and William Roscoe Esquire Walking Tour, celebrating the life of a renowned 19th Century Liverpool author, and one of England’s first abolitionists.
Top Joe, Liverpool Echo Comedian of the Year, invites you to the Music Appreciation Social Séance (MASS)! A comedy show with a difference…
Do you have a burning question about your life?
Are you waiting for the universe to give you answers?
If the answer is ‘yes’ then come to MASS! An evening where life’s questions are answered through the medium of séance, happenstance and indiscriminate song choices.
Expect in depth discussions such as “What clothes do you imagine you’re wearing whilst listening to Tour de France by Kraftwerk” or simply “Where is Sean from Five?” (5ive).
The night also features the wise teachings of Buddhism and the best bit of going to a séance (touching a ouija board).
Hosted by Liverpool Echo Comedian of the Year, Top Joe, and featuring special guests from Liverpool’s weird and wonderful arts scene. A night of curious variety like no other! Come with an open mind and leave with a cup full of bewilderment.
Featuring Special Guests:
Conway – Purveyor of all things wyrd! Conway is a performer that straddles peripheries and plays with genre. A connoisseur of fantasy, sci-fi and mysticism – you don’t know what they’ll have in store. A spell? A song? A conspiracy? It’s all on the table (and under the counter).
Frightwig Theatre – Time to release those itchy thoughts you’ve supressed for far too long, extract the moths lurking in your inner ear and scream yourself sick as we embrace the horror of modern Britain together. Frightwig are a horror-comedy trio inspired by the nightmare of everyday living.
Which parts of our identities want to be seen? How does our self-perception change with who is seeing us? How are we moved by seeing what might otherwise remain hidden, silent, or invisible?
Join the team for a ‘watch party’ of a streamed performance created live by five artists in five countries and live-mixed by George Maund.
Witnessed in Translation is a project led by Mary Pearson with collaborators Carolina van Eps, Michael Kaddu, pavleheidler and Elvan Tekkin. Together they have been developing techniques which evolved during lockdown to transmit physical, sensory and relational experiences through screens.
Their focus is on improvisation mixed with stories reflecting multiple experiences of cultural displacement and translating words into gestures, body states, energies and images.
Playing with care and curiosity, laughing and crying, lost in translation and fumbling towards liberation.
A facilitated post-performance discussion among the audience at the gathering will offer an opportunity to share experiences of witnessing and consider livestream as an emergent artform.
Witnessed in Translation is rooted in Liverpool with support from FACT, Together, Kitty’s Launderette, and Independent Dance. It is supported through public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.
Bus Regulation: The Musical by Glasgow-based artist Ellie Harrison is inspired by the 1980s hit musical Starlight Express.
The show features performers re-enacting the history of public transport provision on Merseyside, from the post-war period to the present… on roller skates!
Sunday, 13 November, 2pm and 3pm.
A brand new, family-friendly performance developed with year three students from schools in St Helens and Knowsley.
Join Eggs Collective as they return to St Helens with their brand new show, made especially for children and families. This fun, energetic performance will feature comedy, music, and plenty of interactive moments, inspired by ideas from year three children through a series of workshops in local schools.
There are two performances of this show, and tickets are FREE. Please book a ticket for every person attending:
Saturday 12th November, starts 10.30am and 1.30pm at St Helens Town Hall
Family friendly, recommended for ages 5+.
Running time: 45 minutes.
This event is part of Take Over 2022.
Tickets and access information: https://www.heartofglass.org.
It begins in darkness is a dance full of ghosts.
In this stark, stripped back performance, five dancers move through mysterious and experimental rites of passage, channelling past, present and future tensions through their bodies and voices. As if to exorcise the haunted house of history, the dancers whisper, jump, wrestle, shiver, wail and laugh, filling the space with horrors, both real and imagined.
It begins in darkness is an environment for processing the fear, anger and confusion which arise from the histories of slavery and colonialism that haunt the present.
Thursday 27 October, 7pm
Tickets: £8/£5
The Third House: heartbreaker between love-mates of Yemeni and British identities, bilingual tongues and musical accents alive in a football fanatic terrace home of Liverpool, Toxteth.
Amina Atiq’s photogenic live-performance anthology lives between houses; inherited and existing national anthems; exploring her Arabness of fragmented memories in a dark-tender migration journey from a colonised Aden to 1960s Liverpool port.
This passage is a reimagination between her war-torn child- home and her conflicting Muslim identity in a western society after the heightened events of 9/11; shaping her adolescent political life. Underpinned by biographical key events and intergenerational exchanges, Amina impersonates a lifeguard to save her third house from drowning.
Accompanied by captioned short film of building bricks & henna fingertips. Film produced by Screen writer Eman Diab & Videographer Abdullrhman Hassona. Show supported & directed by Saphena Aziz.
Show duration
45 minutes
Ticket price
Pay What You Decide
Access
BSL, Captions, Creative audio description,
Age Guidance
14+
Join gorgeous clown, Trash Salad, in her quest for connection: a genre-bending burlesque adventure, using lip sync, strip tease and song on a mission to understand intimacy.
Some call it a clown opera; a sexual odyssey; a compost-heap romance. Trash calls it a joyful queer-femme love story in the shape of a salad. Come and see the piece that’s made audiences ‘laugh, cry, and nearly piss’.
Birthed by award-winning theatre maker Rosa Garland.
Liverpool’s most popular Jazz night continues to grow. The home-grown music event has now expanded across four nights due to its rise in popularity.
Hope Street Jazz which takes place at Hope Street venue Frederiks has now added Sunday to its weekly event roster sitting alongside Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday nights – making it the biggest Jazz night in the city.
Frederiks has always enjoyed a reputation as a destination for performance, with music lovers drawn to the venue not only for the artists on the bill, but its intimate, ambient surroundings – making it the natural home for Jazz in Liverpool.
The brainchild of DJ John Dean, Hope Street Jazz was established as a showcase for both Jazz musicians including Bop Kaballa, Dayzy & Troupeau de Couleur and Bob Whittaker Quartet – and those artists breaking onto the music scene, with both solo and group performances.
This support for emerging talent gives musicians who are at the start of their career the opportunity to play on the same bill and often alongside established musicians who make the pilgrimage to perform at Frederiks from across the UK, and internationally.
Speaking about the event’s swift rise in popularity, John Dean said:
“Part of Hope Street Jazz’s appeal is that it is accessible by everyone – we get a real mix of guests from students through to older generations, all coming together with their love of live music. It’s great to see the event grow especially despite the challenges of the last few years it’s clear there is a continually growing love for live Jazz in the city.”
“On a typical night there’s students dancing next to spritely Nans, city centre residents jiving alongside curious tourists who’ve stumbled over us – it’s a completely mixed-up audience, and it works brilliantly.”
Most Jazz nights at Frederiks end with an open jam for any musicians who want to get up and play along with guest performers, and John actively encourages participation:
“The Jazz nights can be really energetic – at the end you feel like you’ve been part of something creative, with people bringing along an instrument.”
Entry is free for Hope Street Jazz events and they take place at Frederiks every Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Sunday from 8pm.
October’s event programme sees Diego, Bill & The Preachers and Sweet Beans Band amongst the line up.
Frederiks offer a pre-event menu for diners on Jazz nights plus Roast until late on Sundays – for reservations please contact the venue direct on events@frederikshopestreet.
If you are an artist who is interested in playing at a Hope Street Jazz event at Frederiks please email John Dean for more information Hopestreetjazzreco