And they’re back for 2022! A Lovely Word is back at its spiritual and literal home; downstairs at the Everyman.
A Lovely Word is Liverpool’s most eclectic poetry night, featuring two halves of open mic poets, and a headliner beginning the first half. Hosted by Alex Ferguson, this free event is a fun, relaxed and friendly evening of performance poetry.
This month’s headliner Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan is a writer, poet and educator disrupting understandings of history, race, knowledge and violence.
Back by popular demand, Drag Domination is back this January/February. Hosted by the queen of the battered sausage Baga Chipz. Plus 4 of your favourite queens from RuPaul’s Drag Race season 3. Kitty Scott Claus, River Medway, Choriza May and Elecktra Fence.
Expect an evening of sickening Drag Domination, high energy performances with hilarious comedy.
Welcome to the inaugural New Mersey Poets’ Blast! evening (upstairs) at Jimmy’s. Blast! is music, Spoken Word and comedy – and features some of Merseyside’s most talented performers.
For Blast #1 they have spoken word from the brilliant Lumenaate and the amazing Wordy Lirpa. Lumenaate’s urban poetry is an absolute delight, and Wordy’s inaugural poetry and music evening Outspoken was one of Liverpool’s cultural highlights of December.
There will be laughs aplenty (he assures us) from the mysterious Barry Comedy, and after the Blast Pop Culture Quiz Spot the Bastard (answer number 7 is ‘Michael Gove’), there will be comedy and spoken word from Saint Vespaluus.
Saint headlined downstairs at Jimmy’s in October, and is a regular on the Liverpool Spoken Word scene. His poems and tales take in gender fluidity and how language abuse controls society, but there’s also lots of references to 80s electro pop stars, Scouse dads morphing into pirates and how the good old days were actually sh*t. Really sh*t!
Matthew-Loughlin Day is one of Merseyside’s most talented musicians. Matty has curated two Shipwrecked festivals in the past six months, and is taking an evening off from his brilliant band The Shipbuilders to perform some of his equally ace solo songs.
Following a complete sell-out 2021 tour, star of global smash hit Live Innit, Taskmaster, and the first British-Asian stand-up to sell-out London’s Wembley Arena, comes to Liverpool Philharmonic Hall!
After barely surviving the pandemic, and with two years of pent-up killer material, Paul tackles the UK’s handling of the pandemic, why the rules of six only worked for white people, fame, England football fans and Tom Cruise landing his helicopter in someone’s garden.
Artist collective Breakwater of Youngsook Choi and Taey Iohe present a powerful storytelling performance that brings awareness to the historical trauma of Chinese indentured labour.
The performance interweaves the 2004 Morecambe Bay cockling disaster and 2021 Atlanta spa shootings tragedy with the classic children’s story, We’re Going On a Bear Hunt, and symbols from Korean mythology. Yellow Furry Lullaby is a ritual and moment of collective healing performed alongside Fermented Flower (2021), a detailed tapestry by the artist duo that confronts the racist roots deeply embedded in the field of botany.
Breakwater is Youngsook Choi and Taey Iohe. Based in London, the Korean diaspora duo explore social practice across subject matters around climate justice and migrants’ lived experience.
This event is part of the Lunar New Year Weekend at FACT. Discover their full programme of events.
The Reader’s seasonal celebration of reading, music and performance, the Penny Readings, is back for another year in a new format.
Join them as they broadcast the annual event live from the Mansion House, from the comfort of your own home.
Inspired by Charles Dickens’ public readings of the same name, the Penny Readings is a joyous celebration of storytelling, song, performance and community not to be missed.
Volunteers, group members, customers and the public are all invited to enjoy the show, which will be hosted by their founder, Jane Davis, alongside Greg Harwood-Jenkins from their young person’s team (fresh from his recent Radio 5 Live interview).
Full line up to be revealed over coming weeks – follow @thereaderorg on Instagram, Twitter or Facebook for details or sign up to receive updates from The Reader here.
Jason said: “After the fun we had on my last tour ‘Muddle Class’, I’m excited to get back on the road with my new stand up show, ‘Like Me’. In these trying times it’s always important to be able to get away for a couple of hours and exercise the old chuckle muscle! So I’m coming to a venue near you in 2021/2022 so we can have a good laugh together. See you then.”
The Reader’s Spoken Word event for December will feature Vicky Foster, Roy, Cath Holland, Saint Vespaluus and Janaya Pickett
Spoken Word events encompass a huge variety of writing and performance styles, from the intimately personal and heart-breaking to the uproariously funny and celebratory. Poetry in all its forms will be the main feature, along with memoirs, stories, monologues and any number of almost-indefinable types of prose!
They recommend this event for adults 18+. Doors 7pm. The Mansion House is wheelchair accessible, for access enquiries please contact them at tickets@thereader.org.uk.
A licensed bar, a beautiful venue and always a lovely audience. Be there!
This brand new, exciting and educational show will amaze and astound all ages from 4 years and upwards, as they put the “Exciting” back into “Science”.
With fun and fact filled experiments, watch in amazement as they recreate a volcanic eruption; turn a vacuum cleaner into a missile launcher or take aim at you with our smoke blaster!
So stand clear and prepare for action, as this show is full of Wiz, bang, pop …. And splurt!
Laughterhouse Comedy proudly present Tom Stade, Mick Miller, Justin Moorhouse and Chris Cairns.
Enjoy an evening of hilarity with your favourite home-grown comics, alongside Live At The Apollo stars and the very best acts on the international comedy-circuit!*
This December Laughterhouse Comedy deliver the very best TV comedians of the highest calibre in a single stellar lineup that will have you rolling in the aisles!
So bring your partner, your best mates and your nan as they guarantee something for everyone at this show!
Line-ups are subject to change.