Event type: Performance

Sindhu Vee: Alphabet

A brand-new show about the hair we want, the friends we have, and living the vast difference between virus and viral.

The show is held Liverpool Playhouse, 6 November, 7.30pm. See here for tickets.

Expect “outspoken, frank and funny stand-up” (Evening Standard) from this Edinburgh Comedy Awards Best Newcomer nominee.

As seen on Live at the Apollo, QI, Have I Got News for You and Sex Education and heard on Radio 4’s Things My Mother Never Told Me (…About Lockdown) and The Guilty Feminist podcast.

Bimini Bon Boulash: Release the Beast

Don’t miss this unique opportunity to hear from Bimini Bon Boulash, the nation’s sweetheart who captured hearts and minds as the gag-inducing, death-dropping, plant-based breakout star of RuPaul’s Drag Race UK Season 2.

Hear how drag took Bimini from the brink of self-destruction to the mainstage, as well as life lessons drawing on convention-breaking icons from Kate Moss to Katie Price, you can expect Bimini to use all their wit, charm and kindness to show you how to lead the lives you wish you could lead, through the life-changing magic of dragging up.

Bimini will be in conversation and there will also be a chance for you to ask your questions directly to Bimini.

An Evening with Nana Funk

Liverpool’s favourite all singing, all dancing Nana is hitting the Playhouse Studio stage. Join Nana Funk for an evening of cracking songs, chats and a whole lot of laughter.

Nana Funk is a Cabaret and Burlesque performer who shows that being awesome transcends age.  She brings together Burlesque, Improvisation, Clowning and Music to create her own versatile and unique style.

“Nana Funk is a well-known and loved name on the Liverpool performance circuit! She writes biting and hilarious lyrics and performs with an enthusiasm and a comic timing that few comedy musicians master in the duration of their career. I can’t wait to see Nana Funk continue to wow the crowds in Liverpool and beyond!” – Kaya Herstad Carney (Threshold Festival)

“Nana lights up the room and never fails to make you laugh, gasp and everything in between!” – Eve Howlett (Secret Circus Cabaret)

BlackFest Writers Room: Rehearsed Read...

Join the members of BlackFest’s first ever Writers’ Room, led renowned local Liverpool writer, dramaturg Maurice Bessman, as they share extracts of their work in this rehearsed reading.

Working with professional actors and BlackFest Artistic Director Jubeda Khatun supported by Director Miriam Musa and Maurice, the writers have created original pieces based around the stories they want to tell and that are important to them.  A number of the plays shared will be selected for further development and full production within ‘BlackFest Celebration of New Writers’ at the Liverpool’s Royal Court Studio.

BlackFest is a grassroots Black Arts festival piloted and founded in 2018 by Co-Founders, Artistic Director Jubeda Khatun and Daniel Sebuyange, freelance artist Blue Saint. The annual combined arts festival platforms, empowers and develops work by Black artists across community spaces and established venues running at the end of September.

Toxteth Rising

As part of Baff Akoto’s UP:RISE, Toxteth Rising is a newly commissioned digital performance by Blue Saint. Delving into the rich history of the area and the locals who inhabit.

Toxteth Rising shines a light on what makes this community so unique while interrogating its historic inequalities and contemporary marginalisations.

The performance piece will be released digitally on 21 August. Stay tuned to Bluecoat’s website and social media channels to watch.

UP:RISE Artwork is accompanied by UP:RISE In Conversation a series of talks interrogating different aspects of the work and UP:RISE Creators a programme of community-based workshops.

Night at the Poseum: House of Suarez V...

House of Suarez Vogue Ball is coming to slay World Museum.

Join World Museum for an extravaganza of costume, dance, and high drama as House of Suarez’s legendary annual Vogue Ball returns to Liverpool this autumn.

Inspired by our collections, Night at the Poseum will see Houses from across the UK create costumes and performances to compete for catwalk supremacy in categories such as Fantasy, Solo, Lip Synch, Sex Siren and Choreography.

Steered by Captain Rikki Beadle-Blair as Master of Ceremonies, the event will be judged by a shining panel including BBC Radio Merseyside personality Ngunan Adamu and Nathan Sussex (Hollyoaks, It’s a Sin).

“We are taking our audiences through time and space as we enter the iconic building of Liverpool’s World Museum! From Pharaohs battling spacemen to insect lip syncing for 10s across the board. We promise to keep up our tradition and keep our audience’s wanting more!”

– Darren Suarez
Artistic Director, House of Suarez
Founder of the Vogue Ball

Forest School Storytime

Come and explore the walled garden, sit round the fire circle and join Growing Sudley for some storytelling. They’ll have nature-themed stories and chat. Bring a cup for hot chocolate (or juice if too hot!)

12 spaces are available for little ones ages 3-7 years, and one responsible adult

IF YOUR CHILD HAS ANY ALLERGIES OR DIETARY REQUIREMENTS PLEASE TEXT 07951 049428 WITH REFERENCE ‘FOREST SCHOOL STORYTIME’ AND DETAILS ON YOUR NEEDS BY 27 JULY

All events and activities will be risk assessed and supervised by staff with DBS enhanced disclosure. Growing Sudley will operate under government guidance on covid, with measures in place to avoid spread. The event is outdoors so there is no need to wear a mask unless you wish to, but we ask that households remain socially distanced.

Storytelling with Gav Cross

Join us for an our of hilariously funny interactive storytelling with Gav Cross.

Suitable for all ages but aimed at children 7 – 11 years old.

This event is part of our summer family events programme which has been chosen by children from Holy Cross School in Liverpool.

For four weeks throughout the summer holidays, you and the family can enjoy FREE storytelling, music, comedy for kids, designed to engage children of all ages.

Just drop by at 1pm, 2pm and 3pm on Thu 29 Jul.

For more information visit thebluecoat.org.uk/family

Bridge

Over three days, Culture Liverpool in partnership with Imagineer are set to host a series of free pop-up events and happenings, where ‘Bridge’ becomes the setting for an extraordinary outdoor performance.

Imagined by artists, made by designers and engineers, inspired by you – ‘Bridge’  is a project for our time that brings people together in unexpected and joyful ways.

Visit ‘Bridge’  by day and enjoy a series of FREE events and experiences created in collaboration with communities and arts organisations from across County District and the wider city.

Friday and Saturday night will see gravity-defying circus acrobatics, dance, comedy, theatre and live music, inspired by local people’s stories, to create a thrilling and moving montage of the courage, compassion and humour needed to bridge a divide.

A FREE spectacular ticketed performance for all ages.

Thursday 5 – Saturday 7 August 2021
‘The Rezzy’
Breeze Hill Millennium Green, Liverpool, L4 5QT

PLEASE NOTE: All children aged 14 and under need to be accompanied by a responsible adult (18yrs +) at all times.

Book your free tickets now: cultureliverpool.co.uk/bridge-tickets

Roger McGough: Safety in Numbers

Safety in Numbers is a new collection from the nation’s favourite poet.

The event is held Liverpool Playhouse, 11 February 2022, 7.30pm. See here for tickets.

Traversing rocky terrain with the assurance of a poetry Rover on Mars, McGough brings down to earth the strangeness of a year that was almost lost. Staycations, ghosts, gamblers, hurricanes in a hurry and small kindnesses.

Unexpected voices, a nature trail, adultery in lockdown, time to stand & stare and how to write verse about Liverpool. This is an evening of poetry and love and intimacies and daffodils. You Have Been Warned.

With the gift of many tongues, playful, surreal and tender, McGough ‘a trickster you can trust’ reveals the telling moments of our times.

President of the Poetry Society, he has been honoured with a CBE for services to literature and the Freedom of the City of Liverpool. After Lily The Pink, the Aintree Iron, Scaffold, GRIMMS, The Mersey Sound with Adrian Henri & Brian Patten and his Molière adaptations with English Touring Theatre, Roger presents the long-running Poetry Please. The beat goes on.