Join the University of Liverpool Confucius Institute for a Chinese New Year celebration. Welcome the Year of the Rabbit with a professional troupe and local students performing traditional Chinese skills – Kung Fu, dance, songs, drama and music.
Come and experience the colour, traditions and atmosphere of the Spring Festival. Happy New Year!
Edinburgh Comedy Award winning comedian and ARIA award-winning broadcaster John Robins embarks on his first stand-up tour since 2019.
If you’ve seen him before you know what to expect; rage, anxiety and a lot of laughs. If you haven’t seen him before, strap the f**k in.
Suzi Ruffell likes things snappy: her stand up, her decisions and her suits. Suzi’s brand new show is all about settling down (but not settling), becoming a mother (without becoming mumsy) and still worrying about everything – of course she is – have you seen the news?
Multi-award nominated comedian Suzi Ruffell’s last tour, ‘Dance Like Everyone Is Watching‘ received critical acclaim and was recorded as an Amazon special. Suzi has also appeared on numerous shows such as Live At The Apollo, The Jonathan Ross Show, QI, The Last Leg, and Womanhood to name but a few. Suzi is also best known for her hugely popular podcasts ‘Like Minded Friends‘ and ‘Out‘.
Will the recycling be put out on the right day? Who is going to smooth over the top of the margarine? How many lights are on upstairs when everybody is downstairs? Watch Jon pretend that these aren’t his foremost concerns as he leaves home on his first tour since the last one.
Best known as a team captain on 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown (Channel 4), host of Dave’s Ultimate Worrier, upcoming sitcom Meet the Richardsons, as well as Would I Lie To You (BBC One), Have I Got News For You (BBC One), Michael McIntyre’s Comedy Roadshow (BBC One), and Taskmaster (Dave).
The star of BBC 2 stand-up special Sara Pascoe: LadsLadsLads is back with a brand-new stand-up show!
Sara decided she wanted to be famous at 14 years old. Since then, she has auditioned for Barrymore, scared Pete Burns and ruined Hugh Grant’s birthday – but look at her now… (please look, she needs you to look. And clap. And laugh. And then clap again).
Sara Pascoe is a highly acclaimed comedian, writer, and actor. She wrote and starred in her recent BBC 2 sitcom Out Of Her Mind, and is the celebrated host of BBC 2’s The Great British Sewing Bee, BBC’s Last Woman On Earth, Dave’s Comedians Giving Lectures and Comedy Central’s Guessable.
Sara also wrote and performed the BBC Radio 4 series Modern Monkey and the BBC 2 short Sara Pascoe vs Monogamy, which was inspired by her first book Animal. Her second book, Sex Power Money, was a Sunday Times bestseller, and the accompanying podcast of the same name garnered millions of listens and multiple award nominations during its run.
Coventry’s finest, Guz Khan, brings his big-screen persona and BAFTA-nominated hilarity to Liverpool with his brand-new stand up show Guz Khan Live!
Guz is the creator and star of BBC’s Man Like Mobeen, alongside his appearances on Taskmaster (C4), The Last Leg (C4), Live at the Apollo (BBC), Hypothetical (Dave), Turn Up Charlie (Netflix), Netflix movies Army of Thieves and The Bubble, and much more.
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.