Event type: Talk

Artist Talk ~ Adèle Oliver on Deeping...

Join them at Metal, Edge Hill Station on Thursday 20 September from 6-9pm for a talk and discussion event with writer, artist and researcher Adèle Oliver. Plus (vegan) food provided by Raggas, music and conversation.

Adèle will talk through some of the key concerns of her book Deeping It: Colonialism, Culture and Criminalisation of UK Drill, tracing the aesthetic, musical, and liberatory legacies behind the force that is drill. Expect readings, music and movement in this exploration of Black artistic resistance, expression, and suppression.

Adèle Oliver is a writer, artist and scholar from Birmingham. Her book Deeping It: Colonialism, Culture and Criminalisation of UK Drill counters panic-fuelled discourse on UK drill, gang violence, and knife crime, ‘deeping’ drill as a complex Black artform, born out of generations of commentary on and resistance to technologies of colonialism, consumerism, anti-Blackness, and more. Adèle is also a core member of Art Not Evidence and works as an expert witness in cases that use Black youth culture, music, and idiomatic language as evidence of bad character, criminality and/or gang affiliation. Outside of this work, Adèle is a musician, producer, and avid capoeirista.

Ticket price includes a portion of Raggas curry, rice and peas.

This event is presented by Without Fanfare in collaboration with Metal. The talk’s audio will be recorded for release at a later point.

If you would like to attend but can’t commit to the ticket price, please email edgehill@metalculture.com to be added to the event guest list free of charge.

Talk about Migration and Place

Dr. Lee R. Kendall of the University of Liverpool will talk about Migration and place with an emphasis on Jewish themes.

The talk is accompanied by illustrations.

Tickets cost £9.90; please apply for tickets via the application form and a link will be sent to you nearer to the event.

Scattered Belongings: Discussion with ...

Join the team for an online panel discussion exploring Chinese identity in the UK. There will be a particular focus on Liverpool, home to the oldest Chinese community in Europe. This event is part of Tate Liverpool’s East and South East Asian heritage month programme.

Gregory B Lee, Fu Lian Doble and Jennifer Lee Tsai will be in conversation with Emily Beswick, doctoral researcher at University of Liverpool and Tate Liverpool.

Reflecting on ‘scattered belongings’, the speakers will explore mixed, adoptee and multigenerational experiences. We will discuss how colonialism and structural racism shaped these experiences, and how mixed, second generation and adoptee individuals have created new diasporic identities.

This event will be hosted on Zoom.

Refugees: Why Jewish History and Jewis...

Rabbi David Mason will talk about the relationship between Jewish values and the support for refugees.

He will draw on Jewish history and its significance for today’s stance on the refugee crisis across the globe.

Please apply for tickets and a link will be sent to you for purchasing a ticket. This will happen closer to the event itself. Tickets cost £9.90.

Meet the Maker with Michael Murphy

The Bluecoat Display Centre and Liverpool Irish Festival are delighted to announce a Meet the Maker event with their 2024 featured maker: Michael ‘Muck’ Murphy. This event provides visitors with the chance to speak with Muck directly about his work.

Muck’s current body of work centres around commemorating the Ash tree, after disease spread through Ash stock globally (including two in the garden of The Bluecoat). His work aims to use Ash trees and immortalise them in sculpture, exploring the limits of how thin he can turn them, having them drift into a liminal space between existence and non-existence which is the state of their species

Refreshments will be provided on arrival and Friends of the Bluecoat Display Centre will receive a 10% discount on all purchases during the event.

Please call +44 (0)151 709 4014 or stop by the gallery to reserve a space with a member of staff. This event has a recommended donation price of £10 per ticket, providing a speaker fee for the maker.

150th Anniversary of the Opening of Pr...

As part of the Princes Road Synagogue heritage season, this will be a talk about the people who were connected to the founding and the wider history of the synagogue.

The talk will be accompanied by many illustrations and delivered by Dr. Lee R. Kendall and Dr. Dean Irwin. It will be an afternoon event. You will have to present a valid ticket at the door.

Please apply for a ticket; you will then be sent a link that enables you to purchase the ticket.

Tickets cost £9.90.

Sparking conversations at Ignite Liverpool

Volume #51 – 5 minutes at a time.

It is Ignite’s great pleasure to be able to bring together such a rich diversity of talented speakers for an evening of cerebral stimulation.

Our speakers are all checking their slides, rehearsing their timings and ensuring their vocal cords are in tip top condition for the next encounter of Ignite Liverpool.

Celebrating people from all walks of life as they talk about their passions, their projects and in some cases, their strange habits…….

Each speaker gives a 5 minute presentation on their subject matter.

Your speakers in no particular order……

Speaker: Cath Holland
Talk Title: Why is class everyone’s least favourite diversity and representation category?

Speaker: Jon Daley
Talk Title: Liverpool’s Homes of 2050

Speaker: Martin Graff
Talk Title: “Preparing for a first romantic date”. This talk will look at some of the research in the field of relationships and romantic attraction, for example, how we talk, the way we move, the company we keep and the ways in which we process humour all contribute to our attractiveness. At the end, this session will give some practical advice on how we can improve our chances of a successful first date.

Speaker: Doug Arnold
Talk Title: An aviation adventure – From Models to the Real Thing

Speaker: Tim Brunsden
Talk Title:Floral Civilians – Urban planting

Speaker: Ed Gommon
Talk Title: Liverpool has a new cycling and walking plan and its pretty good! (now we just need to make them build it!)

Speaker: Neil Meekin
Talk Title:Be The Change, Break The Chain.

Speaker: James Aloysius Bellew
Talk Title: Bellew’s Dictum – Archimedes Pythagoras and Murphy along with many other scions and soothsayers are famous for laws, theories and homilies that govern our lives. I’m now delighted to add to this lexicon of the lugubrious with the announcement of the global launch of “”Bellew’s Dictum”” on Ignite.

This pearl of wisdom, this genius gem, this nugget of nous, could change your life, fire up your pheromones and light up your libido. It could provide infinite insight to your innermost indiscretions. It might inflame your smouldering desires, transform your transgressions, be a sinecure for your sins and even energise your erections. Who knows? Don’t knock it till you’ve tried it! So what is… “”Bellew’s Dictum”” – Be at Leaf on the 11th Sept to find out!

Speaker: Lewis Lesley
Talk Title: Lewis Lesley “Liverpool on the right track.  Acceptable public transport to attract trips from cars. Merseyrail is the ideal. Light rail gives 90% of the benefits at 10% of the cost, and it quicker to implement,”

Speaker: Em Wills
Talk Title: How to create an anti-cult. It is about how we need spirituality and magic to be reinfused into our modern lives, but we need to be prepared to build community and spot narcissistic bad actors.

Speaker: Tom Williamson
Talk Title: To be confirmed

Pitch and Put-it-out-there at the Break

Don’t forget if you have a project that you want to talk about then at the end of the break we have our Pitches section –which gives audience members the opportunity 1 minute to jump up on stage and tell the rest of the world (especially those watching at home) about a great project, event or maybe even just about something they are proud of. We make an announcement about this during the break so listen out.

Meet the Artist: Kader Attia

Join Tate Liverpool for a talk with artist Kader Attia to discuss his installation in their Brickworks display.

Hear renowned French-Algerian artist Kader Attia in discussion with architect and satirist Karl Sharro.

You’ll hear the artist share insights into his sculpture in the free Brickworks display. You’ll also discover his wider artistic practice which explores the complex interplay between social, political and cultural differences across the globe.

Kader Attia has gained an international reputation for works that explore the notion of Repair, a concept he has been developing over the last twenty years both philosophically in his writings and symbolically in his oeuvre as a visual artist.

Photo Credit: Nicole Tanzini di Bella.

With For About: When words fail

With For About is Heart of Glass’ annual gathering discussing socially engaged practice. This year we explores how we can come together when words are not enough.

With For About 2024 explores how we can come together when words are not enough, and is concerned with themes including: collaboration, communication, language, silence, rupture, crisis, heartbreak, radical friendship, safe space, solidarity.

As different crises impact our lives, the ways we communicate have become increasingly challenging. For this year’s gathering we aim to find new ways of relating and reimagining the world through:
– Alternative communication methods with and beyond verbal English
– Expression, constructive argument and holding space for difference
– ‘How to be together’ and ‘how to be’ in the future

We invite artists, practitioners and arts, community and youth workers who value empathy, listening, and expression. The event will feature workshops, discussions and performances led by practitioners of socially engaged arts, youth work, feminist organising, and climate justice including: Susanne Bosch, Taey Iohe, Sophie Mak-Schram, Dannielle Mc Kenna, Ailbhe Smyth and Kate O’Shea.

Tickets and bursaries
We are offering a tiered ticketing system, along with concessions and bursaries.

How We Might Live; At Home with Jane a...

Suzanne Fagence Cooper explores the lives and legacies of Jane and William Morris, finally giving Jane’s work the attention it deserves and taking us inside two lives of unparalleled creative artistry.

Following this talk, Dr Suzanne will be signing copies of her book. Copies will be available to purchase on the day of the event.

Suzanne Fagence Cooper is a writer, lecturer and curator, working on 19th & 20th century British art, design and culture.

Her latest book, ‘How we might live: At Home with Jane and William Morris’ is the first joint biography to show their life-long creative partnership. She looks at the houses and works of art that Jane and William made together, from Red House to Kelmscott Manor.

Through newly revealed manuscripts, furniture, wall-hangings and beautiful books, she explores the pioneering life they embraced with their artist friends.