Join Tate Liverpool for a panel discussion exploring neurodiversity and its relationship to contemporary art practice.
To coincide with Liverpool’s Neurodiversity Arts Festival 2024 artists Becky Beasley, Sonia Boué and Pierce Starre will be in conversation with Claire Penketh, Professor of Disability Studies and Art Education at Hope University.
The talk will explore how we can rethink contemporary arts practice in relation to neurodiversity and how the neurodiversity paradigm can inform art and its education. The Neurodiversity Arts Festival aims to start a conversation that opens doors, buildings, and minds and showcases the full spectrum of neurodivergent talent.
Join Tate Liverpool for a talk with Signe Johannessen to ask how artists can use creativity to respond to climate change.
Signe Johannessen’s art playfully combines personal biography and historical archives. She will discuss her latest project, which draws on Liverpool’s maritime history to bring our attention to the effects of climate change on marine life.
This talk will explore how we can use our creativity as a tool to think about climate change. You’ll also discover how artists are drawing attention to the effects of climate change and what the solutions are that they might offer to rethink our relationship to nature.
Scottish-Algerian poet Janette Ayachi gives a special reading at Bluecoat as part of Liverpool Arab Arts Festival, hosted by Deryn Rees-Jones.
Janette Ayachi is a Scottish-Algerian poet, London-born & Edinburgh-based. She has a BA combined honours degree in English Literature & Film Media Studies (Stirling University) & an MSc in Creative Writing (Edinburgh University)
She’s a regular on BBC Scotland arts programmes (and has even starred in a whisky advert!) Her poetry, prose & essays have been published internationally & translated into several languages. She also collaborates with artists & performs her poetry at festivals or events.
She is the author of Hand Over Mouth Music (Pavilion, Liverpool University Press) which won the Saltire Poetry Book of the Year Literary Award 2019 & Quick Fire, Slow Burning (Pavilion, LUP) released in April 2024.
She is writing her travel memoir Lonerlust about travelling alone searching landscapes, culture, desire & human connection, alongside her debut fiction novel, Of Sweet Figs and Forget-Me-Nots.
In partnership with the University of Liverpool Centre for New and International Writing and Pavilion Poetry.
www.janetteayachi.com
Tickets: £9.38
Welcome to An evening with feel-good fiction novelist Milly Johnson! Join them at Huyton Library for an unforgettable in-person event with the renowned author herself.
Get ready to dive into the world of heartwarming stories and captivating characters that Milly Johnson is famous for. Don’t miss this opportunity to meet Milly and hear firsthand about her inspiration and writing process. Mark your calendars and get ready for a delightful evening filled with laughter, joy, and of course, great books!
Milly will be talking about her new book ‘the happiest ever after’ which will be available to purchase on the night.
Doors open at 6pm
Ruth is the Programme Leader for Film Studies at Liverpool John Moores University, and principal investigator on the Heritage Lottery Funded project looking at the history of Littlewoods, will deliver a lecture entitled: The Littlewoods Legacy.
This special Roscoe event coincides with a public exhibition, curated by Ruth, which brings the incredible legacy of Littlewoods to life. This display is currently on show at the Museum of Liverpool and has been extended, due to popular demand, until the end of June 2024.
A Talk with Angela Brown from Pegasus WW2 Reenactment.
Join Angela as she takes you through an engaging journey of what it would have been like to grow up during a period of shortages and upheaval (and no sweets!).
On December 22, 1940, the British Ministry of Agriculture released a statement urging people to eat carrots. Britain was struggling with food shortages and carrots were cheap and plentiful. This led government agencies to tout them as having eye-strengthening powers. Posters began to appear with Dr Carrot and Britain’s Ministry of Food published recipes such as carrot fudge and carrot croquettes, while proclaiming the vegetable could help people “see better in the blackout.”
Portraying carrots as a night vision-enhancing superfood had another benefit—hiding a secretive English radar technology from the Nazis. To counter act Germany’s night-time bombing raids, the Royal Air Force pioneered the Airborne Interception (AI) radar. Britain already had a land-based system of radar towers along the coast. But the AI radar could be mounted to planes and detect German bombers from the air.
To keep this new development secret, “night fighters” were publicized as having night vision spectacular enough to spot enemy planes in the dark. Officials began telling reporters this ability was supplemented by a carrot-rich diet.
The Atkinson’s brilliant volunteer team are a passionate bunch! They love the arts and are dedicated to making The Atkinson a vibrant and welcoming space for everyone. They love learning about and sharing history, art, and culture with the public.
They have asked their team of volunteers to identify their favourite painting or object from their collection.
Join them for a free Spotlight Talk about their beautiful night-time scene of theatre goers leaving the Garrick Theatre on Lord Street. Titled Southport for a Holiday in Wintertime this stunningly detailed illustration of Southport in the 1930s was created by Fortunino Matania, a painter and illustrator whose skills were envied by his fellow artists. While we admire the stunning costumes we can also speculate on the relationships between the characters portrayed and wallow in the nostalgia of an age now past. Your thoughts and ideas are positively encouraged!
Jan has volunteered at The Atkinson for nine years and is passionate about local history. She has delivered two of Object of the Month Talks, Spotlight Talks and can frequently be found supporting their schools programme and delivering tours around the building. Jan says, “My favourite part of The Atkinson’s collection is our Egyptology Gallery, which I enjoy sharing with school groups and then seeing the children reflecting back their knowledge and learning.”
Due to limited space in their Museum this short Spotlight Talk will be delivered in an informal style to a standing audience (a few seats can be made available for those who need them).
John Robb’s The Art of Darkness (Manchester University Press) is the first comprehensive history of Goth music and culture, a 500+ page tome exploring the origins and legacy of this enduring scene.
Thu 6 Jun, 6pm – 8pm
Drawing on his experience as a musician and journalist, Robb explores the style, music, clubs, politics and social conditions that typified the early years of goth culture. He also reaches back to key historic events and movements that frame gothic ideas – from the fall of Rome to European folk tales – and considers the current mainstream of goth influencers and culture.
The Art of Darkness offers a first-hand account of the legendary gigs and clubs that made the scene happen, alongside interviews with The Banshees, The Cure, The Damned, Nick Cave, Southern Death Cult, Einstürzende Neubauten, Bauhaus, Killing Joke, Throbbing Gristle, Trent Reznor, Johnny Marr and many more.
They’re’re delighted to welcome John to the bookshop to discuss this landmark work with local legend Roger Hill, a freelance director, performer, writer, lecturer, storyteller and broadcaster. For more than 35 years Roger hosted the Popular Music Show on BBC Radio Merseyside, the UK’s longest running alternative music programme. Roger has been a champion of culture and a regular fixture on the arts scene since his time at the Liverpool Everyman Theatre in the 1980s, working on notable projects with LIPA, Bluecoat and Tate.
Tickets: £5
The Calderstones are decorated with a range of symbols which date from the Neolithic to the Victorian periods. This talk will explore the history of the Calderstones, these symbols and their possible meanings.
Tickets for this talk cost £7. A booking link will be available soon on this page.
Join them, as Emma and Johnny discuss their work practice and working together with exhibition curators Sam Rhodes from Bluecoat Display Centre and Nicola Scott from the Walker Art Gallery.
The in conversation will take place on 4th. June at the Quaker Meeting House on School Lane from 5.45 – 6.45pm. followed by refreshments and the chance to see their joint exhibition and chat informally to Emma and Johnny from 6.45 – 7.30pm. back at the Display Centre.
Their current exhibition is a ‘conversation’ between the familiar work of the renowned sculptor Emma Rodgers and pieces by Johnny Vegas, whose work we are delighted to introduce here for the first time. Flight is a common theme for both artists and this show will feature two-dimensional work, bronze, clay and 3D printing.
This show is in partnership with the Walker Art Gallery, which will feature new displays of work by Emma and Johnny curated by Nicola Scott, Decorative Arts Curator.
Tickets only available from the Bluecoat Display Centre in person or by phone.
