Bees, bees, bees! Did you know there are more than 270 bee species in Britain ranging from the well known honey bee, to bumblebees and solitary bees?
Andrea Ku, local artist and beekeeper will explain about the different types of bees and then you can decide which bee(s) need saving!
Participants will never look at bees in the same way again, and will have an understanding of how we can all play a part in protecting those that need us most.
Andrea will be bringing in an observational beehive to show a colony from one of her Liverpool beehives to show participants how to identify each caste of bee. This is a great opportunity to watch bees carrying out some of their duties with an expert to explain what is happening in their extraordinary world.
This session will help you to appreciate why we all must be highly respectful of bees, but not fearful. And don’t worry – the observational hive is fully enclosed and self-sustaining with no risk of bees escaping!
Ever thought about becoming a beekeeper? Andrea will also talk about beekeeping and careers in beekeeping and will be available to answer your questions at the end of the session.
This event is aimed primarily at young people aged 16-24 but all visitors are welcome to attend.
Free of charge, and places are limited to first come on the day!
Everybody loves a bad guy. This talk will focus on two famous movie antiheroes Rick Blaine from Casablanca and Han Solo from Star Wars. Although the antihero is a person who lacks qualities we admire in the hero, both of these characters have achieved iconic cinematic status.
Join lecturer Stephen Kearns from the University of Liverpool to investigate the philosophy behind both portrayals and the ethical dimension of the movies in which they appear. You might notice is the striking similarities between the characters and maybe more surprisingly, the movies themselves!
Book your free ticket. All welcome.
The Future Station talk by Metal Liverpool is back at Edge Hill station, 6pm on Tuesday 27 February, featuring writer Matt Colquhoun who will discuss how self-love can be reread as self-transformation.
In this talk, Matt will draw from their latest book Narcissus in Bloom: An Alternative History of the Selfie (Repeater Books, 2023) and the work of Arthur Russell to discuss their reflections on whether narcissism is positive and necessary and its relationship to queerness.
Matt Colquhoun is a writer and photographer from Hull, UK. Alongside their most recent work, Narcissus in Bloom: An Alternative History of the Selfie (2023), they are the author of Egress: On Mourning, Melancholy and Mark Fisher (2020) and the editor of Mark Fisher’s Postcapitalist Desire lectures (2021). Check out their blog: xenogothic.com.
This talk is in partnership with experimental fiction publisher and shop Dead Ink Books and radical writing publisher Repeater Books.
There will be a short Q+A with Matt after the talk. Free (vegan) food will be served after the talk where there will be a chance to discuss ideas further. As places are limited, we are asking for a deposit of £5 which will be refunded when you attend. Walk-ups are welcome, subject to availability.
He’s a legend and an icon, a revolutionary and an immortal. John Lydon – aka Johnny Rotten – changed the face of music and sparked a cultural revolution. The frontman and lyricist of the Sex Pistols and Public Image Ltd (PiL) caused a political earthquake and transformed music for good.
In his spoken word show, I Could Be Wrong, I Could Be Right, Lydon is touring the UK. He will talk about how he sees life, along with his unique and extraordinary career, and take audience questions during a pyrotechnic, one-off tour. Lydon will be sharing his thoughts with audiences. He Could Be Wrong. He Could Be Right.
Join David Walshe (Secret Sand Land) for a local history talk about his latest book, focusing on a forgotten suburb of Southport that was called Ecclesfield.
The story begins back in South Hawes & Early Southport and pays special attention to one particular branch of the Eccles family. He also looks at life in Ecclesfield during the mid/late C19th, a selection of former residents and also when & why he believes the name of Ecclesfield to have fallen out of use.
The talk will be accompanied by images from within the book.
Amy Johnson was a pioneering English pilot who was the first woman to fly solo from London to Australia.
She set many long distance records during the 1930s and flew in the Second World War as a part of the Air Transport Auxiliary, losing her life during a ferry flight.
Amy was born on 1st July 1903 in Kingston upon Hull, the eldest of four daughters. She was introduced to flying in 1929 and gained her pilot’s “A” Licence at the London Aeroplane Club. Later that year, she became the first British woman to obtain a ground engineer’s “C” licence. She achieved worldwide recognition when she became the first woman to fly solo from England to Australia. Flying G-AAAH Jason, she left Croydon on 5th May 1930 and landed at Darwin on 24th May, a total of 11,000 miles.
In 1940, during World War 2, Johnson joined the newly formed Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA), which transported Royal Air Force aircraft around the country. V3540 was the last plane that Amy Johnson flew, a Mk.II Airspeed Oxford. As a member of the ATA she was delivering the Oxford from Prestwick to RAF Kidlington, but she stopped overnight with her sister Molly in Blackpool. On 5th January 1941, setting off from Blackpool, the weather conditions were very poor. The flight should have taken about 90 minutes, but four and a half hours later, lost and running out of fuel, she bailed out over the Thames Estuary.
Despite being sighted by some ships in a convoy and a gallant rescue attempt her body was never recovered. Tragically, the Captain of a Royal Navy escort ship Lt Walter Fletcher, who dived into the freezing water to try and rescue her also later died later from exposure.
Eric Watkiss is the project manager of the Saving Amy Project which aims to restore an original WW2 Airspeed Oxford Trainer aircraft in memorial to Amy Johnson.
Join Eric to hear the amazing story of Amy and learn about the restoration project that he is currently working on.
Join Dr Anna Maddison for an introduction to the history of Art using examples from The Atkinson’s collection.
The Atkinson’s collection has works of art dating from the 17th to the 21st centuries and is currently concentrating on collecting more contemporary art.
Highlights of the 20th century collection include several paintings by Walter Sickert and fellow members of the Camden Town School such as Charles Ginner as well as paintings by Scottish Colourists, namely Arthur Melville, JD Fergusson and Samuel Peploe.
Key works from World War I include a painting of a mounted trooper by Alfred Munnings and a battle scarred landscape by Paul Nash. The collection of 20th century British sculpture is small but very high quality and includes good examples by Henry Moore, Elisabeth Frink and Jacob Epstein.
This talk with Dr Mark Adams will look at the map documentary evidence for coastal and inland salt production in and around Southport in the 17th century and earlier.
It will also look at how south Lancashire came close to having spa’s to rival Bath, Buxton and Harrogate and why they failed to take off.
Port Cities is a new international visual arts project from Liverpool Arab Arts Festival in partnership with the British Council.
Artists Mohamed Abdelkarim, Laila Hida, Nadia Kaabi-Linke, and Siska are currently on a research residency in Liverpool for the project. These residencies will inform the development of new artwork exploring the social, historical and cultural complexities of port cities in Liverpool, as well as those within the Middle East and North Africa region.
The exhibition will premiere at Liverpool Arab Arts Festival in July 2024 before travelling to Lebanon, Egypt, Morocco and Tunisia.
This talk will introduce their artistic practices and interests ahead of the exhibition later in the year.
Three of the country’s favourite television personalities from the world of antiques entertain you with tales from the saleroom, television and beyond. The enormous variety of their experiences range from selling chickens and cattle to priceless Chinese artefacts and to multi-million-pound cars.
Hear how Philip Serrell started out on his auctioneering career and how Charlie Ross ended up flying across the world to sell ‘old bangers’. The two of them will (we hope) be kept in check by the delightful and effervescent Christina Trevanion.
In this no-holds-barred stage show, the auctioneers plan to share secrets of the antiques world – and themselves. Plus, they will answer questions put to them by the audience.
Topics will include the weird and wonderful things they have sold at auction, the dream lot they would love to sell and their guilty pleasures. They will also reveal how their TV work blossomed and which celebrities they’ve enjoyed working with the most.
