Following our show High Times and Dirty Monsters, Graeae returns to Liverpool Everyman to share approaches to creative access in theatre-making and performance, and opportunities to embed it into classroom settings.
Creative Access: From Classroom to Stage
Suitable for: Teaching staff, support workers, theatre practitioners and creative workshop facilitators
Graeae’s Creative Learning Director Jodi-Alissa Bickerton will lead a session that will:
– Embrace the wider social and political context of disability in terms of Graeae’s driving need and ambitions on and off stage, setting the foundations for change
– Share Graeae’s aesthetics of access and inclusive approaches through acting exercises and a practical insight into our productions
– Spark creative solutions from planning to delivery, making classes, processes and performances excitingly accessible to a wide range of Deaf and disabled young people
– Offer collaborative space for you to share good practice and celebrate in the creative ambitions we hold together
– Gift each other with tangible ideas and support for our creative next steps
Practicality level (1-4): 3 – This session includes a mix of practical creative activity, some group discussion and a short presentation.
Join us: Places are limited, so we ask for you to sign up here Learning@everymanplayhouse.com. Do let us know if you have any access or wellbeing requirements or questions.
This session is supported by Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse and 20 Stories High. Alongside Graeae, we are really keen to get to know you more and to keep the conversations open around access and inclusion and how we can learn from each other on an ongoing basis. We hope you can join us.
For more information about the session or any logistics please contact learning@everymanplayhouse.com.
Spend an evening in the extraordinary company of Sir Ranulph Fiennes OBE, ‘the world’s greatest living explorer’, as he goes beyond his record-breaking achievements to explore the man behind the myth.
Sir Ranulph has circumnavigated the surface of the globe from pole to pole, became the first person to cross the Arctic and Antarctica on foot, broken countless world records of endurance, and discovered the Lost City of Ubar in Arabia. Despite his infamous fear of heights, he is the oldest Briton to summit Everest, achieved on his third attempt. But these extraordinary accomplishments have come at a cost: he has lost half his fingers to frostbite, almost died countless times, and suffered a heart attack and double bypass only three months before he completed seven consecutive marathons in seven days on seven continents.
Now, he has a new challenge. Live on stage, Sir Ranulph will share stories from his legendary exploits and adventures, telling untold tales of the world’s most extraordinary feats of daring and exploration. Taking us from his magical and mischievous childhood, through school misdemeanours, to his time in the military and beyond, Ran will also reveal for the first time his own personal heroes and the incredible lessons he learnt from them which have informed his hazardous profession.
Delivered in his own inimitable fashion and accompanied by stunning, never-before-seen images and home videos, this show guarantees to leave you entertained and inspired to seek out your own life adventures.
Join Open Eye Gallery for an engaging discussion on expanded photography and the (hauntological) potential of AI, centering around the project #end_of_empire by artist Eva Sajovic in collaboration with musician Nicola Privato, commissioned for the British Textile Biennial 2023.
#end_of_empire was a large scale, site-specific installation featuring knitted photographs embedded with touch sensors and AI generated sound.
The evening will commence by exploring questions posed by the artists in this work, including the concept of knitting as ethical photography, the role of the body in mediating with the more-than-human, the potential and the risks of AI and the role of technology in facing the challenges of the Anthropocene. This will be followed by a response by Dr Lucy Soutter before it is opened to Q&A from the participants.
#end_of_empire is a co-commission with In-Situ and the British Textile Biennial with This Is Nelson Town Deal funding.
JP Maxwell has a background ranging from studying Russian at University College London to working for a Californian Software company and running a newspaper kiosk, JP Maxwell settled back in Liverpool in 2001 and now teaches Screenwriting and Digital Writing at Liverpool John Moores University.
Although fictional, his writing directly links to an Irish and African family history in the port city and specifically Toxteth since the early 1800s. In addition to Water Street, based upon Liverpool’s clandestine involvement in the American Civil War/
Liverpool 1863. The American Civil War comes to the British Empire’s second city and the world’s richest port.
Confederate Commander Banastre X. Dunwoody has a plan to turn the conflict by securing advanced warships, but the U.S. Government is one step ahead of him. It seeks to sabotage his efforts through its covert agent – Harriet Dunwoody – Banastre’s pregnant wife.
In 2023 storytelling events by drag performers were targeted by protestors claiming that it was inappropriate for children. Vast numbers counter protested in what, for many, was seen as a stand for LGBTQ+ rights.
In this event they will speak to two performers who utilise elements of drag and dameship within their acts to weave stories and to teach lessons. They will look at the history of drag and dameship, listen to the lived experience of these performers and consider why in 2023 this suddenly became decisive headline-grabbing news.
You will hear from-
Mama G
Mama G draws on a centuries-long tradition of Pantomime Dameship to teach children (and adults) stories about loving who you are and loving who you want. She recently shot to fame on Britain’s Got Talent with a whole host of dames, showcasing the diversity of this artform.
Sister Sister
Sister Sister rose to fame when appearing on RuPaul’s Drag Race UK. Since then she has performed all over Britain and beyond and has been a vocal activist speaking out against online abuse.
In this special event we will hear their individual stories and you will have the opportunity to ask questions and delve into the world of performance, queenship, dameship, gender, and storytelling.
Renaissance and nineteenth century paintings were heavily influenced by ancient Roman and Greek statues.
Author and art historian Frank Milner will explore the links between the museum and galleries’ collections.
Find out about the gods and heroes that artists most loved and adapted, and discover how classical literature inspired painters throughout the centuries.
This event takes place in the Treasure House Theatre, World Museum
Vid Simoniti is joined in conversation by Sophie Oliver, to discuss his newly published book, Artists Remake the World: A Contemporary Art Manifesto.
In the book, Simoniti puts forward a new account of art’s political potential. Introducing the reader to a host of visionary artists who are currently active across the globe — including Ai Weiwei, Olafur Eliasson, Maurice Mbikayi, Wangechi Mutu, and Hito Steyerl — Simoniti demonstrates the potential and limits of their transformative work, while tackling contemporary issues like the climate crisis, social justice and global inequality.
As the artworld increasingly comes to expect political themes in art, the book asks the foundational questions about aesthetics and politics: What difference can art make? Does political engagement exclude a concern for beauty? What is the difference between artists and activists?
The conversation will be followed by a drinks reception, and an opportunity to buy the book at a discounted rate.
In 2019 the Museum of Liverpool archaeology team undertook the first excavation of courtyard housing in Liverpool.
This type of low quality, high density-housing was home to around half of Liverpool’s working class people by the mid 19th century. This dig, in an area of the city described as ‘little hell’ in a court case in the 1880s, revealed some surprises about the everyday lives of people in ‘Court 2, Oakes Street’.
Tickets for this talk cost £7. A booking link will be available soon on the museum’s event page.
Museums and galleries are a treasure trove of fascinating stories and world class collections. In this exciting series of talks you will get the opportunity to meet the experts who care for the museum’s collections, find out never-before-told behind the scenes stories of our most beloved objects, and get the opportunity to pick the brains of a real museum expert.
On 22 June they are bringing in a range of their world class experts who will tell you more about the collections they care for and the stories behind them. Stay for one talk, stay for the whole day. It’s down to you but don’t miss this unique opportunity to go beyond the label and find out more about the fascinating stories behind their collections.
Join Afrah Qassim, CEO and Founder of Savera UK, female genital mutilation (FGM) survivors Babs Ceesay and Khatra Paterson, Dr Sharon Dixon (MBBS, MRCGP, DRCOG, DFFP, DCH) GP Partner and Treasurer and Trustee of Oxford Against Cutting, and Bryony Kendall, Named GP for safeguarding for NHS Cheshire and Merseyside, and the North West representative to the NHS England National Network of Named GPs for an online discussion about the responsibility of healthcare professionals in responding to FGM.
The discussion will be chaired by Aislinn O’Dwyer, Chair of Savara UK’s Board of Directors and East Cheshire NHS Trust.
The event will highlight the issue of FGM, its indicators and impact, and look at the responsibilities of healthcare professionals including GPs, midwives, medical students, nurses, and health visitors, while also discussing how specialist organisations can help better equip health professionals to respond to FGM.
The event takes place on The International Day of Zero Tolerance for FGM, an annual event that allows those working to end FGM to celebrate achievements, advocate for the abandonment of the practice and to raise awareness.
If you have any accessibility requirements, please contact info@saverauk.co.uk at least one week in advance of the event, so we can facilitate your needs.
This event is delivered by Savera UK in partnership with Oxford Against Cutting.
