Guided tour – Discovering Della Robbia at the Williamson Art Gallery.
Join Curator Niall Hodson for an introduction to the Williamson’s fascinating collection of Della Robbia Pottery. Visitors will learn about the beautiful artworks made at Birkenhead’s Della Robbia Pottery (1894 -1906), see the works up close, and find out about the creative designers and decorators behind them.
Niall will be leading these tours at 12pm and 2pm on Saturday 9th and Saturday 16th September. Booking required – email arts@williamsonartgallery.org with your name, which tour slot you would like to book and how many places you require.
Designed by Alfred Waterhouse and opened in 1892, our Grade II listed building has been a central part of University life for over a century and the VG&M was opened in May 2008 by HRH The Princess Royal.
Get more from your visit to the Victoria Gallery & Museum with a free guided tour. Our friendly and knowledgeable guides will take you through the building giving you a fascinating insight into the history of the Victoria Building and its collections.
Please arrive at the VG&M Welcome Desk ten minutes before tour start time.
Following a sell-out 2022 tour, the Queen of History, Lucy Worsley, is heading back out on the road to share stories from the fascinating life of the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie.
In these unique, live illustrated talks, Lucy will present one of the most elusive and enigmatic figures of the twentieth century. Agatha went surfing in Hawaii, she loved fast cars, and she was intrigued by the new science of psychology, which helped her through devastating mental illness. So why – despite all the evidence to the contrary – did she present herself as a retiring Edwardian lady of leisure?
Sharing her research based on the writer’s personal letters and papers, Lucy will uncover the real Agatha Christie – the story of a person who, despite the obstacles of class and gender, became an astonishingly successful working woman.
This promises to be an entertaining and enlightening evening, emphasising not just Agatha’s unique gifts as a storyteller but her revolutionary qualities as a determined, successful and thoroughly modern woman.
Lucy is Chief Curator at Historic Royal Palaces and a hugely popular writer, broadcaster and speaker. Her recent TV series include Blitz Spirit with Lucy Worsley (BBC One) and Lucy Worsley Investigates (BBC Two). Lucy has an OBE for services to history, and her series Suffragettes with Lucy Worsley won a BAFTA.
Swapping the studio for the stage, join Loose Women’s award-winning panel as they prepare to hit the road for the very first time with Loose Women Live!
Coming directly to a theatre near you this autumn, enjoy an evening filled with laughter, games and backstage secrets – as the Loose Women take a look back over the last 24 years of the show. Packed with live entertainment and more fun and surprises to be revealed, no two shows will be the same as the women are truly let loose!
Liverpool audiences can let loose with Kaye Adams, Nadia Sawalha, Denise Welch and Sunetra Sarker – as they share their stories and secrets live and in-person.
Loose Women is ITV1’s longest-running panel show after launching in 1999. The daily weekday show features discussion around the day’s most topical issues, from current affairs to the latest showbiz news, as well as exclusive celebrity guest interviews.
Join the Floral Pavillion for an evening of entertainment with An Audience with LFC Legends!
John Barnes, John Aldridge, Sammy Lee and Steven Nicol will reminisce and share stories of their glittering careers. Hosted by LFC TV’s Peter McDowall, the ex-players will share stories of old including the odd Cup Final victory here and there!
Perfect for the Liverpool fan in your life, this will be a night to remember!
Liverpool Biennial drop-in Mediator Tours offer the chance to explore our exhibitions at Tobacco Warehouse and Cotton Exchange in more depth. The free tours run weekly on Thursday and Saturdays and will last approximately half an hour, from 2:00pm-2:30pm.
Liverpool Biennial 2023’s festival hub, Tobacco Warehouse, is a Grade II listed building and the world’s largest brick-built warehouse, situated on Stanley Dock. Immersed within the building’s infamous history, the artists at Tobacco Warehouse explore themes of repair and healing in their work, tending to colonial wounds and offering opportunities for reclaiming identity, dignity and engaging with aliveness.
Liverpool’s former Cotton Exchange, opened in 1907, was integral to the city’s position as the world’s largest cotton market in the 19th and early 20th centuries. It was a period in the city’s history when economic prosperity depended upon enforced movement of people, enslavement, trade and labour. The artists at Cotton Exchange explore resistance, indigenous knowledge and ancestral healing.
Are you a music artist, professional or business based in the city of Liverpool?
Liverpool City Region Music Board is hosting this event for you – they want to celebrate Liverpool’s contribution to music in the Liverpool City Region, and make plans for the future development of the sector.
The Music Board invites you to share your insight and concerns for the music sector, enabling them to better understand and continue to lobby around important issues you are facing, in order to protect the music sector locally.
The event will be hosted by members of LCR Music Board will explain their current projects, and can answer your questions and provide advice.
We understand how busy you all are, so we have picked a day and a time that will hopefully allow as many people as possible to attend and have their say. And for those of you who can stay on a bit longer there will be entertainment from 7:30pm (more details announced shortly), meanwhile providing an opportunity for you to enjoy a drink, catch up with old friends and hopefully make some new useful contacts as well.
This event is the fourth in a series of of Music Board consultation events for each borough of the city region, keep checking the Board’s website and social media channels for information about similar events in other boroughs.
IN CONVERSATION AND Q+A
Emily Chappell’s Epic Tales of Cycling Adventure comes to Future Yard on Wednesday 13th September.
The inspirational adventurer Emily Chappell shares stories from her epic round-the-world travels and remarkable life.
Until her mid-20s, Emily Chappell had an office job and was not sporty at all. But then, she made up for lost time: after working as a cycle courier, she took on a round-the-world trip and, then, endurance bike racing. In 2016, she cycled 4000km in 13 days, from Belgium to Turkey, to become the first woman home in The Transcontinental race. Her account of the experience, ‘Where There’s a Will’, part-travelogue, part-open-hearted memoir, was nominated at the 2020 Daily Telegraph Sports Books of the Year awards.
Emily has also completed numerous other long-distance cycling adventures (Anchorage to Seattle; Wales to Japan; across Iceland). Her acclaimed first book, What Goes Around, a memoir of her life as a cycle courier also took readers inside another unknown world, showing sides of London life normally hidden from view.
Emily will be talking about her epic adventures and all matters arising, in an evening of evocative and inspiring conversation with former Procycling magazine writer, Duncan Steer.
Tickets on sale now.
IN CONVERSATION AND Q+A
Matt Rendell’s Inside Stories of the Tour de France comes to Future Yard on Thursday 27th July.
Matt Rendell, ITV Tour de France commentator and acclaimed author, shares stories from his 25 years’ covering cycling’s biggest races and his dealings with the sport’s big names, from Eddy Merckx to Chris Froome, Mark Cavendish to Bradley Wiggins and beyond.
Matt’s live shows delight audiences with a magic mix of deep knowledge, bizarre/hilarious personal stories and radical ideas about the future of the sport. Whether reflecting on his own remarkable life or the big themes of sporting history illuminated in his books, Matt is a great story-teller and an evening of revealing and entertaining conversation is in store.
Matt will be in conversation with former Procycling writer Duncan Steer.
There will be a chance to ask your own questions to Matt.
Tickets on sale now.
Join the Museum of Liverpool on 29 July, 12- 3pm for a truly special event as Writing on the Wall (WoW)and National Museums Liverpool (NML) come together to honour the remarkable life of Dorothy Kuya.
“Dorothy Kuya: A Legacy of Black Liverpool” will be a celebration of the Dorothy Kuya Archive project, which, commissioned by NML and delivered by WoW, has creatively documented and celebrated the incredible journey of this lifelong Liverpool activist, who we firmly believe played a key role in 20th Century Black British History.
They are thrilled to announce special guest Sharon Grant OBE, community activist and wife of the late MP Bernie Grant. Sharon is chair of Public Voice CIC, Healthwatch Haringey and played a prominent role in establishing the Bernie Grant Arts Centre and Bernie Grant Trust. Sharon and Bernie were great friends and colleagues of Dorothy Kuya who worked with her closely on the Broadwater Farm Inquiry and African Reparations movement during the 1990s.
Adding further excitement to the event, they are delighted to feature a performance by Liverpool’s legendary griot, Levi Tafrai, who began his writing journey as a young man at the L8 Writers Workshop, an initiative setup by Dorothy Kuya.
They will also be revealing the commissioned creative response to the archive from visual artist Sumuyya Khader as well as the Dorothy Kuya inspired posters that their participants created at her Granby Press studio.
