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.
After the record-breaking success of this year’s Eurovision Song Contest, hosted by the UK city of Liverpool, on behalf of last year’s winners, Ukraine, a new one-day event, Modern Music Cities, has been announced.
On Friday 14 July, this seminal event will ask what contemporary music cities look like presently and need to look like in the future, with a dynamic programme of insightful discussions, engaging panels, and thought-provoking presentations.
Industry experts, music creatives, cultural leaders, and policymakers will explore the significance of music cities, their cultural impact, the role of technology and industry organisations, diversity and inclusion efforts, and future prospects for the music industry within these cities.
A presentation by award-winning author and thought-leader Seth Godin will Reimagine Music Cities, exploring opportunities for them and their leaders, whilst Jamaican author, essayist and literary scholar Professor Emerita Carolyn Cooper will share the journey of Kingston as a leading music city.
Sound Diplomacy’s Shain Shapiro explores the definition of a music city and the steps involved in creating one, whilst expert panellists from around the world delve into the influence and impact on culture and industry.
A discussion on how tech is transforming music scenes and impacting creators features Spotify’s Bryan Johnson, visionary musician Gaika, Metaverse expert Des Agyekumhene, and DJ / thought-leader Elijah Cushnie. And Music Week’s Ben Homewood hosts a panel on the role of frontline industry organisations in fostering growth and sustainability in music cities, featuring Scott Lewis of EMI North and CEO of Soundcity Becky Ayres, amongst others.
Chair of the UK Music Diversity Task Force, Ammo Talwar MBE highlights the efforts in promoting diversity and inclusion in the music industry, and the Launch of the Liverpool City Region ReMap Report on Black Music, will be presented by Chair of the Liverpool City Region Black Music Action Group, Jennifer John.
Looking to the future, emerging music creator Ni Maxine hosts a roundtable discussion on the needs and aspirations of the next generation of music creators and professionals, whilst UNESCO City of Music Officer for Liverpool, Kevin McManus explores the impact of major events like Eurovision in elevating a music city’s brand while supporting the local music sector.
Tickets are available now.
In celebration of Nelson Mandela International Day, Mandela8, Liverpool BID Company, Torus Group and The Big Help Project welcome the Mandela Family for an event exploring how the city’s business community can become more diverse, and how the qualities Nelson Mandela exemplified can be part of the city’s business culture.
This event marks the tenth anniversary of the death of the visionary leader, will also explore business partnerships between Liverpool and South Africa.
Nelson Mandela International Day, on Tue 18 Jul, shines a light on the legacy of a man who changed the 20th century and helped to shape the 21st. The day is used as a moment to renew the values that inspired Nelson Mandela, and to examine how his values should inspire us to take action and make a change.
We are proud to present, in partnership with Mandela8 and Liverpool BID Company, An audience with the Mandela Family. A public event and panel discussion hosted by Marcus Ryder MBE and featuring Nelson Mandela’s daughter and granddaughter, Dr Maki Mandela & Tukwini Mandela.
For this year’s sixth With For About, Merseyside-based community arts organisation Heart of Glass is inviting artists, activists and community practitioners to come together (outdoors) to reflect on the interconnectedness between humans, nature, place and land within the context of the conflicting climate crises.
Key speakers include artist and researcher Youngsook Choi and collaborator Wendi Sia, socio-environmental artist Kerry Morrison and social justice activist, writer and thinker Radha D’Souza.
Conversations will be facilitated by local and national artists with interests in climate crises, local and indigenous ecologies and slow, interspecies practices. They include Sean Roy Parker, Fran Disley, Grace Collins, and more to be announced.
With For About is Heart of Glass’s alternative take on a conference. Our venue is a community allotment in a park. Attendees will need to bring suitable clothing for spending the whole day outside. There will be some warm, dry spaces to escape to if necessary.