Event type: Workshop

Part of Liverpool’s Cultural Workshop Expo 2025, Sarah Armstrong presents this fun workshop creating personalised wearable art!

Design Your Own Tote Bag

Paint, play, and create your own tote!

Join artist-led tote bag painting fun — 90 minutes of colour, creativity and laughter for all ages.

Get creative together! Join artist Sarah Armstrong for a 90-minute tote bag painting workshop — where families, kids and adults can design, paint, and take home their own wearable artwork.

Sarah Armstrong is an artist and independent art educator who transforms the act of making into a joyful, confidence-building experience.

Her workshops for children, adults, and families are designed to unlock creativity and encourage play, whether it’s through bold brushstrokes, expressive abstraction, or hands-on family sessions. Sarah’s classes are about more than technique—they nurture imagination, celebrate individuality, and build community through shared creative moments.

Alongside her teaching, Sarah creates original paintings and bespoke commissions, often exploring the female form with energy and authenticity. But her truest passion lies in guiding others: from adults rediscovering their creativity to children brimming with curiosity, she helps people find their artistic voice in welcoming, playful spaces.

At the heart of Sarah’s practice is connection—between artist and student, parent and child, body and canvas.

This workshop lasts 90 mins

Part of Liverpool’s Cultural Workshop Expo 2025, Choose your leather from various offcuts of and make a key wallet!

Beginners workshop in leathercraft!

Choose your leather from various offcuts of leather including dead stock black doc Marten leather to make a card wallet. You will use old skool tools – no electricity used with expert guidance throughout the process!

Great gift idea for xmas and also a sustainable gift!

£17.50 – 90mins

Part of Liverpool’s Cultural Workshop Expo 2025, Spruce and Pine Christmas Wreaths with Louise & Debb
 

Natural Wreath Making

Spruce and Pine Christmas Wreaths with Louise & Debb

As artists, our passion lies in sharing the endless creativity inspired by nature and inspiring others to discover its beauty. Through our work, we strive to create a symbiotic relationship between artistry and the natural world, inviting others to join us on this journey of exploration and appreciation.

Our commitment to lifelong learning and innovation drives us to continuously refine our craft and push the boundaries of traditional design. In our fun and informative classes and workshops, we embrace individuals of all abilities, fostering an inclusive environment where everyone can unleash their creativity and discover their unique artistic voice.

With each session, we aim not only to impart technical skills but also to cultivate a deeper understanding and connection with the natural elements that surround us. Through hands-on experiences and collaborative learning, we empower our students to see the world through a new lens and find inspiration in the wonders of the natural world.

Part of Liverpool’s Cultural Workshop Expo 2025, Come join Illustrator Cath Garvey to create Christmas Cards using Lego bricks!

Lego Print Christmas Cards

Come join Illustrator Cath Garvey to create Christmas Cards using Lego bricks!

Let’s get ready for Christmas! Join Cath and get creative with Lego printing! Let your imagination run wild as you design and print Christmas cards. It’s a hands-on experience that’s perfect for kids and adults alike. Suitable for ages 8+ . Session run time is 2 hours.

All materials will be provided. Cath will walk you through step by step on how to design your Christmas card.

£15 – 2hrs

Part of Liverpool’s Cultural Workshop Expo 2025, Melissa from Sisu Crew is hosting a DJ workshop in IWF’s basement club, KAPSULE

Melissa Kains

DJ Workshop

Melissa is the founder of Sisu, a community providing a platform to educate, inspire and showcase aspiring women and non-binary DJ’s and producers.

Sisu is an international community acting to educate, inspire and showcase aspiring women and non-binary DJs and producers.  They run workshops on DJing and production, curates events that put underrepresented artists at the centre, and hosts regular radio shows that give emerging talent space to experiment. Their DJ roster spans genres and identities, reflecting a belief that the value of a community lies not in one sound but in the connections it makes possible.

£20 pp – 2–5pm

Are you an artist, writer, musician or other creator who wants to connect with your audience through a newsletter but don’t know where to start?

​Do you feel overwhelmed by the time it will take or worry about how to sound authentic? We can help.

​By the end of this two-hour online workshop you will:

​Understand how a newsletter will help you connect with your community of creatives, customers and fans of your work.

• Know more about your audience.

• Have clear goals.

• Have a plan of what your newsletter will include.

• Have started a content plan.

​This hands-on session is taught in person online by Laura Davis, a freelance arts & heritage writer and newsletters consultant with Raised Voices CIC, whose 25-year journalism experience includes overseeing the newsletter strategy for two of the UK’s biggest regional news brands, the Manchester Evening News and the Liverpool Echo. She also writes her own Substack newsletter Stored Honey, about the arts in the North West.

​As this is a newly developed workshop, it is currently available at the reduced, introductory price of £30..

Have you ever thought about what life is like for the endangered species on Earth?

In this workshop, suitable for both adults and children 11 and above, we will introduce you to some residents from behind the scenes of the World Museum.

We will learn the stories of natural history objects who are endangered, extinct and who defy our expectations! As part of the workshop you will engage with the living creatures of the aquarium and bug house to use as inspiration to create your own stories!