6-9pm
Mooncup Theatre, aka. the Spice Boys, invite you to a gender-bending, binary breaking drag workshop! Together we’ll embrace our alter-egos and discover all the possibilities of who else we could be. Exploring movement, voice, creating your drag character, drag history, dressing to express and having a boogie through the binary! (With optional promenade)
@itsthespiceboys
Learn new skills in a relaxed and friendly space with experienced practitioners. Have fun making your own A5 hand-bound journal with beautiful blue and white cyanotype print detail.
Work with analogue photographer and darkroom educator Little Vintage Photography, who will introduce you to the beauty of Victorian cyanotype prints. You will then make your own cyanotype paper and create your own prints. Then, with artist facilitator Paper & Spine, learn how to incorporate your cyanotype prints along with other decorative paper and materials to create a unique 120 page hand-bound journal with a soft-cover.
You will
– Mix chemistry and learn how to make your own cyanotype paper
– Create beautiful cyanotype sun-prints and a bookmark!
– Make personalised ‘signatures’ from your cyanotypes and other decorative papers
– Add a hidden pocket!
– Hand-stitch and bind your pages to a soft vegan-leather cover
– Add a secure fastening.
No previous experience necessary. Small group workshop with limited places.
18+
All Tuition and materials are included and tea, coffee & cake.
MAKE YOUR OWN CYANOTYPE JOURNAL
with Little Vintage Photography and Paper & Spine
Date: Friday 6th June 2025
Time: 9.30AM – 5.00PM
Location: BALTIC CREATIVE CAMPUS, LIVERPOOL L1 0AH
Join us for a day of creativity in a great location at the centre of Liverpool’s vibrant creative quarter!
Learn new skills in a relaxed and friendly space with experienced practitioners. Have fun making your own A5 hand-bound journal with beautiful blue and white cyanotype print detail.
Work with analogue photographer and darkroom educator Little Vintage Photography, who will introduce you to the beauty of Victorian cyanotype prints. You will then make your own cyanotype paper and create your own prints. Then, with artist facilitator Paper & Spine, learn how to incorporate your cyanotype prints along with other decorative paper and materials to create a unique 120 page hand-bound journal with a soft-cover.
You will
– Mix chemistry and learn how to make your own cyanotype paper
– Create beautiful cyanotype sun-prints and a bookmark!
– Make personalised ‘signatures’ from your cyanotypes and other decorative papers
– Add a hidden pocket!
– Hand-stitch and bind your pages to a soft vegan-leather cover
– Add a secure fastening.
No previous experience necessary. Small group workshop with limited places.
18+
All Tuition and materials are included and tea, coffee & cake.
£140.00
For Bookings & Info https://www.littlevintagephotography.co.uk/cyanotype-journal/
or Email rachel@littlevintagephotography.co.uk
Gift Vouchers are available. Email: workshops@paperandspine.co.uk
MAKE YOUR OWN CYANOTYPE JOURNAL
with Little Vintage Photography and Paper & Spine
Date: Friday 6th June 2025
Time: 9.30AM – 5.00PM
Location: BALTIC CREATIVE CAMPUS, LIVERPOOL L1 0AH
Join us for a day of creativity in a great location at the centre of Liverpool’s vibrant creative quarter.
Learn new skills in a relaxed and friendly space with experienced practitioners. Have fun making your own A5 hand-bound journal with beautiful blue and white cyanotype print detail.
Work with analogue photographer and darkroom educator Little Vintage Photography, who will introduce you to the beauty of Victorian cyanotype prints. You will then make your own cyanotype paper and create your own prints. Then, with artist facilitator Paper & Spine, you will learn how to incorporate your cyanotype prints along with other decorative paper and materials and create a unique 120 page journal with a soft-cover and fastening.
You will
– Mix chemistry and learn how to make your own cyanotype paper
– Create beautiful cyanotype sun-prints and a bookmark!
– Make personalised ‘signatures’ from your cyanotypes and other decorative papers
– Add a hidden pocket!
– Hand-stitch and bind your pages to a soft vegan-leather cover
– Add a secure fastening.
No previous experience necessary. Small group workshop with limited places.
18+
Included: All Tuition and materials. Tea, coffee & cake
£140.00
For Bookings & Info https://www.littlevintagephotography.co.uk/cyanotype-journal/
or Email rachel@littlevintagephotography.co.uk
Gift Vouchers are available. Email: workshops@paperandspine.co.uk
Join Bluecoat as they explore this photographic printing process in a family friendly workshop. Collect leaves and flowers from their beautiful spring garden to create your prints, or you can bring your own.
A cyanotype is a blue print made by placing an object on paper coated with iron salts. The silhouette of the object is transferred onto the paper as it is exposed to light, and appears after washing the paper in water.
Suitable for ages 3+
Drop in.Suggested donation, £3 per child.
Spark your creativity and have fun with our fabulous friendly facilitators in Big Art! Big Art is a very special place for young children and their grown ups to discover arty things together.
Explore your creativity as a family with our special facilitated activities and make a marvellous masterpiece to take home. Plus you’ll have some time to explore Big Art and all the wonderful resources for yourself.
Art Sparks sessions take place (subject to availability) on the following days:
Term Time: Tuesdays and Wednesdays at 2:15pm, Saturdays and Sundays at 3:15pm.
During Liverpool school holidays sessions will take place on: Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Saturdays and Sundays at 3:15pm.
Tickets for these sessions are available in advance online and if any remain at the information desk at the gallery on the day.
There is a small charge of £2 per child with up to two accompanying adults who can attend free of charge.
May: 6, 7, 10, 11, 13, 14, 17, 18, 20, 21, 24, 25, 27, 28, 31 June: 1, 3, 4, 7, 8, 10, 11, 14, 15, 17, 18, 21, 22, 24, 25, 28, 29July: 1, 2, 5,6, 8, 9, 12, 13, 15, 16, 19, 20, 22, 23, 26, 27, 29, 30
Are you ready to explore the wild world of animals? Welcome to animal adventures!
Join our animal-themed Little Liverpool special combining a visit to the popular Little Liverpool gallery with extra animal-themed activities for our younger visitors to enjoy.
Little Liverpool special sessions have a limited number of tickets available so we recommend that you book in advance. Tickets cost £2 per child (aged 5 years and under) with a maximum of two accompanying adults and can be booked below or in person at the Museum of Liverpool.
Animal adventures takes place on Tuesday mornings at 11.15am and on Sunday afternoons at 2.15pm.
Mini Maestros music sessions for 0-5s on Saturday mornings at 10.15 and 11.15.
Mini Maestros is an interactive, multi-sensory music session for children and their grown-ups. With percussion, signing and dance, the sessions present an engaging platform for children to explore sound and song whilst learning and having fun!
Come along on Saturday mornings and join us making music at the Everyman Theatre Cafe.
Mini Maestros is run by RISE Music Education CIC, a local collective of professional musicians working to deliver engaging creative arts projects in the community.
Book your place direct from the RISE website.
During this one day course you will learn the basics of screen printing, including learning about the materials used and processes involved in creating a UV exposed screen. After preparing and exposing your own screen, you’ll get time to draw your own image to print, or you can bring a suitable image with you. You’ll finish the workshop by using our screen-beds to ink and print your 2 colour designs onto paper in a small edition that you can take home with you.
All materials you will use are included in the cost of the course, but you are welcome to bring along your own if you choose.
Our studios are environmentally friendly where possible and use greener methods of screen printing, such as water-based acrylic inks. Completing this course will act as an Induction. After becoming a Bluecoat Artist Member you will be able to book into our Screen Printing Studio should you wish to.
We are delighted to announce that artist, lead producer, DJ, of the collective Distribution of Power, and analog synthesizer researcher Zara Truss Giles will be coming back to lead this SSTRAPP three-day weekender together with Inigo and Maeve, and we’re sure its gonna be just as amazing as the first one we did with them back in October 2023 (Synthetic Disruptions). This will be a special SSTRAPP because we are working in collaboration with the incredible Iklectik Art Lab, who have generously loaned us their spatialized sound system.
In the theory sessions in the mornings we’ll have presentations about space, synthesis, spatial perception in auditory cognition, and spatialized composition and sound diffusion. We will use our usual diagramming method for discussing and working through the ideas together in groups. In the afternoons Edu and Isa from Iklectik will demonstrate how their spatial sound system can be used and Zara and Maeve will lead us on a practical exploration of spatialized sound synthesis.
Bidston is an anti-racist, trans-inclusive, intersectional feminist space where we welcome everyone who abides by this accountability agreement.
There are no requirements for attending, everyone is welcome, whatever their knowledge, abilities, etc., and the theory and practice should be accessible for those with no background in them.
We recommend arriving at Bidston sometime on Thursday so we’re ready to start working on Friday morning, but if you can’t make it then you can still join later.
It is possible to participate with or without accommodation. We will do collective meals together, which is also an optional extra cost. The cost for participating in the workshop are as follows:
Workshop fee: On a sliding scale from £20-£30 per day, or £60-£90 for the total three days. Please pay more if you can, the lower end of the scale is for those who really couldn’t afford it otherwise, the cost is very cheap for what you’re getting!
Accommodation fee: On a sliding scale from £30-£40 per day, or £90-£120 for the total three days. If you’re struggling financially, e.g. on benefits, get in touch and it may be possible to reduce the cost.Meals fee: £15 per day
If you’d like to join, please get in touch by sending an email to sstrapp@proton.me