Event type: Workshop

Understanding Place and Community – TRAINING

Do you use creative practices to enliven and animate specific places or spaces?

The Understanding Place and Community masterclass will use accessible creative techniques and critical exercises to give you new tools for asking questions about how power works in your neighbourhood and the spaces around you, and how this may affect your place-based cultural work.

This workshop is for artists, creative practitioners and cultural producers who are working at a place-based or hyper-local level and are looking to develop new tools to support communities they work with and build a more equitable practice.

You might be working with practices such as outdoor arts, site-specific theatre, community-based practice, environmental or ecological art, urban or rural public art and placemaking initiatives.

Attendees will gain an understanding of –

  • How place and space are socially constructed at the intersections of power.
  • Conceptual mapping tools to better understand place at a hyper-local level.
  • Asset-based approaches to understanding place and community.
  • The potential of mobilising community knowledge in place-based creative work to enact community-led change.

Booking details: This training will take place online, via Zoom. It is 3 hours in total. Due to the participatory nature of this training it will not be recorded.

Ticket Cost:

  • For attendees supported by their organisations the full price of a ticket is £40.00
  • For freelancers and non-regularly funded organisations, the price of a ticket is £30.00
  • For those on low income the ticket price is £18.00

We also have a small number of bursary places available for those with limited funds.

Access: This event will use live transcription. If you require BSL interpretation, please get in touch no later than two weeks in advance of the training.

Kindling Farm’s Bird Walk: Nesting Season

Join us for a guided walk around the farm to explore the changing songs and habits of birds as they enter the nesting season. 

Birdsong fills every corner of the farm – Spring has arrived! It is the perfect time to discover the many species of birds we have here and witness their phenomenal dawn chorus. You will be guided through our fields by ecologist and long term volunteer at Kindling Farm, Andrea Sarkissian, who has been carrying out regular bird surveys here and will share her wealth of knowledge about the activity and habitats she has discovered. 

Please bring binoculars if you have them and a small notebook to write down your findings (we will have some here for people to use).

This activity is aimed at beginners and can be suitable for all ages. However, please be mindful that it does involve walking across uneven ground for over an hour and being quite quiet so that we don’t scare the birds away, so it might not suit everyone! 

The walk will start promptly at 8am. Join us from the earlier time of 7.30am for tea & coffee! This event is free of charge. 

Booking is essential, please veisit our website to register your place. If you have any problems booking, please get in touch with us by emailing farm@kindling.org.uk.

 

World Bee Day at Kindling Farm

Join us for fun-filled day of family-friendly activities for World Bee Day 2026.

Bees are one of our pollinator superheroes, we couldn’t grow all our fruit & veg on the farm without them – this day is about celebrating their hard work and helping protect them for years to come!

Help our bees to survive and thrive by building new habitas to take home or join us at our Seed Bomb Station to create your own wildflower mix; plant it at home to make sure bees can find food in your outdoor space. 

Booking is essential, head to our website to register your place. If you have any problems booking, please get in touch with us by emailing farm@kindling.org.uk. 

 

Poetry workshop for refugees and migrants

An evening of co-producing poetry as part of the Immigrant Scar community project in collaboration with Home and Away workshops.

If you are 18 and over, and identify as a refugee or migrant, you are invited to take part in a poetry workshop as part of the Immigrant Scar collaborative project exploring shared experiences of migration. You would be invited to view some artwork, play a card game, and participate in co-producing a free verse poem at Open Eye Gallery for one evening. The session would take about 2 hours of your time. You would be asked to write down (in any language) any words that come to mind when playing the game and viewing the artwork made by the investigator.

If you are interested and would like more information, please register at Eventbrite or contact Principal Investigator Sandra Mutukwa, LJMU postgraduate student: S.Mutukwa@2022.ljmu.ac.uk.

Baby Book Club

These sessions offer a wonderful opportunity to bond with your baby, connect with other parents and carers, and start building a lifelong love of books together through fun, creative storytelling.

Led by artist Roger Hill, each session includes time for discussion and sharing, book recommendations and reviews, individual and group reading, and fun activities centred around the weekly core story.

It’s never too early to start reading with your baby – book now to secure your place.

£52 (for 6 weekly sessions – booking required)

Eco Hacks: Introduction to Composting at Kindling Farm

Are you keen to compost your food waste but not sure how? Or tried composting before but want to learn more? This session is for you!

Composting your food scraps is a great way to reduce the waste your household produces! Join Minna Alanko-Falola of Compost Works in this informative two-hour workshop to get the skills and confidence to give composting a go. 

You will get lots of practical advice about the principles of composting, what you can compost, how to set up and manage your own composting system, and how to prevent things from going wrong. Our focus will be on food waste but the principles apply to garden waste too. 

There will also be plenty of opportunity for questions throughout. This training is suitable for complete beginners or people who would like to brush up on their skills.

Booking is essential, please visit our website to register your place. If you have any problems booking, please get in touch with us by emailing farm@kindling.org.uk.

 

Eco Hacks: Tool Repair workshop at Kindling Farm

Save your old garden tools from landfill by developing the skills (and confidence) to mend broken tools at this Repair Cafe. 

This is a practical workshop facilitated by members of the Liverpool Repair Cafe, a worldwide initiative which invites people of all levels to come together and collectively learn how to fix old, worn-out stuff from one another. 

For this workshop, we’re focussing solely on garden tools from spades and forks to strimmers and mowers. You can bring your own tools for repair and providing we have the parts you need, fix them together under the guidance of the Liverpool Repair Cafe team. Alternatively, develop your skills and confidence by practising with the tools we have onsite which are in need of a new lease of life!

We kindly ask for a donation of £5 towards any personal repais which helps us to cover the cost of materials. 

This is a drop-in session; you are welcome to attend anytime between 10.30am-1.30pm.

Booking is essentail, please visit our website to register your place. If you have any problems booking, please get in touch by contacting farm@kindling.org.uk. 

 

 

 

She’s the He, Presented by Horizon Film Festival

Horizon Film Festival is proud to presentShe’s the He, directed by Siobhan McCarthy.

This special screening marks only the film’s second UK showing, following a hugely successful festival run that has delighted audiences at SXSW, SIFF, BFI London Film Festival, Frameline 49, and many more.

Just before graduation, ALEX and ETHAN pretend to be trans women to get into the girl’s lockers. It’s all a joke until Ethan realizes: she really is trans. Now, Alex and Ethan must reckon with their changing friendship and the process of coming out.

Apple Tree Grafting workshop at Kindling Farm

Unlock the ancient art of apple tree grafting and take your very own tree home with you.

This half day workshop will train you in the skills of grafting apple (and other fruiting) trees. You’ll be grafting scions (young cuttings) to rootstock at Kindling Farm under the guidance and training of Mark Simmonds. Mark has many years of experience managing orchards and looking after fruit trees and can help you get a grip on the science and practice of apple grafting. There are plenty of opportunities to talk through the process and Mark’s training sessions are always full of fascinating theory and history surrounding tree grafting.This is a practical workshop yet grafting is fairly low impact and involves no heavy lifting.

Grafting with knives involves carefully making safe cuts, which can be fiddly, but there will be plenty of opportunity to learn. If you have any access needs please let us know in advance and we will endeavour to meet them where possible. We’ll also be providing safety equipment.Booking is essentail, please visit our website to register your place. If you have any problems booking your place, please email farm@kindling.org.uk

 

 

Liverpool memories: toys and childhood

Whether you played with spinning tops in the 1950s, built worlds with LEGO bricks in the 1980s, or remember watching your children unwrap their first Game Boy or Barbie doll, this is your invitation to take a joyful step back in time.

Join us at the Museum of Liverpool for a special free drop-in reminiscence session all about toys, games, and childhood memories. From well-worn teddy bears to treasured board games, we’re celebrating the magic, mischief and imagination of childhood – across generations.

This welcoming, informal session is open to everyone: those who want to share their stories, those who want to listen, and those simply curious about the toys that once lit up young lives across Liverpool.

This free, informal drop-in event is a chance to share memories, spark conversations, and connect with others over a shared past—or a shared fascination with it.

Liverpool Memories is part of an ongoing programme at the Museum of Liverpool designed to bring people together through memory, conversation and community. In this relaxed and welcoming session, we’ll explore our earliest memories and the times that shaped us into the adults we became.

Our trained museum staff will be on hand to guide discussions and provide a range of handling objects, photographs, music, and other evocative materials from our collections, all carefully selected to spark memories and stories.

We believe that everyone’s story is a part of Liverpool’s story. Our museum exists not just to house objects, but to honour the voices, lives and experiences of local people. Your memories of childhood – whether vivid or vague, joyful or difficult—are part of the rich tapestry of this city.

Sessions run on the first Friday of every month in the Museum of Liverpool and are totally free so there is no need to get a ticket, just drop by on the day.