Event type: Workshop

Bluecoat After Hours: Print Social

Join us to create block-printed postcards using pre-made designs inspired by the Bluecoat garden. Meet fellow artists and learn more about Bluecoat’s growing print community.No experience is necessary – come on your own or with friends, have a go, and take home your own printed postcard. It’s also a great opportunity to chat with our Print Studio Manager and find out more about our open-access studio, as well as our courses and workshops.

Bluecoat After Hours is a bi-monthly social event that is free or low-cost, designed for people to meet, make and create. Sessions are relaxed and self-led, with materials provided, and you’re free to take part at your own pace. These sessions were developed as a way to provide a more accessible and affordable option in comparison to our structured print workshops, which are led by a teacher or facilitator. Find out more about our Print Studio workshops here.

Free, booking required

NuYoga – Affinity Space Session

Growing out of the seeds planted with the LCR REH creatives community, we are so excited to invite you to Music & Yoga at the Phil: a Global Majority affinity space for rest, embodiment and self-exploration through music, movement, breath and presence.A unique session of live original music in synchronicity with a gentle, uplifting yoga sequence for the Black and Global Majority community; start your Sunday with an uplifting session of music and yogaJoin musician Andrew Barney and yoga teacher Nu Caratella for the next instalment of their unique collaboration interweaving music, movement, breath and vibration. This is an event for those who identify as Black and Global Majority, celebrating collaboration, community and the joy of music and movement for healing and connection.

NuYoga – Affinity Space Session

Growing out of the seeds planted with the LCR REH creatives community, we are so excited to invite you to Music & Yoga at the Phil: a Global Majority affinity space for rest, embodiment and self-exploration through music, movement, breath and presence.A unique session of live original music in synchronicity with a gentle, uplifting yoga sequence for the Black and Global Majority community; start your Sunday with an uplifting session of music and yogaJoin musician Andrew Barney and yoga teacher Nu Caratella for the next instalment of their unique collaboration interweaving music, movement, breath and vibration. This is an event for those who identify as Black and Global Majority, celebrating collaboration, community and the joy of music and movement for healing and connection.

Introduction to UV Screen Printing

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 have multiple dates available:– Sat 19 Sep, 11am-5pm- Sat 3 Oct, 11am-5pm- Sat 13 Feb, 11am-5pm

Attendees must be 18+

£75 (all materials included)

Build a Miniature Liverpool from Cardboard

 

People Versus TV (PVTV) invites you to a free creative making session at Metal Liverpool, where we’ll be building a miniature Liverpool from cardboard.

Working together, participants will create tiny buildings, streets, landmarks and imagined structures inspired by the city. You might recreate a familiar place, invent a futuristic version of Liverpool, or just experiment with cardboard, glue, texture and shape.

No previous model-making, art or design experience is needed. Materials will be provided, and you’re welcome to contribute as much or as little as you like.

You can keep what you make, or add your creation to a growing miniature city being built for The Visionaries, an independent sci-fi film currently in development by PVTV.

The session is informal, friendly and open to anyone interested in making, film, art, design, storytelling, architecture, or trying something creative with other people.

People Versus TV is a Liverpool-based artist-led organisation producing experimental films, community cinema events and collaborative creative projects.

Free refreshments provided.

 

Summer Art School

Summer Art School takes place at Make Huyton Village this summer, offering a series of hands-on creative workshops exploring digital making and design. Participants will learn how to create 3D prints, personalised keyrings and die-cut stickers using studio equipment including a 3D printer, laser cutter and Silhouette Cameo machine. Suitable for beginners and all skill levels. Children are welcome but must be accompanied by a supervising adult or guardian.

Baby Bards

Join our Learning & Engagement Team for a Baby Bards early years story and language session for pre school children aged 18 months to 4 years old.

Liverpool Architecture Festival 2026, Guided Cycle Tour: South Liverpool

 

 

 

Liverpool Architcture Festival 2026

Guided Cycle Tour: South Liverpool

Miles Pearson from Pearson Architects and Ben Prince from Prince Architects will be leading an 7 mile architecture cycle tour around South Liverpool. As well as cycling, there will be an opportunity to go inside many of the buildings along the way.

The route will include:

  • Press Bros Coffee, Lark Lane
  • Granby Winter Gardrens – (Building Tour)
  • The Granby Triangle district
  • Granby Ceramics & Aspen Yard – (Building Tour)
  • Welsh Streets
  • Squash Nutrition for drinks
  • Toxteth Resevoir – (Building Tour)
  • Palm House, Sefton Park

Once the tour is ended, you are welcome to continue onto the Watering Can in Greenbank Park, or the Dovedale Pub for refreshments.

The route can be viewed at:

https://www.mapmyride.com/routes/view/6717148452/

Please wear appropriate clothing, footwear and a bike helmet!

We also recommend bringing a suitable bike lock for use during the building tours.

All attendees must have their own bike to participate.

For further details and to book a free ticket, visit the Eventbrite link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cycle-tour-south-liverpool-tickets-1989609768376

 

 

 

Summer Botanical Cyanotype

Learn the intriguing process of Cyanotype Printing this Summer using our beautiful Bluecoat garden as a source of inspiration.

Cyanotype is a camera-less photographic printmaking technique that creates beautiful blue and white images.

On this short and informative course you will learn all about the process of cyanotype and what chemicals and materials are needed. You will be given an opportunity to collect leaves and flowers from our beautiful summer garden to create your prints, or you can bring your own. After preparing, exposing and creating your own botanical cyanotypes you will have the knowledge to continue this amazing process at home, as well as your prints you’ve made on the day.

The course runs for 2.5 hours per session.

There are multiple sessions available:Sat 8 Aug, 11am-1.30pmSat 8 Aug, 2.30-5pm

£30 (all materials included)

Let’s Talk About Fairer Health: Free Community Event Liverpool

 

 

 

What would fairer health look like where you live?

Collective Encounters are hosting a free community event.

How fair is access to health services where you live? What works well – and what needs to change? Whose voices are heard when decisions are made?

Free introductory event: Thursday 25 June, 10am – 12:30pm, Kuumba Imani Centre

This relaxed introductory session is a chance to share your thoughts and experiences, meet others, and find out more about a series of workshops exploring health inequality taking place in July.

Following the introductory event, we will host four creative sessions at Kuumba Imani:

Thursday 2 July, 10am – 12:30pm Thursday 9 July, 10am – 12:30pm Thursday 16 July, 10am – 12:30pm Thursday 23 July, 10am – 12:30pm

Using creative activities, discussion and storytelling, we’ll explore real experiences of health and care and imagine what fairer support could look like. Together, participants will co-create ideas that will form part of a touring performance in the autumn, sharing local voices more widely.

The sessions are open to all over 18 years old. No previous creative experience is needed. 

Everyone’s contribution is valued – there are no silly questions.

You can come to as many sessions as you’re able. The first event on 25th June is a no-pressure introduction, so feel free to come along and try it out. 

Help with travel costs is available and refreshments will be provided.

If you have any questions or would like to find out more, please contact Abi: abi@collective-encounters.org.uk 07849 094903