April Lin 林森 takes us on a gameplay walkthrough of The Interface, a chatbot which has taken up residence in FACT’s first-floor gallery.
Using these interactions as a starting point, this group session will delve into conversations about ancestry and belonging.
This event forms part of FACT’s Lunar New Year Celebrations. Discover the full programme here: fact.co.uk/lunar
April Lin 林森 hosts a conversation with their artistic collaborators for The Earthly Realm is Out of Balance – an interactive game that investigates the meaning of ancestry.
Speaking about the process of making the work, they’ll discuss the conversations which formed the basis of the piece, in addition to many of the references included in the “library” which informs the chatbot’s responses.
For this event, April is joined by Yank Scally (Programmer) and Amina Atiq (Interviewee), to touch on the themes of the work, as well as the technical details of how the custom-built chatbot was made.
This event forms part of their Lunar New Year Celebrations. Discover the full programme here: fact.co.uk/lunar
Head along to Booker Flowers and Gifts this January for a special Flower School Class.
The event is held on Tuesday 31st January, 6pm until 8pm at Booker Flowers and Gifts, Booker Avenue, Liverpool, L18. The Class will be 2 hours long.
Everyone will get fresh flowers and materials and a step-by-step lesson from a professional florist, on how to create a Flower Arrangement (which they will be able to take home to enjoy).
Shoe Box Shadow Puppetry are a sustainable drama workshop project for children aged 9-11. Children will learn drama skills, how to make shadow puppetry, and will create stories with messaging around sustainability.
Through a mixture of crafts and physical drama games, children will learn how to creative narrative stories, and how to create their own shadow puppetry boxes with household items and will learn valuable everyday skills in an engaging and fun way.
FREE Places are limited, please contact artgroupie@outlook.com to sign up.
In celebration of Lunar New Year, FACT are teaming up with the Liverpool East and South East Asian Network (LESEAN) to bring you a special programme of events and workshops.
Join East and South East Asian (ESEA) artists and LESEAN members to hear more about Lunar New Year traditions, as we celebrate the Year of the Rabbit together.
LESEAN invites you to learn the art of lantern making alongside your friends and family. Craft lanterns together, while reflecting on resolutions and hopes for the year ahead. This workshop is suitable for all ages and abilities.
Discover the full programme of Lunar New Year celebrations here: fact.co.uk/lunar
In celebration of Lunar New Year, FACT are teaming up with the Liverpool East and South East Asian Network (LESEAN) to bring you a special programme of events and workshops.
Join LESEAN for an intimate group workshop centred around a unique tea ceremony. Learn about the importance of Lunar New Year traditions from members of the network.
Discover the full programme of Lunar New Year celebrations here: fact.co.uk/lunar
A Lovely Word, downstairs at the Everyman, is Liverpool’s most eclectic poetry night.
It features two halves of open mic poets, and a headliner beginning the first half. Hosted by Alex Ferguson and team, this free event is a fun, relaxed and friendly evening of performance poetry.
Chris Singleton is a performance poet and freelance theatre & spoken word practitioner based in Leeds, UK.
In 2013 he created Crowd Versing – a form of improvisational spoken word where every poem is based on an audience request and performed live, with no pre-planning or writing. He is in the process of developing the form into a full-length live show.
In his work as a practitioner, Chris has more than two years’ experience working with young people and adults with learning disabilities. He runs workshops for the West Yorkshire Playhouse at their centre for young people, and also runs projects and youth theatres for Castaway Goole, Purple Patch Arts, North Yorkshire County Council and charity People in Action.
Chris is a practicing member of Playback Theatre Company, ThreadBear Theatre, and of comedy improvisation troupe Monkeyheads. His main loves in life are dinosaurs, sandwiches and calzones.
Metal are excited to host the upcoming Liverpool African Diasporic Film Network (LADFN) meetings from their Liverpool base at Edge Hill Station every 3rd week of the month!
LADFN is a collective of filmmakers from the African Diaspora that centre Black identity in their work. For LADFN, Liverpool, with a history of diversity, protests, slavery and artistic output, serves as a starting place for exploring the many elements of identity.
Through seminars, conversations, hands-on filming experience, opportunities to present work locally and nationally, feedback on work and collectivity that provides support for ideas and imaginings, LADFN aims to provide Black Liverpool filmmakers with educational support. Save the dates for the upcoming meetings and come along!
Further dates:
20 February
20 March
Join Metal for a Drawing Social event taking place at Edge Hill Station on Thursday 19 January 5-6.30 pm! This informal event is open to any creatives interested in exploring storytelling through print, zines and comics (18+).
Over the course of the event they will invite you to share your own projects, participate in discussions and enjoy vegan food and snacks.
Head along and bring your own drawings to share during the event!
A Lovely Word, downstairs at the Everyman, is Liverpool’s most eclectic poetry night.
It features two halves of open mic poets, and a headliner beginning the first half. Hosted by Alex Ferguson and team, this free event is a fun, relaxed and friendly evening of performance poetry.
Malaika Kegode is an award-winning writer, performer and creative producer based in Bristol. Her work is focused on uplifting and celebrating the overlooked and misunderstood. Beginning her arts career as a performance poet in 2014, Malaika has since developed her practice to encompass theatre, radio and film writing.
Her gig-theatre show Outlier, an autobiographical piece about addiction and isolation in rural England performed with prog-rock band Jakabol was the first piece of new writing to appear on Bristol Old Vic’s main stage in 2021. Malaika’s work has been featured on BBC Radio 4 and Black Ballad. Her poetry collections Requite and Thalassic are published by Burning Eye Books.
Malaika also works in film. She has been an associate curator at Watershed in Bristol, a resident at Encounters Film Festival and was the 2021 recipient of the Elspeth Kydd Memorial Prize for Film Studies.