Event type: Workshop

Funny Looking Kids: Comedy Club

Liverpool’s first regular comedy club for kids (and their invited guests/handlers…) crashes back into the Bluecoat with its usual jokes, sketches, quizzes & mayhem!

From the first sketch to the final joke competition, Funny Looking Kids: Comedy Club is a rag tag bag of tomfoolery and nonsense. Chaos and cacophony, silliness and stupidity. This club offers comedy for kids with an alternative twist.

(7+ suggested but they once had a 5 year old laugh so hard they fell off their chair.)

Saturday, 9 July, 2.30-4pm

Tickets: £3.50 – £5.50

Late at Tate Liverpool – Radical...

Join Tate Liverpool after hours for an evening of art, music, dance, making and conversation.

This edition of Late at Tate Liverpool is based around their exhibition Radical Landscapes, which invites people to take a fresh look at the British Landscape and the art it inspires.

From rural raves in Castlemorton to anti-nuclear protests at Greenham Common, the exhibition presents a radical view of the British landscape in art.

Shielded in the Community – Crea...

Shielded In The Community is a disabled-led project run in partnership with DaDa Fest and funded by Liverpool City Council.

Mandy Redvers-Rowe is a disabled writer based in Liverpool. Working with producer Harriet Warnock and Assistant Producer Robyn Bowyer. Together they’re delivering this project with a wonderful team of disabled and neurodiverse artists, Amina Atiq, Malik Lidgett and Ellen Purse.

All of them had to shield in 2020 and 2021 but, although for many the restrictions have now been lifted, there are still a significant number of people who have to continue to shield.

They are asking Disabled and/or neurodiverse people who live in the North West of England to take part in this project by responding artistically to their shielding experience – whatever their current shielding status.

They will be hosting a workshop on July 8th at Toxteth TV between 2pm – 5pm.

At the workshop all four artists will be running sessions and you will have the choice to work on whatever art form interests you.

Access provided
Level Access Venue
BSL Interpreter
Experienced workshop leaders who build access into their delivery
Additional Access Workers who can offer support

It will be a relaxed session with built in breaks and refreshments are provided.

The workshop is free, but there are a limited number of places.

Free improvisation in the park

Interested in improvisation?

The sessions will happen on either the Saturday or the Sunday.

During June 2022 Saturday is the default day of the week on which this event happens. however this is subject to change due to the diary conflicts with other events. The details are confirmed on the Friday before the event.

This is confirmation: The next session is Saturday 11th June at 14.00

The performance space: is not being described or given here, but the meeting point is: The obelisk, inside Princes Park, as accessed via the `Sunburst Gates` located at the entranced hereby described as: The roundabout, at one end of Princes Avenue.

Meet up time 14.00 – 14.10 BST

Top Tips, arrive early at the meeting point early and you may need something to sit on: no chairs provided at the performance site..

Bus routes that stop at princes Park gates: 26,27, 75, 80. The 204 stops near princes park gates

The current plan is that the session will be delivered using one or more of the following formats.

Metered free improvisation – that is a piece of free improvisation in music with a time limit for when the piece ends.

System 50:50 for improvisers.

Un-metered free improvisation. that is a piece of free improvisation in music with a no preset time limit.

All levels of experience is music, free improvisation are welcome.

For more information see the website and social media links above.

Shapes in the Sky: Make an origami mob...

Spend a relaxing afternoon with Elizabeth Willow learning how to create beautiful hand-folded origami birds and forms to suspend from a hanging mobile.

The workshop will be a calm and meditative session, the perfect antidote to life’s fast pace. Elizabeth says, “It is such a calming practice, and so magical to fold something out of a sheet of paper.”

Origami is a fascinating process, where square sheets of paper can be folded into a vast array of three-dimensional structures. Starting with simple shapes, then moving on to more complex forms, we will fold a flock of paper birds and insects. These can then be suspended from a twig, piece of driftwood or other found material, to create an elegant mobile that gently moves in the air, making patterns of light and shadow.

“All you need is a piece of foldable paper and an idea in mind, and sooner or later something delightful will evolve.” – Robert Harbin

Before the workshop, please meet at the front of the main Bluecoat building where a member of Display Centre staff will greet you. Please note that Bluecoat Display Centre and The Bluecoat building will not be open to the public at the starting time of the workshop.

Summer Bug Hunt

Deep dive into World Museum’s glorious city wildflower garden and be guided through a short bug hunt with their experts.

Groups of 2-6 can explore and discover the animals and plants that make our museum their home.

This event takes place in their garden so please wear suitable clothing and footwear suitable for all weather. Some surfaces may be unstable.

Dockwatch

Wildlife is thriving in the River Mersey and we all have a responsibility to care for our waters.

Take a closer look at the creatures in the waters of the Royal Albert Dock with Merseyside Maritime Museum.

Free improvisation in the park

There will be a session of free improvisation in music every weekend during the month of June 2022 in Princes Park.

The sessions will happen on either the Saturday or the Sunday.

The Saturday is the default day of the week on which this event happens. however this is subject to change due to the diary conflicts with other events. The details are confirmed on the Friday before the event.

This is confirmation: The next session is Saturday 4th June at 14.00

The performance space: is not being described or given here, but the meeting point is

The meeting point: The obelisk, inside Princes Park, as accessed via the `Sunburst Gates` located at the entranced hereby described as: The roundabout, at one end of Princes Avenue.

Meet up time 14.00 – 14.10 BST

Top Tips, arrive early at the meeting point early and you may need something to sit on: no chairs provided at the performance site..

Bus routes that stop at princes Park gates: 26,27, 75, 80. The 204 stops near princes park gates

The current plan is that the session will be delivered using one or more of the following formats.

Metered free improvisation – that is a piece of free improvisation in music with a time limit for when the piece ends.

System 50:50 for improvisers.

Un-metered free improvisation. that is a piece of free improvisation in music with a no preset time limit.

All levels of experience is music, free improvisation are welcome.

Creative Activism – Open Playgro...

Following the success of previous Open Playgrounds, Collective Encounters are returning to this facilitated sharing format to discuss and experiment with strategies for creative activism.

Creative Activism will explore the intersection of participatory arts and activism, experimenting with creative strategies to affect change with and in the communities we collaborate with.

Open Playgrounds are a space to test new ideas and new approaches to participatory practice. Don’t come empty handed, please make sure to bring with you an idea for an activity or game to try out with peers.

World Ocean Day

Learn about the incredible animals in our oceans and how destructive plastics and pollution is to them.

Make a difference through pledging to care for our oceans and climate, to make a positive difference and become part of the solution.