This week’s Culture Radar guest is Helen Brown, Development Manager at Liverpool Lighthouse, an arts and community centre based in Anfield and the home of the National Gospel Music Centre.
Loved: We’re passionate about arts for social change at Liverpool Lighthouse and have loved hosting both Asylum Link and Collective Encounters recently with their impactful theatre for social change pieces, Afloat and Time to Change. We know from our own ‘When You Know’ arts for social change programme that work like this can change hearts, minds and save and transform lives.
Looking Forward To: As a Black-led organisation, Africa Oyé is a massive part of our cultural landscape and we’re really looking forward to celebrating its return in 2026.
Trivia: Liverpool Lighthouse was originally built as a Gaumont Cinema building and retains gorgeous art deco features, a 430 seat auditorium and one of the biggest stages in Liverpool. Before it was a cinema, the site housed an orphanage and training school for destitute girls, so our little patch of Anfield has been a home for both the most vulnerable in the community and for arts and culture across hundreds of years, a legacy we aim to continue!