Blindness is often misunderstood, shaped by misconceptions that can lead to social exclusion. What is Blindness? The World Unseen brings these misconceptions to light through powerful storytelling, sharing the lived experiences of visually impaired individuals.
Join them at FACT’s cinema in Liverpool on April 22-23 for a compelling film screening followed by a Q&A panel with researchers, creatives, and individuals with lived experience. Together, we’ll challenge common myths and explore the rich, diverse perspectives of those navigating the world with visual impairment.
This event is part of Bring Your Own Brain, a public engagement programme linked to the British Neuroscience Association’s Festival of Neuroscience.
Yeeee bunch of haaaaws! We cum in peace and this time it’s personal!
Join The Secret Circus for a cowboys and aliens themed cabaret in a church! BYOB, in house bar, merch, stalls, stilt walking freebies and more!
Details to come in 2025..
HOSTS:
The Queen of Heartbreak
Naffrodite
Beija Flo
LINE UP:
Cake Boi
Emma Lippitt
Socratena
Paddy Clarke
Athena Barbital
Ida Sanguine
Doors open at 7pm
Wheelchair Accessible
18+
Limited bar, BYOB welcome
Tickets £20 on the door
A unique educational exhibition of hats, all responding to an aspect of neuroscience or neurology.
Try some on!
Easter Library Tour – FREE SHADOW PUPPETRY – Children aged 7 -13
FREE ACTIVITIES this Easter Holidays 2025
Shadow Puppetry for children aged 7-13
Join ArtsGroupie for our Free Workshops in library spaces across Liverpool City Region, kindly supported by Arts Council England National Lottery Project Grants.
Shadow puppetry encourages children to engage in creativity, and unleash their imaginations.
Children will devise their own characters and stories, and create their own puppets, culminating in a celebratory puppet showcase at Liverpool Central Library – a FREE FAMILY Puppet Day on Saturday 10th May 11 -3pm
The sessions take place on the following dates:
– Tues 8th April 11am – 3pm @ Wavertree Library
– Weds 9th April 11am – 3pm @ Norris Green Library
– Thurs 10th April 11:30am – 3pm @ Spellow Library
– Fri 11th April 11am – 3pm @ Sefton Park
– Sat 12th April AM ONLY – 11am – 1pm @ Birkenhead Library
– Mon 14th April PM ONLY – 2pm – 4pm @ Huyton Library
– Tues 15th April 11am – 12:15 pm & 12:30 – 3 pm @Prescot Library
– Wed 16th April 11am – 1 pm & 2-4 pm @ Halewood Library
– Thurs 17th April 11am – 3pm @ Fazakerley Community Federation & Library
– Fri 18th April 11am – 3pm @ Garston Library
– Sat 19th April 11am – 3pm @ Allerton Library
– Sat 10th May 11am- 3pm FREE Family Puppet Day at Liverpool Central Library
The 11am-3pm sessions will include 1 hour for a break with Free Healthy Food/Snacks provided.
Email: artgroupie@outlook to reserve a place.
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Liverpool Arab Arts Festival, the longest running annual festival of Arab arts and culture in the UK, returns for its 23rd year this July.
Founded in 1998, the festival exists to support and champion creatives from across the Arab region and its diaspora, in the belief that art and creativity have the power to express a shared humanity.
The festival also celebrates Liverpool’s unique identity; a city, with a global community and brimming with artistry, that looks outwards across the world and welcomes and accepts all who arrive within it.
This year’s festival theme is Nostalgia, which will be explored through a diverse range of disciplines, including music, theatre and performance, visual art, literature and film – with the programme culminating at the ever-popular free Family Day.
Jay Rayner is going back on the road!
Join the ever-tasteful, often hilarious, always readable writer and broadcaster as he celebrates 25 years as The Observer’s award-winning restaurant critic with the publication of Nights Out At Home, a memoir-in-recipes. Throughout his quarter of a century eating professionally in some of the world’s best (and frankly worst) restaurants, Jay has always reverse-engineered his favourite dishes; now he’s ready to share with you those brilliant recipes and his memories of the restaurants that served them.
In this joyfully greedy show, Jay answers the questions we’ve always wanted answered, put to him by a host of virtual star interviewers: what expertise does a restaurant critic need? What’s the best way to roast a chicken? Is he just an utterable snob? And if he’s so bloody clever, why doesn’t he just open his own damn restaurant? And you’ll get to ask your questions too.
Nights Out At Home is an uproarious, insightful, and butter-smeared journey through the life of a man with one of the most coveted jobs in the world.
A portion of fun and a big plate of chaos.
Hyltons Caribbean takeaway is a much-loved restaurant at the heart of Liverpool 8. Built by Carol and her late husband into a bustling hub with a mouth-watering menu, it serves great food with a huge side-order of love. But in a world of delivery apps, street food markets and gourmet curry goat, her family are divided about what their future should hold.
The Liverpool they live in is changing too. With a block of luxury apartments about to be built over a local field, anger’s rising and things are getting spicy.
Takeaway is a big bowl of fun, heartbreak and chaos dished up by our creative director, Nathan Powell. Packed with big laughs, family tensions and delicious food, this is a tasty Everyman treat made for our stage, our city, our people – the perfect recipe for everyone who loves a delicious night out.
A wilder life is closer than you think.
Meet Oskar, Rio and Hazel – three people getting on with their lives in different corners of the globe. They’ve never spoken. They’ve never met. But they’re about to share a startling wild-animal encounter. One that will transform the way they think about their world.
From Norway’s glittering fjords to Colorado’s stunning peaks to Halewood’s majestic Tesco, The Walrus Has a Right to Adventure spins three very human stories into one tender and touching tale.
Funny, surprising and inspired by real animal encounters from around the world, this is powerful, inventive storytelling at its creative best – a swooping, soaring play about instinct, expectation and identity, and what it means to be truly free.
Join acclaimed theatre maker Andy Smith and award-winning applied arts practitioner Lynsey O’Sullivan for a day of play, discussion, and action.
This day will see three performances of plays from the ongoing project PLAYS FOR THE PEOPLE: A CITIZENS’ ASSEMBLY, HOW CAN WE BE MORE ANTI-RACIST? and THE ACTIONS). These plays tackle the climate emergency, inequality and political activism. They are plays designed to be read aloud together and then discussed. They are plays where the people in the room play the people in the play. Plays that ask questions of acting in both a theatrical and ethical sense.
Audience-participants for this special event will each be given a copy of a new publication containing the plays. Over the course of the day, through the activity, they will be trained in how to undertake performances themselves. Following it, they can then organise them for their own communities and constituencies, free of any charge.
All are welcome. Lunch will be provided. We’d like people from diverse places to join us – arts and educational institutions, community and grassroots organisations, freelance artists and interested individuals. For this reason, tickets are being offered on a pay what you can afford basis between £15 and £45.
They suggest a price of £15 for freelancers and individuals, £25 for teachers, youth workers and those representing smaller arts organisations, and £45 for participants representing bigger institutions such as arts centres and universities. Please do consider paying what you can, as it will allow us to offer bursary places and support for those who for whatever reason are not able to afford to attend.
If you are interested in coming along and would like to talk to about one of these places, please visit Andy’s Website.
SPOT’S BIRTHDAY PARTY
WORDS AND SONGS BY GUY UNSWORTH
BASED ON THE BOOKS BY ERIC HILL
Spot is having a very special birthday party, and you’re invited!
With party hats, songs, dancing and lots of interactive party games, this is going to be the best birthday party ever!
Join Steve the monkey, Tom the Crocodile and Helen the Hippo to say a big HAPPY BIRTHDAY SPOT!
Based on the beloved Eric Hill classic Happy Birthday Spot, this brand-new adaptation brings your favourite pup and his friends to life in an interactive and accessible show suitable for ages 2plus and their grown-ups.
