Award-winning theatre company, Naughty Corner Productions, will see their ninth production debut at The Hope Street Theatre this October.
SHEEP was due to open in March 2020 but had to cancel due to the pandemic restrictions. Despite the 19-month delay the company are excited about finally bringing the production to the stage with the original cast and company.
The event is held Hope Street Theatre, 14-16 October, 7.30pm. Tickets can be booked through their website at www.hopestreettheatre.com or via telephone on 0344 561 0622.
On Thursday 14th October the production will feature an after-show Q&A session with the full company.
In SHEEP, five friends take a trip to the Lake District to relive their booze and drug-fuelled university days and escape from their banal and disappointing lives. When they wake up to a sheep with its throat cut open and a used condom dumped on top of it, with no recollection of what’s happened, they are forced to confront the reality of who they are.
Written by Oliver Beck and directed by Mike Dickinson.
Stacey Dooley has firmly established herself as one of the most recognisable faces on British TV.
Now , following several sell – out UK tours, Stacey is heading back on the road to celebrate the publication of her new book, Are You Really OK? Understanding Britain’s Mental Health Emergency, which explores the mental health crisis in Britain and its particular impact on young people, inspired by Stacey’s two most recent documentaries on mental health.
The event is held Storyhouse, Chester, 22 February 2022, 7.30pm. See here for tickets.
In conversation for these limited events, Stacey will open up the conversation about mental health in young people, to challenge the stigma and stereotypes aroun d it.
She will also touch on related, broader topics which she has tackled in her documentaries – poverty, addiction, identity, the pressures of social media – and look back on the stand – out moments and interactions from her wide – reaching career.
Join her for what promises to be a thought – provoking, inspiring and informative evening. With a chance to try your own hand at journalism and ask Stacey the questions, this is an opportunity not to be missed.
This event will be to a full audience (not distanced).
Ignite are a Grassroots community organisation who organise and present a quarterly event where members of the community are invited to present on a subject they are passionate about.
Enlighten people but make it quick!
They have had some great presentations from a wide variety of people. You don’t have to be technical to do it, you just need passion for the chosen subject of your presentation.
The format goes like this:
At every Ignite the crowd gathers upstairs at Leaf Cafe on Bold Street for around 12 talks from members of the public each talking about a subject they are passionate about.
The next Ignite event is held 20 October and runs from 6-10pm, with talks normally starting at 7pm. See here for tickets.
For more information see: https://igniteliverpool.com/
An opportunity to join the Museum’s Learning & Participation Team as they talk through the fascinating stories of some of the many inspirational Black British people connected to Liverpool.
The workshops are free and held Museum of Liverpool, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 October, 11am and 2pm.
Liverpool has a rich history of inspirational Black scousers, such as the groundbreaking 1970s group The Real Thing. These workshops shed light on their many achievements.
Visitors are invited to get hands-on with some important objects by joining the Learning & Participation Team.
The event is free and held International Slavery Museum, 17 and 24 October, 11am-12noon, 1.30-3.30pm
The team will present the International Slavery Museum’s handling collection, including artefacts that are carriers of history and inspiring examples of resilience and activism.
Join Museum of Liverpool for an afternoon of discussion and performance to reflect on the events of 1981 in this 40th anniversary year.
With national activists, artists and commentators, they will remember the uprisings which swept UK inner cities and consider their legacies and lessons for today.
This event is produced in partnership with Writing on the Wall and The Institute for Creative Enterprise at Edge Hill University.
A film screening and panel discussion with members of Liverpool’s African diasporic community. Panel members will reflect on a series of workshops they attended at the Museum.
The workshops – recorded in the winter of 2019/20 – were designed to help the Museum rethink the display of its Benin collection, and address historical legacies of injustice to create a more inclusive and engaging display.
The new display, which will include a number of looted items, is part of the World Cultures gallery, which will reopen in 2022. The gallery will celebrate the Edo Kingdom’s brilliant inheritance of court art, and confront the violent colonial history behind its theft by a British force in 1897.
Free event, online booking essential.
A talk by author Lucy Bland, drawing on research from her book Britain’s ‘Brown Babies’: The stories of children born to Black GIs and white women in the Second World War.
The talk will focus on the children born to Black GIs and local women in Liverpool and Merseyside, during the Second World War. ‘Brown Babies’, a term coined in the 1940s by the African American press, referred to approximately 2,000 babies, born from relationships between Black GIs and the white women they met while stationed in the UK.
During this talk, Lucy will also be joined by Liverpool-born people identifying with the term ‘Brown Babies’, who will present their own lived experiences of growing up in all-white and predominantly racist environments. Lucy Bland is Professor of Social and Cultural History at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.
Museum of Liverpool will also host a pop-up display exploring this history between the 2 and 17 October.
To complement British Music Experience’a Frankie say 1984! Exhibition and further explore the social and political context of the mid-1980s, they are screening My Beautiful Laundrette.
The 1985 British comedy-drama directed by Stephen Frears from a screenplay by Hanif Kureishi was one of the first films released by Working Title Films.
The story is set in London during the Thatcher years, as reflected in the complex—and often comical—relationships between members of the Pakistani and English communities.
The story focuses on Omar, played by Gordon Warnecke, a young Pakistani man living in London, and his reunion and eventual romance with his old friend, a street punk named Johnny, played by Daniel Day-Lewis. The two become the caretakers and business managers of a launderette originally owned by Omar’s uncle Nasser.
The British Film Institute ranked My Beautiful Laundrette the 50th greatest British film of the 20th century.
Please note, their museum galleries are closed during film screenings. There are no ads or trailers.
Director: Stephen Frears
Certificate: 15
Length: 1hr 37mins
Tickets £8 adult, £6.50 concession/Independent Liverpool member (ID required)
