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 wipe out a local Community Centre, 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.
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.
Put on your safari hats and get ready for some ranger danger and roarsome routines! There’s a baby Ankylosaurus lost in the forest who needs your help and you must find her before the Evil Zookeeper Scientist does…
Flapping frills and dino thrills await as we set off on the ultimate wild rescue mission with state-of-the-art walking dinosaurs, some of which have never been seen on a stage before. You’ll encounter Freya the dancing Raptor, Dylan the Dilophosaurus, Angie the Ankylosaurus, Scar the Spinosaurus and Bruce the mighty T-Rex.
With a captivating story, interactive activities throughout and an immersive finale that will bring the house down, Dino Tales is an unforgettable fun-filled family adventure starring Europe’s largest walking dinosaurs to ever roam the stage. You and the kids will be jumping for Jurassic joy after this pre-historic party, so get ready for the ultimate Jurassic rescue adventure.
A talk by Piers Secunda (A U.K. Government Enquiry was announced after his 2023 exhibition closed).
In the last couple of years the UK media has frequently published revelations and new information about the German occupation of the British Channel Island of Alderney. A large volume of this new information has been found by British artist Piers Secunda. His findings expose some shocking truths about the the nature of the occuation of Alderney and the UK’s failure to prosecute the war crimes carried out there by the SS, against prisoners from 20 different nations across Europe and North Africa.
This promises to be an edge of your seat talk, laying bare many of Piers’ findings, some of which pushed the UK Government to open an inquiry into how many people died on Alderney during the war.
Discover how the Royal Air Force F4 Phantom squadrons defended British airspace in the 1980s. With Wing Commander Steve Chaskin (retired)
This talk will cover the experience of being a fast jet navigator on F4 Phantom aircraft delivering air policing from the United Kingdom and West Germany.
This will include Quick Reaction Alert operations involving intercepting Soviet aircraft and delivering air policing of the border between East and West Germany. Also covered will be participation in live air to air missile firings, air to air gunnery training and deployment to the USA for Red Flag Exercises.
The presentation will include personal photographs and video.
Join Dr Julia Clayton as she explores a fascinating episode in the history of archaeology, which helped to transform Liverpool into the city we see today.
In 1810 John Foster Junior, a young architect from Liverpool, embarked on a Grand Tour of the Ottoman Empire. During the six years he was away, he made a series of archaeological discoveries which revolutionised our knowledge of Greek art and architecture, raising questions which we’re still trying to answer.
However, Foster’s legacy doesn’t end there, as when he returned home he used his knowledge of Greek architecture to transform his home city, creating a series of impressive Neoclassical buildings which helped to put Liverpool on the architectural map.
