Enjoy heart-warming Christmas Carols, crafts and storytelling events all set against the backdrop of the beautifully decorated home.
A wonderful day out to make memories, discover local history, and enjoy the excitement of preparing for a traditional Christmas.
Adults and children are all very welcome and will find something to enjoy in this wonderful day.
Experience a creative portrayal of the Backlands, a unique hidden landscape that lies between the world’s first industrial urban areas.
The Backlands are a hidden land that defies labels. Quarried, dredged, heaped with soil and reclaimed, Backlands was carved out by pioneering road, rail and waterways connecting Liverpool and Manchester to global markets.
Within this event, Backlands are explored and interpreted through film, music, painting, poetry, and photography.
This event allows you to experience a unique landscape at the premiere of BACKLANDS, an original electroacoustic work composed collectively by James Girling, Carmel Smickersgill and Andy Scott. The work will performed live during the evening with an accompanying immersive film and soundscape directed by John Ludlam.
This event is organised by members of the Bluecoat’s creative community.
Painting by Fine Artist John Skinner.
Photography and poetry by multidisciplinary artist Anthony Wong
Event Details
Live premiere of original electroacoustic music and immersive film.
5.30 – doors open, drinks and visuals in the Bistro Bar
6.15 – Show call
6.30 – Backlands begins
7.30 – Show close – Bistro bar opens
Tickets: £12.50
Explore the Bluecoat’s secret garden with a trail created by Blue Room, Bluecoat’s inclusive arts project. See how many partying animals you can find this festive season.
From Tue 14 Nov, 11am – 5pm
I-spy a penguin on a bike, an octopus with a present and a tiger in pixie boots…
Artists from Blue Room, Bluecoat’s inclusive arts project, invite you to discover a menagerie of festive characters hidden in the Bluecoat’s secret garden. Pick up a free trail sheet from our Children’s Corner and see how many Party Animals you can spot.
The Party Animals trail celebrates characters from Blue Room’s new knot wrap design commission from ethical cosmetics company, LUSH.
Free entry, donations welcome.
Suitable for all ages
Malik Al Nasir is an author, poet and academic from Liverpool.
His presentation of ‘The truth that lies behind Roscoe’ may at times be uncomfortable or challenging to the audience, but is very much in the spirit of LJMU Roscoe Lectures; helping foster informed debate, intellectual inquiry and free speech in Liverpool.
William Roscoe is one of Liverpool’s most famous sons and the architect of many of its celebrated institutions, but what do we really know about Roscoe?
Malik Al Nasir a PhD researcher at University of Cambridge, St Catharine’s College, who has Roscoe in his family tree, will unravel an epic tale of the network that supported Roscoe’s philanthropic and civic works, and the nuance inherent within it, in a way which will challenge our historic understanding of the man who was so evidently recorded as Liverpool’s most outspoken critic of the trans-Atlantic trade in enslaved Africans.
Malik’s memoir, Letters to Gil, is a compelling account of his childhood experiences in a brutal UK Local Authority care system, which left him traumatised, semi-literate, homeless, and destitute at eighteen, when a chance meeting with poet and civil rights activist Gil Scott-Heron proved life changing and put Malik on a path to success.
He went onto graduate from all three of Liverpool’s universities, deliver keynote addresses to children’s care service commissioners and policy makers, help to craft the ‘Widening Access and Participation Bill’ and is working on a policy document called ‘Lifting the Barriers to Black Academia Through Positive Action and Decolonisation’.
In addition Malik is bringing together UK universities to develop a positive action doctoral training partnership and colonial research centre, to facilitate participatory action research in line with the work he is doing with libraries, universities, museums and galleries, around decolonising their archives and collections.
While tracing his ancestry back to Demerara, Malik uncovered an astounding story that sheds new light on forgotten aspects of the true extent of Britain’s role in the slave trade, resulting in a two book deal with the William Collins imprint of HarperCollins and a full ESRC scholarship for a PhD in history at University of Cambridge. Malik has since received the prestigious ‘Sydney Smith Memorial Prize’ for ‘outstanding achievement’ at St Catharine’s College and the Vice Chancellors Award for global social impact.
Join the one and only Bernie Sanders as he discusses why it’s OK to be angry about capitalism, and why it’s even better to want to do something about it.
Live on stage, U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders will present his vision of what would be possible if the political revolution took place, and offer us hope for an alternative path forward. Join him as he demands fundamental economic and political change.
As the longest serving independent member of Congress in American history, Bernie will challenge the status quo and question democracy. With unflinching honesty, he will shine a light on a system that seems stacked against ordinary people while amplifying the influence of the wealthiest 1%.
Don’t miss out on this galvanising and powerful evening with one of the foremost political figures of our generation.
Regal Entertainments invite you to the performance of their biggest Christmas production to date, Aladdin at St Helens Theatre Royal.
Take a ride on the all-new 3D interactive flying magic carpet ride this Christmas and be whisked off to pantoland where young street urchin Aladdin lives with his hapless brother Wishee Washee and larger-than-life mum Widow Twankey in their family laundry. Then join our young hero as he battles the wicked Abanazer who has a dastardly plan to rule the world with the help of one very special lamp. Can Aladdin save the day – and can he also win the heart of the fair Princess Jasmine?
Emmerdale’s Liam Fox makes his professional panto debut as the evil Abanazer, and panto royalty Leanne Campbell appears digitally as the magical ‘Genie of the Mirror’, the cast also includes Theatre Royal favourites Tim Lucas, Warren Donnelly, Lewis Devine and Richard Aucott, along with newcomers Jess Smith and Alex Aram.
Join Liverpool ONE on Friday 17 November from 4-8pm for Liverpool ONE Christmas LIVE! An evening full of music, singing, dancing and festive magic as they launch Christmas at Liverpool ONE.
Around 500 performers will help kick-start the festive season. The packed line-up includes the cast of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory from the Liverpool Empire; the cast from Wind in the Willows from Shakespeare North; and the cast of pantomimes Sleeping Beauty and Peter Pan at the M&S Bank Arena.
In addition to the pop-up pantos, joining the festivities for the first time are hundreds of local schoolchildren and community groups who will perform across multiple areas of Liverpool ONE to help spread some yuletide cheer.
And, making their return will of course be Santa himself with his singing elves, festive characters and plenty of choirs, ensuring everyone is in the Christmas spirit all night, plus Bar Hütte will be in full swing underneath Liverpool ONE’s Christmas tree on Chavasse Park.
The night will be hosted by some familiar faces, including Radio City’s Leanne Campbell and Alex Toal; Jay Hynd and Gemma Cutting from The Guide Liverpool; Lizzie Acker from Channel 4’s 2021 season of ‘The Great British Bake Off’; and Liverpool actress and comedian, Kay Nicholson.
Also launching this Friday will be a special Christmas Trail, offering youngsters the chance to discover Christmas decorations and festive characters hidden in shop windows.
Visitors can also expect to see the return of much-loved Christmas reindeer light installations throughout various locations, neon trees on Paradise Street, festive angel wings and plenty of twinkling Christmas lights and decorations across Liverpool ONE.
This is the perfect opportunity to get the whole family together to start getting into the Christmas spirit.
For further information about Liverpool ONE Christmas LIVE! and all things Christmas visit: www.liverpool-one.com/
Liverpool John Moores University invite you to the first public screening of “The Liverpool College of Art : Timelines.” A 45 minute documentary film produced by Michael Swerdlow.
The film charts the history of the College bringing together alumni, tutors and staff who reminisce their time in the Hope Street building going back to the 1940s and, in candid interviews, they compare teaching methods and college life. The film also shows students at work in the old art school building on Hope Street, prior to its closure in 2008.
The film will be screened at LJMU’s John Lennon of Art and Design Building. To register for the event, see here. Register by 28th November.
Wonder Arts are thrilled to announce the heartwarming and enchanting Christmas show, “Twinkle Twinkle”; a heart-warming adventure, made especially for very young audiences.
To present this enchanting treat, the St Helens based charity will be taking over an empty retail unit in Church Square Shopping Centre. The Ping Pong Parlour, located by the entrance of St Mary’s Market, will be transformed into a Winter Wonderland on 9th & 10th December, bringing festive, family fun right into the heart of the Town Centre.
Twinkle Twinkle follows excitable puppy, Marty on his quest to find the brightest star in the sky. Featuring brilliant puppetry and merry melodies this unique event will transport you and your family to a world of twinkling lights and surprises that will leave your little ones wide-eyed with wonder.
Suitable for those aged 0-4 and their grown-ups, Twinkle Twinkle is more than just a show; it’s a captivating experience and a celebration of the spirit of Christmas in a way that resonates with the youngest members of your family. With tickets for children priced at just £3 and adults just £5, this performance is an affordable way for families to create cherished holiday memories and promises to fill the hearts of both children and adults with the warmth and wonder of the festive season.
Wonder Arts Chief Executive, Fay Lamb, said, “We are so excited to take over the Ping Ping Parlour to bring ‘Twinkle Twinkle’ to St Helens. It’s a special opportunity for little ones and their families to experience the enchantment of Christmas together. At Wonder Arts we believe that the wonder of the season should be accessible to all, and we’re proud to offer an affordable and memorable experience for families.”
Don’t miss out on this magical Christmas event. “Twinkle Twinkle” is the perfect way to introduce your little ones to the joy of theatre and the excitement of Christmas. Tickets are selling fast, so be sure to secure yours today. To purchase tickets and for more information, please visit the website at www.wonderarts.co.uk
This informal talk will look at how National Museums Liverpool treats objects in its care, discussing how and why objects have value, and the art of kintsugi, which adds value to damaged objects. It will then compare this to how we think about health and wellbeing.
How do we value an object, especially one in a museum collection? Similarly, how do we value people, including ourselves? How do we consider a person’s worth? What would happen if we took a holistic approach when considering a person’s value rather than just what they were “worth” to society?
Join them for a vibrant discussion on this topic with National Museums Liverpool colleague and disability rights activist Gillian Ashcroft-Smith.
This talk is part of the Disability History Month events programme.