Interest area: culture

TikTok Creative Academy Liverpool: Med...

Looking to break into the media industry and elevate your media skills? Join the team for a day of learning, networking, and free food!

Are you a media enthusiast who’s always wanted to take your content creation game to the next level? Or are you someone who’s simply curious about media production and the creative process behind it? Look no further, because they’ve got just the event for you!

The informative master classes by The Reporters Academy will take you through the entire creative process of media production, including:

Interviewing techniques: You’ll learn how to conduct a great interview from an expert interviewer who has interviewed everyone from athletes to celebrities, and even Olympians! You’ll get insider tips on how to ask the right questions, create a comfortable environment for your subject, and draw out their best responses.

Editing: You’ll learn how to edit videos like a pro from the comfort of your own phone. Their expert instructor will guide you through the editing process, showing you how to use the latest tools and techniques to create engaging and impactful videos. You’ll learn how to edit for pacing, select the best shots, and add effects that make your content stand out.

Promotion: You’ll learn how to create an effective content plan and promote your content to the right audience. Using real-life examples, their instructor will show you how to develop a strategy that aligns with your goals and target audience. You’ll learn how to use social media, content marketing, and other channels to reach your audience and get your content seen.

With For About 2023: Care and the Comm...

For this year’s sixth With For About, Merseyside-based community arts organisation Heart of Glass is inviting artists, activists and community practitioners to come together (outdoors) to reflect on the interconnectedness between humans, nature, place and land within the context of the conflicting climate crises.

Key speakers include artist and researcher Youngsook Choi and collaborator Wendi Sia, socio-environmental artist Kerry Morrison and social justice activist, writer and thinker Radha D’Souza.

Conversations  will  be  facilitated  by  local  and  national  artists  with interests in climate crises, local and indigenous ecologies and slow, interspecies practices. They include Sean Roy Parker, Fran Disley, Grace Collins, and more to be announced.

With For About is Heart of Glass’s alternative take on a conference. Our venue is a community allotment in a park. Attendees will need to bring suitable clothing for spending the whole day outside. There will be some warm, dry spaces to escape to if necessary.

DIVE – A night of new female wor...

Physical Fest is Tmesis Theatre’s international festival of physical theatre, celebrating the world’s most exciting, contemporary physical theatre by bringing a variety of new work to the north for the first time.

DIVE is Physical Fest’s night of new female work.

In Bloom by Aline Costa (Female Bursary award 2023)

A mesmerising dance performance that challenges your perception and leaves you with a sense of wonder. Drawing inspiration from Butoh techniques, the piece features slow, deliberate movements and powerful imagery that evoke mystery and intrigue, an unforgettable journey into the unknown. Aline is a Swiss performer and choreographer based in Liverpool.

Look After Your Knees by Natalie Bellingham

A show about the pain and beauty of love, what it is to both connect and unravel.

It’s a celebration of being human in all its banality, sprinkled with joy and ridiculousness. Performed by a clown delving into the space inside us left behind by loss.

Natalie is theatre maker, performer and physical comedian.

Wet Dream with Jesus by Alice Way (Female Bursary award 2023)

Louisiana, home of Mardi Gras, southern hospitality, and raging purity culture. This is an autobiographical one-woman comedy investigating the wonders and pitfalls of growing up in the Bible Belt of America. The show explores Alice’s conservative, Christian led education in public high school while navigating teenage social politics and pending sexual identity. Alice, LIPA graduate, is the artistic director of Dragonfly Performance which explores social issues through thought provoking comedic theatre.

Jam and Chemicals by Dora Colquhoun

A show about Home. Carl Sangan described Earth as a fragile dot ‘A mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.’ Earth is our collective home. But what is home? Is it a place? A feeling? People? Dora is on a quest to find out.

She is a Neurodivergent theatre maker with a passion for storytelling using humour and absurdity, she is working with international theatre and clown Jamie Wood and composer Luke Thomas.

 

We Were Promised Honey

A lone performer tells the story of the future of the audience; what’s going to happen to them in the decades, centuries, millennia after the end of this show.

It’s the story of a baby born in a lighthouse, of someone on fire in the middle of the desert, of two lovers reunited in a flooded city, of a spaceship on the edge of a black hole. Everything has already been decided. This is the story of the end.

From the makers of Five Encounters on a Site Called Craigslist and The Accident Did Not Take Place comes an act of communal storytelling. A hopeful, hopeless prophecy for earth and humankind. A story of us, our future, of paradise and how we get there in the end.

House of Memories On The Road at Faith...

National Museum’s Liverpool House of Memories On The Road immersive museum will be appearing at Faiths and Dementia ’23 which will take place on 17 May at St Margaret Clitherow Centre, Liverpool.

The one-day event will explore ways for Faith leaders and groups to make a real difference for their community members living with dementia and family carers. Faiths and Dementia ’23 is organised by Liverpool Dementia Action Alliance and Christians on Ageing, with the assistance of Alzheimer’s Society and House of Memories.

Royal Television Story Conference

The Royal Television Society (RTS) in partnership with Culture Liverpool, BBC Writers Room, Liverpool Everyman and WoWFEST, host the inaugural RTS Story Conference, which will this year be held in Liverpool, at The Liverpool Everyman Theatre on Thursday 25th May.

As Eurovision shines a light on Liverpool, the cultural footprint of the region will continue to be celebrated in this one day conference, encouraging informal networking, discussion and inspiration for seasoned and emerging screenwriters. This event is aimed at all levels of writers and consist of a number of panel sessions and masterclasses.

Sessions include masterclasses with the likes of Tony Schumacher, RTS Award winning writer of The Responder and RTS Award winner Heidi Thomas, Creator of Call The Midwife, Upstairs Downstairs & Cranford. Commissioners attending, who will be giving an overview of current priorities, include Jo McClellan (BBC Drama), Alice Ramsey (BBC Drama), Caroline Hollick (Channel 4), Liam Keelan (Disney) & Jon Mountague (Sky Comedy).

Writers from Hollyoaks, Waterloo Road and Casualty will be sharing their top tips for working on continuing dramas on a panel chaired by Lucy Allan (Executive Producer, Hollyoaks), whilst Mike Morris (Co-Director, Writing on the Wall) will lead discussions on how the sector might evolve and diversify its development pipeline.

Thursday 25th May

10am

Tickets are priced; £40 for a full day ticket; £25 RTS Member ticket; £12.50 Student/ Low Income Ticket. A number of free tickets will be allocated via Liverpool John Moores University, Bolton University, RTS Bursary Students and WoWFEST.

The Liverpool Everyman Theatre

*Please note that discount codes do not apply for this event

*These are difficult times. They know some people may struggle to afford full price tickets. If you would like to attend this event but can’t afford to, please contact info@writingonthewall.org.uk. All queries will be treated in confidence.  If you would like to purchase a gifted ticket for someone who can’t afford it, please buy directly from the event page and they will offer your ticket out.

Menopause Cafe

Head along to this monthly support group designed to help peri and post-menopausal women understand their mind & body in menopause.

This is an inclusive and welcoming place where you can offload, laugh, cry and learn with likeminded people.

Starting on 16 February at 12:30pm, and then held on the first Thursday of the month from March. Cost is £3 per person which you can pay on arrival. Booking not required, just turn up on the day.

•    Thursday 1 June – 12.30pm – 2pm
•    Thursday 6 July – 12.30pm – 2pm

Hosted by Juanita Steel – Holistic Menopause coach.
Email: Juanitasteel@me.com
Facebook: Holistic Menopause Makeover Coach

EARTH II – film, food and Q&A a...

Metal Liverpool welcomes you to a screening of new movie EARTH II accompanied by food, music, and a post-film Q&A.

‘Earth II’ is a found footage action/comedy/documentary film about climate change, Mars colonisation, & human extinction pieced together from hundreds of Hollywood films.

This event was originally scheduled for November 2022, but sadly had to be postponed. It was worth the wait though as they’re pleased to say that this time, they’ll be joined by one of the Directors for a post-film discussion!

Plot synopsis:

“Earth, present day. With human civilization facing ever-worsening climate calamities, the captains of industry set their sights on a new planet. Soon, a secret public-private partnership is selling tickets to Mars at a premium out of reach for the majority of the population, for whom the choice is either indentured servitude in the new offworld colony or perishing in the coming cataclysm.

When the world’s governments decide to speed things up by declaring war on Earth and the rabble they’re leaving behind, the planet forges a strategic alliance with an unlikely partner: an underground luddite movement. Some will join the uprising, others will become fanatical defenders of entrenched power structures, while yet others will do everything in their power to continue living exactly the same way they always have.

Its star-studded cast and astronomical production values — painstakingly purloined from some of the biggest blockbusters of the past three decades — make Earth II the most expensive climate disaster epic to be produced for no money.”

Running time is 97min. Recommended for ages 12 and above.

The film will start at 7pm, with doors opening from 6pm.

Food will be provided by Raggas and is included in the price of your ticket (suggested donation of £3 please). The event will finish at around 9pm including the post-movie discussion.

Metal will have hot and cold drinks available for free, with donations welcome. Popcorn TBC!

Event

The film will be followed by a live Q&A with a representative from the Anti-Banality Union.

Uncovering Birkenhead Working Class Hi...

Over the past year Convenience Gallery have been working with the local community to uncover memories of working class history, memory and life.

Building the beginning of a people’s history for the area. Unearthing the places, memories, and stories of the people who have worked and lived here in Birkenhead and Wirral over the past 100 years right up to present day.

Throughout the process they have held a number of sessions at the Stork Hotel, a brilliant pub of national significance in Birkenhead. Alongside events with The Wirral Deen, Christchurch Oxton, Spider Project, OOMOO, Birkenhead Market, Future Yard, Ron’s Places and Bloom Building. They will be hosting a final event and exhibition at the Stork, a historic pub, a pillar of the community and totem to history.

This event will include music, art, stories, films and more:

Over one hundred stories shared by local people throughout the project. These stories explore the lives and memories from the community across birkenhead. Uncovering stories of worklife, family life, community and social, music, events, locations of significance and much more.

This will showcase the creative’s outcome from the project with community shaped artworks from Jon Edgley, Charlie Ann Buxton, Astles, DJ Bell, Tash Evans and Declan Connolly.

They will be sharing the community built soundtrack of Birkenhead, showcasing an intergenerational playlist shaped by local people and mixed by DJ bell from SugarShack sound system,

They will be asking What Next? And how will we continue to tell the people’s story of Birkenhead?

They can’t wait to bring together all the stories and outcomes of this wonderful project into one place. Come and join them, have a drink, check out the wonderful historic location, share in the people history of Birkenhead and help them shape the future of this project.

This event is part of the Uncovering Birkenhead working class history project and is supported by Historic England’s Everyday Heritage Grants: Celebrating Working Class Histories.

Homesick for another world: Sustainabl...

This workshop will approach sustainability in writing: how can we avoid writers’ block and reliably create inspiration where there isn’t any?

Ellie Hoskins will be sharing her go-to method of harvesting examples of others’ writing and language that she likes and using them as the starting point for her own writing. They will be using a spider diagram/mind map format, using quotes that she has found in books and on the internet as prompts to expand upon with your own thoughts. When you have filled the paper and generated enough of your own words, you will form a poem out of them.

More about workshop leader: Ellie Hoskins

Ellie Hoskins is a multi-disciplinary artist and writer from Cumbria, now based in Liverpool. Her work is diaristic and frank, combining slapstick millennial nihilism with an immersion in the rituals and details of everyday working life. Making and sharing her visual/text works online, she seeks to capture moments of private absurdity with self-deprecating clarity, emphasising their universality as she brings them out into the light.

Ellie founded and facilitates the unofficial online art/writing school Phlegm, which culminated in an exhibition at The Royal Standard in 2021 and is currently in its second year. Other recent projects include a text installation on the exterior of Bluecoat, a collection of short texts commissioned by Montez Press, a reading at the ICA London, and a solo exhibition at OUTPUT.

Where: Pink Sands Studio

Time: 6:30pm

What to bring: Just yourself for this one!

More about the CRAFTBAR programme:

CRAFTBAR is a new innovative programme of free access to creative workshops and labs focusing on sustainable and circular skills, thinking, practices, making and design. The labs will take place at venues across the town of Birkenhead including: Pink sands studio, Birkenhead Park, Pilgrim street arts centre and Open Door Charity.

CRAFTBAR is free and open for everyone to attend and take part in a range of fun and inspiring creative activities including: Ecology and foraging, herbalism, fermentation and sustainable cooking, creative activism, puppetry making, weaving, writing, sculpture and building from waste materials.