FACT have partnered with the Virtual Engineering Centre to host a ‘Digital Sandpit’ event for the Creative Arts and Music sector in the Liverpool City Region. The collaboration is supported through the ERDF-funded, LCR Holistic project.
A ‘Digital Sandpit’ provides organisations and individuals with a safe, risk-free opportunity to learn and experiment with new technologies and digital tools, bringing together key industry stakeholders to highlight the benefits of innovative technologies which will support the growth of digital within the sector.
Their event will start with presentations from digital leaders, followed by an opportunity to network with VEC’s digital engineers and browse tech demonstrations developed with local cultural organisations (such as FACT, Everyman & Playhouse theatres, LIPA, Cinema Nation, Wired Aerial Theatre, Royal Court, Melodic Distraction).
Attending the sandpit could help you to better understand what funded support is available, engage with technical experts and get to grips with new technology which could improve your business, enhance audience experience and facilitate better inclusivity.
LuYang Arcade Liverpool transforms the gallery into a retro-futuristic arcade composed of games, avatars and environments inspired by anime, sci-fi, Buddhism and neuroscience.
Motorcycle racing simulators, Space Invader joy-con towers and dance mat stations transport you to entertaining and thought-provoking worlds.
Through gameplay, the artist invites you to explore the idea of “living on the internet” and to abandon binary ideas of “identity, nationality, gender – even your existence as a human being”.
Merseytrails – Discover the rich history of Liverpool with something for locals and tourists alike.
From their, ‘Beginners Guide’ to quickly orientate yourself and learn about Liverpool’s origins to specialist, Music and American tours. They have heritage tours led by historical characters too. There is something for everyone. All of their tours are led by professional actors which means there are elements of street theatre throughout and you will leave better informed, educated and entertained.
ArtsGroupie CIC have a longstanding reputation of community work, facilitating workshops and providing educational opportunities for the community across Liverpool City Region and beyond.
To help fund this important work, ArtsGroupie have been branching into heritage work providing a number of walking tours, including the popular “Liver Bird Safari” which has a perfect 5-star rating on TripAdvisor, and the “William Roscoe Tour”. The income from which is reinvested in ArtsGroupie’s community efforts.
This year ArtsGroupie are grouping their various in-demand walking tours under one lucrative brand, Mersey Trails. A heritage branch they hope will take their work to new heights.
Alongside their already established tours, ArtsGroupie CIC are launching two new tours in honour of Liverpool’s successful Eurovision 2023 bid.
“A Beginners Guide to Liverpool” will take participants on a journey from a rural fishing village that was almost abandoned, to the Metropolitan city we know and love today.
“Mersey Music History Tour” will look past the Beatles to uncover Liverpool rich and hidden music history.
From rural fishing village to a magical destination, ‘the pool of life’ is an exceptional place.
Make sure you see the obvious and famous, but don’t miss the unusual and mystical by orientating properly from the start with our Beginner’s Guide to Liverpool.
The tour begins at The Bluecoat and will take in the Old Dock, Albert Dock, Pier Head, St Nicholas’ Church and finishes at St. George’s Hall.
A well-rounded walking tour of Liverpool’s history taking in some of its famous landmarks and understanding its rise and fall and rise again to prominence.
Everybody knows The Beatles, but this tour looks past the fame of one band into the rich and fascinating history of Liverpool’s music scene.
From Liverpool’s musically classical beginning in the Victorian era, to it’s surge of Black music in the 1960s, find out how bands like The Beatles found their sound amongst many musical delights.
Discover the city that attracted sell out concerts from Hollywood’s golden era, and how Liverpool continued its international chart domination in the 80s through queer punk.
Beginning at St George’s Hall travel back in time with to uncover Liverpool’s hidden music history.
This event will open with provocations from guest speakers based on their experiences of delivering participatory projects which activate communities, influence democratic structures, and play with concepts of civic life.
Following the provocations and Q&A, attendees will be invited to reflect on these themes and what these ideas mean for their communities, arts practice and the participatory art sector more widely.
Open Spaces are participant-led events where the agenda and discussion are driven by the participants. At the beginning of the event guest speakers will be introduce the key ideas, principles and practices. Participants will then be able to propose sessions they’d like to lead or go to, and will be able to move freely between Zoom rooms to follow the topics they feel passionate about pursuing.
To celebrate International Women’s Day, Collective Encounters is hosting a special edition of our Arts for Social Change Showcase celebrating arts projects that are working with women to achieve social change.
The event will include 5 quick-fire presentations by artists passionate about using the arts for social change, and all presentations will explore creative work engaging women or addressing women’s issues.
There will also be a short work-in-progress performance from our Women in Action group, sharing this group’s approach to using theatre for social change.
There will be opportunities to ask questions of the contributors throughout.
An evening of rap-infused exploration and performances, featuring previews from Transcend Theatre’s (How to Kill a Rose, Unity Theatre) upcoming production be gay, do crime. All topped off with a DJ set from Ireland’s finest Liverpool-based queer artist, Bron.
Hosted by Transcend’s Felix Mufti (Sex Education, Netflix) and featuring performances from the cast of be gay, do crime, as well as opportunity to play and explore with Bron’s Open Decks set.
Head along, have a dance, and dismantle the system!
Tickets on sale now.
Wheelchair accessible
Seated and standing room
Performances will be captioned and there will be BSL throughout
Quiet space available for use throughout the evening
Alongside the classic Peter and the Wolf, join Gaspard the friendly fox and his furry chums in a warm-hearted adventure performed by their creator Zeb Soanes with live on-stage painting from the series illustrator, James Mayhew.
Accompanied by the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, this is the perfect way to introduce children to a live orchestra through images and storytelling.
Drawing from personal experience with contributions from participants from differing cultural backgrounds, the piece also explores how the migrant experience has influenced fathers and fathering across different generations.
The piece features three characters, each reflecting different experiences of fatherhood in their own individual performance language to create three interconnected narratives leading to a highly dynamic and original work.
Every performance of Fatherhood includes creative, integrated captions that will translate the spoken and signed languages and describe sounds for deaf and hard of hearing audiences. The sound design also reflects the experience of sound by the deaf character.
Fatherhood features a deaf character who uses his own home language, a version of sign language that individual families and communities develop, often where deaf and hearing people need to communicate. The show also features several different spoken languages, Turkish, Malayalam, Tamil and German.
