Want to help uncover Birkenhead’s working class history? Do you have memories, stories and moments that you want to share about the working class history of birkenhead?
Do you want to be a part of shaping the people’s history of the area? Want your story to be told? Come to Birkenhead Park Visitors centre on Saturday November 26th from 10am-4pm.
Over the day there will be a range of interactive activities for all ages. Head along and get involved to help uncover the stories and histories of the area and discover untold histories with our team, volunteers and other members of the community.
Please feel free to bring objects, images, articles or other items related to a memory, story, workplace, family history etc. If you have them.
Head over to the park visitors centre on the 26th and uncover the working-class history of Birkenhead.
Details:
This event is free to attend
The event is open to all ages
This is part of Historic England’s Everyday Heritage Grants: Celebrating Working Class Histories.
Head along and meet scientists from the University of Liverpool at World Museum’s interactive, hands-on science day for all the family.
Follow their treasure map around the stalls and discover more about the human body and the amazing world around us!
There’ll be lots of fun activities for children of all ages and adults too.
Join Bluecoat for their first Business Breakfast.
The morning will start with tea, coffee and pastries in their city centre striking Grade I listed building.
You’ll hear from the Bluecoat team about this award-winning contemporary arts centre, which is a home for artists, and a place where audiences can experience art in new ways. They’ll also let you know about some of the ways businesses can benefit from working with the Bluecoat.
You may be a regular visitor to the Bluecoat, perhaps to the galleries, café or garden, or you may have never had the chance to visit. As part of this event there’ll be an opportunity to join a short tour of the building and see the main features as well as a few peeks behind the scenes.
Don’t miss this great opportunity to network with other businesses, right in the cultural heart of Liverpool!
Artsgroupie CIC, and The Athenaeum have teamed up for a special celebration of traditional festive entertainment.
For those who enjoy that nostalgic Christmas feeling, the public are invited to a unique festive event to mark the beginning of December and the Yuletide celebrations.
A unique evening of recreation in the historical surroundings of The Athenaeum, a 225 year-old private members club, founded in 1797 by prominent Liverpudlians of the day. Feelings of festivity couldn’t be more heightened than in this setting of Roaring Twenties aesthetics at 12-18 Church Alley.
The team will present a personally selected collection of well-known poems, stories and carols to share, a cornucopia of festive joy.
Those with Scrooge-like tendencies are encouraged to stay at home
Friday 2nd December at 7:30 pm
Tickets £12
https://bit.ly/3t0cL1o
Illustration by Ella Dalton
The Hell Bus is in town for one night only! Join Make. for a look inside the bus, followed by a talk from creator Darren Cullen.
Darren Cullen is a satirical artist, illustrator and writer, born in Leeds to Irish immigrant parents and currently based in London.
Cullen initially thought he wanted to go into advertising as a career, studying it at Leeds College of Art where he learned the language and techniques of the medium but became steadily horrified at the ethical implications involved.
Cullen abandoned advertising to study Fine Art at Glasgow School of Art. He now uses the language of advertising to make work about the empty promises of consumerism and the lies of military recruiters.
Which parts of our identities want to be seen? How does our self-perception change with who is seeing us? How are we moved by seeing what might otherwise remain hidden, silent, or invisible?
Join the team for a ‘watch party’ of a streamed performance created live by five artists in five countries and live-mixed by George Maund.
Witnessed in Translation is a project led by Mary Pearson with collaborators Carolina van Eps, Michael Kaddu, pavleheidler and Elvan Tekkin. Together they have been developing techniques which evolved during lockdown to transmit physical, sensory and relational experiences through screens.
Their focus is on improvisation mixed with stories reflecting multiple experiences of cultural displacement and translating words into gestures, body states, energies and images.
Playing with care and curiosity, laughing and crying, lost in translation and fumbling towards liberation.
A facilitated post-performance discussion among the audience at the gathering will offer an opportunity to share experiences of witnessing and consider livestream as an emergent artform.
Witnessed in Translation is rooted in Liverpool with support from FACT, Together, Kitty’s Launderette, and Independent Dance. It is supported through public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.
Award Winning Film Organisation First Take have partnered with Queer Bodies Poetry Collective to bring you an evening of QUEER inSIGHT: a flux-fuelled evening in celebration of all things LGBTQIA+ with Spoken Word, Live Music, VJ and DJ sets to bring you the best of the Queer North West!
Join them as they celebrate the eccentric, the moving, the strange, the joyful and most importantly the VISIBLE in this queer fusion of words and music as part of HOMOTOPIA Festival 2022.
For more information or further enquiries relating to cost or access, please contact producer Becky on queerinsightbecky@gmail.com
A double bill of live music, hip hop, film, and poetry, from Liverpool’s finest and 20 Stories High.
TOUCHY is a collection of award-winning short films on the theme of touch. Unique stories told through a mash up of eye-popping animation, heartfelt music video, and gripping drama.
ANTHOLOGY is a raw piece of gig theatre that promises to raise the roof! A collection of uncompromising, emotive, and funny, personal testimonies about the highs and lows of transitioning, PDA for same sex couples and uplifting tales of Black empowerment.
Shakespeare’s Macbeth retold by imitating the dog
It will have blood, they say
Three mysterious figures enter the stage. They talk of the hurly-burly, of thunder and lightning, and of a young couple who believe they can overthrow the old regime. They conjure the Macbeths, placing them in a dangerous new world where paranoia, betrayal and brutality rule.
Blood will have blood
Fusing live action with innovative video technology, imitating the dog bring their “breathtakingly inventive” (The Times) style of storytelling to Shakespeare’s tragic tale of ambition, destiny and downfall.
An audacious and daring retelling made for the audiences of today, Macbeth is a neon noir thriller where Shakespeare’s original language collides with startling new scenes, stunning visuals, and a powder-keg intensity.
There are additional matinee shows, check here for details.
imitatingthedog.co.uk
Physical Fest are hosting a workshop with Tmesis practitioner, Charles Sandford
BODY SONG- Physicality, Imagination, Play
How can the body sing, vibrate, transform, unlock and speak its stories? This workshop draws from the craft of acting & embodied practices to reconnect Impulse to Action and Body to Imagination.
Whether you are an actor, performer, mover, maker or interested person, this is an invitation to explore our connection and disconnections within the body, to awaken its wildness and unlock our bodies potential for expression.
Charles Sandford is a theatre maker, actor and movement director who specialises in embodied theatre. He works across the UK & internationally, including with Tmesis Theatre, Theatre Re and laboratory theatre companies Animikii Theatre & Eden’s Cave Company.
