Transforming the Liverpool City Centre into a playground of imagination, with big, bold, visual and spectacular parade!
Expect a horde of drummers, dancers, fire artists, and illuminated props making its way down Bold St, with a grand finale at Liverpool One!
Juliana Pinheiro Landim, Katumba’s Co-Founder says ‘We are thrilled to bring back the Katumba Halloween Carnival as part of our city’s Black History Month programme.
This year our theme is a crucial tale of the lasting and detrimental impact we have on our planet, and how our actions on the Northern hemisphere affect those in the Global South. Through our diverse programme and powerful performance art, we aim to inspire and ignite a determination in onlookers and participants to make change – for the future of our planet, and future generations’’
For more information, please visit www.katumba.co.uk/halloween
A brand new, family-friendly performance developed with year three students from schools in St Helens and Knowsley.
Join Eggs Collective as they return to St Helens with their brand new show, made especially for children and families. This fun, energetic performance will feature comedy, music, and plenty of interactive moments, inspired by ideas from year three children through a series of workshops in local schools.
There are two performances of this show, and tickets are FREE. Please book a ticket for every person attending:
Saturday 12th November, starts 10.30am and 1.30pm at St Helens Town Hall
Family friendly, recommended for ages 5+.
Running time: 45 minutes.
This event is part of Take Over 2022.
Tickets and access information: https://www.heartofglass.org.uk/project-and-events/events/take-over-kids-show
It begins in darkness is a dance full of ghosts.
In this stark, stripped back performance, five dancers move through mysterious and experimental rites of passage, channelling past, present and future tensions through their bodies and voices. As if to exorcise the haunted house of history, the dancers whisper, jump, wrestle, shiver, wail and laugh, filling the space with horrors, both real and imagined.
It begins in darkness is an environment for processing the fear, anger and confusion which arise from the histories of slavery and colonialism that haunt the present.
Thursday 27 October, 7pm
Tickets: £8/£5
‘Crash Landing: A Theatrical Sensory Experience’ invites the audience into a transformed theatre space, to explore three distinctive and exciting worlds within ‘Planet Zoe’.
Zoe, an exuberant deaf space explorer, dramatically crash landed on a strange planet a year ago, a strange planet that she now calls home.
This performance will welcome the audience to explore it alongside her. Turning chronological narrative on its head, the audience will experience the show in a non chronological format, and will be travelling around and within the space.
There will be a sensory playground of alien inspired chaos – things to touch, smell, feel, and see, as well as experiencing digital elements such as BSL video performance, and stop animation creative caption storytelling.
There really is something for everyone on Planet Zoe!
Event duration
A window of up to 70 minutes per slot to allow a generous amount of time to move around the space
Ticket price
Pay What You Decide
Access
Audio description, BSL/English, Creative captions
It is mid-covid and 19-year-old Estelle is feeling alone and reflective. She sits in her much loved living room thinking about her entire life.. with her phone of course!
It’s her only connection to her two best friends, whose relationships will be tested over this time apart. With no one in the house and on a journey of pain, love and realisation, will she feel like this forever or will she begin to face the fears of her inner child?
With themes of social media, friendship, trauma, childhood and healing, join Unity Theatre for this powerful yet playful story as she explores the deepest parts of her head and her heart.
Liverpool Irish Festivalinvite you to meet their volunteer History Research Group, led by ArtsGroupie Director John Maguire.
Responsible for unveiling the research that now populates the Liverpool Irish Famine Trail’s site information, this group have been central to the Trail’s revitalisation, collectively spending 850+ hours on research! Closely linked with the development of this year’s book release –Liverpool Irish Famine Trail: Revive, the team discuss their findings and research activity in a presentation followed by a Q&A session.
The presentation intends to encourage new volunteers to join their friendly group and seeks community group engagement to help them RELEASE their findings into the Liverpool City Region. They can also answer questions and share our plans.
Please do attend to find out more and see how you and others can assist, either as a volunteer, community group, or project partner, that will help create assets that will enhance and protect the trail for future generations, adding to Liverpool’s cultural offer and in telling a globally important story.
For more information on the Trail visit liverpoolirishfaminetrail.com
BOOK FREE TICKETS HERE
Liverpool Irish Festival runs from 20th to 30th October. See the full listings of events HERE
24, 23, 22 is a gig-theatre show about the heat of the moment, and how our impulses create ripples which become waves.
Join our cast of two, armed with hand held mics, and an onstage beat-maker, for this little earthquake of a show.
Expect scuzzy beats, stolen bags, and the reversal of the flow of time.
Join gorgeous clown, Trash Salad, in her quest for connection: a genre-bending burlesque adventure, using lip sync, strip tease and song on a mission to understand intimacy.
Some call it a clown opera; a sexual odyssey; a compost-heap romance. Trash calls it a joyful queer-femme love story in the shape of a salad. Come and see the piece that’s made audiences ‘laugh, cry, and nearly piss’.
Birthed by award-winning theatre maker Rosa Garland.
LUMA Creations Director, Francisco Carrasco will chair a special panel event with three exceptional creative entrepreneurs Attila Olah, Nikki Blaze and Juliana Landim.
The event covers how they have negotiated and embraced the challenges of working in the creative sector. It will be an informal and lively discussion which will hopefully inspire and inform, and will include the importance of being able to do things differently, keeping up with the trends and changes in the industry, and in the world in extraordinary times and where you can join in, ask questions and meet other people starting or growing their own businesses.
You can book on this link for the FREE event – https://tinyurl.com/44nmm3c4
The Epstein Theatre are proud to announce that this year’s spectacular Christmas Pantomime will be the five star box office record breaking production of Goldilocks and the Three Bears.
The circus comes to town in Liverpool and promises to be just right with its mix of unbelievable circus tricks, madcap comedy capers, Regal Entertainments’ high production values, and a smash hit selection of chart hits to sing and dance along to.
Join Goldilocks this festive season who, with the help of the Three Bears, tries to save her Big Top from a rival circus owner! Get ready for a whole lot of family fun – it’s going to be panto GOLD!
Starring Hollyoaks hunk David Tag as the Ringmaster, the wonderful Olivia Sloyan as Goldilocks, local superstar Timothy Lucas as the evil Baron Von Vippenall, the hilarious Brandon McCaffrey as Silly Billy and BTG’s Dame extraordinaire Mama G, supported by a phenomenal local cast of future musical theatre stars.
Times vary and include matinee shows, check here for full details.
