Interest area: culture

Family Weekender with Homotopia

Join Homotopia and friends for a weekend of creative activities and fun performances, suitable for all the family (however you define yours).

Featuring badge making, storytelling, live dance, and a huge family-friendly party!

Curious Arts present Mini Pride a pop-up, family focused event, inviting the public to ‘drop-in’ and celebrate everything that’s unique about families through arts, crafts and storytelling led by local artists.

DeNada Dance Theatre presents Bull & The Moon, a brand-new family friendly production that celebrates anyone who dances to their own tune. A fun, fiery and magical dance performance that blends contemporary dance, flamenco and theatre, this is a heart-warming story about the importance of being yourself. Directed by Carlos Pons Guerra for DeNada Dance Theatre, the work has been co-choreographed by Pons Guerra and flamenco artist Ana García.

Fatt Projects presents PALAVER Party is a fabulous performance party for kids (and their grown-ups too). We’ve invited all our friends to a party where everyone is free to be whoever they want to be. We’ll be joined by a spectacular line-up of performers and artists celebrating self-expression and all the things that make us unique (with a big dose of glitter thrown in for good measure). Get ready for music, performances, DIY costume-making, party games, sing-a-longs, glitter, and of course a rainbow disco for all the family.

Quick Duck Theatre presents Fashion Spies, where Devil Wears Prada meets Spy Kids in this fabulous and surreal choose-your-own-adventure comedy. The stakes and the shoulder pads have never been higher… Fashion Spies puts audiences right into the heart of the show. Find yourself on an undercover mission as you travel around the world with Quick Duck Theatre – your choices will help to thwart the biggest threat that fashion has ever seen.

FREE

Full schedule

Saturday

10:30  Mini Pride crafts workshop drop-in

12:00  Fashion Spies

13:30  Mini Pride crafts workshop drop-in

15:00 Fashion Spies

Sunday

12:00  Performance of Bull & The Moon (performance space)

14:30  Palaver Party (performance space)

 

Pulp Idol 2023 – Grand Final

Join in to find out who will be crowned Pulp Idol 2023 Champion!

Writing on the Wall have been running their annual Pulp Idol competition for over ten years, publishing the first chapters of the competition’s finalists in a printed, professional anthology that is distributed among a network of nationwide agents and publishers.

In their Pulp Idol 2023 Grand Final, their twelve finalists of this years competition will compete by reading the first chapters of their novel to their judging panel.

Meet their Grand Final Judges…

Kevin Duffy, co-founder of Bluemoose Books
Clare Coombes, founder of The Liverpool Literary Agency
Philippa Holloway, academic, author of The Half Life of Snails (2022) and Pulp Idol Alumni (2019)

And the finalists are…

Helen Alexandra Jones
Rachel Backland
Angela Cheveau
Chandana Das
Matt Holland
Phil Jones
Patrick Graham
Alisha Osman
Lee Stevenson
Susan Stout
Addae Gaskin
Amy Watkins

If you have any questions or queries relating to Pulp Idol 2023, please email Jenny Dalton at jenny@writingonthewall.org.uk

An Evening with Ms Sharon Le Grand and...

Maghull’s infamous daughter returns to Liverpool for a mind-blowing one-night stand!

Freed from That London (at least for the weekend) iconic performer Ms Sharon Le Grand returns to her roots, and she’s invited friends.

Get ready for an evening of cabaret, live music, queer comedy and full-blown mayhem. Handbags at the ready!

UTOPIAN (t&c’s apply)

Can the perfect utopia exist?

UTOPIAN (t&c’s apply) is a surrealistic circus pop-culture experience. Joined by their accomplice, Symoné takes you on an expedition asking you, “why do people abuse power roles?”.

Filled with high heel rollerskating, hula hooping, strip-teasing, and queer party madness. Join the world of psychedelic pilgrimage. You’ll be safe with us.

WARNING: This show may or may not contain autobiographical references about cults.

Tabby Lamb’s Trans Excellence

Homotopia Festival Artist in Residence Tabby Lamb gets up close and personal with some of the UK’s most sublime transgender artists, actors and creatives.

Featuring intimate interviews and live performances. In short, it’s the best damn chat show you’ll ever see!

Full cast of gorgeous trans artists announced soon

Queer Arts North at Homotopia

Homotopia Festival’s annual sector facing event, in partnership with the Queer Arts North Network. Are you a queer artist, duo or theatre company based in the North?

Join LGBTQIA+ arts network, Queer Arts North at Homotopia for an afternoon of workshops, discussion panels and networking. Find out about current opportunities and pitch YOUR work to a supportive and relaxed room of producers and programmers.

Tickets are free, but booking is essential.

Confetti

Felix is uptight and unlucky in love. He’s the mate of honour at his best friend’s wedding – one they’ve been planning since childhood – and he’s going to make sure it’s absolutely perfect.

That is, as long as there are no distractions along the way…

A queer rom-com from Will Jackson, star of Yours Sincerely at Homotopia Festival 2021.

Confetti follows wedding planner Felix, as he embarks on a romance of his own – and you’re invited!

 

Burning an Illusion

A time for celebration and reflection, Black History Month is one of the most significant moments of the year.

To mark it, FACT bring you a special programme of film that showcases standout Black talent, from the writers and directors to leading stars.

From 10 October, join them every Monday to discover the BHM series. Screenings will operate on a pay-what-you-can basis starting from £3.

Imaginate: Festival for Ron’s Pl...

A fantastic day of exhibitions, creative workshops, films, talks and DJs followed by a brilliant evening of live music and performance to raise funds towards securing the future of Ron’s Place, home of the late Birkenhead artist Ron Gittins, as a place to support and inspire creativity for all.

Be uplifted and inspired by spoken word artists Roy and Sam Batley and enjoy live music from supertalented local / locally-based legends Silent K, Beija Flo, Bill Ryder-Jones and Dancing to Architecture.

Step inside iconic Tardis-like gallery on wheels The Caravan Gallery to see photographs of Britain in all its sur/reality, and get yer gladrags on for a portrait by award winning photographer Casey Orr at her Saturday Town pop-up photo studio.

Kids and adults alike are welcome to get busy in their Creative Zone – feel free to bring along anything you’d like to incorporate in a collaged postcard of Birkenhead or their mutant toy totem pole sculpture – and get involved in the Underwater Creature Creation Station! We’ll also be joined by portrait artist Veronica Watson and painter Rob Ellis from Bluecoat’s Blue Room, an inclusive arts project for learning disabled and neurodivergent adults.

Their friends from Convenience Gallery will also be on site and eager to collect your stories for their Working Class History of Birkenhead project.

See filmmaker Martin Wallace’s amazing footage shot inside Ron’s Place and extracts from his C4 documentary series ‘Journeys Into the Outside with Jarvis Cocker’.

Future Yard kitchen will be open for food and drink.

Further programme details to be announced soon.

Young Homotopia: Hansel & Gretel

Young Homotopia is back with another fun and frolicking Fairy-tale adaptation.

This year they bring us the classic tale of Hansel and Gretel, with a very queer twist. Expect laughter, dancing, fabulous lip-sync and a some poignant and timely message too.

Head along and support the future of queer art and activism, with the talented, young LGBTQIA+ icons this city has to offer.