From dragonflies to beetles, you’ll be buzzing with excitement with the bug-themed activities in Tate Liverpool’s Learning Space this Easter holiday! Take inspiration from the creepy crawlies in Tate’s collection to construct multi-coloured neon replicas of your favourite bugs. Use the materials from our pick ‘n’ mix recycled craft box to make a 3D model of your bug.
On Saturday 5 April 13.00-15.00 there will also be a free workshop led by artist Colette Whittington. You’ll learn how to make relief stamps to print bug patterns and textures that can be used in your bug models.
Tate Liverpool’s Learning Space is open every day for visiting families- a space to relax and create with art games, colouring-in, books, toys and more!
They are generation hope, and in partnership with the Natural History Museum, they are exploring what changes we can make to benefit ourselves and the environment.
The theme of this year’s Earth Day (21 April) is ‘Our Power, Our Planet’. We believe that all of us have the power to:
- Use our voices and speak up
- Advocate for collective and global change
- Influence our peers
- Make individual changes
- Connect with our community
- Share learning, and learn from others
- And most importantly, make a difference!
What do you have the power to do? Head along and explore this question, make a pledge, and make tangible positive changes to your daily life that will help the planet.
This event has been developed by the Youth Engagement Forum, a group of 16-24 year olds at National Museums Liverpool. Young people are the future, and their voices must be heard.
Disabled people are impacted more directly by global issues such as the cost of living, the rise of the right, and the Climate Crisis is no different.
Using Artist Lois Weaver’s Long Table format, we will be inviting disabled artists and cross-sector professionals to participate in a carefully held discussion at Metal to discuss the climate crisis. Hosted by Liverpool Artist Dora Colquhoun, with contributions from disabled artists Liz Crow (UK) and ZU-UK, (UK/Brazil), they will explore climate change and disability from local and global perspectives.
About DDFI40:
DaDaFest International returns 8th-31st March 2025 to celebrate DaDa’s 40th Anniversary and this time they are coming with ‘RAGE: A Quiet Riot’.
DDFI40 will showcase work by disabled artists that captures all shapes and sides of rage. From the internal quiet frustrations and righteous rage, to overt injustice and activism, DDFI40 will explore disability rights, disability arts, access, ableism and ‘Rage’ in an explosion of creativity.
Now is the time for the unstoppable courage to preserve and protect our health, our families, our livelihoods…together. We must Invest In Our Planet, because a green future is a prosperous future.
Call to Action! As their exhibition Bees: A Story of Survival draws to a close they mark the interrelationships between this tiny creature and the future of our planet – and they plan for action right now!!
Join them at World Museum to explore how we can all do our little bit for our local environment. Create a bug hotel or simple bird feeder to look after their pollinators and make flowers out of used papers and think about how we can do more to reuse and not waste materials.
It has been 165 years since Charles Darwin published ‘On the Origin of Species’; a landmark text in evolutionary biology. To mark this occasion, they invite you to join them on an expedition to Hilbre Island, a landmark in the river Dee estuary and our ‘Galapagos’ in the North West of England.
They embark on a creative investigation of the island’s ecologies through storytelling, observational drawing, poetry and performance, looking closely at how the land, sea and humans interconnect.
Walking across the mudflats of the Dee estuary from West Kirkby and upon arrival at Hilbre island, attendees will listen to an audio guide, which comprises a history of the island and oral histories from locals.
On the island attendees will choose to take part in one of two workshops that observe and document the island 1) Creative writing and charcoal rubbings will record the island’s geology and generate a ‘mapping’ of the island’s geological history 2) a field sketching workshop to identify species of migrating birds visiting the island, before drawing an evolutionary (phylogenetic) tree.
Finally, a poetry performance based on collected oral histories and poetry, will be performed in a costume that turns a performer into the native sea lavender. We will then walk back to West Kirby before high tide.
This event is part of Being Human Festival, the UK’s national festival of the humanities, taking place 7–16 November 2024. Led by the School of Advanced Study, University of London, with generous support from Research England, in partnership with the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the British Academy. For further information please see beinghumanfestival.org.
Stories from the Climate Future
Take part in a research project on how we imagine climate futures. Share stories of your own future.
Date: Sunday, 27th October 2024
Time: 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
Location: Kitty’s Launderette
A listening and conversation event at Kitty’s Laundrette on Sunday 27th October 6.30 pm to 8.00 pm at 77 Grasmere Street, Everton, Liverpool L5 6RH. They will listen to the unique audio play Three Sisters – a story from the climate future, set in the mid 2030s in a climate-altered Britain, in the Nith Valley near Dumfries. Their collective listening session will last 30 minutes and will be followed by conversation, which will help imagine our own climate futures.
The event is organised by Lena Simic (Edge Hill University) and James Marriott (Platform), co-authors of Three Sisters – a story from the climate future. The complete audio play is available on all major audio platforms should you wish to experience it before or after the event. The play and artistic research have been funded by Arts Council England and British Academy.
Take part in a research project on how we imagine climate futures. Share stories of your own future. A listening and conversation event at Bidston Observatory Artistic Research Centre.
Listen to the unique audio play Three Sisters – a story from the climate future, set in the mid 2030s in a climate-altered Britain, in the Nith Valley near Dumfries. This collective listening session will last 30 minutes and will be followed by conversation, which will help us imagine our own climate futures.
The event is organised by Lena Simic (Edge Hill University) and James Marriott (Platform), co-authors of Three Sisters – a story from the climate future. The complete audio play is available on all major audio platforms should you wish to experience it before or after the event. The play and artistic research have been funded by Arts Council England and British Academy.
Please note that the Dome, where they are planning to hold the event, is only accessible by two flights of stairs. Please let them know if you have accessibility needs in order for them to be able to accommodate everyone. Tea, coffee and snacks will be provided.
Using Herbs workshop, 10am – 12pm. Meet at the Museum and find out about herbal history and lore.
Visit the Sky Garden to harvest a selection of herbs, before returning to the Museum to make a herbal bath / tea bag, herbal oil and handmade soap.
£5 per person to cover materials, payable in cash on the day please.
For info, or to book, contact Amanda Moore, Education & Sustainability Officer on: amoore@culturewarrington.org, 01925 361 730
Join BBC Gardeners’ World presenter and gardening writer, Monty Don, as he shares his passion for gardens and the unique role they play in human inspiration and wellbeing.
Monty has been making television programmes for over 30 years and has been lead presenter of the BBC’s Gardener’s World since 2003. Since 2011 the programme has come from his own garden, Longmeadow, in Herefordshire.
After a thrilling sellout tour in 2022 Monty is heading back out on tour where he will share tales from his career in gardening, detail his favourite gardens – both ancient and modern, and reveal how he fell in love with the natural world. Discover how he created his beautiful garden at Longmeadow, the gardening practices he considers to be the most useful and important, and the magical impact of the changing of the seasons on each part of the garden.
With something for seasoned gardeners and green-fingered novices alike, don’t miss the opportunity to join Monty for a timely and thought-provoking celebration of the ever-surprising and comforting presence of nature. This is the ultimate Monty Don experience.
Tickets for this event include a £1 venue restoration levy, included in the ticket price. This fee supports building investment at the Grade II-listed Liverpool Philharmonic Hall.
This two-day workshop will introduce participants to the diversity of flies occurring in Britain. Specimens will be used to practice finding and recognising key features that help to separate the various fly families.
There are over 100 fly families in Britain, containing over 7,000 species, so this workshop will focus on recognising families that contain larger sized species.
Their Tutor: Nigel Jones is County Diptera Recorder for Shropshire. He also co-organises the Flesh flies – Sarcophagidae Recording Scheme, the Empididae element of the Dolichopodidiae, Empididae and Hybotidae Recording Scheme.
