Art Exhibitions in Liverpool
Art exhibitions in Liverpool’s museums and art galleries and creative spaces
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The Liverpool Irish Festival Returns With Film, Arts, Music, Food & Football
The 12th Liverpool Irish Festival returns to the city this October celebrating Liverpool’s unique relationship with Ireland and showcasing the finest in contemporary and traditional Irish culture. From the English première of Seamus Heaney’s final works to a celebration of Gaelic football with the first Liverpool Irish Festival Cup and a talk by John Larkin QC, Attorney General for Northern Ireland, this year’s Festival is bigger than ever spreading across ten days in a cavalcade…
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A Little Bit Of Filth & Glitter…Liverpool Based Artist Ben Youdan
Have you ever met someone who is a walking, talking contradiction? Someone, say, who is quiet and softly spoken but clearly has a fabulously dirty mind? Someone who looks like butter wouldn’t melt but wants to share his dark thoughts with you in the form of paint and glitter and sequins and feathers? Step forward Ben Youdan, artist and proprietor of Evil shop. Based downstairs in the old Central Hall on Renshaw Street in a…
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10 Bands 10 Minutes Holiday Banger: Madonna; Review
For just over two and a half years The Kazimier has been the home of a gig, a night and, most importantly, a party quite unlike any other that you’ll find in Liverpool (or anywhere else for that matter) its name is 10 Bands 10 Minutes. The premise is simple: ten bands each play ten minute sets back to back so tightly the people in the smoking area are rushing to finish the ends of…
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We Buy White Albums Exhibition At FACT
Preceding International Beatle Week beginning August 20th, Rutherford Chang has brought his exhibition We Buy White Albums to FACT. His collection consists of 1,000 original copies of The Beatles highly sought after White Album; each LP has its own serial number making each one unique. This ‘uniqueness’ was the main draw for Chang when he first put out his advert to any White Album owners or sellers 8 years ago. Chang saw the famous cover as a blank canvas…
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Flux Festival: A Summer of Art
As many of us well and truly know summer has been christened with the title ‘Festival Season’ and with many people jetting off to the likes of Glastonbury and Leeds it’s very easy to find yourself in a gloom watching the highlights on TV. However never fear because the glory of living in Liverpool is the showcases of culture it provides which includes this year’s fortnight long festival; Flux Festival. What is Flux festival? It…
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Africa Oyé 2014 Preview; Sefton Park 21st & 22nd June
With the recent spell of glorious weather we’ve been having set to continue, it seems only fitting that this weekend should see the return of Africa Oyé. Now in its 22nd year the African music festival is the largest of its kind in the UK and, without a doubt, one of the cultural highlights of the summer for Liverpool. The two-day event celebrates African music and culture and looks to showcase the very best of…
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Hidden Liverpool Announce Third & Final Exhibition ‘Future City’
‘FUTURE CITY’ invites you to explore the future of our city’s empty and underused buildings and how they could be creatively and sustainably utilised. Hidden Liverpool is an exciting year long project from PLACED that unlocks memories behind Liverpool’s empty buildings to create a vision for its future. The project focuses on some of the fantastic buildings that have played a part in the history of the city but are currently lying empty. The aim of the…
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Memories Of August 1914 – The Giants Routes 25th-27th July
Memories of August 1914 will run from 23-27 July, however the main walk will take place between 25th-27th. The Full Routes Are Detailed Below; Friday 25 July Little Girl Giant and Xolo 11am – 1.30pm approx Wake up 11.00am and leave Queensway Tunnel entrance via Old Haymarket, St John’s Lane, Queen Square Bus Station, onto Whitechapel, Paradise Street, Hanover Street, Ranelagh Street, Great Charlotte Street, Elliott Street, Lime Street down to Renshaw Street, Berry Street,…
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Light Night Review
There is a certain charm Liverpool has that is impossible to ignore, and the city certainly lived up to its reputation last Friday night. The annual culture festival, Liverpool Light Night, took place across the city at over 40 venues, showcasing the best arts and culture exhibitions the city has to offer. The exhibitions showed incredible variety, ranging from Chinese calligraphy to ice sculpting,reminding the public just why Liverpool held the ‘city of culture’ title back…
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Liverpool Light Night 16th May 2014 Highlights
We look at some of our highlights for this years Light Night; Friends of the Flyover & BEGAN Lighting The Way (Churchill Way Flyover, Cuerden Street, L3,10pm-11.30pm) Friends of the flyover invite you to join design professionals and students in creating a light installation on the walkways of Churchill way flyover. Carnival Show (St Peter’s Sq, 9pm-10pm) Liverpool Samba School and dancers take to the streets to celebrate LightNight. Experience a Rio style carnival show. Make A Liver Bird…
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FACT & The Mersey Forest Get Into The ‘Zone’ To Create A New Art Project
A new project commissioned by FACT and The Mersey Forest is encouraging people throughout the North West to explore the forgotten woodlands of Bidston Moss. ‘Zone’ is an innovative performance and film by the highly renowned international artists, Close and Remote, and is inspired by the Russian film, Stalker and 1971 science fiction novel Roadside Picnic. The unique creative project, which will run between now until the end of June, is set to capture the…
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Hidden Liverpool’s ‘People’s History’ Exhibition Opens 19th April
People’s History Exhibition; Sharing the secrets that lie behind Liverpool’s closed doors. What lies behind the closed doors of Liverpool’s empty buildings? What stories and memories do these fantastic buildings hold? How long have they lain empty and why? This Easter Hidden Liverpool, a year-long programme funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund delivered by Liverpool based social enterprise PLACED, will launch its’ second exhibition – People’s History Exhibition at Liverpool Albert Dock. The interactive exhibition will…
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Marvel Comics Artist & Lifelong Evertonian Will Sliney Talks EFC & Future Projects
Football comics have been dwindling in the lower leagues of popularity since the advent of the Premier League back in 1992, but are they about to make a ‘Roy of the Rovers’ style comeback? Award winning and best-selling comic artist Will Sliney believes a football comic competing with the American, super-heroes of Marvel may not be as much of a fantasy as it sounds. And if anyone is likely to be championing the football comic’s…
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Get Creative With One Of Liverpool’s Hidden Gems
On Saturday 25th January Hidden Liverpool are holding their first Creative Design Workshop, giving local people an opportunity to develop ideas that would make the Oratory and St James Gardens, located outside the iconic Liverpool Cathedral, more inviting places to visit. The workshop is the first in a series that will give people a chance to think creatively about how some of Liverpool’s buildings and spaces could be reused and improved. The workshop will be…
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Hidden Liverpool; A Journey Inside Liverpool’s Abandoned Buildings
Hidden Liverpool is a yearlong project that will unlock the history behind Liverpool’s empty and largely underused buildings to create a vision for the future. The Liverpool based Social Enterprise PLACED provides inspiration to young people and aims to increase their knowledge of architecture and the built environment created Hidden Liverpool, bringing an exciting project to Liverpool. The Lottery Funded enterprise will delve into the history of some of Liverpool’s most beautiful, intriguing and historic…
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Enter Hidden Liverpool’s ‘People’s City’ Photography Competition & Exhibition
Hidden Liverpool is inviting entries for its ‘People’s City’ photography competition and is looking for people to submit stunning images that portray people’s relationship with Liverpool’s empty buildings. The competition is the first major event of Hidden Liverpool – a yearlong project which asks people to share memories of empty buildings in Liverpool before thinking how they could be reused. The ‘People’s City’ competition, which is open to everyone, aims to get people looking around…
