Culture in Liverpool
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Liverpool Museums and Art Galleries Reopening Dates
As lockdown eases, some of our favourite arts and culture venues are set to open their doors again. Here’s a list of Liverpool museums and art galleries reopening dates. Liverpool Museums and Art Galleries Reopening Dates Bluecoat The Bluecoat is open now between Thursday and Saturday, 11.00am – 4.30pm. Only three visitors allowed at once. The Beatles Story The Beatles Story is open now, 10.00am – 6.00pm, pre-booked tickets only. British Music Experience The British…
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FACT Re-Opening in August – Here’s All The Dates and Info You Need
FACT galleries will be opening from Wednesday 12 August, with the Picturehouse at FACT re-opening on 31 July. Ahead of their re-opening they are letting all of their visitors know exactly how they’re doing this, so they can plan and enjoy their visit. The building is opening in the following phases: FACT galleries will reopen from Wednesday 12 August Picturehouse at FACT will reopen from Friday 31 July The Garden by LEAF will remain temporarily…
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Liverpool Arab Arts Festival Goes Digital: 9-18 July
Liverpool Arab Arts Festival goes digital for the first time in its history next week. The UK’s longest running Arab arts festival opens a door into Arab arts and culture from 9 – 18 July, connecting artists and audiences from across the UK. This year’s festival will feature events from Ramallah, Beirut, London, Jerusalem, Morocco, Aleppo, Kuala Lumpur and more. Established in 1998, the festival usually takes place each year in arts and cultural venues…
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I Am, You Are, Everyone Is ONEOFTHE8 – Time to share your story
Go anywhere in the world, further than the North West of England and nobody knows where the Wirral is. You explain to them that “it’s a little peninsula not far from Liverpool”, a nugget of information which is rapidly overshadowed by “have you ever met John Lennon?” or “why is it called THE Wirral and not just Wirral?”. Those who reside on the more rural side of the Mersey River will no doubt be smirking…
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Liverpool Without Walls: The Exciting Pilot Scheme For Outdoor Bars and Restaurants
Liverpool Without Walls aims to get the city’s bars and restaurants back up and running as soon as possible. The ongoing Liverpool Without Walls project to re-imagine the city under social distancing, has announced further details today. The joint project is run between Liverpool City Council, Liverpool BID Company – which supports 1,500 city centre businesses, and Liverpool Chamber of Commerce. It is hoped that the project will give businesses in Liverpool the best chance…
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Black Lives Matter – A Look at Liverpool’s History
In the year 2020, when the human race is arguably the most tolerable and liberal it has ever been, you would not think that “Black Lives Matter” would be a controversial statement; yet, for some people, they take offence to it and retort with “All Lives Matter” as though the original statement discredits the importance of the lives of those who are not black. Being a resident of the UK, it may be easy to…
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Milap Bring The World of Indian Music and Dance To The Masses
Milap, the UK’s leading Indian Arts & Culture company, is bringing the world of Indian music and dance to the masses during lockdown with a host of online interactive activities. Following a weekend of back-to-back live performances, workshops and discussions online to celebrate International Dance Day in April, the Liverpool-based organisation continues to provide high quality content via its online channels, featuring everything from full-length concerts from their ‘Music for the Mind and Soul’ archives, to…
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Liverpool Virtual Museum Tours – Explore World Famous Art From The Comfort of Your Home
Here’s your guide to Liverpool Virtual Museum Tours that you can do from the comfort of your couch, the perfect activity to do during lockdown. National Museums Liverpool On the National Museums Liverpool website you can do virtual tours of the International Slavery Museum, Dinosaurs and the Natural World, World Cultures and more. Visit https://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/virtual-tours#section–explore for information. Walker Art Gallery The Walker Art Gallery is available to do a virtual tour of on Google Arts…
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Join LightNight At Home This Year
LightNight At Home 15 May 2020 LightNight At Home will take place next week in place of the usual annual cultural event which happens around the city. From 5pm on Friday 15 May LightNight invite you to follow #LightNightatHome and join in an online exploration of work by many of the artists and organisations who had so much planned for the festival this year. Fittingly the theme for the festival this year is Home, and it…
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Join Milap Online To Celebrate International Dance Day
Milap, the UK’s leading Indian Arts & Culture company, is curating two days of inspiring and uplifting activities to mark International Dance Day on Tuesday 28 April and Wednesday 29 April, in collaboration with leading Indian Cultural resource, Sahapedia. International Dance Day Suitable for beginners and experts, audiences and academics alike, and both followers of Indian dance or just those who’re itching to get moving and explore the vibrancy of Indian culture. The jam-packed programme…
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FACT Liverpool Launches Online Programme of Events During Lockdown
FACT Liverpool has announced a free online programme that explores our relationship with the natural world. Over the next few months and beyond, the FACT team will be sharing a series of podcasts, live streams, videos, challenges and activities for you and your loved ones to get involved, enjoy and learn remotely. The Living Planet will look at how we can build a more sustainable, responsible global community. In the midst of a global pandemic,…
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Road to Nowhere: Part 2
A new month would bring about more challenges for the Purps and the start of two new campaigns in the league and FA Cup. Find out below if Liverpool Noise music writer Jamie Hankin could make City of Liverpool sing in the second instalment of his Football Manager adventure! August Butterflies in the stomach and anticipation in the air, the day underlined in the diary back in early July had arrived. The start of the…
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Coronavirus Lockdown? Football Manager Season Kicks Off: The Road To Nowhere
Liverpool Noise music writer, Jamie Hankin, is using the Coronavirus Lockdown to bring you all the action from his Football Manager exploits. Up The Purps! Recent circumstances have led to the majority of us having a lot more time on our hands than we could imagine. The current lockdown feels akin to the six-week summer holiday we used to have as kids yet laced with uncertainty and worry. To fill this time and keep our…
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The Mind Map Launch Instagram Live Sessions During UK Lockdown
Mental Health service, The Mind Map has announced the launch of regular Instagram Live sessions through their The Mind Map TV concept known as the Isolation Station For The Nation. The sessions will feature wellbeing demos, music, comedy, cooking and much more. The Mind Map’s founder Phil Bridges said: “We’re launching TMMTV to help minimise the deep effects social isolation can have on people’s physical and mental health. As we enter this period of social…
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The Baltic Farm Set To Create Urban Farm And Cultural Events Space In The Baltic
Liverpool City Council has approved plans for an urban farm project, the Baltic Farm, in the Baltic Triangle. The Baltic Farm started operating in the Baltic area last year and now plans have been approved for a space behind The Wedding House building to become their permanent home. The project is a joint venture of Great George Street and Farm Urban, currently based in the CIC Building, where the city’s first Vertical Hydroponic Farm is…
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Doc’n Roll Music Documentary Festival Returns 26 – 29 March
Doc’n Roll Music Documentary Festival, returns to the Mersey for its biggest and best event yet: the 5th Liverpool edition, which runs from from 26 to 29 March 2020 at Picturehouse at FACT and The British Music Experience (BME). From Zambian rock to MySpace-spawned waves of electronic creativity, Doc’n Roll Liverpool 2020’s five acclaimed full-length feature films each spotlight a unique musical landscape. Witness the births of movements both musical (Drum & Bass and the…
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FACT’s Year of The Living Planet Launches With New Exhibition 20 March – 14 June 2020
On 19 March, FACT’s Year of The Living Planet launches with the opening of a major new art exhibition, And Say the Animal Responded? What would animals say to us if we listened to them? What might we learn about the state of our shared planet? At a time when billions of animals are being lost because of human activity, we still place the interests of humans above those of animals. Studies show that animals feel…
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Liverpool One Celebrates World Book Day With Hundreds of Free Books
Liverpool One Celebrates World Book Day by spreading free books across the shopping centre… Bookworms of all ages can enjoy a special treat today (Thursday 5 March) as Liverpool ONE fills its streets with hundreds of books to celebrate World Book Day. The retail and leisure destination has teamed up with book sharing organisation The Book Fairies Liverpool to encourage visitors to discover a new story or pick up their favourite tale. As part of…
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Positive Vibration Announce Second Wave of Acts for 2020 Festival
The award-winning celebration of reggae music and Jamaican culture, Positive Vibration Festival has announced even more acts ahead of the festival’s return to the Baltic Triangle, Liverpool on 12 and 13 June 2020. Since its inception in 2016, Positive Vibration Festival of Reggae has established itself as one of the country’s most exciting and eclectic reggae festivals, playing host to internationally renowned bands, legendary sound systems + selectors and some of the brightest new talent.…
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Music For The Mind & Soul Festival
Much loved concert series Music for the Mind & Soul Festival returns to Liverpool in a brand new format this year. The one day festival will take place on 25 April and will offer an array of events. Inspired by Milap’s 35 year history, the new festival day will offer both loyal and new audiences a fresh and holistic experience of Indian Arts and Culture through a newly conceptualised day of performance, talks, workshops, yoga…
