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Arts and Culture
52 for 26: A Year of Poetic Noise Across Merseyside
In January 2026, Liverpool Noise will begin something that looks modest on paper and feels anything but once you scratch the surface. The 52 for 26 Poetry Project will publish one poet a week, every week, for the whole of the year. No grand launch. No competitive framework. Just poems arriving steadily across twelve months — accumulating, conversing, disagreeing, and gradually forming a picture of where Merseyside poetry is as of 2026… From the outset,…
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Liverpool News
The Reader Launches Reading Heroes Christmas Appeal 2025
In the space between reader and child, a future starts to take shape… In a city that knows the power of voices being passed down, shared and amplified, it feels only right that one of the UK’s most quietly radical literacy projects is rooted in Liverpool. The Reader’s Reading Heroes project – launched in 2016 – doesn’t shout. It doesn’t dazzle with tech or gamification. Instead, it does something far more subversive in 2025: it…
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Music
The Choir with No Name: Big Christmas Singalong Returns to the Tung Auditorium
The Choir with No Name performance carries a particular charge — the kind that comes from lived experience, shared resilience, and the simple power of voices rising together. In Liverpool, that energy has been cultivated for more than a decade, and on 14 December 2025, it will fill the Tung Auditorium once again as the choir brings its Big Christmas Singalong back for a third year. Founded in 2014 and long guided by the exceptional…
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Arts and Culture
Creative Spotlight: In Conversation with Paulina Kurzydlowska
Paulina Kurzydlowska – charting a practice where memory meets the modern There is something quietly radical in the way Paulina Kurzydlowska works. She moves easily between memory, nature and the digital, letting thread, paint and pixel coexist in ways that feel both intuitive and deliberate. She describes herself as a mixed-media fine artist working across painting, textiles and digital processes, creating what she calls “new ways of experiencing our physical world.” Her work always seems…
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Theatre in Liverpool
Valley Community Theatre Brings a Classic Panto Tale Home to the Heart of Netherley
The Valley Community Theatre is opening 2026 with a familiar seasonal highlight: its annual pantomime, a fixture that has become something of a local tradition in Netherley. This January, Valley takes on Dick Whittington, but with a twist that roots the story firmly — and affectionately — in L27. In this reimagined version, Dick and his ever-resourceful cat set out not for London, but for Netherley, in search of opportunity, adventure and the occasional bit of trouble.…
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Arts and Culture
Preview: An Evening With Seán Street
Liverpool’s literary and broadcasting worlds are set to converge later this month for a distinctive evening of poetry, conversation, and sound. On Friday 21 November, acclaimed poet, writer and broadcaster Professor Seán Street will appear at the Liverpool Friends Meeting House for a reading and discussion hosted by Liverpool Poetry Space. Tickets are free, and the evening promises not just a sharing of poems, but an exploration of how words and sound create meaning, connection,…
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Theatre in Liverpool
Jhanaica Van Mook on Bringing Liverpool Spirit to The Scouse Christmas Carol
Liverpool Royal Court’s annual Christmas spectacular is back — louder, cheekier and more full of heart than ever. This year’s festive offering, The Scouse Christmas Carol, opens on Friday 7 November and runs until 17 January 2026, promising a riotous mix of Dickensian ghosts, Scouse humour, live music and, in a new twist, a touch of murder-mystery. At the heart of the show is Jhanaica Van Mook, a rising star whose name you’ll want to…
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Arts and Culture
Creative Spotlight: In Conversation with Sorrell Kerrison
Sorrell Kerrison — Threading Colour, Chaos and Compassion In the vast and vibrant landscape of contemporary textile art, few voices hum with as much honesty, energy, and defiant colour as Sorrell Kerrison’s. A self-taught embroiderer, musician, and multidisciplinary artist now based in Liverpool, Kerrison’s practice is a deeply personal dialogue between sound, texture, and emotion — a visual symphony where needle and thread replace strings and frets. Once a touring musician and frontwoman, she has…
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Arts and Culture
Ken Horton: A Life In Colour Exhibition Coming To The Cornerstone Gallery
Rhythm, light and colour – Ken Horton steps back into the spotlight… Ken Horton’s upcoming exhibition at The Cornerstone Gallery, A Life in Colour, offers Liverpool audiences the chance to step inside the creative world of one of the city’s most quietly influential artists. Running from 6 November to 18 December 2025, this retrospective gathers together paintings spanning more than forty years – from figurative beginnings to luminous geometric abstractions that pulse with life and…
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Theatre in Liverpool
Review: Weeping Bank’s Way Marker at Unity Theatre
A superbly haunting tale that whispers beyond the stage and into the Liverpool night. In the candlelit hush of the Unity Theatre, Weeping Bank’s Way Marker unfolded like a folktale rediscovered: something ancient, unearthed from the soil of England’s darker, sodden corners. The company’s UK tour arrived in Liverpool tonight, the eve of Halloween. The clocks have gone back, the nights are drawing in, and the city itself feels that familiar tilt toward the mysterious…
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Theatre in Liverpool
Bad Lads: Mike Kenny and Jenny Sealey on Turning Testimony into Theatre
Truth, Trauma and the Power of Telling… Theatre has the power not just to reflect society but to bear witness—and with Bad Lads, writer Mike Kenny and director Jenny Sealey fulfil that charge with uncommon courage and integrity. Rooted in the testimony of men who endured life inside the Medomsley Youth Detention Centre in County Durham during the 1980s, the production reaches beyond drama into urgent social reckoning. Kenny, best known for his versatility and…
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Theatre in Liverpool
Nick Lane Brings a New Sherlock Holmes Mystery to Life at Shakespeare North Playhouse
From Page to Stage: Stitching Together the Holmesian World… Running from the 5th to the 8th this November, the ever-inventive Blackeyed Theatre brings its latest touring production, Sherlock Holmes: The Hunt for Moriarty, to Prescot’s Shakespeare North Playhouse — promising mystery, intrigue, and a thrilling night at the theatre. Adapted by Nick Lane from the works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, this brand-new play takes audiences back to London, 1901. The Empire trembles as Queen…
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Theatre in Liverpool
Weeping Bank’s ‘Way Marker’ to Haunt Liverpool’s Unity Theatre This Halloween
The Chills Are Coming: Liverpool Unity Theatre to Host an Evening of Ghostly Tales… After a sold-out tour of the Midlands and an acclaimed appearance at the UK Ghost Story Festival, the unique and unnerving storytelling of The Librarian of Weeping Bank is set to captivate Liverpool for the first time. On Thursday 30 October the intimate setting of the Unity Theatre will be transformed into the candlelit study of the enigmatic Librarian for a…
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Theatre in Liverpool
A Fairytale Spectacle: The Sleeping Beauty Coming To Liverpool Empire
If you’re after a little magic this October, then step inside the Liverpool Empire and prepare to be transported. English National Ballet are bringing Sir Kenneth MacMillan’s The Sleeping Beauty to town, and it’s an evening that promises pure wonder. We all know the story – Princess Aurora cursed at birth by the deliciously wicked Carabosse, doomed to prick her finger on her 16th birthday. But thanks to the Lilac Fairy’s intervention, death is swapped…
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Music
In Conversation – Rachael Jean Harris
Wildly original and beautifully human — Rachael Jean Harris has a voice that makes the everyday feel profound… Liverpool singer-songwriter Rachael Jean Harris appears as part of the Yoko Ono Lennon Lunchtime Concert Series at Liverpool’s Tung Auditorium on Wednesday 22nd October 2025. Rachael has been described by BBC6 Music as “wildly original,” fusing folk, jazz, and progressive elements to carry listeners through evocative narratives. Long a devotee to the richness of language, poetic imagery,…
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Theatre in Liverpool
Lost Atoms – A Frantic Exploration of Love and Memory
Frantic Assembly’s Lost Atoms is a raw, physical dive into love, loss and the fragile nature of memory. Written by Anna Jordan (Yen, The Unreturning, Succession), and directed by Frantic’s Scott Graham, this new production fuses movement, light and sound to explore how we remember — and misremember — the people who shape us. Jess and Robbie (Hannah Sinclair Robinson and Joe Layton) meet in a liminal “No Man’s Land”, where fragments of their past…
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Arts and Culture
Creative Spotlight: In Conversation with Blaise Drummond
Between Nature and Architecture: Blaise Drummond’s Quiet Pursuit of Balance. In the latest instalment of the Liverpool Noise 2025 Creative Spotlight series, we turn our attention to Blaise Drummond, a Liverpool-born artist whose work quietly excavates the tensions between the built environment and the natural world. Raised on the fringes of the city—suburban Heswall, in his case—with marshes, untamed patches of land and the edge of industry always in view, Drummond’s early years planted the…
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Arts and Culture
Wirral Poetry Festival 2025: Poetry Swaps The Page For The Stage
This weekend, Port Sunlight transforms into a living stage as the Wirral Poetry Festival 2025 arrives on Saturday 4 and Sunday 5 October. With its rich mix of performances, competitions, workshops, and community events, the festival is set to be one of the most welcoming and vibrant arts gatherings on Merseyside this autumn. For two days, the village’s theatres, galleries, and green spaces will become poetry hubs. Expect a programme that moves effortlessly from family-friendly sessions to bold, cross-arts performances.…
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Music
Sarathy Korwar Talks INDIKA Festival and His Forthcoming Album
Future Yard continues to cement its reputation as the place to catch boundary-pushing music, and this November it plays host to Sarathy Korwar as part of the city-wide INDIKA Festival. Curated by Milap, INDIKA is a celebration of contemporary and classical Indian arts, and Korwar’s appearance feels like a perfect fit. Born in the US, raised in India and now based in London, Korwar’s sound is impossible to pin down. Rooted in Indian classical rhythm…
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Theatre in Liverpool
Valley Community Theatre Brings Powerful Double Bill to Liverpool
This October, Valley Community Theatre presents a striking double bill of theatre that blends history, activism and raw contemporary storytelling. On Monday 6 October (Valley Theatre, Childwall Valley Road) and Tuesday 7 October (The Studio Beyond, Wood Street), audiences can experience The Ballad of Crooked Lane and Wake – two works that promise to challenge, move and inspire. At the heart of the evening is The Ballad of Crooked Lane, a new play that shines a light on one of…
