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Art Exhibitions in Liverpool
Exhibition Preview: Between Homes – Josh Wentz Explores Migration, Connection And Belonging At Gallery 1889
Leaving a place can be easier to describe than the feeling that follows. Familiar surroundings disappear, routines loosen, and the question of where we belong becomes unexpectedly difficult to answer. For artist Josh Wentz, that unsettled territory provides the starting point for The Journey, his forthcoming solo exhibition at Toxteth’s Gallery 1889. Bringing together imagery of migratory birds and portraits of people within the Bridge2 community, the exhibition considers movement, displacement and the search for home. Wentz approaches these subjects through…
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Arts and Culture
52 for 26 Poetry Project: Amina Atiq
A Childhood Framed in Kodaks: Migration, Memory, and Becoming Scouse… Memory has a way of clinging to the smallest things — a disposable Kodak, the click of a shutter, the way a mother counts in her first language while her children try their best to stand still. For Amina Atiq, those fragments are more than nostalgia; they are the foundations of identity, inheritance, and resistance. Her poem Cobblestones takes one such early photograph — taken…
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Arts and Culture
Creative Spotlight: Michelle Marshall
A life-long love of live music, a fleeting moment in the light – Michelle Marshall on photographing a scene she calls home… Long before Michelle Marshall began photographing Liverpool’s music scene with any sense of professional purpose, she was taking a camera to gigs and hoping for the best. Film would be developed, the results inspected, and the distance between what she remembered seeing and what she had actually captured would become apparent. The photographs…
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Arts and Culture
52 for 26 Poetry Project: Eva O’Connor
A young poet turns family memory into something living, exploring love, loss, and the stories that outlast us… There is something quietly astonishing about hearing a voice as young as Eva O’Connor’s speak with such emotional clarity. Only fifteen, living just north of Liverpool, she already writes with the instinct of someone who understands how memory works its way into us — how it blurs, softens, and yet somehow becomes sharper with time. She tells…
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Arts and Culture
52 for 26 Poetry Project: Millie Foster
Holding Stillness: Millie Foster on Endings, Intimacy, and the Spaces Between Small moments often hold the deepest truths, and that’s where Millie Foster’s poetry finds its pulse. Working between Liverpool and Boorloo/Perth, Australia, she writes with a sensitivity to the subtle shifts that shape our lives: the fleeting expressions, the soft hesitations, the emotional afterglow of an evening we thought was ordinary. Her work thrives in the quiet, in those fragile thresholds where one chapter…
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Art Exhibitions in Liverpool
The Space In Between: A Collaborative Photography Exhibition Coming To St George’s Hall
Ruth Dillon and The Lifeboat community explore identity, connection and the power of telling our own stories. Who gets to tell our stories? And who decides how we are seen? These questions sit at the heart of The Space In Between, a collaborative photography exhibition coming to The Stable Gallery at St George’s Hall this November. Developed from participatory workshops led by Liverpool artist Ruth Dillon with Faye Maloney and The Lifeboat Recovery Community Hub CIC in Kirkdale, the…
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Arts and Culture
Mark Thomas Brings 40 Years of Comedy, Campaigning and Chaos to Liverpool
At 22, Mark Thomas wasn’t thinking about where he might be in 40 years. He was thinking about doing as much stand-up as possible, keeping his day job working on a building site with his dad and, when pressed to contemplate the distant future, apparently imagining himself “dead in a hot tub.” Four decades later, the hot tub has thankfully failed to materialise, while the comedy career has expanded into something considerably bigger, stranger and more consequential than even…
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Arts and Culture
Poetry Without Boundaries: Anne Vegter and Astrid Alben Come to Liverpool
Anne Vegter has spent more than three decades refusing to keep poetry in a single box. Her work moves between the playful, the erotic, the enigmatic and the disturbing, often finding its energy in the uncomfortable spaces between them. On Thursday 19 November, the Dutch poet, writer and former Poet Laureate comes to Liverpool alongside poet and translator Astrid Alben, in an event presented in partnership with independent publisher Prototype. Part of New Dutch Writing, supported by the Dutch …
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Music
Gig Preview: Formal Sppeedwear – Angular Art-Rock Clocks In On Jordan Street
Liverpool’s autumn gig calendar gains a particularly intriguing appointment on Tuesday 3 November, when Stoke-on-Trent trio Formal Sppeedwear bring their restless art-pop to District, armed with debut album Punch Card and a musical approach that should make for an absorbing evening in the Baltic Triangle. Presented by HSP, the date offers an opportunity to catch a band whose adventurous instincts are matched by an appreciation of rhythm, melody and the considerable pleasure of making people move. Released through Melodic in…
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Things to do in Liverpool
Susan Calman Brings Tall Tales to Liverpool After a Decade Away
Susan Calman returns to stand-up with ten years of life, television and unlikely adventures to unpack. Ten years can do strange things to a comedian. In Susan Calman’s case, they have taken her from the immediacy of the stand-up stage to cruise ships, Scottish roads, television studios and dance floors, while turning her into one of those increasingly familiar broadcasters whose enthusiasm for whatever happens to be in front of her seems remarkably difficult to fake. Which makes her…
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Arts and Culture
52 for 26 Poetry Project: Tim Fletcher
Before the Internet, We Managed Just Fine: So What Changed? We talk a lot about convenience these days. The one-click life. Groceries at the doorstep, banking without the queue, a world delivered rather than encountered. But Tim Fletcher isn’t convinced that this shiny, streamlined existence is the progress we pretend it is. His contribution to the Poetry Project 52 for 26 turns its gaze toward the hollowing-out of our daily interactions, and the creeping strangeness…
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Arts and Culture
52 for 26 Poetry Project: Colin Watts
From London to the Mersey: A Poet Who Found His True Home A certain magic happens when someone arrives in Liverpool and instantly feels at home; it’s as if the city has been quietly keeping a seat warm for them. For Colin Watts, that moment happened half a century ago, when he swapped London for the banks of the Mersey and immediately sensed the pulse of a place that runs deeper than postcodes or accent.…
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Theatre in Liverpool
Review: English National Ballet’s Romeo & Juliet at Liverpool Empire
A sumptuous revival of Nureyev’s enduring tragedy. A sumptuous feast for the eyes and ears, English National Ballet’s revival of Rudolf Nureyev’s Romeo & Juliet brings together the pleasures of a luxurious stage picture, Prokofiev’s magnificent score and dancing whose dramatic conviction makes a familiar tragedy feel compelling once more. And with Liverpool Empire playing host, this is an evening in which the scale of the production and the intimacy of its central relationship work beautifully together. Nearly fifty…
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Arts and Culture
Brendan Lyons Brings Reel to Real to Birkenhead’s Hamilton Vault
Paint escapes the canvas as Brendan Lyons plays with perception, material and the architecture of an extraordinary space. A former bank vault beneath Hamilton Square in Birkenhead seems an appropriately strange place to encounter the work of Brendan Lyons. Concrete walls, concrete floors and the lingering suggestion of what the space once contained provide considerably more than a backdrop for Reel to Real, his new solo exhibition in Birkenhead. For an artist who has spent much of his practice asking…
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Arts and Culture
Creative Spotlight: Prof. Seán Street
Seán Street: Eighty Years of Curiosity and the Art of Paying Attention… A four-year-old boy stands in a garden in Wittering, Sussex, as the summer light begins to fade. Beyond the garden is woodland and, from somewhere among the trees, comes a scream. Perhaps a fox, perhaps an owl killing some smaller creature; whatever made it, the boy doesn’t know. What matters is that he hears it, wonders about it, and remembers. More than seven…
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Arts and Culture
52 Ways of Seeing: Liverpool Noise Launches Art 52 for 27
One year, 52 artists and 52 different ways of looking at the world. A year is a surprisingly useful unit of measurement. Long enough for something to develop its own character, short enough to retain a sense of momentum and, conveniently, made up of 52 weeks. Throughout 2026, Liverpool Noise used those weeks to publish 52 poems by 52 poets. 52 for 26 began with a very simple idea: each week we would give one poet a little space…
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Arts and Culture
52 for 26 Poetry Project: Patrick Long
A Moment of Calm in the Midst of Chaos: Poetry from Recovery Patrick Long’s poem for Project 52 for 26 is a quiet, unflinching snapshot of a moment both ordinary and extraordinary. Penned a few months into recovery, it captures the fragile space between fear and relief, between anxiety and an almost accidental serenity. It’s Liverpool, but not in the usual landmarks of heritage or nightlife. This is Liverpool ONE, outside the changing rooms of…
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Theatre in Liverpool
Preview: Valley Theatre’s A Moveable Feast Comes To The Hope Street Theatre
Valley Theatre brings a year of performance, local writing and a little Dario Fo inspired irreverence to Hope Street. Community theatre has always occupied an important place within Liverpool’s creative landscape, not least because it offers something that larger productions cannot always replicate: the opportunity for people to discover performance by actually doing it, working together and eventually taking that work in front of an audience. For Valley Theatre, based in Belle Vale and Netherley,…
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Music
Preview: Grace Elizabeth Harvey Brings Songs Of Devotion to Rough Trade Liverpool
Grace Elizabeth Harvey brings intimacy, imperfection and Songs Of Devotion to Rough Trade Liverpool. Grace Elizabeth Harvey’s relationship with Liverpool seems to have deepened at much the same time as her songwriting has begun looking more closely at another kind of relationship: the difficult, imperfect business of trying to connect with other people. On 15 October, those two strands come together when the Wirral-born singer-songwriter plays her headline show to date at Rough Trade Liverpool,…
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Arts and Culture
Mandela8: Journey to South Africa – Liverpool’s Young Filmmakers Follow in Mandela’s Footsteps
More than 6,000 miles separate Liverpool from Cape Town, but for a group of young filmmakers from Liverpool 8, a journey to South Africa offered something considerably more meaningful than distance: the opportunity to encounter the life and legacy of Nelson Mandela in the country where that extraordinary story unfolded, and to discover what it might mean to a generation born into a very different world. Their experiences have become Mandela8: Journey to South Africa, a documentary screening at…
