Festivals
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Festivals
Smithdown Festival 2021: Preview
Liverpool’s renowned Smithdown Festival will return this weekend for its fifth year running. After the 2020 line-up was cancelled, the organisers revealed an impressive list of acts for this year’s festival last month. Alongside some of Smithdown Road’s most popular venues, a handful of new additions have been added to the line-up including Leaf Smithdown, Tavern Co, St Barnabas Church, Foghertys and Meatless. Since 2015 Smithdown Road festival has been home to a range of…
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Festivals
LA FERIA – Liverpool’s Festival of Latin American Arts and Culture Is Happening This Month
LA FERIA, a festival of Latin American Arts and Culture is set to take over city centre venues in Liverpool this month. For their 10th Anniversary activities, local arts organisation LUMA Creations are proud to present LA FERIA, an innovative and colourful celebration of Latin American Arts and Culture. The programme of events, featuring an exciting line-up of dance, musical performances and activities, will give audiences the opportunity to experience the diversity of Latin American Arts and Culture at different…
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Festivals
bluedot 2022 confirms Björk as closing headliner
In a UK festival exclusive, bluedot Festival (21-24 July 2022) has announced a unique Björk performance as Sunday night headliner. The genre-spanning pioneer will be joined by The Hallé Orchestra at the UNESCO World Heritage site of Jodrell Bank Observatory, accompanied by a projection mapping spectacle. The audio-visual performance will feature video and animated projections on the iconic Lovell Telescope, for a unique show exclusive to bluedot. This will be the first-time audiences at bluedot…
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Music
Liverpool Digital Music Festival Announce Hybrid Festival For October
Now in its fourth iteration, Liverpool Digital Music Festival returns as a live streamed online and attend in-person event. The hybrid digital music festival takes place at recently opened live venue St Barnabas Church on one of the most famous musical streets, Penny Lane, on 7 – 9 October 2021. Holding its inaugural event during the pandemic and mindful of the restrictions it imposed, the festival started as a four day online-only festival showcasing over…
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Music
Electronic Sound Summit Announces Artists, Speakers & Venues for 2021
Electronic Sound Summit is set to take over Liverpool’s Baltic Triangle on Friday 3 and Saturday 4 September with a programme designed to educate, inspire and connect those working in the electronic music industry. 24 Kitchen Street, District, Brick Street, Baltic Hotel and more will host various industry and cultural sessions for upcoming artists to learn and grow both creatively and professionally. HE.SHE.THEY will present ‘The Future of Inclusivity’, taking a look at how promoters,…
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Music
Sound City 2021 Confirms Venues & Adds More Names To Lineup
Sound City is returning to its city centre roots as they announce venues and even more acts are added to the festival lineup. Sound City continues its preparations for an emphatic festival return this October – sitting not only as the definitive home of new music discovery in 2021 but also the celebrated return of the festival to its inner-city roots in the heart of Liverpool. Returning to the streets that originally played host to…
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Theatre in Liverpool
Participants Wanted for Theatre In The Rough New Eco-Arts Festival
Liverpool’s Theatre in the Rough has been awarded funding for a new digital arts festival exploring young women’s responses to the Climate Emergency. They are now seeking participants to create original work for the event. 400 Parts Per Million is an online festival of creative responses to the Climate Emergency. Participants will work with leading activists and environmental scientists from around the world over a four-month period, in order to learn more about the ecological damage…
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Festivals
Positive Vibration Festival of Reggae Announce 2021 Lineup
Dawn Penn to play at this year’s Positive Vibration – Festival of Reggae. Legendary reggae artist, Dawn Penn, will grace the stage at this year’s Positive Vibration – Festival of Reggae, joining an already stellar line-up, which includes Asian Dub Foundation, Mad Professor, Hollie Cook, Twinkle Brothers, Gentleman’s Dub Club, Zion Train, General Levy, Congo Natty, Mungo’s Hi Fi, Neville Staple, Jah Wobble, Tippa Irie and Benjamin Zephaniah. One of the original queens of reggae…
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Things to do in Liverpool
Everyone is invited out to ‘Play’ for LightNight Liverpool
Liverpool’s annual ‘culture-crawl’ LightNight returns to the city on Friday 21 May, when arts venues will throw open their doors until late at night to shine a spotlight on the region’s world-class artistic offer. Open Culture revealed the line-up of over 75 free arts events across the 30 venues taking part in the one-night only arts festival. With a combination of in-person events in Liverpool city centre, and an online events programme, the theme of…
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Things to do in Liverpool
LightNight Liverpool Unveils Seven New Commissions for 2021 Event
LightNight Liverpool will unveil seven new commissions when it returns on Friday 21 May 2021, in a combination of online and offline arts activity for the one night only arts festival. With a live drag cabaret event on Church Street, a synth-pop trio becoming a human instrument, a 3D cut out opera and a piece exploring sound waves and social gatherings, the theme of this year’s festival is ‘Play’. The theme ‘Play’ allows a reflection…
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Things to do in Liverpool
Liverpool Craft Beer Expo 2021
The Liverpool Craft Beer Expo 2021 will be outdoors, based on the site of Black Lodge Brewery in the Baltic Triangle. A weekend filled with sun (fingers crossed), music and most importantly – great beer. Beer / Cider / Food / Music / Gin / Cocktails As well as the huge outdoor garden space, there will also be ample covered space in the event of bad weather. Every step will be taken to ensure a…
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Festivals
Writing on the Wall Festival returns with high-profile guests
Liverpool’s Writing on the Wall Festival Secures Line-Up of High Profile Guests To Mark 21st Anniversary. WoWFEST: 21 Years of Radical Writing, which will run online throughout May, will see headliners including, film-maker Ken Loach, Children’s author and poet, Michael Rosen and television presenter, Jon Snow, all making appearances. They will be joined by Maxine Hong-Kingston, the Chinese American author and Professor at the University of California; Singer, song-writer, Tracey Thorn and crime fiction American…
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Music
Threshold Festival 2021 Full Line-Up Revealed
The final Threshold Festival – Threshold X will take place online on the 9 and 10 April with over 100 participating artists across music, performance and visual arts as well as interviews and panel discussions all from the safety of your own home. There will also be visual arts on display in the Baltic Triangle, outdoor and COVID safe, with details to follow. For ticket holders (2020 purchases also valid) the full District Sessions will…
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Festivals
Abandon Normal Deices / AND Festival 2021
Abandon Normal Devices – AND Festival resurfaces in 2021. With a new hybrid format, exploring the post-industrial landscapes of the Manchester Ship Canal and River Mersey, with an ambitious programme of in-real life field trips via augmented reality seascapes, immersive voyages and floating laboratories, expanded through an online programme of radical and disruptive artworks, film screenings, performances, talks and workshops. Inviting radical artists, critical thinkers and curious audiences to renavigate the industrial landscape from physical…
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Festivals
Positive Vibration Festival 2021 Confirm New Dates
Positive Vibration Festival has confirmed its new dates for their 2021 event. The festival was due to take place on 11 and 12 June 2021, however as the Government’s Roadmap out of lockdown plans were only announced recently it’s just not possible for the event organisers to hold the festival in June. The festival will now take place on 10 and 11 September 2021, in the Baltic Triangle. If you have already purchased a ticket,…
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Festivals
Homotopia Festival 2020 Preview
Nobody knows how to adapt and survive to strange times like the queer community and Liverpool’s Homotopia Festival is back with a bang for 2020 and a dynamic line-up of physical events and online happenings. In a year where everything has changed, the UK’s longest running LGBTQIA arts and culture festival will reach out into new places and spaces, including a drag promenade down Liverpool’s Hope Street, a ‘Queer the City’ art crawl and a…
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Festivals
Liverpool Irish Festival 2020 Preview
Irish comedian and TV presenter Patrick Kielty has been announced as the headliner for the Liverpool Irish Festival this October, as the cultural showcase goes online for 2020. The 10-day festival celebrates the connections between Liverpool and Ireland and although this year’s event will be exclusively virtual, will still feature an exciting line-up of music, film, art and spoken word. Patrick Kielty headlines the programme on 17 October with a special event called ‘Hard Histories,…
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Culture in Liverpool
BlackFest: Liverpool’s Black Arts Festival 21 – 27 September
Liverpool’s Black Arts festival, BlackFest heads both online and to city venues this September for a week long programme of diverse and thought-provoking entertainment and events. After two highly successful programmes in 2018 and 2019, BlackFest returns for its third annual festival this autumn with an exciting line up of music, theatre, film, performance, poetry, spoken word and panel discussions; many of them free to stream online. The festival opens on Monday 21st September with Locks, an online discussion about prison systems and racial profiling, featuring…
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Music
Sound City Festival Has Been Cancelled Due To Ongoing Coronavirus Concerns
Sound City Festival has been cancelled for 2020. Read the full statement from the team below. The Sound City team has been forced to cancel this year’s event due to the ongoing concerns with the Coronavirus pandemic. The team released the statement below: We are very sad to say that Sound City 2020 will not be going ahead this year. We have been faced with many challenges over these strange times and have been working…
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Culture in Liverpool
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…
