Liverpool Arts and Culture magazine
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Liverpool Events
Liverpool Filmmakers ‘Page 28 Studios’ Set For Bright Future
The filmmakers at Page 28 are one of the fresh new enterprises making up Merseyside’s vibrant creative sector. The three partners in the company met at Liverpool Hope University and decided to take their passion for film and production forward into their working lives. Abby Wooley, Producer and Business Manager, said: “We’ve been working together since 2010 so creating our business was really just us officially cementing a partnership that had been in action for…
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Food and Drink in Liverpool
Titanic Hotel Summer BBQ Experience
The Titanic Hotel’s new BBQ experience launched this week and we had been lucky enough to be invited for an exclusive preview. As we entered the hotel, it was my first visit, you can not help but be impressed by the whole look of the place, it just gives out that luxury feel. We were given our gold boarding pass which was our Willy Wonka style golden ticket for the BBQ, rum shack and pimp my…
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Bars in Liverpool
Independent Liverpool Bring Oktoberfest To Liverpool’s Baltic Warehouse
Oktoberfest is coming to Liverpool 22nd, 23rd, 24th and 25th September, courtesy of Independent Liverpool. Bavaria meets Baltic Triangle in the Great Baltic Warehouse this September after the previous successes of Independent Liverpool’s Winter Wonderland and Summer Food & Drink Festivals. Local craft breweries and local food traders will gather amongst some more traditional German beers. Get your Lederhosen out and get ready for the steins and all German sausage you can handle. Tickets are on sale now here.
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Activities in Liverpool
New Mermaid Statues Set To Invade New Brighton
New Brighton sea front looks set to invite in some new inhabitants. Inspired by the myth of the Black Rock Mermaid, a number of mermaid statues produced by local community groups, artists and schools are set to spring up around the resort. Work is due to start on the project in the autumn and the statues should begin appearing by spring next year. New Brighton Coastal Community Team, responsible for the Mermaid Trail, hopes the…
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Bars in Liverpool
New Cocktail Bar Offering 160 Cocktails Launches On Seel Street
Be At One Cocktail Bar launched on Seel Street last week (Thursday 14th) with an exclusive night of celebrations for VIP guests from across Liverpool. The new cocktail bar opened to the public on Friday 15th July, boasting an extensive menu of over 160 cocktails for customers to choose from. The menu at Be At One covers every cocktail preference, whether sweet, sour, bitter or fruity, the menu will have a cocktail to satisfy. Cocktails…
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Entertainment in Liverpool
Liverpool’s Titanic Hotel Launches Five Star BBQ
It’s a sure sign that summer has arrived when the BBQs start to appear, though few will rival Liverpool’s Titanic Hotel who will be welcoming the good weather by launching their Colonnade BBQ experience on Thursday 28th July. The hotel, which recently won ‘Hotel of the Year’ at the Liverpool City Region Tourism Awards this year will be running its summer BBQ every Friday, Saturday and Sunday from July until 4th September for both guests…
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Comedy Clubs
Comedy Act ‘Tape Face’ Comes To The Epstein Theatre 19th October
The artist formerly known as The Boy with Tape on His Face brings his multi-award winning, multi-hyphenate spectacle to The Epstein Theatre in Liverpool. Join Tape Face as he conjures uproarious & moving tableaux using only the most everyday of objects and the most popular of songs. This truly is comedy made for everyone, be prepared to get involved and enraptured as you step inside a comedy world unlike any other. Visually stunning, heart-stopping, and…
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Activities in Liverpool
Liverpool Pride 2016; Preview
The build up to the annual Liverpool Pride festival has begun. Venues across the city are staging events in the lead-up to the festival. FACT are screening a number of films in August and September under the banner of Liverpool Pride at the Pictures. The Liverpool Icons/LOOK photographic competition has an exhibition at Liverpool One. There is a book launch for ‘What’s Your Pride Story?’ on July 23 at Studio 2, Parr Street. The book…
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Activities in Liverpool
Get Creative At FACT This Summer
This summer, leading media arts centre FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology) offers a range of exciting activities for young people and families, and continues to expand its programme for anyone interested in getting involved with making and experimenting with electronics. A partnership between FACT and the Liverpool School of Art and Design at LJMU, FACT’s creative technology hub FACTLab continues to welcome visitors of all ages to experiment and explore. Since its launch…
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Art Exhibitions in Liverpool
“A Collage For The Most Famous Club In The World” – The Cavern Club at 60
The Cavern Club is sixty years old in 2017. Members of the press and Liverpool’s music community are invited to The Cavern’s offices on North John Street to witness the unveiling of a collage created by local artist Philip Hayes to celebrate the Club’s 60th Birthday. Philip has previously produced collages for CREAM nightclub, The Farm, Cast, and is working with the Hillsborough campaign, local festivals, music venues and Unite the Union at the present time. Bill Heckle and Dave Jones, Cavern City…
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Activities in Liverpool
Darkstar Laser Adds A New Dimension To ‘Real Life’ Gaming
Darkstar Laser is encouraging youngsters to swap game-stations for ‘real life action-packed adventure’. Located on Central Street in St Helens, the UK’s largest indoor laser tag venue is set to provide a high- adrenaline experience, in a bid to offer a refreshing alternative to static gaming. In line with a recent study which states that the UK is home to the sixth largest video game market worldwide, director of Darkstar Laser Lynn Ben-Yousef is helping parents to minimise…
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Activities in Liverpool
Rave Your Way Into The Day With ‘Morning Gloryville’ Early Morning Rave In Liverpool
Morning Gloryville Liverpool Episode 11 will take place at Liverpool Loves Festival on Saturday 6th August. Morning Gloryville are delighted to announce their next collaboration with good friends ‘Liverpool Loves’ to return to the iconic Pier Head for their next weekend rave date. They will be presenting special DJ guests Jed Clark and Les Calvert, Carry on Misbehavin’ at Garlands go back to back and Marc Jones, from Erics to Evol, plus Medication DJs and…
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Liverpool Events
Brazilica Festival 2016
The annual Brazilica parade has again brought colour and a flavour of Latin America to the streets of Liverpool. The parade forms part of a weekend of events in the city centre and draws large crowds of people wanting to sample the joyous carnival atmosphere. Drum bands and dancers from all over the world came together with national groups to provide some of the best free entertainment Liverpool has to offer. Even Rio itself was…
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Bars in Liverpool
Santa Maluco Launch Party – Rodizio Pizza In Liverpool
Pizza, beer and cocktails – always sounds good doesn’t it? Well the guys behind Santa Chupitos and Salt Dog Slims, just to name a few of their successes have only gone and made that pizza, beer and cocktail thing their own with their new venture Santa Maluco. I was lucky enough to be invited to their launch night and it was boss! Santa Maluco is a Brazilian rodizio style restaurant. Which basically means eat as…
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Activities in Liverpool
Countdown To Brazilica Festival This Weekend; Preview
Just in time for the heatwave, Liverpool’s International Samba Festival will transform the Commercial District into a sizzling hotbed of colourful carnival action this Saturday, 16th July and Brazilica 2016 promises to be even bigger and better than ever before. The party will begin this Friday, 15th July, as the newly refurbished PanAm on Liverpool’s Albert Dock will host a dazzling evening of dance, costumes and Brazilian vibes for Brazilica’s annual Carnival Queen Competition where Brazilian dancers from far and wide battle it out for samba supremacy. The fun will continue on Saturday, 16th July as Brazilica takes over the historical Derby…
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Bands in Liverpool
Sound City Opens Artist Applications For Zandari Festival & MU:CON In South Korea
Sound City have announced today that applications are now open for artists to apply to showcase at Zandari Festival (30th September – 3rd October) and MU:CON (6th – 8th October), South Korea’s most important industry events. Zandari and MU:CON take place every October and form the gateway to the exciting and rapidly developing Korean music market. They are the biggest and most important city centre events of their kind in Korea. Taking place…
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Bars in Liverpool
Santa Maluco, Rodizio Pizza, Launches In City Centre
New ‘Rodizio Pizza’ restaurant in Liverpool city centre. Graffiti Spirits, widely regarded in Liverpool as prime innovators behind Liverpool’s progressive new cocktail and independent eating out scene has revealed that Santa Maluco will open next week. Director Matthew Farrell, one of the partners behind the fiercely independent group who already operate city centre bars Santa Chupitos, El Bandito, Salt Dog Slims, 81 Ltd and their ‘smokehouse and cocktails’ venue Slim’s Pork Chop Express said guests…
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Activities in Liverpool
Kazimier & Invisible Wind Factory Present: Krunk Apocolympics
The Kazimier prepares an interactive audio-visual sports party for the forthcoming armageddon. The Kazimier’s Krunk party format returns with the most important sporting event of 2016 – Apocolympics! This will be held in their new home on Liverpool’s North Docks- the sprawling entertainment complex Invisible Wind Factory. Throughout history, we have survived catastrophic disasters; from earthquakes to giant city-devouring monsters. With current political upheaval, we need to future proof ourselves, get in survival training and…
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Art Exhibitions in Liverpool
The John Moores Painting Prize 2016
Since the first John Moores exhibition in 1957 the standard of entries for the painting prize has been extremely high. The contemporary pieces in the 2016 exhibition are stunning examples of modern art, from the stark minimalism of Squint (19) by Michael Simpson, one of the prize winners, through the hyper-detailed Cave Floor by Donal Maloney to the neon and black splendour of Totem by Alex Rennie. Other highlights include the realism of No Ball…
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Bands in Liverpool
Liverpool Band Glossom Release 5 New Singles Each With Accompanying Videos Every Day From July 11th
Each Track Combined Forms Their New E.P ‘Verbatim’ Having taken Liverpool by storm with their awe-inspiring live show, Glossom quickly became a band that found themselves at the centre of several niche, musical communities. They released 2 singles recorded at Liverpools Motor Museum at 2015’s end, receiving big props and garnering a lot of attention, finding themselves on ‘Ones to Watch’ lists and opening their arms to a much wider audience. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RX6fnYB7T8I] ‘Verbatim’ will be…
