Things to do in Liverpool
There’s plenty of things to do in Liverpool for whatever your mood – Bongo’s Bingo, Family Raves, Crazy Golf, Outdoor Activities and more
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River of Light 2024: Map Route, Times & All You Need To Know
Get ready to be dazzled by Liverpool’s waterfront as River of Light returns for another year of stunning illuminated installations! This year’s theme is “Play,” and the twelve large-scale artworks promise an experience that’s both fun and thought-provoking. River Of Light 2024: Everything you need to know River of Light 2024 Dates & Times Friday 25 October – Tuesday 5 November 2024 5pm – 9pm nightly Free! Route Map Use the below map to guide…
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Step Into Spooky Fun at Ottersghoul – Tricks, Treats, and Thrills Await
This Halloween, Otterspool Adventure Centre transforms into Ottersghoul, a world of spooky fun, tricks, and treats for the whole family! Running from Saturday 26 to Thursday 31 October 2024, this event promises a frightfully fun experience for all ages. Ottersghoul 2024: Beetle Boogie – A 30-minute live-action show! This all-singing, all-dancing Halloween party will have the whole family moving and grooving. Featuring the most infamous villains of all time, get ready to dance, dance, dance…
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The Whitechapel Centre’s Open Door Fill A Bag Event Returns For The Autumn
Get ready to rummage, re-imagine, and revel in fashion for a fantastic cause! Open Door, The Whitechapel Centre’s charity shops, announces the return of its hugely popular Fill A Bag event. Calling all rummage enthusiasts, vintage and sustainable fashionistas! Dive into a sea of donated clothes from 3-5pm or 6-8pm (or both!). For just £12 per person, you’ll get a bag and two hours to score amazing finds among fantastic brands, wardrobe staples, items that…
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DaDa Marks 40 Years of Cutting-Edge Disability Arts Action With DaDa International 40
Liverpool-based pioneering disability and Deaf arts-led organisation DaDa is celebrating its 40th anniversary. The award-winning, cutting-edge multi artform charity was founded in 1984 and since then has become an integral part of the campaign for greater equality and access for disabled artists across the arts and cultural sector. It develops and presents excellent disability and Deaf arts through an artistic programme that includes high quality festivals and events, fed in to by a year-round programme of engagement…
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New Exhibition At FACT, Cosmotechnics, Redefines Technology With Installations From Latin American Artists
From Friday 8 November 2024 to Sunday 26 January 2025, FACT presents Cosmotechnics, a group exhibition curated by FACT’s 2024 Curator-in-Residence Beatrice Zaidenberg. Cosmotechnics showcases a series of transformative installations featuring video, sound, sculpture, and digital media. Using plants as a guide, the exhibition invites audiences to explore the relationship between culture and technology through the works of three Latin American artists. Cosmotechnics includes existing works by Atractor Studio, alongside new works by Patricia Domínguez…
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Laces Out! Trainer Festival Returns To Camp And Furnace For 10-Year Anniversary
Laces Out! Liverpool’s largest celebration of trainer culture returns to its original home for a special 10-year anniversary event. Laces Out! is marking its official 10th anniversary this October, and to celebrate the milestone, it’s heading back to where it all started – Camp and Furnace, Liverpool. Taking place on Sunday 13 October, this is a nostalgic return to the event’s original venue, where the very first event was held a decade ago. After over two years away from the…
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Topps Announces Return of Match Attax Tour Including Liverpool Date
Get ready for rare cards and thrilling live performances as the Match Attax 2024 Tour travels to Liverpool this October half term. Topps, the premier trading card brand of Fanatics Collectibles, has announced the return of its highly anticipated Match Attax Tour 2024 with four action-packed tour dates taking place in the UK and Ireland this forthcoming October half term holiday. Filled with loads fun activities and opportunities to form friendships while connecting with fellow football card…
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The Reader At Calderstones Park Announce Exciting Christmas Programme
Brunch with Mrs Claus, wreath making and A Christmas Carol Deep Read are just a few festive treats at The Reader, Calderstones Park, for Christmas 2024. The Liverpool-based UK charity’s festive offering will start on Saturday 23 November with Christmas Incy Wincy Rhymers, for one to four-year-olds, and Elves at The Storybarn, for four to nine-year-olds, running until Monday 23 December. These special seasonal sessions include festive sing-alongs, imaginative storytelling and Christmas crafts. One of…
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Disney On Ice Presents ‘100 Years of Wonder’ Skates Into Liverpool Next Spring
Celebrate with Mickey and friends as Disney On Ice presents 100 Years of Wonder returns to the UK for a second and final time, offering a magical experience for families in Liverpool. Bringing together your most beloved Disney characters, be wowed by the stunning costumes and incredible special effects as your favourites spin, sparkle and come to life before your eyes. The production will skate into Liverpool’s M&S Bank Arena from 6 – 9 March 2025. Re-live magical…
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Royal Albert Dock Art Trail At The Heart of Tate Liverpool’s Family Activity This Autumn
Tate Liverpool is organising a series of activities to inspire families and young art lovers to get creative and explore the waterfront this autumn. Visitors can follow Mildred, Tate’s art-loving cat, to find images of 6 artworks displayed around the inner quay of the Royal Albert Dock. There’s also family friendly arts and crafts for the October half-term holidays and tours of their latest display aimed at children. Inspired by the much-loved children’s book about…
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Don’t Miss Liverpool ONE’s Halloween Party This Month
Ghosts, pirates, witches – and everything in between – are set to take over Liverpool ONE as part of a spooktacular Halloween party. The event, which takes place on Sunday 27 October from 11am until 5pm, offers a full day of family-friendly thrills and entertainment, from spooky characters and performances to the hugely popular children’s Halloween competition. The annual children’s Halloween competition is back! Every year families bring their A-game to enter the fancy dress…
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Bongo’s Bingo Take That-Themed Bingo Nights ‘Relight My Bingo’ This Christmas
Bongo’s Bingo is ready to rule the world this Christmas as they announce their Take That-inspired specials over the festive period – welcome to Relight My Bingo in Liverpool. After selling out 2023’s run of Elton John-inspired shows last Christmas, it’s time to pack away the feather boas and funky shades and relight the fires in honour of the beloved boyband. Bongo’s Bingo this Christmas in Liverpool is going to be extra special. Jonny Bongo…
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New Interactive Exhibition, Art Plays Games, Opens 5 September at FACT Liverpool
Discover a free interactive exhibition dedicated to games created by digital artists and independent video game developers, open at FACT Liverpool from 5 September 2024 to Sunday 27 April 2025. Art Plays Games examines how artists are increasingly using games to offer alternative ways of making sense of the world today and to challenge conventional forms of storytelling. Over nine months, the exhibition artworks and games will rotate, introducing something new for audiences to experience with…
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Royal Albert Dock Announces Lineup For Free Bank Holiday Festival, Soundbites
As part of its packed programme for Festival of Summer, Royal Albert Dock Liverpool has announced the full lineup for its new free music, food and drink festival, Soundbites. From 2pm, three micro stages will pop up across the estate this bank holiday Saturday and Sunday with visitors able to hear feel-good tunes in Mermaid Courtyard, Britannia Courtyard and in front of the Martin Luther King Jr. Building. Enjoy performances from headliners, Casino (@casino_band_) at…
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La Feria Festival Returns To Celebrate Latin American Culture In Liverpool
Luma Creations is delighted to announce the 6th annual La Feria Festival in Liverpool, a vibrant celebration of the beauty and diversity of Latin American culture. Running from 10 – 15 September, the city will come alive with music, dance, theatre, art, and food, offering an immersive experience embodying the essence of Latin America, across a series of iconic venues. This year’s festival promises a thrilling array of events and activities that highlight the rich cultural…
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Experience Christmas Magic At Liverpool’s Kings Dock With Christmas-Shire Adventure
A unique and interactive festive adventure is set to light up Liverpool’s Kings Dock this Christmas season, offering families an extraordinary journey through the enchanted world of Christmas-Shire. Running from Saturday 16 November to Sunday 22 December 2024, this one-of-a-kind event promises a theatrical experience filled with fun, festive magic, and heartwarming encounters. In the heart of Christmas-Shire, Nutmeg the elf has been in charge of looking after the Christmas magic. Unfortunately, it seems Nutmeg…
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‘Island of Foam’ Immersive Experience To Take Over Liverpool ONE
An explosion of rainbow-coloured foam is set to take over Liverpool ONE this August. ‘Island of Foam’, a dynamic and temporary art installation by German artist Stephanie Lüning, will transform the Sugar House Steps near Liverpool ONE’s John Lewis on Saturday 31 August, from 2pm onwards. Commissioned by Culture Liverpool in partnership with Global Streets, this immersive spectacle will see vibrantly coloured foam grow, flow, and ultimately engulf the steps, completely altering the familiar space.…
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The Reader To Host Series of Shared Reading Events To Celebrate Wirral Borough of Culture 2024
Award-winning Cumbrian-born author Sarah Hall and inspirational Pakistani-born British poet Imtiaz Dharker are the first special guests announced for a trilogy of Shared Reading events from The Reader, celebrating Wirral Borough of Culture 2024. National charity The Reader is hosting a trilogy of Shared Reading events with special guest writers to celebrate Wirral Borough of Culture 2024. Sarah Hall is the first author to join the organisation for an afternoon of Shared Reading at Birkenhead…
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Festival of Summer Comes To Royal Albert Dock With Music, Food & Drink Festivals Taking Place
Having kicked off summer in style with a weekend of jam-packed colourful Pride celebrations, Royal Albert Dock Liverpool is continuing its programme of feel-good activities throughout August with its ‘Festival of Summer’. Offering a brand new music, food and drink festival, family-friendly activities and the perfect summer selfie spots, it’s all here on Liverpool’s iconic waterfront. At the centre of the festivities is Soundbites, the dock’s new festival showcasing some of Liverpool’s finest musical talents…
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HotShots Darts Now Open At Cains Brewery Building – First Look Inside The Venue
HotShots, Liverpool’s Drink, Dine and Darts experience at Cains Brewery Building, opened on Friday night (2 August) to rave reviews from their first competitive customers with guests hailing the new venue as ‘absolutely brilliant’ and ‘the most fun night out in a long time’. With experiential leisure growing in popularity HotShots has brought the magic of darts into the 21st century with 9 lanes of the highest quality Augmented Reality darting equipment, 4 interactive darts lanes, shuffleboard and…
