Heritage Open Days – Liverpool. Still a month away but you need to book a place for most tours. The once-a-year opportunity to see the inside of many of Liverpool’s great old buildings. Including the 3 Graces, the Athenaeum, the [...]
Heritage Open Days 2006 o New programme of character walks introduced for 2006 o 08 Place hosts ‘talking suitcases’ exhibition on Welsh history o TV’s David Dickinson to appear at St George’s Hall on Saturday AN EXTENDED eleven-day Heritage Open [...]
Via liverpool08.com Homotopia will be swinging from the spires when the city’s celebration of homosexual culture is launched in a magnificently refurbished church. Bringing gay films, exhibitions, artwork and performance to the core of Liverpool’s cultural scene, this is the [...]
HOMOTOPIA Liverpool’s Queer Culture Festival Thursday Nov 1st until Sunday Nov 19th 2007 Homotopia, now in its fourth year, in association with GaydarNation, will be presenting more than 65 events in 3 weeks in a variety of venues across Liverpool. [...]
LIVERPOOL’S GAY FESTIVAL HAS VERVE AND VOGUE Liverpool’s annual gay cultural festival will launch next week with its biggest and best ever programme. Now in its 5th year, Homotopia is set to deliver over 50 events including several new commissions, [...]
Yes, another festival coming up, includes lovely exhibitions at CUC and lots more. Check out the website at www.homotopia.net Homotopia – Here Come The Girls! Wednesday 4 – Sun 29th November 2009 This year the Homotopia festival offers you 3 [...]
Homotopia’s seventh sizzling year A bit thin on the visual arts this year sadly but still lots of other stuff to see and do… Liverpool’s unique celebration of LGBT culture returns in all its Autumnal glory in 2010 with a [...]
I have been bombarded the last couple of days with reminders for this closing event, which presumably means there’s still a good few tickets left. If its your cup of tea then do buy tickets and have a great night. [...]
Includes exhibitions at the Walker, CUC, FACT, the Gallery Liverpool… The full line up is now online. http://www.homotopia.net/?page_id=1434 Homotopia 2011 is back and ‘Cruising For Art’ in and around Liverpool from 1st until 30th November. With over 35 events including 5 [...]
There were some suitably scary sights on Halloween evening at the Alma De Cuba bar for the launch of Homotopia 2005. I don’t know the names of the guys (?) who were greeting people, Gary Everett who has directed the [...]
Piazza Art Market at Hope Street Feast This Sunday 19th September 2010 10.30 – 17.00 Open Culture is bringing together over 40 local artists and designers for the Piazza Art Market at this Sunday’s 5th family-friendly Hope Street Feast. The [...]
Took advantage of the lovely weather today and got the free bus up to Wellington Dock for the second day of the Liverpool HUB Festival the UK’s biggest and best free urban and extreme sports youth festival. Extreme sports are [...]
There’s now more details about this years Liverpool HUB Festival and a map of the area at Otterspool on the hub website: http://hubfestival.co.uk Its this weekend – May 17/18 2008 11.00 – 18.00
The Liverpool Hub Festival is back again this year – and back in Otterspool, 29-30 May 2010 weekend. The graffiti artists will be there in force I’m sure and here’s a call for bands to sign up… Does your band [...]
Liverpool HUB Festival 21-22 May 2011 at Otterspool Park. Full details on the website: http://www.hubfestival.co.uk/ HUB 2011 is excited to annouce that they have joined forces with Liverpool Sound City, world class industry conference to host the official “Liverpool Sound [...]
39 Art Week 09 Liverpool Enjoy ‘39 Art Week (Thank you Art Week)’. 9 – 15 March 2009 Enjoy a gallery crawl, celebrate art and receive special offers! “39 Art Day” (Thank You Art Day) is 9 March. It is [...]
Hurray, another of our favourite annual events is coming along very soon. As well as the carnival day on Saturday 1 August there are other events from 19 July onwards and the Opening Ceremony at Novas CUC on 27 July [...]
This was great fun. We just watched them set off from Cambridge Street then caught up with them again on Hope Street as this is right on our doorstep. Would have been interesting to see the parade around Concert Square [...]
Banksy’s Rat (now unprotected) overlooks the Year of the Rat celebrations. A bit misty today and cold but otherwise a good day for a lengthy street parade and that’s what you get with the lion and dragon dance around Liverpool’s [...]
The Chinese Year of the Rat starts tomorrow, February 7 2008. Looking forward to seeing the dancing, music, firecrackers etc. all around Liverpool’s Chinatown on Sunday from around 11.30 onwards. More details on the artinliverpool news pages and the Liverpool [...]
Liverpool Comedy Festival | Home. No visual art element this year it seems but good for a laugh.
Liverpool Design Festival 30 October – 8 November 2009 More details. Don’t say we haven’t told you. You may recognise the two young designers above from the Design for Life programme on BBC2 with Phillipe Starck. A celebration of design [...]
THURSDAY 6 – SUNDAY 9 October 2011 at various Liverpool venues. Liverpool Design Festival is an annual celebration of design and contemporary craft, organised by Design Initiative. This year’s festival plays host to 30+ separate design events across the city. [...]
Tickets for the public opening of the Design Show, a showcase and selling event at the heart of the Liverpool Design Festival, are now on sale on the Festival website. Design Show Open to the public: Saturday 20 November – [...]
THURSDAY 6 October – SUNDAY 9 October 2011 at St George’s Hall. The Liverpool Design Show. Taking place at St George’s Hall, Liverpool, the 2011 Design Show will be open to the public on Thursday 6th to Saturday 9th October, [...]
Via Culture Liverpool… Lift your spirits next Friday 5th November 2010 as three city centre parks come alive with colour and music… To commemorate Liverpool’s Year of Health and Well Being this year’s FREE 5th November celebrations will see three [...]
Liverpool – Annual City Fireworks: November 5 2009 (7:30pm) Newsham Park . Sefton Park . Walton Hall Park FREE Admission Forty years ago man made history and landed on the moon. To commemorate this momentous occasion, this year’s FREE November [...]
The SAGA Double Dutch skipping squad of 8 year-olds, Stephanie Pritchard, Aimee McDonald, Abi Briggs and Georghia Williamson show off their new skills in Clayton Sq today. This was to publicise the new double dutch project. These kids aren’t quite [...]
Liverpool is also the Capital of Festivals. There are so many they can come and go before you even realise. Fortunately the Irish Festival 2007 runs long enough to be sure of catching at least some of it but we’ve [...]
LIVERPOOL IRISH FESTIVAL 2010 LINE-UP ANNOUNCED The Liverpool Irish Festival runs from 15 – 31 October 2010. The full line-up for this year’s Liverpool Irish Festival has been unveiled with organisers heralding a return to its musical roots. The festival, [...]
Lovely hot weather for the Liverpool Lord Mayor’s 2007 Parade yesterday. We watched it pass along Lime Street, a big crowd there. We missed the very beginning so didn’t actually see his Mayorness, never mind. The Homotopia float was very [...]
Liverpool Lord Mayor’s Parade – June 7 2008. Starting at 13.00 from Pall Mall. Map and full details on the llmp website: www.llmp.org.uk This year’s Lord Mayor’s Parade promises to be as spectacular and colourful as ever as Liverpool’s Walk [...]
Liverpool Lord Mayors Pageant Saturday 6th June 2009 Liverpool Lantern Company in collaboration with LUXe and Liverpool City Council, have been working together with 20 diverse child, youth and community organisations from around the city creating costumes, music, choreographed dance [...]