Bluecoat Archive

26 May 2014 19.00 - 21.30 £5/ £4 per person, bookable at www.physicalfest.com Part of Physical Fest A workshop combining guided experiments in mark making with theatrical performance to inspire...

11 October, 8 November 19.30 - 21.30 Members of the Liverpool Astronomical Society give an illustrated talk on astronomy and display telescopes for viewing the moon...

7 November 18.00 Jane Czyzselska, Campbell X, Paris Lees, Caroline Walters, Dr Meg Barker. According to sex writer Emily Dubberley there is nothing forbidden in the realm...

11 April 2014 19.00 - 22.30 £8 ADV/ £10 on the door Deep Hedonia and The Drawing Paper make a return to the Bluecoat with a new...

30 August 2014 Free Add some live music, food and drink and the School Lane arts centre becomes the perfect place for those wanting a blissful...

TRACE11 – 23 May 2010 TRACE, the third part of The Royal Standard's contribution to Global Studio exhibition. Curated by Laurence Payot, questions...

21 - 23 August 2014 10am - 6pm Free Find that elusive vinyl, plus CDs, DVDs, music books, and posters.

28 July - 15 September Open daily 10.00 - 18.00 Free Featuring work by: Rebecca Chesney, Tadhg Devlin, Dave Evans, 0point3recurring (David Henckel, Dan Wilkinson & Leon Hardman), Hannah Wooll, Kai-Oi Jay Yung  Celebrating...

21 - 28 March 2013 Open daily, Free Entry First year Fine Art (BA Hons) students from the School of Art and Design, Liverpool John Moores...

29 June 11.00 - 17.00 2dartmarket at the Bluecoat are showcasing regional artistic talent at their Summer Market. Original artwork will be on sale including paintings, textile art, etchings,...

2 December 2014 2-3pm Be taken on a theatrical adventure to find Nana’s van. This inclusive and unusual promenade theatre piece will take place in...

16 May 2015 5.30pm Free, booking required Tricia Porter and Othello De’Souza-Hartley (L8 Unseen, Museum of Liverpool, 8 Apr - 6 Sept) discuss their experiences of documenting Toxteth /...

The Bluecoat, Spring 2011 Listings What's on at the Bluecoat in Spring 2011. Exhibitions, Festivals, Literature, Paticipatory events, Music, Live art, Comedy, Dance, Printmaking and...

The Bluecoat: The Void 26 April - 29 June Opening times: 10am – 6pm. Open till 9pm on Friday 18 May for Light Night. Venue: Top Floor,...

13 & 14 September 2014 11am-5pm Free. Book for the building tours Find out about the Bluecoat’s transformation from charity school to contemporary arts centre on this...

What's on at the Bluecoat December 2009 / January 2010 Listings   Throughout December 2009Christmas shopping at the BluecoatOur creative community of independent retailers will...

10 July 2014 18.00 Free Inspired by Liverpool's International Festval of Business, management specialist Peter Bond discusses how art and artists can provide solutions to some of the thorny problems...

3 - 16 March 2014 Open daily 10.00 - 18.00 Free The exhibition will contain work from The Critter Shed's first project ‘Creatures from the Deep,’ and...

18 May - 14 July 2013 10.00 - 18.00 In collaboration with Amber/Side, Newcastle, we present classic works by August Sander (1876-1964) and Weegee (1899-1968), two...

8 February 12.00 Colin Dilnot leads this walk through Wirral’s hidden wilderness, connecting to the themes of neglected places between town and country explored in the...

22 January 19.00 Echoing some of the themes of the Soft Estate exhibition, this programme comprises several recent films that explore aspects of our overlooked urban...

7 February 2015 2-3pm Free Artist, editor, curator and music publisher Alan Dunn leads a tour of the Listening exhibition. Find out more about the exhibition by clicking here.  

17 May - 16 June 2013 Part of LOOK/13 Photography Festival Exploring identity through still life, Liverpool photographer Adam Lee creates large-scale prints, which document everyday...

07 December 2012 - 03 February 2013 One of South Africa’s greatest contemporary artists, William Kentridge is acclaimed worldwide for his films, drawings, theatre and...

The Bluecoat: Public Debate "Should living, consenting adults be allowed to donate their own human tissue to art?" Date: 8 February Time: 18:00 - 20:00 pm “Should...

17 June 2015 7pm Tickets: £6 / £4 Test Dept emerged in the 1980s as one of the most influential early industrial music acts. Marking 30 years since...

8 March 14.00 - 13.30 Free, just turn up. Join curator Jo Stockham and artists as they reflect on their work and the themes explored in the...

The Tiny Touring Round The World Exhibition24 May - 6 June 2010 For the fourth part of The Royal Standard's contribution to Global ...

18 - 19 April 2014 10.30 - 17.00 Collectible books and lots of bargains. The Bluecoat, School Lane, Liverpool www.thebluecoat.org.uk

'Next Up: Liverpool Art Now'. 12 December 2008 – ENDS SUNDAY 22 February 2009  Free admissionA group exhibition showcasing 39 artists living and working...

22 April - 5 May Daily 10.00 - 18.00 Free For two weeks the Bluecoat is turning its galleries into an archive space to reveal its century-long...

26 June 2014 19.30 - 21.30 Tickets: £4/£3 Liverpool Poetry Café : Monthly readings by the very best contemporary poets continue with Sean Street and Alicia Stubbersfield with music by Dominic Williams.  

26 June 18.30 Through music and words inspired by a letter that tells of the emptiness felt by those who leave their homeland, La Carta is...

Gallery tours Every Friday throughout 'Now Then' Exhibition 28 March, 4, 11, 18 and 25 April, 2 May Meet at the Hub - 12.00pm...

Saturday 23 January 2016 – Sunday 13 March 2016. Gordon is interested in addressing the exhibition as a ‘theatre in the round’: highlighting shifting perspectives when staging her work. Here she presents the first solo exhibition in Bluecoat’s Performance Space, accompanied by a longer running exhibition in the Vide.

Saturday 18 July - Sunday 27 September 2015. An exhibition examining the usefulness of art and twenty-first century arts centres, featuring work from a wide range of UK-based artists.

18 October 2014 3pm Phil Morton & Mark Hanslip present an audience with Jean Michel Van Schouwburg. Loosely described as a voice workshop, local artists are invited to attend...

22 March - 13 April 2014 Open daily 10.00 - 18.00 Robin Tarbet presents a selection of work, which examines the material residue of technological progress...

11 February 2015 7.30 - 9.30pm Free, drop in A monthly space for musician to meet and improvise together.    

8 May 2014 19.00 - 21.00 Tickets: £5/£3 WOW Festival 2014 presents Red, Green and Radical Three Irish writers from radical traditions, Danny Morrison, Tim Brannigan and Kevin Higgins, will be exploring...