FACT Archive

Thursday 12 May - Sunday 12 June 2016. Mark Storor exploring masculinity in new pop-up exhibition. Artist and theatre director Mark Storor creates an intimate reimagining of masculinity in his new pop-up exhibition The Simplicity of Truth, showcased in the FACT Connects space.

Friday 8 April 2016 - Sunday 1 May 2016. Scouse Roots tells the story of the artists’ roots in the city, and Liverpool’s influence on digital creativity, exploring empowerment through digital design in computer based and generative art from two generations.

Saturday 12 March – Wednesday 15 June 2016. unfold is a major new commission by acclaimed Japanese artist Ryoichi Kurokawa, exploring the birth and evolution of stars in a groundbreaking immersive and tactile audiovisual installation. This unique sensory experience will be part of Kurokawa’s first ever solo exhibition in the UK, premiering at FACT.

Friday 11 December 2015 – Sunday 21 February 2016. In a world where we use Instagram and Twitter ‘likes’ to assess who and what is important, the major new exhibition Follow will ask what impact the internet is really having on our concept of ‘reality’, and how we think about ourselves, our idols and those around us.

Friday 6 November 2015 - Wednesday 25 November 2015. 8 international artists will present the final outcomes of their residencies inspired by the idea of re-evaluating how we see our surroundings as part of a pop up exhibition.

Friday 18 September – Sunday 22 November 2015. Lesions in the Landscape by UK/Danish artist Shona Illingworth is a powerful new multi-screen installation, exploring the impact of amnesia and the erasure of individual and cultural memory.

Tuesday 7 July  2015 / 10.30 - 17.00 / FACTLab / FREE A one-day workshop on the eve of the Libidinal Circuits conference. This workshop uses mobile...

12 June 2015 6.40pm £10 / 8 - Get tickets Special preview screening plus Q&A with director Mike Tood, Jalal Nuriddin aka Lightnin’ Rod and coproduer and...

Thursday 4 June – Monday 31 August 2015. Explores how digital technologies come together with traditional processes to create new ways of working, sharing and collaborating.

9 April 2015 8.30pm £12 - book now A completely unique and immersive live performance by Industrial Pop artist Gazelle Twin and animator Carla MacKinnon. Gazelle Twin will be performing music from her critically...

5 March - 17 May 2015 Open Tuesday-Sunday 11am-6pm Free Group Therapy is an exhibition inspired by FACT’s extensive work within mental health and wellbeing, and will explore...

25 February 2015 6pm £4 ADV / OTD Flim screening of Washington Buckley's SNOW at FACT Liverpool. Kendrick and Dylan's journey is both intently focussed and dreamlike, taking...

18 February 2015 10am - 9pm £3 (Booking Required) For ages 16 - 25 only Join the FACT team for a day of talks and workshops exploring...

18 February 2015   From 5.30pm   FREE (Just drop in)   Get down to FACT to perform at their Open Mic night!   As part of our Place, Pornography and Paranoia symposium, they’d like you...

17 February 2015 5.30pm Free, booking required Working with North West based tech fanatics DigiEnable you’ll get to try out some of the coolest things in tech...

10 February 2015 6.20pm and 9.10pm £10 / £8 concs He’s back! Tommy Wiseau is returning to Liverpool with his celebrated cult ‘masterpiece’ The Room. The twelve year...

9 February 2015 6.15pm £10 / £8 concs Nick Bloomfield’s Tales of the Grim Sleeper will show at Picturehouse at FACT, with the filmmaker in attendance to answer...

5 February 2015 10am - 5pm £25 (£15 concessions and FACT members) including lunch and refreshments / Discounts available. Book here FACT, in association with the University...

4 February 2014  6.30pm £10, £8 (Members & Concs) - tickets available to buy soon Director Gary Hustwit 2007 80 mins A unique documentary about typography, design and...

22 January 2015 6.30pm £10, £8 (Members & Concs) The Box Directors Victor Köhler, David Dworksy 2011 88mins The digital revolution of the last decade has unleashed creativity and...

22 January - 8 February 2015 Open daily Free Workshops: 22, 23, 24 January An exciting pop-up exhibition Under Black Carpets, comes to the FACT Connects space, where artist Ilona...

21 January 2015 11am – 6pm / The Box £6 /5 (Members & Concs) “It’s like your eyes are passing over the words but you’re not taking...

20 January 2015 6pm £10.00 Adults / £8.00 Members £9.00 Student/Retired / £7.00  Members Wirral based actor and screenwriter Celyn Jones will come to Picturehouse at FACT next week to...

19 January 2015 8.30pm Adults £10 / Members £8 Students/Retired £9 / Members £7 Picturehouse at FACT will host film critic and first time director Charlie Lyne next...

3 December 2014 6pm – 8pm / The Box Free An evening of Pecha Kucha style presentations featuring the best examples of typography in motion. Part of the...

1 December 2014 4-6pm Leading visual artist Simon McKeown will present his work including his latest project, Cork Ignite, a large-scale commission planned for 2015....

20 November 2014 6.30pm £8 / £6 - buy tickets Directed by Sébastien Lifshitz, the film is a profile of Marie-Pierre Pruvot, an Algerian-born trans woman who...

13 November 2014 - 8 February 2015 Open Tueaday - Sunday 11am-6pm An exhibition featuring over 240 outstanding examples of text and typography being used alongside...

8 November 2014 12pm onwards Tickets 
£5 plus booking fee, available here All Things Considered Theatre presents Control 25, Liverpool’s first large scale one to one performance event. Happening in...

7 November – 19 December 2014 Lauren Moffatt will be creating a new work for Oculus Rift. Supported by the Culture 2013 programme of the...

13 - 21 October 2014 Free This week-long intervention includes exhibitions and installations by four Latin(o) American digital artists:  Ricardo Miranda Zúñiga from the US, Brian...

10 October 2014 11-5:30pm Booking required Organised by Tom Trevatt, Joey Holder & The Royal Standard. Speakers include Chungui Li, Emily Rosamond and Paul Myers (FarmUrban) It has been...

9 October 2014 10am - 4.30pm Free, booking required here Big Data 1.0 + 2.0 will explore the political and cultural issues brought about by the huge...

8 October 2014 6.30pm £8 / £7 (concs) Director: Bill Douglas, 1972, 1973, 1978 (172 mins), Certificate 15, (35mm film), The Box Bill Douglas's reputation as a film director rests largely on...

4 October 2014 7pm – 9pm with a family workshop 2pm – 4pm Free The Constitute (Germany) German art and technology collective The Constitute have created a project...

2 October 2014 7pm – 9pm Free Ali Momeni and Nima Dehghani (USA/Iran) The artists’ crowd-sourced storytelling platform Telepuppet.tv tries to break the borders for immigrant communities and...

24 September 2014 6.30pm £8 / £7 (concs) Director Jean Eustahce, 1974, (123 mins), French with subtitles, The Box My Little Loves (Mes Petites Amoureuses) is a French drama written and directed...

16 September 2014 6.30pm £6 / £5 Hairy Who & The Chicago Imagists, (Dir. Leslie Buchbinder): Film Screening with Q&A Featuring work from Christina Ramberg, Hairy Who… is a lavishly-illustrated...

11 September 2014 6-8pm Free Bastions of the experimental under- ground, Deep Hedonia present a progressive audio/visual performance centred on the theme of obsession. Looking at the parallels...

10 September 2014 6.30pm £8 / £7 (concs) The Little Girl Who Sold the Sun - Director: Djibril Diop Mambety, France, 1999 (45 mins), The Box Sili, a crippled...