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Liverpool City Region Photo Awards winners crowned
After sifting through more than 2,000 images and many hours of deliberation, judges have revealed the winners of this year’s Liverpool City Region Photo...
Milap announce Spring 2026 Programme showcasing some of the finest UK Indo-Jazz
Following the triumphant return of their renowned Indika Festival, Milap are bringing some of the most acclaimed names in contemporary Indian music to the...
Finalists revealed in the Liverpool City Region Photo Awards 2025
The finalists in the 2025 Liverpool City Region Photo Awards are revealed today.
An independent judging panel cropped more than 2,000 photographs to create a...
Results of Liverpool’s Accelerator City decarbonisation programme to be showcased at EXPEDITION TWO
One year ago, Liverpool became the United Nations’ first Accelerator City for Climate Action, pioneering experiments to decarbonise the live music, film and TV...
DaDa Announces DDFI Extra Running Throughout Disability History Month
Award-winning disability arts charity DaDa is proud to announce the launch of DDFI Extra – a new winter arts programme running throughout Disability History Month 2025 and into the...
Oxton Air Fair Celebrates 21 Creative Years at Williamson Art Gallery & Museum
Celebrating 21 years of the Oxton Art Fair, a much-loved event that has grown into one of Wirral’s most vibrant showcases of local creativity,...
Tate Liverpool announces ARTIST ROOMS: Ed Ruscha for spring 2026
Tate Liverpool has announced it will show a display by influential American artist, Ed Ruscha. Centred on the driving culture of mid-century America and...
Curated Makers Launches at the Bluecoat.
The Bluecoat welcomes Curated Makers, an award-winning retail concept that champions independent makers and small businesses, for a pop-up shop during the festive season.
The...
Liverpool artist explores Orphism in striking career-retrospective exhibition
Ken Horton (b. 1940) grew up in Huyton and attended Prescot Grammar School. His father was a keen landscape artist, so Ken was introduced...
The Bluecoat Announces New Co-Chairs
The Bluecoat, Liverpool’s centre for contemporary art, announces Maureen Royce and Eddie Berg as Co-Chairs of its Board, taking up their appointment on 7...
New exhibition tells the story of Black musicians from Toxteth
A new photographic exhibition in Liverpool telling the story of Toxteth’s Black musicians of the 1950s and 1960s, whose influence reached The Beatles and beyond,...
Winners announced of Williamson Open 2025 as exhibition opens for 62nd edition
The Williamson Open 2025 exhibition has opened at Birkenhead’s Williamson Art Gallery and Museum, with Ffion Travis and Ian Bradshaw announced as winners of...
International Slavery Museum are inviting artists to design panels for their new public entrance
National Museums Liverpool has launched a call for an artist (or collective) to co-design the cast iron panels of International Slavery Museum’s monumental new...
New public workshops to develop International Slavery Museum’s future galleries
This Black History Month, International Slavery Museum launches a year-long series of workshops set around themes of transatlantic slavery and its legacies.
The free sessions...
Ugly Bucket and Heart of Glass bring two FREE dates of theatre to Huyton...
FREE special performances of award-winning theatre show Good Grief coming to community spaces in Huyton and St Helens!
Following sell-out runs across the UK, award-winning show Good...
A new era for Africa Oyé begins in 2026 with Earlybird festival tickets on...
Africa Oyé have announced big changes for their 2026 festival as organisers prepare for an exciting new era for the much-loved event.
The UK's biggest celebration...
Homotopia Festival Returns with an Uprising this November
Liverpool’s Homotopia festival returns to the city next month promising an unmissable programme of performances, film screenings, exhibitions, walks, talks, workshops and parties.
The 21st edition...
New RIBA exhibition spotlights the evolution of football stadium design
Home Ground: The Architecture of Football, the new exhibition at RIBA North + Tate Liverpool, highlights the history of football stadium design from the...
University of Liverpool exhibition celebrates city’s brightest ideas
This autumn, the University of Liverpool’s Victoria Gallery & Museum (VG&M) is set to illuminate with the opening of Lightbulb moments, an exhibition that explores...
Nominations are open for the Liverpool City Region culture & Creativity Awards: Nominate organisations...
Four new categories including Live Event of the Year and Excellence in Film and TV.
The glittering ceremony will take place next June, held in...
The Sound Agents launch new exhibition commemorating 30 years since the Liverpool Dockers Dispute
To mark the 30th anniversary of the Liverpool Dockers dispute, John Campbell and Moira Kenny-Campbell, of The Sound Agents: Arts, Culture and Heritage organisation,...
New book shares the story of one of Liverpool’s most inspiring artists, Peter Cameron,...
Peter Cameron(b.1947) took up art while serving a prison sentence, and later described his incarceration as a career move.
On his release in 1992, he...
Open Eye Gallery hosts first photography exhibition about firesetting, setting fire to childhood trauma
For the first time, the subject of firesetting is to be explored in a gallery space, as part of an exhibition by photographer Stephen...
Two new exhibitions at Fact by Bassam Issa Al-Sabah and Nina Davies distort reality...
This autumn, two free exhibitions by artists Bassam Issa Al-Sabah and Nina Davies reveal the tensions that emerge when digital representations begin to replace...
Indika returns to Liverpool, celebrating Indian Arts & Culture
Milap have announced the second wave of events for their festival of Indian Arts & Culture, INDIKA 2025. The 15 day celebration of Indian...
Museum of Liverpool display to explore Liverpool’s love affair with hair
Museum of Liverpool explores the social and cultural power of hair in a brand-new photographic display, to ask the question: “what does your hair...
BlackFest returns to Liverpool this September
Liverpool’s multi-award winning cultural diversity festival, BlackFest, returns to the city this September, with an exciting programme of events — from music and theatre...
A new exhibition at Wirral’s Williamson Art Gallery brings artists into the space to...
Broken Grey Wires at Williamson Art Gallery24 July to 13 September
A new exhibition at Wirral’s Williamson Art Gallery brings artists into the space to...
Flags of Myth and Memory, installed by Landlines Studio at Fort Perch Rock, New...
'Black Rock and Other Wonders - Flags of Myth and Memory'19 July – 14 September 2025 Fort Perch Rock, New BrightonFresh from their solo...
Firesetting photography: Unique project culminates in first exhibition of its kind                                       Â
The subject of firesetting is to be explored for the first time for audiences in a gallery space, as part of a photography exhibition...
Storyhouse Childless returns to Chester, exploring living without children
Storyhouse Childless is a weekend of events to explore living without children. The pioneering programme creates space for honest, nuanced, and empowering conversations about living...
The Hatch Gallery Launches Revolutionary Open Call: “PITCH ME: I’M DREAMING” – Challenging Artists...
New Brighton Gallery Flips Traditional Submission Gatekeeping, Demanding Artists Advocate for Their Vision
NEW BRIGHTON, WIRRAL – The Hatch Gallery announces a groundbreaking open call...
New video artwork opening at St Brides Church for Independents Biennial this month offers...
and those journeying to Europe to seek refuge
Hammer In Hand Studios Presents‘Put Your Feet In My Shoes’by Michelle Wren and Kazem Ashourzadeh
New video artwork...
Independents Biennial doing markets differently this weekend at Birkenhead Market
Over the course of this year's Independents Biennial, artists from across Merseyside have been invited to hold tables for free, regardless of discipline. ...
QUARRY Announces Relocation to Iconic Hardman Street Venue
QUARRY, one of the city's leading independent music and arts venues, announces its relocation to 45 Hardman Street, the former home of the legendary...
Liverpool City Region’s Young Artists Take Centre Stage at Walker Art Gallery
Outstanding artistic talent from across Merseyside has been recognised at the dot-art Schools prize giving event, with winners honoured at a prestigious ceremony in...
Major public and private investment secured for the transformation of Tate Liverpool
Tate Liverpool have announced major public and private investment towards the reimagining of the landmark gallery on Royal Albert Dock. This included £12m of...
Dovecot dreams inspire psychedelic mural
From a horse in space to an Edward Lear-inspired long-legged fish, Liverpool’s most surreal mural by renowned street artist John Culshaw has been unveiled...
UK Premiere Of Beyond Monet And Beyond Van Gogh Opens In Four Weeks With...
Anticipation is building as Beyond Monet and Beyond Van Gogh are set to open in Liverpool in just four weeks’ time, with both experiences...
Suono: A Brand New Liverpool Listening Bar opens in Liverpool
In a space dedicated to sound, open your ears to something new, take a trip down memory lane or groove deep into the night....











































