Wirral’s Claremont Farm is teaming up with Storyhouse’s successful Moonlight Flicks to offer film fans two weekends of open-air cinema in October. Wrap up warmly to watch modern classics like The Greatest Showman and Jurassic Park on the special 30ft airscreen. Cinemagoers will also be able to enjoy a bar and street food, as well as fire pits and live music during the screenings on October 9 and 11 and 16-16. The Greatest Showman is being shown at 7pm on Friday, October 9 whi

Sudley House reopens with a new exhibition which features paintings capturing images of Home and Away. The free display at the Mossley Hill mansion, run by National Museums Liverpool, encompasses oils depicting foreign scenes which are held within the George Holt collection and also paintings drawn from the vast archives of the Walker Art Gallery. Merchant and shipping magnate Holt, who lived at Sudley House from 1884 until his death in 1896, drew together a large collection

Liverpool is to stage its first annual Doddy Day - bringing a little happiness to the city in the middle of the current Covid crisis. The event in memory of the late Sir Ken Dodd will take place on Saturday, November 7 and will include The Happiness Show at the Royal Court. Doddy Day is a collaboration between the Liverpool Comedy Trust, Ken Dodd Charitable Foundation, Royal Court Liverpool, National Museums Liverpool, Radio Merseyside and Knotty Ash Productions. Sir Ken, who

Homotopia returns for 2020 with a programme of events taking place outdoors and online under the theme of Show Your Working. The UK’s longest-running annual celebration of LGBTQIA culture runs from October 29 to November 15 promising a rich mix of theatre, spoken word, visual art and music. This year’s festival artist in residence is award-winning artist, filmmaker and campaigner Fox Fisher who will host a series of events including a film shorts night curated by My Genderati

Man Booker Prize winner Marlon James is among the line-up in a series of online events planned for Liverpool Black History Month. The city’s Writing on the Wall has brought together a programme of performance, film, writing, discussion and debate between October 1-31 featuring local, national and international Black artists, creatives and activists. Jamaican writer James will join the event from America on October 14 when he will be ‘in conversation’ with Irenosen Okojie, dis

Halloween panto comes to Liverpool’s Bombed Out Church this month when Succour Punch Theatre presents BoJo’s World. The half-term Covid-safe – Covid-themed - pantomime production will be performed from October 26-30 at the Leece Street landmark. The dreaded Assassin Bug has made his way to BoJo Land and is infecting all the townspeople. Can BoJo, along with his friends Doctor, Starman, Dominque and the one and only Dame Maggie Poppins, save the town and stop Assassin Bug in h

Liverpool Irish Festival is being staged online for 2020 with Patrick Kielty among those taking part in the October event. Tickets are now available for the festival which runs from October 15-25. This year’s festival explores the theme of exchange through art, conversation, music and history and how it connects communities and crosses borders. Irish comedian and TV presenter Patrick Kielty headlines the programme with a special event on October 17 called Hard Histories, Posi

It was due to open Liverpool Theatre Festival with a flourish, but Swan Song turned out instead to be an altogether more apt finale to this busy week of live performances. Jonathan Harvey’s wily monologue was premiered at Edinburgh and at the Hampstead Theatre back in 1997 when the central character was called Di Titswell and was played by Rebecca Front. Harvey tickled his script for the Liverpool festival to turn Di into Dave, the new version inhabited by Andrew Lancel with

What were your plans for this autumn? For Gary Edward Jones there was the exciting prospect of New York and a substantial off-Broadway residency. But then Rosie, the queen of Corona intervened to throw a spanner in the works, and Jones like the rest of us was less Homeward Bound than bound to home. New York’s loss has become Liverpool’s gain however, with the musician offering city audiences a welcome reprise of this charming, slightly homespun-feeling, song-infused biography

Liverpool gallery dot-art is behind two new exhibitions on show in the city this autumn including one at Liverpool Cathedral. View from a Window, which opens next week at its own gallery space in Queen Arcade, off Castle Street, features a new collection from dot-art members who spent their time in lockdown earlier this year capturing the view from their windows. Meanwhile the gallery has collaborated with Liverpool Cathedral (which has just been recognised in the top 10% of