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Winter Arts Market makes mini return to Liverpool Cathedral

The popular Winter Arts Market will return to Liverpool Cathedral this weekend in a 'mini' format. The event, organised by Open Culture, usually attracts thousands of visitors and features around 200 craftsmen and women with stalls packed into the nave and well of the sandstone landmark and vintage and food fairs in the basement. However, this year's mini editon will instead involve around 30 artists and makers and will take place from 10am to 4pm over two Saturdays - Decembe

FACT reopens with new film and food plans for its Wood Street base

FACT reopens its doors to the public after lockdown ends this week and bosses at the Wood Street arts venue have revealed plans for a new film season and food offering. The venue has teamed up with HOME in Manchester to stage the special three-month cinema programme which opens in January. Meanwhile the empty ground floor café space is being taken over by bakery The Wild Loaf which was founded by two art graduates in 2016 and was previously based in Hardman Street until Covid

Christmas At Yours with Terry Titter and festive cabaret

Liverpool favourite Terry Titter is bringing festive fun to the internet this Christmas with his seasonal show being streamed on the At Yours site. Terry Titter’s Spaced Out Christmas, written by and starring Count Arthur Strong’s comedy collaborator Terry Kilkelly, will be broadcast online from December 3-19 with tickets costing just £10. Ground control to Major Tit, 3, 2, 1…Blast-off! Go into orbit this year with Captain Terry Titter and his cosmic comedy themed festive sil

Liverpool Independents Biennial 2021 reveals first artists

Liverpool’s Independents Biennial has made the first announcement about its delayed festival programme – and offered a teaser about one unusual venue which will become a giant gallery. The event, in its 22nd year, was due to have taken place this summer alongside the Liverpool Biennial, but both were postponed because of the Coronavirus pandemic. Artists who had already received commissions for the 2020 festival will be involved in the new Independents Biennial which runs fro

Liverpool Tier 2 means Christmas cheer for city arts venues

Liverpool’s Christmas shows and concerts will go ahead after news the City Region has moved into Tier 2 following the latest Covid lockdown. The city was in the highest Tier 3 before the national lockdown, but mass testing has helped to reduce the level of infections, something that has been recognised in the announcement of the new tier system by the Government. It means socially distanced shows planned at the Liverpool Playhouse, Everyman and Royal Court will be able to go

Lewis's Building joins Liverpool Biennial locations for 2021

The postponed Liverpool Biennial takes place next spring – and the festival will take over two floors of the old landmark Lewis’s department store. The 11th Biennial, titled The Stomach and the Port, takes place from March 20 to June 6 2021. It should have been held this summer until the Coronavirus pandemic brought a halt to events nationwide. More than 50 leading and emerging artists from the UK and abroad including Frieze Artist Award winner Alberta Whittle, Liverpool-born

Review: RLPO plays with Julian Bliss at Philharmonic Hall ****

During the long spring and summer months of Covid closedown, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic streamed some of its collection of recorded concerts online. And even when the doors opened – briefly – to physical concertgoers in October the Phil continued to provide online output, albeit in a new concert, new paid ‘on demand’ service. This evening of upbeat melodies featuring clarinettist Julian Bliss and conductor Vasily Petrenko was due to have been staged in house on November

Blackler's Santa returns to Museum of Liverpool for Christmas

The Museum of Liverpool is one of the city's attractions which will now be able to reopen after this latest lockdown – and Blackler’s Santa will be there in the atrium to greet visitors. The giant Father Christmas, which was made for the popular Liverpool department store in the late 1950s, is part of the museum’s collection. Its original artist Peter Blazey, who created the festive favourite with colleagues in the Blacker’s design studio, donated his surviving plaster face,

Liverpool DaDaFest translates 2020 packed programme online

Liverpool’s DaDaFest returns this month for a week-long online festival which boasts packed programme of events. The theme for this year’s celebration of the work of deaf and disabled artists – running from November 27 to December 3 - is Translations. Around 70 artists from across the world, including Mexico and Australia, expressed an interest in being part of the 2020 event through its four festival commissions. The official launch event on November 27 will see festival pro

Christmas Cabaret comes to Liverpool Everyman this festive season

Performance returns to the Liverpool Everyman this December when it becomes the venue for a fortnight of shows featuring the talents of city actors and musicians. The Hope Street theatre’s auditorium will be transformed into a cabaret club-style space with socially distanced tables and chairs. From December 10-12, Everyman & Friends will showcase some of the best independent arts organisations from across Liverpool. There will be performances from Everyman spoken word regular