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The Choir With no Name Big Gig returns to the Liverpool Everyman
The Choir With no Name returns to the Liverpool Everyman this July for its joyous annual ‘Big Gig’. Poet Joseph Roberts will be special guest at the event on Saturday, July 18 which promises to be an uplifting and unforgettable night of music, verse and community. Fellow local choir Indigo Vibe will also take part. The Choir With no Name (CWNN) involves people who are impacted by homelessness or marginalisation, and it meets weekly in the city centre to sing, build confidence
Liverpool galleries to mark Julia Carter Preston centenary
The centenary of the birth of acclaimed Liverpool ceramicist Julia Carter Preston will be celebrated with a series of exhibitions at Liverpool galleries this autumn. The Bluecoat, Bluecoat Display Centre, Walker Art Gallery, Victoria Gallery & Museum and Liverpool Hope University will all showcase the work of the late artist who was best known for her ‘sgraffito’ (scratched) style of pottery design. The programme of events - titled Julia Carter Preston, Ceramicist – starts on
Liverpool Art Fair 2026 showcases record number of artists
Liverpool Art Fair has returned to the Royal Liver Building – and the 2026 event is the largest to date. The annual celebration of the region’s artists showcases work by 245 different painters, sculptors, printmakers and creatives from today, June 12, to July 26. Entrance to the fair is free and all work is for sale, with prices starting at just £25 and with a large selection for £250 or under. The fair, now in its 12th year, is run by Liverpool’s dot-art which is marking its
Wirral Open Studio Tour 2026 showcases work of almost 100 artists
Wirral artists are throwing open their studios and workspaces to visitors this weekend. Almost 100 artists are taking part in the 16th edition of the Wirral Open Studio Tour which runs on Friday and Saturday, June 13-14. A room in a former greengrocer’s in New Brighton, an old fire station in Port Sunlight, a former lifeboat station at Hoylake and a Georgian townhouse in Hamilton Square are among around 50 locations along the free, self-guided route. Studios, workshops and di
Liverpool's Unity theatre explores its radical history and tradition
Liverpool’s Unity Theatre is exploring its own radical history this spring in a Heritage Lottery-funded programme of events. A Radical Re-imagining encompasses theatre, music, art, workshops, talks and panel discussions and community events and includes a special archival exhibition at Liverpool John Moores University’s Mount Pleasant Campus Library. And the celebratory season will culminate in a specially devised new production, Stage Left, at the Hope Place theatre on June
Liverpool European Festival 2026 most ambitious yet
Liverpool European Festival returns this weekend with a wide-ranging programme of community-led events and activities. The festival, a legacy of Liverpool’s hosting of the 2023 Eurovision on behalf of Ukraine, is now in its fourth year and organisers are promising the 2026 event is the most ambitious to date. It runs from May 9 to July 5. The festival is set to officially open on Europe Day this Saturday (May 9) with a large-scale public event at St Luke’s Bombed Out Church f
Liverpool Music Heritage Trail celebrates 60 years of key musical moments in the city
A new music heritage trail linking 12 key Liverpool locations has been launched in the city. The free, self-guided trail is marked by plaques designed to look like vinyl records and the Beatles Legacy Group, which is behind the new attraction, says it hopes it will inspire a new generation of Liverpool artists as well as music fans and visitors. Billed ‘a whistlestop tour through 60 years of Liverpool music from 1957 to 2016', the tour aims to explore some of the places, peop
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