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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
Exhibition finds a home at St George's Hall
Themes around migration, displacement and transition are explored in a new exhibition at St George’s Hall. Liverpool art collective Home and Away Workshops' exhibition runs until May 31 in the historic landmark’s heritage centre foyer. Home and Away presents works that offer multiple interpretations of home, not as a fixed location, but as something embodied, remembered, imagined - and continually re-made. It features a diverse range of mixed-media work from a variety of arti
May Morris in the spotlight at Lady Lever Art Gallery
Lady Lever Art Gallery is shining a spotlight on the life and work of May Morris in an exhibition dedicated to the pioneering artist, artisan and designer. May Morris: Crafting a Legacy runs at the Port Sunlight gallery until November 1. The Arts and Crafts champion has been overshadowed by her famous father William Morris, but this exhibition – developed in partnership with the William Morris Society and which brings together examples of her work loaned from organisations in
Open Eye's Self-Defined exhibition explores lives led under Soviet rule
Artists from Central and Eastern Europe explore their own families’ complex stories along with historical archives in a new exhibition at Liverpool’s Open Eye Gallery. Self-Defined: New Stories from Archives, which opens today and runs until June 7, features the work of contemporary artists from countries which were occupied or influenced by the former Soviet Union, including Ukraine, Poland, Germany and Latvia along with ethnic Crimean Tartar communities. The work explores i
Akomfrah installation comes to the Walker Art Gallery this summer
The Walker Art Gallery is set to present Sir John Akomfrah’s acclaimed Venice Biennale commission Listening All Night to The Rain this summer. Three of the major film and sound work’s eight ‘Canto’ (movement) sections will be on show at the William Brown Street venue from May 16 to August 31 as part of a UK tour. Canto I will transform the Victorian gallery’s neoclassical exterior with images and voices from the Global Majority displayed on the building’s imposing portico. In
National Museums Liverpool marks 40th anniversary with a new exhibition
National Museums Liverpool is marking its 40th anniversary with an exhibition which showcases some of its most loved and important treasures from across its many venues. NML at 40 runs at the World Museum until February 2027 and is free. Visitors are able to ‘dig, dive and delve’ into some of the vast and nationally important collections which are held by the network of venues, the only national museums group in England outside London. The 40 objects in the exhibition include
Grenfell film coming to the Bluecoat in collaboration with Tate Liverpool
Artist Steve McQueen's film installation Grenfell is being screened at the Bluecoat as part of a national tour of selected cities. The moving artwork is being shown at the School Lane venue, in collaboration with Tate Liverpool, until June 21. The residency includes the ninth anniversary of the fire which swept through the London tower block and claimed the lives of 72 people on June 14, 2017. Following the tragedy, a Government Inquiry was launched that was conducted in two
Paul O'Grady retrospective set for Williamson Gallery
A major retrospective dedicated to Paul O’Grady is set to be premiered in Birkenhead this winter. The Paul O’Grady Story comes to the Williamson Art Gallery and Museum from December 4 and runs throughout 2027. The show, which delves into the late star’s personal archive to give an insight into his life in front of and behind the lens, will be free to visit thanks to a substantial lottery grant which has enabled it to be presented at the Slatey Road venue. The exhibition will
FACT'S latest exhibition is for the meeple
An interactive exhibition which investigates the relationship between humanity and intelligent technologies is being staged at FACT this spring. Can Meeple Escape the Neurophoria?, which is in the first-floor gallery at the Wood Street venue until April 26, aims to explore the ways in which connections evolve and develop between co-existing humans and machines – and how intelligent technology influences decision-making and shapes our sense of ourselves. Meeple is the term for
Liverpool's dot-art celebrates 20th anniversary year
Award-winning Liverpool independent gallery and arts consultancy dot-art is marking its 20 th anniversary this year with a programme of exhibitions, special events and activities. The anniversary year opened last night with the official launch of a new exhibition – TWENTY – at the dot-art space at INNSiDE in Old Hall Street, featuring 20 large-scale works by 20 artists including Nathan Pendlebury, Barbara Derecka and muralist Joe Venning. Then on February 13 a second new sho
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