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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
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
LOOK Climate Lab aims to open eyes at Liverpool gallery
Liverpool’s Open Eye Gallery has being turned into a lab this month where ideas around the topic of climate change can be explored and tested. LOOK Climate Lab 2026 runs at the Mann Island venue until to March 29, bringing together artists, activists and researchers and offering audiences the opportunity to engage with their work. The biennial LOOK programme explores how photography can be ‘a relevant and powerful medium’ in the conversation about climate. Projects being high
Exhibitions to enjoy in Liverpool over 2026
The New Year brings a host of new and fascinating exhibitions to Liverpool’s many galleries and museums. And while the Tate, Maritime Museum and International Slavery Museum are all currently closed for multi-million pound renovations, there are still plenty of venues open for people to visit and exhibitions to enjoy. From shows which were launched in 2025 and are now continuing into 2026 to new exhibitions, and covering a wide sweep of media from painting to prints to photog
Photo exhibitions turn lens on Liverpool region communities
A series of photography exhibitions are being staged to showcase work captured on camera by communities across the Liverpool City Region....
Experience Kitty's After Dark as Anfield community hub becomes an art gallery
A Liverpool launderette is becoming the city's latest art gallery with a new exhibition of photography celebrating the community it sits...
Where to see Liverpool Biennial 2025 artwork across city
The Liverpool Biennial is now running with the theme of this year’s festival – BEDROCK – being described as “inspired by the physical and...
DaDaFest is all the Rage for 2025
Liverpool’s DaDaFest returns next month with the 2025 event celebrating 40 years of the city-based disability and Deaf arts-led...
Open Eye exhibition focuses on Liverpool people and places
Liverpool’s Open Eye Gallery is exhibiting evocative images captured over more than four decades of photographing people and places...
Liverpool Biennial reveals 2025 theme and artists
Liverpool Biennial has announced the theme for this year’s festival. Biennial bosses say BEDROCK is “inspired by the physical and social...
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