The 2025 La Feria Festival takes place in Liverpool this week

Liverpool’s La Feria festival of Latin culture takes place in the city and beyond this week.

The 2025 festival – organised by Luma Creations - runs from October 1-5 at venues including World Museum, the Unity Theatre, the British Music Experience and Future Yard in Birkenhead. It has the festival theme Experience, Belong, Celebrate.

And this year's event is dedicated to Luma chief executive and La Feria creative director Francisco Carrasco’s wife, the late Maggi Toft, who died in April after a short battle with cancer.

Carrasco says: “Maggi was an educator who spent her life ensuring that people from diverse and hard-to-reach backgrounds had a chance to have a good and fulfilling life. We dedicate this festival to Maggi and everything she stood for.

"This year we bring together award-winning international artists from across the continent, artists based in the UK, dynamic community groups, and the community itself, to experience, participate and share our exciting and diverse cultures."

The festival opens tomorrow, October 1, with a special evening of music and performance at the Unity Theatre featuring Chile's La Charawilla and Peruvian actor Pepe Duarte’s acclaimed solo performance Eating Myself.

Above: An evening of music and theatre takes place at the Unity on October 1.

On October 2, La Feria returns to the Music Room at Liverpool Philharmonic Hall for a third year, this time showcasing the Antonio Monasterio Ensamble. Hailing from the Chilean port of Valparaíso, Chile, the award-winning ensemble – led by guitarist and composer Monasterio - is renowned for its bold, genre-defying approach to world music and jazz.

The event also celebrates a growing connection between UNESCO Cities of Music Valparaíso and Liverpool, with an opening performance by Chilean-Liverpudlian singer-songwriter Saranne Carrasco-Brennan.

Grupo Luma and Seba Barrientos Trío from Frutillar in southern Chile perform at the British Music Experience on the Liverpool waterfront on October 3.

And then on October 4, the festival heads over the water to Future Yard in Birkenhead for a night guaranteed to get audiences moving, featuring the legendary Kumbia Boruka and Chapulines.

October 4 also sees a ‘museum takeover’ at World Museum Liverpool from 12.30-4.30pm.

The festivities begin at noon at Liverpool ONE with Entrada, a vibrant open-air procession starting at Liverpool ONE and winding its way to William Brown Street with street performers showcasing the rhythm, colour and energy of Latin American culture.

The festival concludes on Sunday, October 5 with A Taste of Latin America, a free community and family day, at the Black-E, running from noon to 5pm.

La Feria takes place between October 1-5. Full programme HERE