A three-day international free arts festival featuring a wide programme of events and exhibitions will mark the official launch of the Fabric District. Sponsored by Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU) and FINSA, ‘May 1968 Time Tunnel: May 2018 Liverpool’ will feature a number of previously unseen world exclusives. The festival will coincide ... Read More...
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Plans have been submitted to build a permanent Nelson Mandela memorial in Liverpool’s Princes Park. If approved, a new bridge and an art installation will be developed in the Toxteth space to “celebrate and commemorate Mandela’s outstanding achievements globally and his resonance for the people of L8”. The art installation, which would ... Read More...
A giant moon replica will land in Liverpool complete with sound created by a BAFTA and Ivor Novello winner. The 23ft installation has been created by renowned British artist Luke Jerran using detailed NASA imagery of the lunar surface. Named ‘Museum of the Moon’, the stunning attraction featuring a sound composition by ... Read More...
Liverpool’s budding performers and makers can apply for a free full-time training course to help kick start a career in the arts. Hope Street Ltd is calling for applicants to come forward for the June 2018 run of its renowned programme to develop artists, as the organisation celebrates its 30th anniversary. Performers, ... Read More...
Save the Dates: Liverpool's unmissable events and attractions We look ahead to round up some of the city's best festivals, events and celebrations worth booking into your diary. Words by Lawrence Saunders WoWFEST 2018 to bring big names and timely topics Liverpool literary organisation Writing on the Wall is lining up a melting pot ... Read More...
An Oscar nominee, a new ‘healing’ garden and a large-scale public sculpture are expected to be among the 2018 Liverpool Biennial highlights. The first details of this year’s programme, which will take place under the title ‘Beautiful world, where are you?’ have been revealed as the festival marks its 20th year. More ... Read More...
Liverpool's International Slavery Museum has used £50,000 of National Lottery funding to help it acquire its first painting. ‘Am Not I A Man and a Brother’ depicts an African slave bound in chains and set against the backdrop of a Caribbean sugar plantation. Dating from around 1800, the painting is based on ... Read More...
Interview: Renowned Wirral-raised artists The Singh Twins Rabindra and Amrit Singh - better known as the Singh Twins - are London-born, Wirral-raised artists whose Indian-influenced paintings have explored a broad range of social and political issues over the past three decades. With a new exhibition underway in Liverpool, the sisters sat down ... Read More...
Plans to erect a new permanent memorial in Liverpool to the largest British ship ever to be lost at sea have been given the green light. The MV Derbyshire, which was owned by the Liverpool-based shipping firm Bibby Line and originally known as 'Liverpool Bridge', sank during a typhoon south of ... Read More...
A bumper programme of 2018 events has been unveiled to celebrate a decade since Liverpool became European Capital of Culture. The festivities have been revealed 10 years to the day since The People’s Opening of European Capital of Culture 2008, and a string of other ‘major highlights’ for the year ahead ... Read More...