The Reader is bringing Shakespeare’s Globe on Tour to Calderstones Park this June, with a programme of four outdoor performances over three days. Shakespeare’s Globe Touring Ensemble will offer audiences at Calderstones a choice of three plays, each exploring themes of nature, the city and the places beyond: 'A Midsummer Night’s ... Read More...
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Work to transform Liverpool's Calderstones Mansion into The International Centre for Shared Reading is underway. Literary charity The Reader, which has been based at the Calderstones Park site since September 2014, is behind the project to refurbish the Grade II-listed building. Phase one of the project has already resulted in improvements to The ... Read More...
Michael Rosen's Liverpool ONE exhibition 'Bear Hunt, Chocolate Cake and Bad Things' has closed down indefinitely after sustaining weather damage. Organisers The Reader and Discover Children’s Story Centre have confirmed that the interactive experience based on the author's work had to be discontinued after "key elements" were lost during Storm Doris. They ... Read More...
Families can enjoy a programme of festive fun this week as Liverpool-based The Reader supports isolated older people in the run up to Christmas. The charity will kick of its 72-hour fundraising Big Give Christmas Challenge tomorrow (29 November), and will mark it with a selection of seasonal activities. Visitors at The Reader's ... Read More...
Families across Liverpool could get their hands on a free book next week as a special city-wide reading event takes place. Anytime is Storytime will return for a second year on 10 August, taking place at 13 locations with storytelling sessions and book giveaways for those who attend. Aimed at children under ... Read More...
The Reader Organisation could benefit from a £2.1 million funding boost to deliver an International Centre for Reading at the historic Calderstones Mansion House. Based in Calderstones Park, the ‘Reader at Calderstones’ project will restore the Grade II-listed mansion house, which it took over from Liverpool City Council in 2013. Having secured ... Read More...