2025
Your dreams and memories could shape a festival coming to Dovecot
Knotty Ash and Dovecot Park residents are being invited to share their dreams to help shape a special festival commissioned by Liverpool City Council as part of its Creative Neighbourhoods Programme. Memories and dreams will be gathered, discussed and interpreted through a series of creative workshops, community gatherings, schools activities and pop-up public events, the...
John Moores Painting Prize winner Graham Crowley returns to Walker Art Gallery with electrifying new exhibition
Walker Art Gallery is proud to present Graham Crowley: I Paint Shadows, a new exhibition of works by Graham Crowley, winner of the 2023 John Moores Painting Prize. Opening 14 March 2025, this solo display offers visitors unprecedented insight into Crowley’s distinctive exploration of light and shadow through painting. The exhibition marks a significant return...
Legends of Spring – Bombed Out Church Projections Show
This Lunar New Year, Focal Studios will bring St Luke’s Bombed Out Church to life with an unforgettable projection mapped experience celebrating the year of the Snake. Produced by local immersive projection experts, visitors will be transported on a breathtaking audiovisual journey inspired by Chinese mythology. The projections transform the church’s architecture into a dynamic...
Lunar New Year Procession
Celebrate the Lunar New Year in Liverpool with a splash of colour and dance. Head to the city centre to see them perform their stunning routines. On Saturday 25 January, the Liverpool Hung Gar Kung Fu Friendship Association, Pagoda Arts and award-winning dance company Movema will lead a parade through the city centre, joined by...
Bring The Fire Finale
Liverpool’s own Bring the Fire Project returning to celebrate the lunar New Year 2025 with their latest spectacular fire production, ‘Serpentine Flames: A Fiery Tribute to the Year of the Snake’ during the finale at Great Georges Square at 4:30pm. Bring the Fire Project, with Renegade Snares will create a unique blend of fire skills...
Chinese New Year: Saturday Activities in Chinatown
A small number of family-friendly activity workshops and craft stalls will take place in Chinatown on Saturday 1 February, 12pm – 4pm. This programme will offer a quieter alternative to Sunday’s proceedings, without firecrackers and loud music performances, ensuring everyone can join in the fun. Visitors can get a sneak preview of the main event...
Ssspectacular celebrations as Liverpool marks the Year of the Snake
Liverpool is set to welcome the Lunar New Year in ssstyle, with a series of vibrant events and activities taking place to mark the Year of the Snake. The main Chinese New Year city centre celebrations will be held on Sunday 2 February in and around Europe’s oldest Chinatown. The festivities will feature the traditional...
Chinese New Year in Chinatown
The Lunar New Year celebrations will culminate with a day of free fun for all the family on Sunday 2 February. From 11am until 5pm Chinatown will once again play host to the Chinese Dragon, Unicorn and Lion procession, food stalls, art workshops with make and do activities as well as street theatre, storytelling and...
Celebration of The Year of The Snake
Join the Pagoda Arts Ensemble, the prestigious China Welfare Institute Children’s Palace from Shanghai, and the dynamic children of In Harmony for a vibrant celebration of music and dance. In honour of the Year of the Snake and the 25-year twinning of Shanghai and Liverpool, enjoy a fusion of Eastern and Western traditions with captivating...
PVTV Fringe Flicks: David Lynch’s The Grandmother + Short Films
Join us for a night of bold, surreal cinema as Fringe Flicks returns with a special screening of David Lynch’s The Grandmother (1970). This haunting mix of live-action and animation delves into themes of isolation, trauma, and solace, through Lynch’s signature dreamlike lens. When: Friday, 7 February 2025, 7:30 PM Where: DoES Liverpool, 1st Floor, The Tapestry, 68-76...
