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Liverpool Business Improvement District is delighted to bring a GIANT game of ‘The Elf on the Shelf®’ to Liverpool city centre again this Christmas!
This December, Liverpool becomes the stage for a giant game of The Elf on the Shelf®, as a 15ft Scout Elf will appear at various locations across the city centre from the 1st until Christmas Eve. Organised by Liverpool BID Company, the Scout Elf™ (aka R’ Elf) will fly through the night to iconic locations...
Liverpool Gears up for ‘Super Saturday’ on November 1st
Liverpool is gearing up for a ‘Super Saturday’ of events and people are being urged to plan their journey with care and allow more time to get in and out of the city. On Saturday 1 November, a series of events will be taking place throughout the day and into the evening, each bringing large...
Liverpool’s Royal Court Stocking Fillers – Cast Confirmed!
Liverpool’s Royal Court have got a crack(er) team of actors together for our festive Studio extravaganza – Stocking Fillers! Carl Cockram, Joe Cowin, Julie Glover and Princess Khumalo will be showing off their full range of talents as they play all of the parts in seven Christmas themed short plays. A show that is as...
Great Britain Announces Bid to Host 2030 Artistic Gymnastics World Championships in Liverpool
With the 2025 Artistic Gymnastics World Championships underway in Jakarta this week, British Gymnastics has announced its ambition to bring the event back to Liverpool in 2030. Should the bid be successful, the event would be one of the biggest global sporting events to be held in the UK that year. The national governing body...
Little Women Takes the Stage at the Playhouse
Anne-Marie Casey’s new stage adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s much-loved and timeless story of Little Women is coming to the Liverpool Playhouse from Tuesday 4 November to Saturday 8 November. Set during the Civil War era, Little Women follows the lives of the four March sisters, Jo, Meg, Beth and Amy as they navigate sisterhood...
Hugely Popular River of Light Returns With 10 installations Plus Market and Tours of Cunard Building
River of Light – the much-loved, free light festival which every year transforms Liverpool’s iconic waterfront into an outdoor art gallery – gets under way on Friday 24 October. This year, 10 large-scale artworks are being showcased until Sunday 2 November, celebrating the theme The Science of Light – with each of the installations inspired...
The Bluecoat Receives Grant From the Health Lottery Foundation to Develop Young Blue Room
The Bluecoat is pleased to announce that they’ve had £ 24,862.90 from The Health Lottery Foundation that will be used to support the development of Young Blue Room, the Bluecoat’s new inclusive arts programme with learning disabled young people aged 14-25. The project is based in Liverpool and welcomes the support, which has been given...
Shake Your Bones for Halloween
This Halloween it’s going to be a bone-afide spooktacular introducing The Skeleton Storywalk. Stories and spooks are coming together this October to bring celebrations across Liverpool city centre. Hidden in windows throughout the city centre are the skeletons in a new bone-tingling trail. Walk through town and discover the spooky skeletons created by artists. Grab...
Artist call for International Slavery Museum’s new public entrance
National Museums Liverpool has launched a call for an artist (or collective) to co-design the cast iron panels of International Slavery Museum’s monumental new Entrance Pavilion. Opened in 2007 on the third floor of the Maritime Museum, International Slavery Museum has never had its own front door. The new Entrance Pavilion, designed by Feilden Clegg...
Liverpool Hosts EXPEDITION TWO, next phase of UN Accelerator City for Climate Action
One year ago, Liverpool became the United Nations’ first Accelerator City for Climate Action, pioneering experiments to decarbonise the live music, film and TV sectors through a city-wide lens. The groundbreaking programme, supported by headline partner Ecotricity, was launched with Expedition One, an industry-led event in November 2024 and set a blueprint for cultural industries...
