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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...
The Bluecoat Announces New Co-Chairs
The Bluecoat, Liverpool’s centre for contemporary art, announces Maureen Royce and Eddie Berg as Co-Chairs of its Board, taking up their appointment on 7 October 2025. They replace Peter Mearns, who has served as Chair of the Bluecoat since 2016. Eddie Berg is a creative consultant and mentor who is based in Liverpool and works...
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...
Bluecoat Arts Market Returns This December!
Bluecoat are opening their Garden and Sandon rooms to local artists, makers, and creatives. The market will feature a wide range of locally crafted, handmade goods, celebrating the creativity of our community. Want to get involved? The deadline for applications is Mon 3 Nov. Tables are priced at £40 for a full table or £20...
New Public Workshops to Develop International Slavery Museum’s Future Galleries
This Black History Month, International Slavery Museum launches a year-long series of workshops set around themes of transatlantic slavery and its legacies. The free sessions follow a model of ‘call and response’ to create dynamic and open dialogue. The conversation this inspires will be instrumental in creating a new museum that is relevant to its...
A New Era for Africa Oyé Begins in 2026 With Earlybird Festival Tickets
Africa Oyé have announced big changes for their 2026 festival as organisers prepare for an exciting new era for the much-loved event. The UK’s biggest celebration of African and Caribbean music and culture returns this summer following a fallow year in 2025 due to rising infrastructure costs, changing legislation, and the increasingly difficult challenge of keeping the event free....
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...
