Movema dance company team up with local community centre to tackle violent crime

Movema dance company team up with local community centre to tackle violent crime

Liverpool dance company Movema have teamed up with a local youth and community centre to tackle violent crime. In November 2019, Movema secured a grant from Merseyside’s Violence Reduction Partnership’s (VRP) sport-sector fund,  coordinated by public health charity Healthy Stadia, to extend their youth outreach programme “Unlock the Box”. The project provides preventative activities to young people in areas of high […]

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 Africa Oyé announce first wave of 2020 artists for summer festival

Africa Oyé announce first wave of 2020 artists for summer festival

Africa Oyé have revealed the first three live music acts for their 2020 festival of music and culture in Liverpool. Female pan-African supergroup, Les Amazones D’Afrique, Ghanian highlife stars, Santrofi and Cameroonian songstress Valerie Ekoume will all grace the Sefton Park stage when the festival returns for its 28th annual event on 20th and 21st June, 2020. The all-female collective of West […]

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 Ancient Greece comes to Liverpool in a surreal clown odyssey this April

Ancient Greece comes to Liverpool in a surreal clown odyssey this April

Teatro Pomodoro in assocation with UNITY Theatre Liverpool presents… ‘Sirens, Men and Crabs’ April 23rd, 24th, 25th, 2020Unity Theatre, Liverpool Liverpool’s international theatre troupe, Teatro Pomodoro, are returning to the city with a new show this April, entitled ‘Sirens, Men and Crabs: A Shipwrecked Odyssey.’  Debuting at the Unity Theatre from April 23rd to 25th, this brand new show will turn Ancient Greece […]

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 Jazz and soul musicians from UK, Kenya and Uganda team up for Liverpool show

Jazz and soul musicians from UK, Kenya and Uganda team up for Liverpool show

Africa Oyé and 24 Kitchen Street and present… ‘EXTRA SOUL PERCEPTION’ Monday 24th February, 202024 Kitchen Street, LiverpoolDoors: 7pm A collaborative project combining jazz and soul musicians from UK, Kenya and Uganda is heading to Liverpool this February for what’s set to be an incredible night at 24 Kitchen Street. Africa Oyé & 24 Kitchen Street will present […]

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 Cirqadia Contemporary Circus Festival takes over Liverpool

Cirqadia Contemporary Circus Festival takes over Liverpool

Liverpool’s circus pioneers Freefall are delighted to announce that their  Arts Council England bid for funding to support the city’s first ever  Festival of Contemporary Circus  this November has been successful. This year’s festival is the exciting pilot of a new annual event, which aims to raise the profile of Liverpool as a centre for […]

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 Dance Festival LEAP Returns For 26th Year In Liverpool

Dance Festival LEAP Returns For 26th Year In Liverpool

In its 26th year, Liverpool-based festival LEAP will take over venues across the city, in a landmark change to how dance is programmed in the North West. Taking a lead from MDI’s new Director Martina Murphy, LEAP will feature sited and staged work along Hope Street and in major venues including Invisible Wind Factory, Unity Theatre and […]

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