Dare Devil Rides To Jarama
“Dare Devil Rides To Jarama” is a new play by Neil Gore that tells the story of the British and Irish volunteers at the beginning of the brutal Civil War in Spain, coming to Liverpool on 22nd -23rd November.
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Burjesta Theatre Workshops – Shakespeare’s History Plays
Burjesta Theatre are putting on a 9 week course of workshops based on Shakespeare’s History Plays starting Wednesday 7th September, followed by a play for performance at the end of January.
Liverpool Scriptshop
Liverpool Scriptshop is a new project which offers writers the chance to have their work read and discussed at a public reading, with Arthur Adlen’s play “The Peggy” being read at the meeting on Tuesday 30th August.
ALERTA! Anti-Fascist Benefit Gig
Merseyside Anti-Fascist Network host a fundraiser for a Liverpool anti-fascist comrade who was given 12 months in prison for opposing fascists in Dover.
‘Cuba es mi marca’ – Cuban Mini-Film Festival
Film critic and poet Fernando Leon Jacomino and photographer Sonia Amalguer are visiting Britain from Cuba and will be at the Casa on Hope Street where they will show three exceptional films from Cuba as well as a photographic exhibition of images of the land and its people.
Summer Sessions: Poetry and Protest
Join Open Eye Gallery’s writer in residence Pauline Rowe, American poet and activist Juliana Spahr, and poets Sean Bonney and Ruby Robinson to explore Poetry and Protest.
Stan the Harper – details of funeral and commemoration
Stan Ambrose will be laid to rest in a private woodland burial on Saturday August 6th, with an open-mic music session to celebrate his life in the evening at The Florrie.
New for Liverpool Pride: Queer Creatives Networking Night
Converse, conspire and collaborate at a unique networking event at the Brink on July 27th, in partnership with Liverpool Pride.
Auditions for Crime and Punishment
Burjesta Theatre are holding auditions for our Autumn production of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s gripping crime story, ‘Crime and Punishment’, on Wednesday 17th August.
Brouhaha International Carnival 2016
Photographs from the Brouhaha International Carnival held on Saturday 9th July 2016.
Celebrating Women’s Resistance Film Festival
The Celebrating Women’s Resistance Film Festival takes place all day on 25th June at The Caledonia Pub showing films of resistance from four continents.
Irish Theatre presents ‘An Evening with George Bernard Shaw’
Irish Theatre presents ‘An Evening with George Bernard Shaw’ at The Casa, Hope Street, on Saturday 18th June.
Book Launch of The Hammer Blow – How 10 women disarmed a warplane
Launch of the book “The Hammer Blow – How 10 women disarmed a warplane” on Thursday 9th June at 6pm at News from Nowhere Bookshop.
Thinking about Terry Kane – exhibition of his work at Misty 21
An exhibition of the work of Terry Kane begins at Misty 21, 16 Newington, from 3rd – 17th June.
Defend the NHS – Support the Junior Doctors
Liverpool Junior Doctors have called for support in their struggle. Join them in a protest march from the Royal on Saturday 21st May, 12.30.
90th Anniversary of the General Strike Event at the Plaza Cinema
In partnership with NW UNISON the Plaza are to host a special FREE screening of ‘The Happy Lands’ (12) on Tues. 17th May at 7.30pm to mark the 90th anniversary of the General Strike.
Nerve 26 Editorial – Join the Fight Back
The mainstream media hardly tell you this, but there is resistance to the endless austerity proposed by the government, and it is building. Although councils spout the mantra that privatisation is the ‘Only Game in Town’ people are coming together to fight back.
67’s Militant Dance
Interview with the band 67, who are one of Liverpool’s hidden treasures. Formed by Mick Hurst they have kept a low profile but their appearances, often at benefit nights, have left a mark on anyone lucky enough to be there.
Tales From The One-Eyed Town
Interview with Birkenhead author, Nathan O’Hagan, whose novel The World Is (Not) A Cold Dead Place has recently been published.
Birdman of Liverpool
A profile of wildlife artist Anthony Smith, an award winning wildlife artist living and working in Liverpool.
Artist Profile – Abdullah Badwi
Profile of the social documentary photographer, Abdullah Badwi.
Artist Profile – Vesta
Profile of the photographer Vesta, director of Art at Glorybox.
Artist Profile – Steve Lamb
Profile of the photographer Steve Lamb, who describes his style as Modern Urban Photography, including elements of street photography.
Artist Profile – Anna Nielsson
Profile of the photographer Anna Nielsson.
Why Wear Masks?
One of the most frequent questions asked of anti-fascist and anti-racist organisers is why they wear masks.
Premiere of horror-comedy short Nightmare In Beige
Frightwig Productions presents the first screening of Liverpool shot horror-comedy short Nightmare In Beige at The Casa on Tuesday May 10th 2016.
‘The Tides Of Change’
An exhibition of oil paintings and mixed media by Liverpool artist Jan Sear at the Arts Hub 47 on Lark Lane.
Coal Action Network Roadshow
The Coal Action Network Roadshow, on tour to expose the UK’s coal industry, visits Liverpool on Wednesday 13th April at Next To Nowhere.
Burjesta Theatre presents ‘The Odyssey’
Burjesta Theatre presents ‘The Odyssey’, Homer’s epic story of monsters, magicians, witches and goddesses which has been mesmerising audiences now for over 3,000 years.
Welcome to Paradise Road
Welcome to Paradise Road is a play written by Brian Coyle and set in a society where nothing is private and no one knows who to trust, on tour around Liverpool on 5th, 8th, 9th, 13th and 14th April.
Unsung: the story of Edward Rushton
In March 2016, the fascinating story of one of Liverpool’s forgotten heroes, Edward Rushton, is finally set to be told in a new play at the Everyman Theatre.
VENT! Liverpool Air Quality Festival
Liverpool Air Quality Festival launches on Saturday 20th February, with a fortnight programme to raise awareness of Liverpool’s air quality.
Unity awarded funding from Arts Council England
Unity Theatre successfully awarded Small Scale Capital Redevelopment funding from Arts Council England.
Audition Notice – The Odyssey
Burjesta Theatre are holding auditions for their in-house adaptation of Homer’s spell-binding tale The Odyssey, which they will be performing in April at The Casa.
Anti-Fascist Conference and Fundraiser
Merseyside Anti-Fascist Network have organised an Anti-Fascist Conference and Fundraiser to be held on Saturday 5th December in Liverpool.
First ever Liverpool Kurdish Film Festival
First ever Liverpool Kurdish Film Festival takes place on Saturday 21st and Sunday 22nd November at the Pagoda Arts Centre.
Joe Hill 100 years
Events in Liverpool in November to celebrate Joe Hill, the songwriter and union activist, who was executed by the state of Utah 100 years ago.
Museum For Chinatown
The Sound Agents Moira Kenny and John Campbell gave a talk at John Moore’s University Art School on their plans for a ‘Museum for Chinatown’.
Toxteth Food Central Fire Recovery
Fund to raise money for the Toxteth Food Central community hub which was destroyed in a fire on Sunday 11th October.
Night to Celebrate Kevin Paton
A night in recognition of the creativity and life of Kevin Paton to be held on Sat 24th Oct at the District on Jordan Street.
Liverpool Radical Film Festival 2015
The Liverpool Radical Film Festival is on from Oct 22nd to 25th and they will be screening a range of powerful films covering such issues as the deaths of black people in police custody, abuses against the Kurdish population in Turkey and the most relevant British band of today Sleaford Mods.
Helen Steel – McLibel/Undercover Policing
Recording of a talk in the Small Cinema by Helen Steel after a viewing of the film McLibel – 2 people’s fight against the multi national corporation McDonalds and winning.
Interview with Sinead Kirwan: Still the Enemy Within
A documentary film celebrating thirty years since the miners strike of 1984/5 with personal narratives interwoven with footage iconic photos of that seminal strategic showdown with the Thatcher government.
ORBITAL INTERVIEW with Ben Cronkshanklingly
Way back in the spring of 2012, when Nerve Radio was still a twinkle in the magazines pants, Ben Cronkshanklingly and Tristan Brady-Jacobs spent 25 minutes with Paul Hartnoll from super-electronic-dance-anthem legends ORBITAL.
World Kindertransport Day
The 75th anniversary of the first Kindertransport Tour came to Liverpool in November, 2013. In the months between the Kristallnacht Pogrom of 9-10 November 1938, and the start of the Second World War nearly 10,000 children were sent, without their parents, out of Nazi Germany, Austria, Poland, and Czechoslovakia to safety in Great Britain.
Urban Walking Intro Podcast
Wandering around the backstreets of Bold Street and the Ropewalks, Andrea interviews John about the Urban Walk phenomenon.
