Now in its 9th year, BlackFest is a month-long celebration of Black arts and cultural diversity in Liverpool.
Author: Ally Goodman
LA FERIA 1st to 5th October 2025 Various Venues, Liverpool – – Preparations are in full swing for the region’s annual celebration of Latin American culture taking place this October. La Feria will take over multiple Merseyside venues from 1st to 5th October 2025 and organisers have promised that it will be ‘bigger, bolder, and more unforgettable than ever’. The theme for this year’s event is “Experience, Belong, Celebrate” with audiences invited to dive into a vibrant celebration of Latin American music, art and culture. The festival will feature thought-provoking theatre, an exhibition of Latin American artists’ work and past festivals,…
Liverpool’s Capstone Theatre will be alive with music, words & community spirit this October as it celebrates Black creativity and heritage.
A new photographic exhibition in Liverpool is set to tell the story of Toxteth’s Black musicians of the 1950s and 1960s, whose influence reached The Beatles and beyond.
Africa Oyé have teamed up with the Liverpool Philharmonic to bring the acclaimed Afel Bocoum to the city in January 2026.
The Living Room 2nd to 9th July 2025 (Limited tickets, booking essential) The Adelphi Hotel, Liverpool BOOK TICKETS ★★★★ – Good News Liverpool (Review, The Bedroom) – Immersive theatre returns to one of Liverpool’s most famous hotels this summer with an audience experience that promises to be both ‘intimate and interactive’. The creative team behind The Bedroom which sold out its run at The Adelphi last year are heading back to the Edwardian city centre building for 2025 with follow-up show, The Living Room. Taking place in a ‘private, hidden room’ at The Adelphi, The Living Room is another unique site-specific piece of theatre brought to the…
June 6th 2025 sees the release of ‘Heavy Heart’, the first track from the upcoming debut solo EP of gifted songwriter, singer and multi-instrumentalist Kathy Halter. To coincide with the release, Kathy is hosting an immersive listening experience, exploring the impact of grief, loss and love. Kathy Halter’s new single ‘Heavy Heart’ is a beguiling song of calm, tender encouragement; the reaching out of a guiding hand to gently soothe the sense of loss in someone, and the weight of grief perhaps in herself, perhaps all of us. But there is hope, always. There is hope in the fact that “the sun always rises after the darkest…
Liverpool is set to host a celebration of Afrobeat and new music from across the globe in the Baltic Triangle this May.
This May, The Tung Auditorium present Before Oasis: In Conversation with Marcus Russell – a rare opportunity to hear the story of how one of the UK’s most successful artist managers came to work with Oasis, the definitive act of Britpop. Along with Dr Mike Jones from the University of Liverpool’s Department of Music – a lifelong friend of Russell’s – they will reflect on memories of Russell’s formative music industry experiences as a young gig promoter. The story begins in his hometown of Ebbw Vale in South Wales, eventually leading to his management of Jones’s band Latin Quarter, which became a…
Liverpool Arab Arts Festival (LAAF), the longest running annual festival of Arab arts and culture in the UK, returns for its 23rd year this July.