As part of Culture Liverpool’s Leap Dance Festival Creative Grants Programme, Amy Milson has created UNSEEN, a dance film exploring her experience of living with a visual impairment. Here, the 25-year-old dance graduate from Liverpool City College explains how participating in Rambert’s Future Movement programme, also supported by Culture Liverpool, gave her the confidence to … Read more
Liverpool City Council is inviting residents, creatives, organisations, and cultural partners to take part in the public consultation for its new draft Cultural Strategy 2025–2030, Culture Makes Liverpool. The strategy sets out the council’s collective vision for how culture can continue to shape, inspire, and strengthen Liverpool over the next five years. It builds on … Read more
We are delighted to announce that our Director of Culture Liverpool, Claire McColgan CBE, has been awarded the Liverpool Chamber Chair Award in Innovation in Business Awards. This award is given to recognise an individual or organisation who has made a substantial impact to Liverpool’s business community. Claire has received this award in recognition of … Read more
Some of Liverpool’s much-loved cultural organisations have received a funding lifeline which will create jobs, attract visitors and boost the local economy. Today (Friday 4 March), Cabinet has given the green light to award £2.712 million to 27 cultural organisations as part of the Culture & Arts Investment Programme (CAIP). The city council funding will … Read more
Liverpool is launching a unique events programme designed to enrich the lives of those hardest hit by the pandemic. A brand new community programme will slowly reintroduce culture into the lives of clinically extremely vulnerable (CEV) individuals and those who have been shielding during the pandemic, and those who have experienced mental health challenges, bereavements … Read more
After more than two years of disruption, Liverpool’s events calendar is back with a new lease of life. Culture Liverpool – the award-winning council team responsible for staging some of the city’s biggest events – is deep in planning mode to bring back some of the most loved events as well as some brand new projects … Read more
Culture Liverpool’s Claire McColgan MBE has been appointed to a new role in Liverpool City Council, as Interim Strategic Director of Neighbourhoods. The move is part of the changes to strengthen the council’s senior management team and deliver further improvements to the organisation, in the wake of the Best Value inspection. For the next six … Read more
Challenges with staffing, suppliers, delays in deliveries and legislation run the risk of turning culture and events into the next industry hit by post pandemic pandemonium. Director of Culture Liverpool, Claire McColgan, reflects on a busy week for events in the city and praises a resilient, but weakened, sector. In Spring, Liverpool was at the … Read more
A festival of Latin American Arts and Culture is set to take over city centre venues in Liverpool this month. For their 10th Anniversary activities, local arts organisation LUMA Creations will present LA FERIA, an innovative and colourful celebration of Latin American Arts and Culture. Forming part of the Liverpool Without Walls initiative, the programme of events, features an exciting … Read more
Beatles fans and hat lovers are being invited to put on their most flamboyant Fab Four headwear this Bank Holiday Monday and take part in a unique TV show being made in Liverpool. ‘Hats Off to The Beatles’ is part of Statues Redressed – a project where statues across the city have been given a temporary new look by artists and designers to celebrate and debate their place in the city today. As … Read more
A Halloween carnival, a celebration of black culture, a giant advent calendar and fiery street theatre are just some of the brand new events coming to Liverpool. Nine new festivals are taking place in the city over the next year thanks to the latest round of Liverpool Without Walls funding. In June, a call-out was … Read more
Director of Culture Liverpool Claire McColgan MBE explains how Liverpool has taken the future of the city’s cultural offer into its own hands… Pandemic… this isn’t something that has been in any cultural risk assessment I’ve ever done. We ‘do’ culture and plan events here really well but COVID-19 hit like a slow motion car … Read more
Eight weeks ago I witnessed the closure and cancellation of our cultural sector – organisations, venues, festivals and events all ground to a standstill with months’ worth of plans and years of ambitions seemingly obliterated in a matter of days. But these lockdown weeks haven’t resulted in surrender or self-pity. In fact, it has triggered … Read more
In a UK premiere, the team behind the global phenomenon Pokémon GO, will be bringing their hugely successful ‘Safari Zone’ event format to Liverpool. From Friday 17 to Sunday 19 April, Sefton Park will become a ‘Pokémon GO Safari Zone’ and will play host to tens of thousands of gamers, known as Pokémon Trainers, from … Read more
Liverpool City Council’s culture team has been named the UK’s TOP event organiser – and 15th in the world overall.
Liverpool’s celebrated Giant Spectacular has scooped the top prize at a ceremony widely regarded as the ‘event Oscars’.
Liverpool is preparing a season of arts and cultural events to celebrate inspirational women.