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Yoko Ono (Happenstance Opening Event)
Friday, 04 Apr 2008
Returning 41 years after her first ever paid perfomance was given at the Bluecoat, ...
- Tickets: £20
Happenstance - Franko B, Kira O'Reilly, Rajni Shah and more
Saturday, 05 Apr 2008 - Sunday, 06 Apr 2008
Two days of the most beautiful, bizarre, brilliant and beguiling in new live work ...
- Tickets: Day pass - £15/10 (concession also available
Rob Chapman and Willy Vlautin - Music Men
Monday, 07 Apr 2008
Two authors with a music background read from their new novels. ...
- Tickets: £7/5
Trio Tarana
Wednesday, 09 Apr 2008
Led by master percussionist and composer Ravish Momin, this New York jazz trio’s unique ...
- Tickets: £12
Muqtada al-Sadr and the Fall of Iraq - Lecture by Patrick Cockburn
Saturday, 12 Apr 2008
The Independent’s Middle Eastern correspondent visits on the 5th anniversary of the fall of ...
- Tickets: £7/5
Poetry in the City presents Twentieth Century Blues by Robert Sheppard
Monday, 14 Apr 2008
Poetry in the City Festival: Poetry in the City presents the launch of and ...
- Tickets: Free Admission - But Ticketed
Heart Beats Rhyme and Roll Poetry Night with Poetry in the City present Salt poets
Tuesday, 15 Apr 2008
Poetry in the City Festival: Heart Beats Rhyme and Roll Poetry Night in collaboration ...
- Tickets: £3/2 Concession
Heart Beats Rhyme and Roll Poetry Night with Poetry in the City present Salt poets
Tuesday, 15 Apr 2008
Forward Prize nominee Eleanor Rees presents Andraste's Hair poems of myth, memory, folksong and ...
- Tickets: £3/2
Twentieth Century Blues by Robert Sheppard
Tuesday, 15 Apr 2008
Poetry in the City Festival: Heart Beats Rhyme and Roll Poetry Night in collaboration ...
- Tickets: £3/2
DAT politics with support from U.R. Penetrators - Kitsch Kicks!
Wednesday, 16 Apr 2008
One of the most ecstatic electro party bands on the planet and purveyors of ...
- Tickets: £8
C'est Casson! Entrepreneur in conversation
Thursday, 17 Apr 2008
Shining a spotlight on cultural entrepreneurialism, this in-conversation event asks Duckie founder, Simon Casson ...
- Tickets: Free admission, booking recommended
Fiction reading by Maria McCann and Michael Symmons Roberts - Powerful Prose
Thursday, 17 Apr 2008
Liverpool born Maria McCann’s first novel, As Meat Loves Salt, was an Economist 'Book ...
- Tickets: £7/5
EDge
Friday, 18 Apr 2008
11 exceptional dancers from EDge, the postgraduate performance company of London Contemporary Dance School, ...
- Tickets: £9/7
Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction Readers’ Day
Saturday, 19 Apr 2008
Meet some of the UK’s most interesting female cultural and literary figures, take part ...
- Tickets: £10/8
Charles Hayward: Recorded - A Film By Peter Bromley
Saturday, 19 Apr 2008
Visionary percussionist behind pioneering bands This Heat and Camberwell Now, Charles Hayward has been ...
- Tickets: Free admission - priority with Albert Newton ticke
Albert Newton featuring Charles Hayward
Saturday, 19 Apr 2008
Visionary percussionist behind pioneering bands This Heat and Camberwell Now, Charles Hayward has been ...
- Tickets: £12
Opening weekend at the Bluecoat
Tuesday, 22 Apr 2008
On Saturday 15 March 2008, after a £12.5m redevelopment, the Bluecoat will throw open ...
- Tickets: Entry to the Bluecoat is free as are many of the e
The Destroyers
Saturday, 26 Apr 2008
One of the hottest live groups in the UK, The Destroyers are a fifteen-strong ...
- Tickets: £10
Live Art Lock-in featuring Proto-type Theater's WHISPER
Wednesday, 30 Apr 2008
We open the galleries after hours for live events, music and installations. The centrepiece ...
- Tickets: £8/5
Anonymity: A Secret History of English Literature Lecture by John Mullan
Thursday, 01 May 2008
In the current age of celebrity, it’s easy to forget that authors like Jonathan ...
- Tickets: £5/3
Liverpooljazz at the Bluecoat
Thursday, 01 May 2008
Proven jazz promoters, LIVERPOOLJAZZ, present a monthly concert showcasing the city’s finest players and ...
- Tickets: £6/3
Liverpooljazz at the Bluecoat
Thursday, 01 May 2008
The second monthly concert from jazz promoters Liverpooljazz. ...
- Tickets: £6/3
Beardyman vs The Jungle Drummer vs DJ Fu
Friday, 02 May 2008
The UK Beatbox Champion combines world-class beatboxing with cutting-edge sound-mangling technology to take audiences ...
- Tickets: £14
The Travelling Garden: A Tale of William Roscoe
Saturday, 03 May 2008 - Monday, 05 May 2008
Hundreds of years ago, plants from every corner of the globe sailed ...
- Tickets: too be confirmed
Joshua Sofaer - Getting To Know You
Saturday, 03 May 2008
This show is all about you: your friends, your family, your loves, your money, ...
- Tickets: £8/5
Cross Talk - New Noise
Wednesday, 07 May 2008
Seminal works by three of the most influential composers of the late 20th Century: ...
- Tickets: £9/7
Valerie Bloom 'Come
Thursday, 08 May 2008
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Adem
Thursday, 08 May 2008
Adem’s prettily picked guitars create fragile melodies as the near-invisible influence of electronic music ...
- Tickets: £10
Simon Munnery
Thursday, 08 May 2008
{mosimage} Nobel prize for effort nominee serves up his latest brew of jokes, sketches, ...
- Tickets: 6
Verve 08
Friday, 09 May 2008
With a stunning programme of original dance created by leading choreographers, the Northern School ...
- Tickets: £9/7
Edge Hill University Creative Writing Programme presents Reading by Helen Simpson
Saturday, 10 May 2008
Reading by Helen Simpson and announcement of the Edge Hill Prize for Short Story ...
- Tickets: £5/3 (includes glass of wine or soft drink)
Christine Tobin
Saturday, 10 May 2008
Christine Tobin has had nothing but praise from those in the know on the ...
- Tickets: £12
Poetry Pool Launch
Tuesday, 13 May 2008
The Launch of Poetry Pool 4 (published by Headland and the LJMU Centre for ...
- Tickets: Free
Port in Every Storm featuring Evan Parker
Wednesday, 14 May 2008
Pianist Stephen Grew (Grutonic) and percussionist Phillip Marks (Bark!) have developed a unique vocabulary ...
Variable Capital
Friday, 16 May 2008 - Sunday, 29 Jun 2008
As a rapidly growing Liverpool enjoys its status as European Capital of Culture, Variable ...
- Tickets: Free Admission
Variable Capital exhibition tours
Friday, 16 May 2008 - Friday, 27 Jun 2008
Knowledgeable guides present the themes of the show, offer their interpretation of the work ...
- Tickets: Free
Cityphilia Lecture by John Lanchester
Friday, 16 May 2008
The arcane world of City life - hedge funds, derivatives, liquidity - is a ...
- Tickets: £5/3
Alexander’s Annexe featuring Mira Calix
Wednesday, 21 May 2008
Renowned electronica artist Mira Calix (Warp), prolific sound designer David Sheppard and leading contemporary ...
- Tickets: £10
Wiley - with support from Chipmunk
Friday, 23 May 2008
Wiley, aka Eski-Boy aka Igloo-Boy, is the founding father of the ‘Grime’ genre. ...
- Tickets: £14
Writing on the Wall Festival 2008 present Howard Marks and Harry the Polis in conversation
Saturday, 24 May 2008
Howard Marks once had forty-three aliases and eighty-nine phone lines. He owned twenty-five companies ...
- Tickets: £10/8
Variable Capital Lock-in featuring Susannah Hewlett's It's Not You
Wednesday, 28 May 2008
The second Lock-in at the Bluecoat is a special commission by live artist Susannah ...
- Tickets: Free Admission
Comma Press presents The Book of Liverpool
Thursday, 29 May 2008
In Liverpool’s Capital of Culture year, Comma Press has produced an anthology of ten ...
- Tickets: £4/3
e-space lab
Friday, 30 May 2008 - Saturday, 31 May 2008
A public art laboratory linking with Merseyside’s sister cities, Shanghai and Gdansk, using video ...
- Tickets: Free Participation
e-space lab
Friday, 30 May 2008 - Tuesday, 03 Jun 2008
Liverpool and two of the international cities it's twinned with, Gdansk and Shanghai, link ...
- Tickets: Free
John Smith - with support from Magic Arm
Friday, 30 May 2008
Using his guitar as both melodic and percussive instrument, Liverpool based John Smith prompts ...
- Tickets: £10
Free Balloons - Richard DeDomenici
Saturday, 31 May 2008 - Sunday, 01 Jun 2008
Coinciding with the opening of Europe's largest retail project -Liverpool ONE- Richard DeDomenici will ...
- Tickets: Free
Comedy Workshop (women only)
Saturday, 31 May 2008
If you fancy yourself as the next Jo Brand and are looking for a ...
- Tickets: £45 (includes tickets to the show)
The NIVEA Funny Women Awards
Saturday, 31 May 2008
A night of the brightest new comedy talent, each with just 5 minutes to ...
- Tickets: £5 - Comedy workshop (women only) 4pm £
The Blue Stocking Social Club
Sunday, 01 Jun 2008 - Sunday, 03 Aug 2008
Presenting a lively evening of film, music, dance and dramatic turns all woven together ...
- Tickets: £5 (Free to Senior Citizens)
Art and Commodity Culture - Discussion
Tuesday, 03 Jun 2008
Free discussion with Philosophy In Pubs (PIPs), a Philosophy Club in the heart of ...
- Tickets: Free