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Spring 2019

Opening our year-long discussion around issues of feminism and representation, Spring 2019 brings together artists, artworks, activities and a new interactive resource area to explore gender and identity.

Visit our new exhibition, Ericka Beckman and Marianna Simnett, which brings together two artists whose work about bodies and gender roles spans more than 40 years and discover a new large-scale vibrant mural by Laura Callaghan.

Join us for a series of activities and events throughout the season that explore the major themes of the artists' work and the idea of the female archetype. Including a special collaboration with four women from the Merseyside Women's Liberation Movement, we'll be asking how do we create stereotypes around gender and how are these continually reinforced? Be part of a discussion that ties into a much wider global conversation as we explore the shifting reality of gender and identity.

Highlights

Mariana Simnett Blood

Reading Group

Reading & Discussion Groups

From fairy tales to gender politics, join us for a reading group of texts by seminal female writers followed by a discussion.

Lizzie

Film

Lizzie

Join us, Writing on the Wall and LCR Pride Foundation for a screening of Lizzie.

Mariana Simnett Blood

Reading Group

Reading & Discussion Groups

From fairy tales to gender politics, join us for a reading group of texts by seminal female writers followed by a discussion.

Red Riding Hood Landscape

Families, Performance

Fairy Tale Liberation Club

Join us for a fairy tale-inspired storytime where two stories, rewritten by women from the Merseyside Women’s Liberation Movement in 1972, will be acted out and read aloud.

Once and Future Tales - Rapunzel

Talk

Once and Future Tales

Join us for a conversation and reading group with the women who rewrote the fairy tales for the future.

Arrival City installation view at FACT, Liverpool. Photo by Rob Battersby.

Exhibition

Arrival City

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Continuing our year-long exploration into issues of representation, Arrival City seeks to explore both the visible and invisible factors that contribute to the formation of our identity, and thus our agency and place within society.

Protolive To Use Learning Young People

Learning

Proto-Live Half Term Camp (11 - 16 year olds)

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Create your own Machinima (a real-time computer graphics engine used to create a cinematic production) videos with footage captured from the video games you play in our latest Proto-Live Half Term Camp.

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Call to collaborate on Feminist Queer Platform

Aay Liparoto, our Artist-in-residence for the next two months, is looking for collaborators to help co-create an online knowledge network for feminist queer arts and social practice.

Mariana Simnett Blood

Reading Group

Reading & Discussion Groups

From fairy tales to gender politics, join us for a reading group of texts by seminal female writers followed by a discussion.

Arrival City installation view at FACT, Liverpool. Photo by Rob Battersby.

Performance, Special Event

Arrival City: Zine Launch + Performances

Building on the exhibition currently on show at FACT, curated by Niloo Sharifi and featuring films by Leech, join us as we celebrate the stories Arrival City explores: whether reflections on the past, or collective hopes or fears for the future. Featuring performances and discussions, the event will also launch a new zine from ROOT-ed, which captures the experiences and thoughts of the people that live and work in L8.

Latest articles

Beckman Simnett Primary and Secondary Teachers Guide

Opening our year-long discussions around issues of feminism and representation, our current exhibition, Ericka Beckman & Marianna Simnett, showcases two female artists whose works reach across more than forty years.

by Josh Barrow

Simnett Beckman Composite

Once and Future Tales

In 1972, four women from the Merseyside Women’s Liberation Movement endeavoured to rewrite a series of traditional fairy tales. This is the story behind why and how you can read their retold Once and Future Tales.

by Jess Fairclough

Once and Future Tales