28/04/2025
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Culture Diary w/c 28-04-2025

Our pick of this week’s arts, design, film and music events from across Liverpool and beyond… Monday – After Hours 8pm (and tomorrow 4.50pm) @ FACT Liverpool – £8.50 Starring Griffin Dunne as a fish...

25/04/2025
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Vanessa da Silva: Roda Viva @ Mostyn Gallery – Reviewed

“A joyous, life-affirming show.” Mike Pinnington finds much to celebrate in the Brazilian rhythms of Vanessa da Silva’s exhibition, Roda Viva, at Mostyn Gallery… The temptation to weave between the free-hanging panels and eventually...

23/04/2025
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Ding Yi: Between Prediction and Retrospection @ Mostyn Gallery
– Reviewed

“Opportunities to engage with names other than the movement’s usual suspects are all too rare.” Mike Pinnington on a close encounter with the geometric abstraction of Ding Yi…  When we think about abstraction...

16/04/2025
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The Big Interview: Neil Griffiths, CEO & Co-Founder of Arts Emergency

To mark their recent smash success with the Big Give appeal, Laura Robertson speaks to Arts Emergency CEO Neil Griffiths about why it’s absolutely essential to keep on advocating for working-class kids –...

11/04/2025
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Veronica Watson:
All Together Now

“A feeling, a period, a mood.” Mike Pinnington on Veronica Watson, whose portraits – celebrated in new publication All Together Now – currently adorn the Bluecoat’s upstairs gallery… What does it mean to...

07/04/2025
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“Joyful Unorthodoxy”
Alan Dunn: marchnad / market
at Tŷ Pawb – Reviewed

Integral to the fabric of Wrexham, markets new and old are celebrated in a new exhibition at Tŷ Pawb, the city’s contemporary arts centre sharing space with its stalls. Denise Courcoux investigates… Markets are integral...

07/04/2025
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Culture Diary w/c 07-04-2025

Our pick of this week’s arts, design, film and music events from across Liverpool and beyond… Monday – Eraserhead 7.45pm @ FACT Liverpool – £8.50 David Lynch’s debut feature, Eraserhead announced a remarkable new voice...