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Liverpool City Council

News · 3 February 2022

Events are back for 2022!

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

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News · 2 December 2021

Message from Liverpool’s Director of Public Health for those organising events

With the first case of the Omicron variant of Covid-19 now being confirmed in Liverpool, event organisers are being urged to review their risk assessments and ensure Covid-19 secure measures are robustly followed by staff and those attending. Director of Public Health for Liverpool, Matt Ashton said “The new Covid variant “Omicron” – first identified

Arts & Events · 25 September 2019

New-look festival lights up Liverpool

A light festival and extraordinary fireworks – a new-look River of Light is back for 2019, bigger and better than ever! From Friday 1 to Saturday 9 November the Liverpool waterfront will be transformed with light, colour and sound as ten incredible art commissions by some of the most exciting international light artists will be on

Culture · 28 March 2019

Liverpool – three times a winner

LIVERPOOL is the best event destination in the world. And the city’s Giant Spectacular – Liverpool’s Dream was the best event of its kind on the planet. That’s the verdict from a major international events award ceremony which saw Liverpool walk away with a trio of top honours.

Arts & Events · 26 March 2019

An Event Out of This World

It’s not one small step, but a giant leap for Liverpool as the city welcomes the first Briton in space – Helen Sharman CMG OBE. Britain’s first astronaut is heading to the city in June as part of River Festival Liverpool and will take part in two unique events under the huge 23ft replica earth

Young girl taking a picture of a huge castle made of cardboard

Arts & Events · 21 January 2019

Culture delivers massive boost for city

Liverpool's programme of events to mark ten years since the city was European Capital of Culture, attracted more than 2.2 million visitors to the city and boosted the local economy by a whopping £85m – QUADRUPLING the 2017 figure.