What's On
The official homecoming launch event for Blue Machine, Dr Helen Czerski’s exploration of the “ocean engine”—the physics behind the ocean’s systems—and why it matters.
Emerging Futures returns for its third year exploring the themes around care in leadership and care towards others.
Nando Messias invites you into their Narnian closet, a trans archive of exquisite ephemera, poignant stories and bodily wonders.
Bring your little monsters for some creepy craft this Autumn and celebrate Halloween at Elizabeth Gaskell’s House.
Emilia is a boisterous, witty, irreverent play and winner of the Noel Coward Award for Best Entertainment or Comedy at the Olivier Awards.
Tom Morton-Smith’s Oppenheimer takes us into the heart of the Manhattan Project, revealing the personal cost of making history.
Candid, ferocious, funny and loud, Glowing is a show that debunks the myths that pregnant women are having the time of their lives.
Word of Warning and Contact present Emergency ’22, a day out for the curious. The annual platform for Live Art and contemporary performance
Pen Portraits is a night of promenade theatre about the lives of the Gaskell circle, performed within Elizabeth Gaskell’s House.
Make A Scene invite you to Contact for their latest high camp interactive film showing…Death Becomes Her.
Lava Elastic is the UK’s first openly neurodiverse performance night, known for hilarious line-ups and zero-tolerance on hecklers.
Touchy + Anthology is a double bill of Live Music, Hip Hop, film, and poetry, from Liverpool’s finest 20 Stories High.
The Trauma Show explores the impacts of adverse childhoods, making a show and dance out of it, mourning our little selves, ‘therapise’ culture and how TikTok can heal us all.
An exhilarating gig theatre adventure inspired by the daytime raves of 1990s British Asian culture.
Join jury chair, celebrated novelist, columnist and activist Fatima Bhutto at Contact as she hosts the presentation of the UK and Ireland’s most coveted poetry prizes The Forward Prizes are an unmissable fixture on the literary calendar – a celebration for all who want to discover and enjoy the best contemporary poetry. All of the […]