Events

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Wednesday 1st May

Wednesday 1st May

Will Self Keynote Speech – ‘Where Are We Now?’

Thursday 2nd May

Thursday 2nd May

Exhibition Launch: 1919 Race Riots

Thursday 2nd May

Thursday 2nd May

Common People – Class in the Margins in Writing and Publishing

Friday 3rd May

Friday 3rd May

La Violette Records Presents: If They Don't Read, Don't Fuck Them

Friday 3rd May

Friday 3rd May

Bess: Now That I Have Found the Words - Rose Thomas

Saturday 4th May

Saturday 4th May

Book Launch: Remembered by Yvonne Battle- Felton

Sat 4th - 13th May

Sat 4th - 13th May

Remembering the Roma Holocaust

Saturday 4th May

Saturday 4th May

Riyadh Khalaf: Yay! You're Gay! Now What?

Sunday 5th May

Sunday 5th May

Walking Tour with Roger Hill: Where Are We?

Sunday 5th May

Sunday 5th May

Liverpool & Slavery Walking Tour

Tuesday 7th May

Tuesday 7th May

Munroe Bergdorf in Conversation with Lady Phyll

Tuesday 7th May

Tuesday 7th May

What is to Be Done: Environment and Action

Wednesday 8th May

Wednesday 8th May

My City: Creative Writing & Storytelling Workshop - Persian Focus

Wednesday 8th May

Wednesday 8th May

Calling All Magic Children: Scarlett Thomas' Worldquake

Wednesday 8th May

Wednesday 8th May

The Young, Cosmopolitan City of Stories You’ve Been Missing - Tehran Now

Wednesday 8th May

Wednesday 8th May

Imagination and Inspiration - Writing for Children

Thursday 9th May

Thursday 9th May

Junk Mail: The Power of Fake News

Friday 10th May

Friday 10th May

Rita Tushingham in Conversation

Friday 10th May

Friday 10th May

John Crace and the tale of Maybot - in Liverpool

Friday 10th May

Friday 10th May

Out-Spoken Live

Saturday 11th May

Saturday 11th May

Pulp Idol Final

Saturday 11th May

Saturday 11th May

Book Launch: Home Ground by Alan Gibbons

Sat 11th May & 25th May

Sat 11th May & 25th May

Walking Tour: George Garrett

Sunday 12th May

Sunday 12th May

Slam and Deliver!

Sun 12th & 26th May

Sun 12th & 26th May

Walking Tour: 1919 Race Riots - Centenary

Monday 13th May

Monday 13th May

What Is Race? Who are Racists? Why Does Skin Colour Matter? And Other Big Questions

Monday 13th May

Monday 13th May

Mike Leigh: Peterloo Screening with Q&A

Tuesday 14th May

Born Lippy: Jo Brand in Conversation

Wednesday 15th May

Wednesday 15th May

Queer Are We Now?

Thursday 16th May

Thursday 16th May

Book Launch: Girl, Woman, Other by Bernadine Evaristo

Thursday 16th May

Thursday 16th May

The B-Word: Where Are We Now?

Friday 17th May

Friday 17th May

Methods X Conference

Friday 17th May

Friday 17th May

Windsor Street Party for Light Night

Saturday 18th May

Saturday 18th May

How to be A Woman in TV

Saturday 18th May

Saturday 18th May

Where Are You Now? The State of Grime

Saturday 18th May

Saturday 18th May

Stuart Maconie - Jarrow: Road to the Deep South

Monday 20th May

Monday 20th May

‘Crime’, Punishment & The Politics Of Fear Tony Platt and Phil Scraton in Conversation

Monday 20th May

Monday 20th May

Clear Lines: Writing Workshops

Monday 20th May

Monday 20th May

Clear Lines Event

Tuesday 21st May

Tuesday 21st May

Kerry Hudson Workshop: Writing Non-Fiction

Tuesday 21st May

Tuesday 21st May

LOWBORN: Kerry Hudson Book Launch

Wednesday 22nd May

Wednesday 22nd May

FACT Curator Tour

Wednesday 22nd May

Wednesday 22nd May

The Freedom Artist: An Evening with Ben Okri

Thursday 23rd May

Thursday 23rd May

I want you to know: A Writing Workshop for Refugees and People from Refugee Families

Thursday 23rd May

Thursday 23rd May

Citizens of Nowhere

Friday 24th May

Friday 24th May

Building A New Catalonia

Fri 24th & Sat 25th May

Fri 24th & Sat 25th May

A Self-Help Guide to Being in Love with Jeremy Corbyn

Saturday 25th May

Saturday 25th May

May Code Club: Twine Mystery Games – storytelling with code

Saturday 25th May

Saturday 25th May

1919: Remembering the Riots – A National Conversation

Tuesday 28th May

Tuesday 28th May

Divided Cities

Tuesday 28th May

Tuesday 28th May

Who cares?: Justice and Campaigning for Human Rights in the Care System

Wednesday 29th May

Wednesday 29th May

Interactive Storytelling & Storytime

Wednesday 29th May

Wednesday 29th May

Deeds not Words: Helen Pankurst in Conversation

Wednesday 29th May

Wednesday 29th May

Austerity and the Public Role of Drama

Wednesday 29th May

Wednesday 29th May

Inside Pale Eyes: a dream noir book launch

Thursday 30th May

Thursday 30th May

Speke Up: Past-Present-Future

Thursday 30th May

Thursday 30th May

Dayglo: The Poly Styrene Story