Slavery Remembrance Day 23 August 2008
Commemorative events at Otterspool Promenade 12-15.00

An afternoon of events at Otterspool promenade, south Liverpool. Details of how to get to Otterspool and a map are available on this website.

Showtime on St George’s Plateau

Sensazione and PIG will join a host of other FREE attractions in the William Brown Street area between August 7 and 10, for the second half of the Imagine festival.

Vote for which Liverpool building you would like to see added to Meschac Gaba's Sweetness cityscape.
On show at the A Foundation 'Port City' exhibition.
Voting closes on 24 July 2008
The building will be unveiled by the artist at a special event at Greenland Street from 2-4pm on Saturday 2 August 2008. Vote at the exhibition or online Here

Field for the British Isles is one of Antony Gormley’s best-loved works of art featuring 40,000 clay figures. And now, Field returns for the first time to St.Helens, the town where it was created 15 years ago.

The Superlambananas are now on show until 25 August 2008
125, two metre tall replicas of Taro Cheizo’s iconic SuperLambBanana sculpture have been painted, decorated and adorned by local artists, schools and community groups, to create a free to view, open air, public art spectacular.

Maywa Denki at FACT this Saturday
7 June 2008 14.00

Maywa Denki invent their own hard to describe art objects and promote them through live performance, writing and merchandising toys.

The Garston Embassy and The Artistic Republic of Garston launched on Saturday 31 May 2008

The Garston Embassy is an installation by Michael Trainor for which he has transformed a disused Edwardian school into the headquarters of a mini independent state which has its own flag and passport.

New Middle Kingdom Exhibition in the atrium of the Royal Liver Building
June 11 to July 4 2008

Featuring works from the Red Mansion Foundation Collection and including exhibits created by photographer Liu Bolin, curated by Anthony Francis.

National Museums Liverpool May half-term FREE events
(Its a very long list)

Fantastic free street theatre, circus, dance, music and surprises as the world’s leading street artists gather for a spectacular day and night extravaganza!

Fire broke out at the Bluecoat in the early hours of Tuesday May 13.
UPDATE: This week's events including the opening of the Variable Capital
exhibition are postponed, cancelled or moved to alternative venues.

See below for further details

Art in the city
Final year art and design students showcase work across Liverpool
Various Venues and Dates from May 16 to June 26 2008

Full details...

John Lennon Exhibition. Complete Collection
at Daily Post & Echo Building
May 23 to June 2 2008

The exhibition will feature the Complete Collection of John Lennon’s artwork for the first time in their entirety in Liverpool.

The O2 Memory Project - an exciting community artwork by Jason Bruges Studio – after travelling to London and Edinburgh will be in Williamson Sq. Liverpool for three days from May 3-5 2008. Free Entry.
The work uses cutting-edge technology to explore the temporary nature of our digital memories, drawing on the theme of ‘nothing is lost’.

Last Chance to See...
Exhibition Ends May 7th 2008.
See this successful exhibition before it closes.
Artists: Imogen Stidworthy (Art Prize Winner), The Singh Twins (People’s Choice Winners), Mary Fitzpatrick, Gareth Kemp, Jayne Lawless and Emma Rodgers

The annual Writing on the Wall festival opened on May 1st 2008
Artinliverpool has tickets for the Tony Benn & Roy Bailey event to give away.

Simple competitions. See the forum for full details on how to enter.