Shop local this Christmas ✨ At the Bluecoat, we've got plenty of thoughtful, unique gifts for your family and friends. Browse our new Bluecoat Gift Guide on our website and pick up the perfect gifts for your loved ones today. www.thebluecoat.org.uk/christmas

Lou Miller is a banner maker, textile artist, and activist based in Manchester, UK. Her work is often created out of collaborative workshops and partnerships with grassroots groups, trade unions, and artists.

Have you visited Lou Miller's exhibition yet? 'We Dream of Our Freedom' has transformed our Gallery into a community studio. Stop by this weekend and design your own postcards inspired by Miller's banners and leave your own message of freedom. Open Tue-Sun, 11am-5pm. Free entry.

We're currently redeveloping our upstairs 'bistro' into an exciting new event space. Here's a sneak peek of the progress so far 👀

'Tis the season to get creative at the Bluecoat 🎄🎁 Join us for a series of workshops this Christmas and give something truly unique to your friends and family, or enjoy a family-friendly storytelling show with Father Christmas. Visit our website to find out more: www.thebluecoat.org.uk/christmas

Bruce Asbestos' work combines painting, sculpture and performance, and blurs the lines between high fashion, fine art and popular culture. 👀👕 His designs ‘Hooboo’ and ‘Octopus’are now featured on two t-shirts available to buy from our exhibition Just Browsing. Open Tue-Sun, 11am-5pm. Free entry.

🎉 Huge congratulations to our member Bluecoat for winning the Innovation in Social Value award at Liverpool Chamber's Innovation in Business Awards 2025! This is a brilliant recognition of the vital role arts centres like Bluecoat play in driving social change and community impact. Well deserved! 👏

NOW OPEN 👋 Stop by our Gallery to explore two brand new exhibitions, 'Just Browsing' and 'We Dream of Our Freedom'. Just Browsing reimagines the Gallery as a retail space, featuring tactile artworks that can be touched, used, worn, and bought. We Dream of Our Freedom was created by artist (...)

Lowry Lounge returns this weekend, book your tickets today! 📖 Since 2009 we've been celebrating the life and work of local writer Malcolm Lowry, and this year's celebration will explore his early years spent in the Wirral.

We’re thrilled to announce that Bluecoat has won the Liverpool Chamber Innovation in Business Award for Innovation in Social Value! The Bluecoat has been at the centre of arts and creativity in Liverpool for almost 100 years, and our commitment to innovation and entrepreneurialism allows us (...)

We're pleased to announce that Maureen Royce and Eddie Berg have been appointed as the new Co-Chairs of our Board. Read our new blog to find out more: www.thebluecoat.org.uk/about/news/t...

SPACE TO LET ✨ This spacious and bright office is perfect for a small creative business. There is plenty of room for four desks, suited for a four-person team or two organisations of two people. Find out more: www.thebluecoat.org.uk/our-communit...

We're delighted to be shortlisted as a finalist for Cafe of the Year at the Liverpool City Region Tourism Awards 2025. The awards celebrate the people, places and experiences powering a visitor economy worth £6.25 billion. Find out more: liverpoolcityregiondp.com/2025/10/16/l...

Bluecoat Arts Market returns this December! ✨✨✨ We’re opening our Garden and Sandon rooms to local artists, makers, and creatives. The market will feature a wide range of locally crafted, handmade goods, celebrating the creativity of our community.

JUST BROWSING: Chester Tenneson 👕🔤✨ Chester Tenneson’s work is interested in the nature of institutional language and behaviour, drawing influence from archives, signage, written rules, taxonomies and tropes of advertising to create painting, writing, performance, sculpture and print.

Recently, visitors to the British Science Festival 2025 in Liverpool were invited to @thebluecoat.bsky.social where they could step into the future of medicine at the AI Puzzle Lab with @liverpooluni.bsky.social 🤖 @britsciassoc.bsky.social www.liverpool.ac.uk/research/new...

We're thrilled to share that we've received funding from The Health Lottery Foundation to support the development of Young Blue Room, our new inclusive arts programme with learning disabled young people aged 14-25. Find out more: www.thebluecoat.org.uk/about/news/h...

JUST BROWSING: Daniel Sean Kelly 🫖🏺📝 Daniel Sean Kelly uses analogue media to express the ideas of a brain developed under digital conditions, through drawings and ceramics. Some of his interests include; being a body in real and imagined space and objects that misbehave or communicate unreliably.

JUST BROWSING: Ben Saunders 🏺📖✨ Ben Saunders is a queer, trans-masc ceramicist, events producer and exhibition curator based in Manchester. His work focuses on community building, and explores themes surrounding intimacy, pleasure, sex and the trans body.

Exhibition extended! Visit our Upstairs Gallery to see a new exhibition from Blue Room artists exploring the biodiversity of our secret Garden, depicting a range of commonly-found birds and insects. Open until Sun 26 Oct Free entry

JUST BROWSING: Sufea Mohamad Noor 🌵🪡🍽️ Sufea Mohamad Noor is an artist interested in social history, understanding materials and learning skills to make. Her practice uses words, textiles and food to tell untold stories, explore personal memories and bring people together.

JUST BROWSING: Lou Miller 🧶🪡🧵 Lou Miller is a banner maker, textile artist, and activist based in Manchester, UK. Her practice is rooted in the traditions of collective making and protest art, drawing on the history of textiles as a medium for storytelling, solidarity, and political expression.

WHAT'S ON IN OCTOBER ✨ We're excited to launch two new exhibitions in our Gallery this month, as part of our latest season, Felt. Alongside our new exhibitions is a full month of markets, workshops, live music and more! And don't miss out on our free half term activities for the family.

JUST BROWSING: Lewis Prosser 🧺🪵✨ Lewis Prosser is an absurdist basketmaker, artist, and curator based in Wales, whose work explores themes of regional identity, cultural exchange, and public ceremony through heritage craft techniques.

JUST BROWSING: Ivy Kalungi ✨📺 Born in Uganda, and raised in Belfast, Ivy Kalungi’s practice centres on storytelling through materiality and collaboration, shedding light on the nuanced complexities of identity and belonging.

JUST BROWSING: Garth Gratrix 🏖️🩴💫 Garth Gratrix’s work navigates the intersections of materiality, identity and queerness, often drawing from coastal culture and everyday object. Their practice remains in constant negotiation with space, material and meaning.

JUST BROWSING: Ffion Evans 🖐️🪱🎀 Ffion Evans is a Welsh artist who makes work specifically to be touched, exploring play and touch to engage with and bring moments of joy and curiosity to people through interaction. The senses and psychology inform her work, from elements of ASMR, to play theory.

Visit the Bombed Out Church this Sunday for a special finissage event to celebrate the end of "Above Us Only Sky?", a trail of plaques created by artist Tony Phillips. The trail featured a series of hand-painted works exploring flight, from the earliest aeroplane to today’s drones.

JUST BROWSING: Bruce Asbestos 🐛👀🐌 Bruce Asbestos’ interdisciplinary practice draws from a rich history of painting, sculpture, popular culture, folklore and fairy tales, mixing everyday objects with high art, fashion, and responses to global pop culture.

Opening this weekend: Birds, Bugs, Botanicals of the Bluecoat: A Blue Room Exhibition 🕊️🌿🐝 Artists from Blue Room present a new collection of work inspired by the biodiversity of our garden. Open Sat 20 Sep - Sun 12 Oct. Free entry.

We are delighted that Liverpool City Council have announced arts funding will be rolled over for another year. This continued commitment to art and culture shows an understanding of the impact and importance of the sector for the local community.

Book onto one of our workshops this Autumn & explore all things printmaking!🍁 Join us for etching & collagraph printing workshops, exlore traditional bookbinding techniques, or join Bev Hayes for a weekend-long course to learn all things photopolymer etching! www.thebluecoat.org.uk/print-worksh...

WHAT'S ON THIS WEEK ✨ We've got another busy week ahead of us at the Bluecoat! For more information and to book tickets, visit our website: www.thebluecoat.org.uk

WHAT'S ON THIS WEEK ✨ Catch the final week of Liverpool Biennial in our Gallery, stop by our Open Studios and meet members of our Creative Community, or join Blue Room for family-friendly creative activities in an experimental art lab. Find out more: www.thebluecoat.org.uk

Bluecoat for Business is here, a new way to host events with grandeur, flexibility, charm, action, heart, and lasting impact. Enquire now by emailing [email protected] or visit our website find out more: www.thebluecoat.org.uk/event-hire/c...

On this International Day of Charity, we're celebrating the impact that your generosity creates. Because of people like you, our galleries remain free and open to all. Everyone has the opportunity to visit our beautiful Grade I listed building that is preserved for future generations to enjoy.

Catch the final few weeks of Liverpool Biennial in our Gallery 🌟 Described as "breathtaking" and "powerful" by our visitors, the artists bring insights into the family, chosen family and cultural heritage that they carry with them, and which grounds them. Open Tue-Sun, 11am-5pm. Free entry.

Coming soon 🌳🌷🐝🐌🕊️ This September, artists from Blue Room present a new collection of work inspired by the biodiversity of our garden. The exhibition celebrates the flora and fauna of urban spaces and the important role nature plays in creating a nurturing space for city dwellers.

OPEN CALL 📣 Artist Lou Miller is looking for audio submissions of people talking about what freedom means to them, for our new exhibition "We Dream of Our Freedom", opening on Sat 25 Oct. Find out more: www.thebluecoat.org.uk/whatson/our-...

The summer may be coming to an end, but we have a jam-packed September ahead of us at the Bluecoat! Enjoy two days of FREE activities for the whole family, or explore the history of our building as part of Heritage Open Days. Find out more: www.thebluecoat.org.uk/whatson

New season announcement 📣 Our new season Felt invites audiences to interact with art in new ways. Feel, wear, use and play with artworks in two new exhibitions: Just Browsing and We Dream of Our Freedom, opening Sat 25 Oct 2025. More info: bit.ly/3Voqpto Artwork: Ffion Evans

To mark Slavery Remembrance Day on Sat 23 Aug, there will be a Walk of Remembrance through Liverpool City Centre, pausing performances and moments of reflection at significant historical sites, and concluding with a masquerade and libation, performed at the waterfront.

Liverpool Biennial continues in our Gallery this week ☀️ Stop by our Gallery to see work from Amber Akaunu, Odur Ronald and more. Open Tue-Sun, 11am-5pm. Free entry.

Join artists from Blue Room for an afternoon of family-friendly activities in an experimental art lab. Explore the patterns that can be observed in space and nature and, with creative activities, demonstrations, and displays. Sun 14 Sep, 1-4pm Free, drop in www.thebluecoat.org.uk/whatson/blue...

We're hiring! 💐 We're looking to recruit an enthusiastic and organised Development & CRM Assistant with a strong eye for detail to support delivery of the Bluecoat’s Fundraising and Audience strategies. Deadline: Fri 5 Sep, 12pm Apply now: www.thebluecoat.org.uk/about/work-w...

We've commissioned artist Jade de Montserrat to create a series of artworks for a new collection of merchandise, inspired by the Bluecoat garden as a site of calm and restoration. 🌿 Read our new blog to find out more: www.thebluecoat.org.uk/about/news/j...

As we get ready to renovate our upstairs ‘Bistro’, take a look back at how the space has evolved from its origins as a school chapel, sustaining damage in the blitz, to an eclectic events space hosting artists such as Yoko Ono.

Port of Fata Morgana' by Taiwanese artist ChihChung Chang 張致中 is the result of a two-year project inspired by a model ship created by his father. See this work as part of Liverpool Biennial in our Gallery. Open Tue-Sun, 11am-5pm. Free entry.

We’re delighted to announce our new Liverpool home for Labour Party Conference: @thebluecoat.bsky.social - a landmark venue at the heart of the city. This vibrant, historic venue will be the home of ideas, a space to bring together voices from across the movement.

'Tracing the Independents Biennial' continues in our Upstairs Gallery this August. This archive display explores the origins of the Independents Biennial, and includes documentation, photographs, original artworks, publications, and more from past festivals. Open 11am-5pm, Tue-Sun. Free entry.