FACT Liverpool

💞 Come along to our free family-friendly workshop this Saturday, and make a day of it by trying out the brand new kid's menu at Moi Bakeshop!

Children aged 6-12 can design their own platform games, play with VR technology, and bring objects along from home to 3D scan.

🗓️ Sat 12 Oct, 12:00 - 15:00
📍 When you arrive, let one of our friendly Front of House team members know, and they'll show you where to go.

📸 Rob Battersby, courtesy Liverpool Biennial

Liverpool Biennial 2025 starts here!🙌⁠

Titled ‘BEDROCK’, is inspired by the physical and social foundations of Liverpool and the people, places and values that ground us.⁠

New commissions and existing artworks will be unveiled across the city from 7 June – 14 September 2025 at galleries including Bluecoat, FACT Liverpool, Open Eye Gallery, Tate Liverpool at RIBA North, Liverpool Cathedral, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool Central Library and in further unexpected spaces to be announced in Spring 2025.⁠
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30 artists and collectives will respond to the theme of the 13th edition, curated by Marie-Anne McQuay.
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🎨 Visual identity by Salt & Sister Studio.

🌟 WE'RE HIRING! 🌟

✨ CURATORIAL ASSISTANT (6 month internship)
Sitting between our Studio/Lab and Exhibitions teams, the Curatorial Assistant will help to deliver artist-led activities from production to presentation. Tasks range from curatorial and/or research assistance to administration and production support, focusing on supporting the delivery of our Public Programme.

✨ MARKETING + COMMUNICATIONS ASSISTANT (21 hours / week)
The Marketing + Communications Assistant will support the Marketing team on print campaigns, customer communications, social media content, event listings and more.

Apply by Mon 2 Dec → fact.co.uk/jobs

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The Curatorial Assistant role is part of our Curatorial Development Programme, generously supported by the John Ellerman Foundation.

💡 Join our board of trustees 💡

Can you support us in providing sound independent judgement, strategic vision, and an understanding of mission-driven organisations?

We are looking to recruit trustees with one or more of the following areas of expertise:
🌟 Cultural venue management, particularly capital redevelopment
🌟 Cinema management
🌟 Entrepreneurship in the field of immersive experiences
🌟 Equality, diversity and inclusion
🌟 Environmental sustainability

🗓️ Apply by Mon 25 Nov

Learn more → fact.co.uk/jobs

Happy November! 🍂 This month we're opening a brand new exhibition, Cosmotechnics, featuring immersive installations that reveal how plants can transform technology into an ally for resistance, resilience, and growth.

We're also hosting lots of events including tours, family workshops, and special film screenings.

Find out more and book your tickets → fact.co.uk/whats-on

📸 Kieran Irvine

👻 Celebrate Halloween with a spooky film at Picturehouse tonight!

Choose from a special preview of Heretic (2024), Kubrick's horror classic The Shining (1980), or rediscover pseudo-documentary Lake Mungo (2008).

→ fact.co.uk/cinema

💡 If you're in town for River of Light, make a day of it by stopping by our fun and playful exhibition, Art Plays Games!

✨ There are brand new fantastical worlds and stories to explore and experience in this free exhibition dedicated to games made by artists and indie developers.

🗓️ Open Tue-Sun, 11-6

📸 Kieran Irvine

🌿 Cosmotechnics curator tour! 🪐

On the opening weekend of Cosmotechnics, Curator-in-residence Beatrice Zaidenberg will guide you through the innovative artworks and their underlying themes.

🗓️ Sat 9 Nov / 11:30
🎟️ Free, booking required
→ fact.co.uk/event/cosmotechnics-curator-tour

📸 From an artist-led tour of Jenkin van Zyl's Surrender (2023), Photo by Abbie Jennings

🏳️‍🌈 LOVE BOUND + Q&A 🏳️‍🌈

Love Bound is a documentary following LGBTQ+ activist Qiuyan Chen, who became an unexpected celebrity due to her courageous legal battle against homophobic university textbooks in the 2010s, striving to build a close-knit community supporting q***r East Asian people in the UK.

🌟 The film is followed by an in-person Q&A with director Shanshan Chen.

🗓️ Tue 12 Nov, Doors: 18:30. Screening: 19:00.
🎟️ Pay what you can from £5 → fact.co.uk/whats-on

Don't miss tonight's pop-up screening of JUICE and BOYZ N THE HOOD at Videodyssey in Toxteth! There'll also be food by Scottabocca Pizza and a retro game arcade to enjoy. 🍕👾📼

Tickets are only £10-13 for the double feature → fact.co.uk/citc-vhs

🌿 Our new exhibition, Cosmotechnics, opens in 2 weeks!

🌿 Curated by our Curator-in-Residence Beatrice Zaidenberg, Cosmotechnics explores the relationship between culture and technology through the lens of four Latin American artists and collectives.

🌿 At the opening event on Thu 7 Nov, enjoy a live DJ set from Dance for Plants who will be spinning global grooves for plants and people.

🗓️ Thu 7 Nov, 6-8pm
🪐 Book your free ticket to receive a drink on arrival → fact.co.uk/event/exhibition-opening-cosmotechnics

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📸 Patricia Domínguez, Tres Lunas más Abajo (Three Moons Below) (2024)

Cinema in the City kicks off tomorrow! We're screening 90s coming of age double features on VHS, complete with food, drinks, and arcade machines. 🍕📼👾

⭐️ Fri 25 Oct / Pump Up The Volume (1990) + Kicking and Screaming (1995)
⭐️ Sat 26 Oct / Juice (1992) + Boyz N the Hood (1991)
⭐️ Sun 27 Oct / Show Me Love (1998) + But I’m A Cheerleader (1999)

📍 Videodyssey, Toxteth
🎟️ £10-13 per double bill ➡️ fact.co.uk/citc-vhs

Art Plays Games re-opens on Tuesday with all new games by Tomo Kihara + Playfool, Porpentine Charity Heartscape, Ayoung Kim and Laura Palavecino!

👾 Tomo Kihara + Playfool's outdraw.AI is a multiplayer game where players must draw a prompt in an unusual way so that other humans can guess what it is, but AI can’t.

👾 In Porpentine’s almanac of girlswampwar territory, a “vagrant kid journeys through a province of pixelated child soldiers and edible ponies”.

👾 In Laura Palavecino's Enchanted Sea, players are invited to explore the bottom of the Argentine Sea, where a network of jellyfish, anemones, and marine mammals coexist.

👾 In Ayoung Kim's Delivery Dancer's Sphere and accompanying game Delivery Dancer Simulation, Seoul is a labyrinth of endlessly regenerating routes, and the Dancers pursue never-ending delivery work under the control of a master algorithm called Dancemaster.

🗓️ Opens Tue 29 Oct
✨ Free entry

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📸 1. Tomo Kihara + Playfool, outdraw.AI. Image by Ryuichi Maruo.
📸 2. Porpentine Charity Heartscape, almanac of girlswampwar territory & the _girls who swim as fertilizer through the warm soil cloaking the roots of the glorious tree of eugenics (giving birth to a black hole in a walmart parking lot at 1am)
📸 3. Ayoung Kim, Still image from Delivery Dancer's Sphere, 2022, single-channel video, 25 min. Courtesy of the artist.
📸 4. Laura Palavecino, Enchanted Sea.

We're partnering with Fozia's Kashmiri Kitchen, Scottabocca Pizza and Moi Bakeshop for our Cinema in the City screenings at VideOdyssey this weekend! 📼🍕

🧡 On Fri 25 Oct, Fozia's will treat viewers of PUMP UP THE VOLUME and KICKING AND SCREAMING to a delicious range of curries.

🧡 On Sat 26 Oct, guests at the screening of JUICE and BOYZ N THE HOOD will enjoy garlic breads and pizzas by Scottabocca.

🧡 On Sun 27 Oct, Moi Bakeshop will supply their amazing range of sandwiches and bakes to viewers of SHOW ME LOVE and BUT I'M A CHEERLEADER.

Book your tickets → fact.co.uk/citc-vhs

Come along to a free curator tour on the opening weekend of our upcoming exhibition, Cosmotechnics! 🌿🪐

Curator-in-residence Beatrice Zaidenberg will guide you through the innovative artworks and their underlying themes. This tour offers insights into the curatorial process and the exhibition's exploration of how technology can become an ally for resistance, resilience and growth.

🗓️ Sat 9 Nov / 11:30
🎟️ Free, booking required
→ fact.co.uk/event/cosmotechnics-curator-tour

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📸 Atractor Studio + Semantica, A Tale of Two Seeds: Sound and Silence in Latin Americas Andean Plains (2023). Photo by Tom Mesic.

👩‍💻 At our Studio/Lab Co-working Day this Friday, you can meet the Studio/Lab team, explore the space, as well as connect with other digital artists, practitioners and researchers and enjoy free refreshments. ☕️

🗓️ Fri 25 Oct / 9:30-17:30
🎟️ Free, booking required
→ fact.co.uk/event/co-working-day-2

🛠️ Art Plays Games will be closed from Mon 21 - Mon 28 Oct while we install the next iteration of games!

👾 Stop by to explore fantastical worlds and experience brand new stories from Tue 29 Oct.

📸 Kieran Irvine