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#Event | River of Light 2026: Together ✨ The 12 artworks taking over Liverpool City Centre this October as part of River of Light have been revealed! 🌟 🏙️ Invisible Cities by @ateliersisu 🌼 Flower Power by SPECTACULAIRES – ALLUMEURS D’IMAGES 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 The Anooki by Inook 🤝 Unity by @amigoandamigo 🔮 Paradigm by @this_is_loop 🏳️‍🌈 Colour Rush by Liz West 💖 Today I Love You by Massimo Uberti, presented by Light Art Collection 🌸 Coloured Peonies by @tilt_lightart ⭐️ The Stars Come Out at Night by Stellar Creates 🐏 Dream Herd by @amigoandamigo 🎈 POP! by @gentilhomme_studio 🔄 Loop by Olivier Girouard & Jonathan Villeneuve | @qdsinternational The theme of the festival this year is 'Together', with all installations focusing on how light brings people closer in a joyful way. 💫 📍 Liverpool City Centre 📅 23 October - 1 November 🎟️ FREE 🔗 cultureliverpool.co.uk/.../r… #VisitLiverpool #Liverpool #RiverOfLight
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#News | 📣 The Tour de France 2027 route is revealed! 🚲 Riders will travel through Knowsley and St Helens before a super sprint finish along Liverpool’s iconic waterfront! We can’t wait to see the world’s best riders racing on our local roads! 🎉 Get all the details 👉 bit.ly/4Bmj959
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#RiverOfLight | River of Light arrives in Liverpool this week! 🐑🟠🌸 ✨ 13 light installations 📅 10 nights 🎉 A whole city to be explored! 🙌 FREE Make sure you don't miss out on Liverpool's free light trail that takes over Liverpool City Centre from 23 October - 1 November! Download the map of all the installations so you don't miss out! visitliverpool.com/riverofli…
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#RiverOfLight | Unity 🤝 🧑‍🎨 Amigo & Amigo 📍 George's Dock Way 📅 23 October - 1 November Unity pays tribute to the essential role of community in our existence.  
Rising proudly at 7 metres, this artwork features five human figures joyfully intertwined, their bodies merging into a singular sculptural entity. Stepping inside, you're embraced by an array of colours, shapes, and expressions, each embodying the diverse magnificence of humanity and the jubilation of unity.  Learn more and plan your visit! ⬇️ visitliverpool.com/riverofli…
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#RiverOfLight | Together ✨ 🧑‍🎨 Murugiah in collaboration with Sam Wiehl and GloMoth 📍 Wapping Dock Wall 📅 23 October - 1 November Murugiah and Sam Wiehl’s response to this year’s River of Light theme, Together, invites audiences into a vibrant world shaped by identity, imagination and collective experience. Learn more and plan your visit! ⬇️ visitliverpool.com/riverofli…
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#RiverOfLight | Today I Love You 💖 🧑‍🎨 Massimo Uberti 📍 Liverpool Parish Church 📅 23 October - 1 November “Today I Love You.” A simple yet magical sentence, as if from a dream you don’t want to end.  But it also raises questions: you might love me today, but what about tomorrow? Learn more and plan your visit! ⬇️ visitliverpool.com/riverofli…
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#RiverOfLight | The Stars Come Out At Night 🌟 🧑‍🎨 Stellar Creates 📍 Anchor Courtyard, Royal Albert Dock 📅 23 October - 1 November The Stars Come Out at Night is a striking light installation that captures the beauty and wonder of the night sky, bringing a glimmer of starlight down to earth. The large sculptural piece slowly rotates to reveal intricate star patterns across the surrounding landscape. As it turns, it creates a temporary universe of dancing stars that invites visitors to pause and experience the magic of a sky full of stars. Plan your visit to River of Light! visitliverpool.com/riverofli… #VisitLiverpool #Liverpool #ThingsToDoInLiverpool
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#RiverOfLight | POP! ✨ 🧑‍🎨 Gentilhomme 📍 Williamson Square 📅 23 October - 1 November POP! by Gentilhomme is an interactive installation made up of five monoliths hiding playful inflatable puppets : POPO, POPUP, POPLI, POPETTE and POPOTIN. To wake them up and release them, participants must talk to them, clap or even sing, to persuade them to come alive. As the characters emerge, sound, light, and movement transform the space into a vibrant, musical, and luminous celebration. Head to the link in our bio and plan your visit to River of Light! Learn more and plan your visit! ⬇️ visitliverpool.com/riverofli…
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#RiverOfLight | Paradigm ✨ 🧑‍🎨 This is Loop 📍 Thomas Steers Way, @Liverpool_ONE 📅 23 October - 1 November Paradigm explores the idea of togetherness by challenging perception, responsibility, and the quiet urgency of change in relation to the larger problems facing humanity and the planet. This work creates a space to come together to observe, connect, and re-evaluate; inviting us to imagine a different approach. It asks us to reflect on how we see the world now, and how we might see, think, and act differently. Find out more: visitliverpool.com/river-of-…
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#Opportunity | 📣 Calling Liverpool City Region’s Creative and Digital Industries! @LpoolCityRegion is inviting Expressions of Interest to help identify opportunities that can support the sector’s long-term growth and development. 📈 The information gathered will help identify potential investment opportunities and inform future work to support collaboration, innovation and sustainable economic growth across the region. Interested? Find out more and express your interest by 18 November ➡️liverpoolcityregion-ca.gov.u…
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#RiverOfLight | LOOP 🧑‍🎨 Olivier Girouard and Jonathan Villeneuve 📍 St Paul’s Square 📅 23 October - 1 November LOOP is an interactive installation composed of six giant zoetropes that bring short flipbook-style films to life through movement, light and sound. Created in collaboration with London-based British Sri Lankan artist Murugiah, each animated sequence draws visitors into his colourful, surreal visual universe, blending playful storytelling with bold graphic design. Find out more about the artwork and plan your visit to River of Light! ⬇️ visitliverpool.com/riverofli…
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#RiverOfLight | Flower Power 🌸 🧑‍🎨 Spectaculaires - Allumeurs d'images 📍 @ExchangeFlags 📅 23 October - 1 November Flower Power, a poetic and luminous installation inspired by its signature “Facéties”: playful artworks that transform public space through light and interaction. On Exchange Flags Square, seven large faceted flowers scatter thousands of colourful, shimmering reflections across the ground, surrounding architecture and visitors. An interactive jukebox invites the public to select tracks from a diverse playlist. Find out more about the artwork and plan your visit to River of Light! ⬇️ visitliverpool.com/riverofli…
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#RiverOfLight | Dream Herd 🐑 🧑‍🎨 Amigo & Amigo 📍 Derby Square 📅 23 October - 1 November Dream Herd is a playful and interactive installation, offering a tongue-in-cheek interpretation of counting sheep. Each sheep's leg is designed to be interactive. As visitors interact, their collective actions create a mesmerising cloud of light and sound, symbolising the shared experience of dreaming together. visitliverpool.com/riverofli…
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#RiverOfLight | Coloured Peonies 🌺 🧑‍🎨 TILT 📍 Cunard Building, The Strand 📅 23 October - 1 November Coloured Peonies is a striking, monumental light installation. Standing six metres high, these giant botanical light sculptures present a graceful, natural elegance during the day with their delicate, finely cut white petals. As night falls, the artwork comes alive through dynamic, synchronised lighting sequences, transforming the site into a glowing canopy of ever-changing hues. Find out more ⬇️ visitliverpool.com/riverofli…
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#RiverOfLight | Colour Rush 🌈 🧑‍🎨 Liz West 📍 Martin Luther King Building @theAlbertDock 📅 23 October - 1 November Colour Rush stands as a bold and vibrant light beacon that showcases intricate colour relationships, juxtapositions and patterns. Find out more about River of Light ⬇️ visitliverpool.com/riverofli…
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#RiverOfLight | The Anooki 👀 🧑‍🎨 The Inook 📍 Liverpool Town Hall 📅 23 October - 1 November Stop by Liverpool Town Hall to see The Anooki, two playful characters who are best friends. They play hide-and-seek around the columns of Liverpool Town Hall, inviting visitors to join in the game! The artwork celebrates friendship, kindness and working together. Find out more and plan your visit to River of Light! visitliverpool.com/riverofli…
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#Christmas | Skate St George's has launched in Liverpool! ⛸️ Opening on Saturday 21 November, the new event will transform one of the city's most recognisable locations into a festive skating destination until Sunday 3 January 2027! Find out more ⬇️ skatestgeorges.co.uk/
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#RiverOfLight | One month to go until Liverpool lights up for River of Light! ✨ River of Light returns this autumn, bringing 13 spectacular light installations to Liverpool City Centre! 📆 23 October – 1 November 📍 Liverpool City Centre ✨ FREE ➡️ visitliverpool.com/riverofli…
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#Exhibition | Royal Albert Dock Liverpool celebrates Liverpool nightlife with special projection! 📸 Available to view until 2 October, the façade of the Maritime Museum will be illuminated daily from 8pm to 10pm with imagery from 'In Clubland: 35 Summers of Love', an upcoming book by Liverpool photographer Mark McNulty. The exclusive preview documents the people, places and moments that have shaped the city's clubbing culture from the 1980s onwards. 🎧 ➡ cultureliverpool.co.uk/news/…
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#RiverOfLight | A new artwork celebrating the power of community has joined the River of Light 2026 programme thanks to support from Arts Council England! ✨ Celebrated artist Murugiah was commissioned to create a brand-new installation, titled 'Together', inspired by the theme of this year's River of Light. As part of the project, Murugiah has worked closely with community groups from across Liverpool, with participants sharing their stories, ideas, and experiences of community and togetherness, helping to shape the final artwork. Working alongside local artist, samwiehl, the pair will transform this community input into a large-scale projection that will illuminate the iconic Wapping Dock Wall on Liverpool's waterfront. The final artwork will have a brand-new audio composition created by local artist, GloMoth from Stealing Sheep. ➡️cultureliverpool.co.uk/2026/…
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#News | The UK's biggest celebration of African music and culture is back! Saturday 19th and Sunday 20th June @africaoye will return to Sefton Park for another weekend of live music, family friendly activities, food and drink and so much more! Be a part of the most vibrant atmosphere amongst the best festival audience in the world, in Liverpool's Sefton Park! Get your tickets ⬇ cultureliverpool.co.uk/news/…
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