Festivals

Bursting onto the scene in 2010, the inaugural Liverpool Pride festival attracted over 20,000 people, which was doubled to over 44,000 in 2011. Festival organisers always promise the best in entertainment, attracting people from across the country to experience the diverse culture of one of Europe’s most exciting cities.

Homotopia presents a high quality annual festival of gay culture every November, with trailblazers throughout the year. They also have a groundbreaking social justice and youth engagement programme which is all year round. The festival programmes and commissions a wide variety of art & artists, including a Grand Vogue Ball and appearances from such luminaries as Armistead Maupin & Sarah Waters.

The annual celebration of one of the city’s cultural cornerstones – music. The main stage is at Sefton Park with over 80 hours of live outdoor music; it celebrates a range of different music genres which attract local people and guests from all over the world.

Africa Oyé is the UK’s largest free celebration of African music and culture and takes place annually in Liverpool. Beginning in 1992 as a series of small gigs in the city centre, this great event has gone from strength-to-strength, moving to its present Sefton Park home in 2002 to cope with demand.