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5 handpicked cultural things to do this week: Friday 19 to Thursday 25 June, 2026
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5 things to do this week
EXHIBITION: Roaming Britain: Gypsy and Traveller Homes, RIBA North + Tate Liverpool
Exploring how Gypsies and Traveller communities shape their homes through stories, art, and poetry, this exhibition is a celebration of lives lived outside the status quo - while highlighting the forces and ideas that threaten them. As well as photographs of their living spaces and the often handmade items that make them home, there are works that express their cultures in different ways, including Mitch Miller’s A Showman’s Yard - a meticulously detailed pen and ink graphic of the places and people of Glasgow’s Showmen community. Ends Sunday 6 September, free entry.
EXHIBITION: Manchester Open 2026, HOME
Some 1,500 artists from across Greater Manchester entered this year and the 420 selected works are now on display in the biggest celebration of the region’s artists and creative talent. People of all experience are featured, including first-time artists and enthusiasts as well as emerging talent and established professionals. Pieces include ceramics; digital/moving image, drawings; prints, paintings, photography, sculpture/installation and textiles. Ends Sunday 6 September, free entry.
EVENT: Liverpool Art Fair, Royal Liver Building
The Liver Building is filled with work by artists across the region as the Liverpool Art Fair returns for another year. The focus is on making art affordable for all so the paintings, prints and sculptures on display is all priced under £2,500 and there is also a large section under £250, with limited edition prints starting at £25. Open 7 days a week until Sunday 26 July, free entry.
FESTIVAL: Africa Oye, Sefton Park, Liverpool
The UK’s largest celebration of African music and culture returns to Sefton Park this weekend with a main stage, DJ stage, an active zone and stalls. Se my interview with artistic director Paul Duhaney below for more details on the headliners. Saturday 20 and Sunday 21 June. Tickets are priced £19, £16 NHS/student, under-12s are free and there’s a discount if you’re buying four or more tickets in one transaction.
THEATRE: The Car Man, Lowry, Salford
Matthew Bourne’s award-winning dance thriller The Car Man is loosely based on Bizet’s opera Carmen. The 19th century Spanish cigarette factory becomes a greasy 1950s garage-diner in the American Mid-West, where the dreams and passions of a small-town are shattered by the arrival of a handsome and enigmatic stranger. Tuesday 23 to Saturday 27 June.
And one thing for the diary…
THEATRE: SAVAGE, Liverpool Playhouse
Inspired by the life of Paul O’Grady, this new comedy will star RuPaul’s Drag Race UK winner Danny Beard. Written by multi-award-winning Jonathan Harvey (Our Lady of Blundellsands, Canary, Gimme Gimme Gimme, Coronation Street, Beautiful Thing), the show follows Paul’s journey from the streets of Merseyside to the heart of London’s club scene, where, armed with little more than his wits and a wig, he began carving out a place for himself. Tuesday 16 to Saturday 20 March 2027, tickets £17-£51.
In case you missed it
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I’m off now to plan what time to get to Africa Oye tomorrow.
Have a culture-filled week,
Laura
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