Our public events, conferences and curatorial partnerships create debate about the role and value of art and artists.

Agnès Varda: Pioneer
Over six decades, multi-award winning Agnès Varda has established herself at the vanguard of world cinema, directing over 50 films, shorts and documentaries. Alongside presenting a newly commissioned work for the Biennial, FACT and Picturehouse present weekly screenings of the works of Agnès Varda, and a personally curated set of films to accompany her own. Agnès Varda: Pioneer is presented in partnership between FACT, Liverpool Biennial, Picturehouse, BFI and University of Liverpool.

Sculptural Signature Facial
Experience a one-of-a-kind facial treatment inside artist Taus Makhacheva’s sculptural installation ASMR (Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response) Spa for Liverpool Biennial 2018: Beautiful world, where are you? Each one-to-one session includes surface assessment, deep cleaning and plastifying masks and lasts approximately 30 minutes.

Public Programme of Talks


The public programme of talks for Liverpool Biennial 2018 is curated by The Serving Library in partnership with LJMU’s Exhibition Research Lab. A wide-ranging list of participants including economists, sociologists, media theorists, architects and painters are invited to variously address or refract the question borrowed from Friedrich Schiller to title the Biennial: Beautiful world, where are you?.

Worlds within worlds
Liverpool’s history as a port city embraces moments of great prosperity as well as charting postindustrial decline and postcolonial histories. As part of Liverpool Biennial 2018, Worlds within worlds invites audiences to explore the rich histories and stories evoked by objects and artefacts from the city’s civic collections and architecture.

Granby Gardening Club
Come together and help us grow a community garden in the heart of Toxteth. These weekly gardening sessions are open to everybody including families, first time gardeners and green fingered enthusiasts.

Free, drop-in Saturday sessions

The City is a School


The City is a School is an educational project that involves the Mediation and Volunteer team for Liverpool Biennial 2018. The public programme includes workshops, discussions and performances.