AND produces, develops and stages one of the biggest media arts festivals in the UK. Travelling to and mapping a different terrain every occurrence, AND Festival is a rehearsal space and catalyst for new models of working. The programme invites new ways of seeing the world through re-negotiating our relationship to place featuring live cinema events, installations, online projects, residencies, public realm interventions exhibitions, performances, games and apps.

Thu 8th Jul 2021 Ι 7pm - 8pm

Artist and architect Kate Davies was joined in conversation by marine biologist Steve Simpson to talk about her AND Festival 2021 commission…

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Deeper: Kate Davies

Thu 8th Jul 2021
Thu 24th Jun 2021 Ι

The speculative future artist and director Anita Fontaine joined AND Creative Director Luke W Moody to talk about the ideas, research and…

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Deeper: Anita Fontaine

Thu 24th Jun 2021
Aerial mage of sea and sand
Thu 3rd Jun 2021 Ι

Drawing from her curatorial research, Toxicity’s Reach curator Dani Admiss gave audiences a chemo-ethnographic tour of the show. Interweaving an online curators…

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Deeper: Toxicity’s Reach

Thu 3rd Jun 2021
Collage of black and white images with digital head on pole, shipping container and sailing boats
Thu 27th May 2021 Ι

In the first of our weekly Deeper artist focus talks, editor, writer and Curator at Liverpool’s Open Eye Gallery Mariama Attah joined…

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Deeper: Hakeem Adam & Maxwell Mutanda

Thu 27th May 2021
Fri 25th Jun 2021 Ι

Friday 18 + Friday 25 June 2021 This event was an online gathering and shared storytelling space led by artists Angeliki Diakrousi…

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Weedweavers \\ New Emergences Gathering

Fri 25th Jun 2021
Sat 5th Jun 2021 Ι 11am - 2.30pm

Toxicity’s Reach artist Mary Maggic led a live digital collaging workshop! 11am – 1.15pm Session #1 – Live stream open session via…

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Workshop: Queering Consumerism

Sat 5th Jun 2021
Animated picture of child in front of the moon with two seals either side
Fri 2nd Jul 2021 Ι

Tomm Moore \ 2014 \ (UK) \ PG \ StudioCanal A family-friendly outdoor screening, curated by Scalarama Merseyside. The enchanting Irish animation…

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Observatory Cinema \\ Song of the Sea (PG)

Fri 2nd Jul 2021
Group of people looking straight ahead with man in centre holding onto steering wheel
Sun 4th Jul 2021 Ι

Wes Anderson | 2004 | 15 | USA | Touchstone Pictures On the closing night of AND’s Observatory Cinema, we presented an…

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Observatory Cinema \\ The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (15)

Sun 4th Jul 2021
Shadow figures with red eyes amoungst fog
Sat 3rd Jul 2021 Ι

John Carpenter | 1980 | 15 | USA | StudioCanal As night fell on Bidston Hill, we presented an outdoor screening of…

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Observatory Cinema \\ The Fog (15)

Sat 3rd Jul 2021