The Capstone TheatreLiverpool’s International

Arts Venue

Autumn Season October - December

2019

Events CalendarOctober

6 Sunday 5pm LEAP Community Dance Showcase

8 Tuesday 8pm Rosie Kay Dance Company: Fantasia

18 Friday 7.30pm John Law - Recreations

19 Saturday 7.30pm Harvest Sun Presents Robyn Hitchcock

19 Saturday 7.30pm Liverpool Mozart Orchestra: “The Grand Tour”

November

8 Friday 7.30pm Machado Ithursarry Duo

9 Saturday 7.30pm Interactions: A Festival Of Voice (Featuring The Feral Choir/Phil Minton & Juxtavoices)

14 Thursday 7.30pm Natacha Atlas

15 Friday 7.30pm Reis-Demuth-Wiltgen

19-21 Tuesday - 7pm Shakespeare Schools Festival Thursday

22 Friday 7.30pm Marius Neset

24 Sunday 4pm Jacques Malchance & The Capstone Theatre Presents PIANO FORTE

26 Tuesday 7.30pm The Frog Princess Punked

29 Friday 7.30pm Belle Chen

December

5 Thursday 7.30pm Solid Air Band

7 Saturday 7.30pm Maghull Wind Orchestra: The Magic of Christmas

8 Sunday 2.30pm Liverpool Mozart Orchestra: "A Seasonal Selection"

14 Saturday 7.30pm Allerton Brass: It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas

LEAP COMMUNITY DANCE SHOWCASESunday 6th October 2019, 5pm£8 (£6 concessions)

ROSIE KAY DANCE COMPANY: FANTASIATuesday 8th October 2019, 8pm£12 (£10 concessions)

Where the artists of tomorrow are made. MDI's annual celebration of the wealth of talent across Merseyside returns as part of LEAP 2019. Dancers from MDI's 50 Moves, Men!Dancing! and Merseyside Youth Dance Company will be joined by invited groups and dance artists from across the North West to present new work.

Performers from previous years have gone on to be part of the CAT programme, joined the National Youth Dance Company or been commissioned to create original dance works.

Following the success of MK ULTRA during LEAP 2018, Rosie Kay returns to Liverpool for LEAP 2019 with her newest work. In Fantasia, the Commonwealth Games Handover Ceremony choreographer takes ballet and tutus into the 21st Century using dance and science to create an exquisite performance of pleasure, beauty and finesse. Fine-tuning choreography with neurological research, Kay questions what it is that makes dance beautiful to watch and experience.

Delve deeply into a soundtrack of Vivaldi, Purcell, Beethoven and Bach and revel in the

vision of three bold female dancers as they discover love, loss, emotion and joy.

Rosie Kay worked with neuroscientists in the UK and Denmark’s Center for Music in the Brain to explore how dance can trigger sensations of pleasure and fulfilment in the brain. Fantasia is the result of her desire to make a work of pure joy inspired by music and the body’s response to it.

With truly sumptuous costumes that defy expectation, join us on a journey of music, delight and fantasy.

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JOHN LAW - RECREATIONSFriday 18th October 2019, 7.30pm£11.50

John Law - pianoSam Crockatt - saxophonesJames Agg - double bassBilly Weir - drums

Known mainly for his Congregation, playing his original compositions, mixing jazz, and electronics, as well as classical projects, pianist and composer John Law has put together a stunning new group of young musicians, playing arrangements of other people’s tunes in a project that features Parliamentary Jazz Award Winner Sam Crockatt on saxophones.

In a move away from electronics to this purely acoustic group, ReCreations presents music not just from the standard jazz repertoire but also from pop and indie (Beatles, Radiohead, Adele and Daft Punk). ReCreations is a band that manages to play highly accessible melodic music and recognised tunes in extremely creative and interactive arrangements, simple and complex, with an emphasis on spontaneous interaction in a group of highly versatile young musicians.

One of the UK’s most imaginative and versatile jazz pianistsInternational Piano Magazine, 2014

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Robyn Hitchcock is one of England's most enduring contemporary singer/songwriters and live performers. A surrealist poet, talented guitarist, cult artist and musician's musician, Hitchcock is among alternative rock's father figures and is the closest thing the genre has to a Bob Dylan (not coincidentally his biggest musical inspiration).

Since founding the art-rock band The Soft Boys in 1976, Hitchcock has recorded more than 20 albums as well as starring in Storefront Hitchcock, an in-concert film recorded in New York and directed by Jonathan Demme.

Blending folk and psychedelia with a wry British nihilism, he describes his songs as ‘paintings you can listen to’. His most recent album is self-titled and marks his 21st release as a solo artist. Released on April 21st 2017, the new album was produced by Brendan Benson (The Raconteurs). Hitchcock describes it as an "ecstatic work of negativity with nary a dreary groove."

HARVEST SUN PRESENTS ROBYN HITCHCOCKSaturday 19th October 2019, 7.30pm£17.60

A gifted melodist, Hitchcock nests engaging lyrics in some of the most bracing, rainbow-hued pop this side of Revolver. He wrests inspiration not from ordinary life but from extraordinary imaginings...Rolling Stone

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6 LIVERPOOL MOZART ORCHESTRA: “THE GRAND TOUR”Saturday 19th October 2019, 7.30pm(pre-concert talk at 6.45pm) Venue: The Great Hall, Liverpool Hope University Creative Campus£15 (£13.50, £5 concessions)

Mozart - Horn Concerto No.2Mozart - Symphony No.36 “Linz”Franz Strauss - Horn ConcertoMendelssohn - Symphony No.4 “Italian”

Conductor/Horn: Alec Frank-Gemmill

LMO’s 2019/20 season begins with a pair of horn concertos and a pair of symphonies. The orchestra is delighted to welcome international horn virtuoso Alec Frank-Gemmill as soloist/conductor for his debut with them. The concert begins with the second of Mozart’s four concertos for horn, followed by the thirty-sixth of his forty-one symphonies. The symphony was written during a stopover in the Austrian town of Linz on his and his wife's way back home to Vienna from Salzburg. Upon hearing of Mozart’s arrival in Linz the local Count announced a concert at short notice, so Mozart dashed this symphony off in just four days!

The second concerto is that of Franz Strauss, father of the more famous Richard. Strauss, who was the principal horn of the Bavarian Court opera until 1889, had a strong preference for the traditional classical forms, which comes across in the music. He had a mutual dislike of Richard Wagner but even Wagner, who was never short of a terse remark, said, “Strauss is a detestable fellow but when he blows his horn one cannot sulk with him.”

The final work is Mendelssohn’s fourth and most popular symphony known as the “Italian”. The opening movement is an absolute joy, and even the fourth movement, which unusually is in the minor key despite the symphony being in the major, does not dampen the spirits as it incorporates dance figures from the Roman saltarello and the Neapolitan tarantella. It brings the concert to a lively conclusion.

MACHADO ITHURSARRY DUOFriday 8th November 2019, 7.30pm£11.50

An emotional poetic journey for piano and accordion.

Jean-Marie Machado was born in Morocco, from an Italian and Spanish mother and a Portuguese father. He discovered jazz in France and studied with the French classical pianist Catherine Collard. For 25 years he has been exploring different directions in jazz, classical composition and interdisciplinary projects mingling dance, theatre and storytelling. Along the way he has collaborated with Andy Sheppard, Dave Liebman, Paolo Fresu and Naná Vasconcelos and has established himself at the first rank of the European jazz sphere. He is currently in residency as an ‘affiliate composer’ at the Centre des Bords de Marne of Perreux-sur-Marne/Paris.

Born in Bayonne in South West France, Didier Ithursarry discovered and started learning the accordion at the age of seven. Moving to Paris in 1996 he worked in collaboration with singers, on projects in theatre and in jazz, and also as a studio session musician. In 1998 he was invited by French jazz guitarist Claude Barthélémy to join his quintet Sereine. Later that year he joined the National Jazz Orchestra (ONJ) from 2002 to 2005. In 2006 he created a duo Bilika with singer and percussionist Kristof Hiriart.

In 2008, following an invitation by French singer Stéphane Sanseverino to join him on tour and winning the Gus Viseur jazz award, he met pianist composer Jean-Marie Machado. This marked the beginning of a long and fruitful collaboration that has given rise to several musical projects including, most recently, this duo.

The complicity between Machado and Ithursarry is amazing. Both musicians play together as if they had known each other for a long time, and also as if they had just met the day before. There is telepathy and freshness in their exchanges.Jean-François Mondot, Jazz Magazine

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8 INTERACTIONS: A FESTIVAL OF VOICES(FEATURING THE FERAL CHOIR/PHIL MINTON & JUXTAVOICES)Saturday 9th November 2019, 7.30pm£10 (£5 concessions)

This concert will include two performances of choral music informed by the artistic sensibilities of free improvised music.

The Feral Choir is the name for a group of singers formed for a particular performance, so for this particular performance, the choir is formed in Liverpool. Leading the Feral Choir is internationally acclaimed vocalist Phil Minton. As well as pursuing his own performing career as a vocalist, Minton has a wealth of experience as a choral director, leading others to find new areas of expression. This performance will be an example of such a collaborative exploration.

Juxtavoices is an ‘anti-choir’ of about twenty-five voices whose repertoire includes members' own compositions and arrangements of modernist poems and found texts.

The scores provide a structure, but elements of improvisation shape the details so that no two performances will ever be the same. Poetry is sound allied to meaning, and a multi-voice ensemble offers a fascinating way to hear this. Directed by Martin Archer and Alan Halsey, Juxtavoices uniquely combines the outer reaches of improvised music and innovative poetry.

For anyone interested in what people can create together using the most natural instrument, the human voice, this concert is for you.

9NATACHA ATLASThursday 14th November 2019, 7.30pm£19.80

Andy Hamill - bassLiam Noble - pianoAsaf Sirkis - drumsShanti Jayasinha - trumpetSamy Bishai - violin/MD

Heralded as one of the world’s most distinctive voices, Natacha Atlas has carved a path synthesising western and middle eastern vocal traditions with mind-blowing dexterity. Her latest work sees her push vocal and musical boundaries even further by effortlessly weaving jazz traditions into her already unique blend.

Atlas has worked with Peter Gabriel, Nitin Sawhney, Nigel Kennedy, Indigo Girls, Jean-Michel Jarre, and Ibrahim Maalouf, to name a few, while, most recently, she has been collaborating with the likes of Omar Sosa and Paolo Fresu, whilst co-composing (with frequent collaborator Samy Bishai) the score for Herve Koubi’s 2019 contemporary dance creation Odyssey.

Over the years, Atlas’ exceptional talent has been repeatedly recognised by her peers and fans alike in the form of a host of music awards (including a French ‘Victoire’) along with numerous invitations to be the star vocalist at major events (such as the Millennium concert at the pyramids in Egypt in 2000 with Jean-Michel Jarre). She has appeared on the scores and soundtracks of many Hollywood blockbusters, including Sex & the City 2, The Hulk, Kingdom of Heaven, Brick Lane and Sahara.

Strange Days is the stunning new album from Atlas that is already being hailed within the industry as a game changer in its pioneering marriage of jazz and the mystique of Arabic vocals. A darkly dystopian Arabic-infused jazz fantasy, the album evokes and emotes in equal measure, presenting one of the world’s most unique voices at her captivating finest. Recorded between the UK, France and Brazil, the album furthers her journey through the landscape of jazz via a remarkable range of stylistic adventures along the way, and features some surprising internationally-heralded special guests and strikingly original covers.

In this concert she will be performing tracks from her new CD Strange Days to be released in September 2019 as well as material from Myriad Road and previous albums.

10 REIS-DEMUTH-WILTGENFriday 15th November 2019, 7.30pm£11.50

Michel Reis - piano Marc Demuth - bassPaul Wiltgen - drums

The musicians of this Luxembourg-based trio are active in different bands and projects and all have international careers. Since the release of their first album, they have toured extensively throughout the world and appeared at major international jazz festivals in Europe and Asia. They also play regularly with Joshua Redman and Vince Mendoza.

Each band member composes music for the trio, with the aim of creating a fresh and forward thinking overall sound, one that has the influences of popular music and the singer/songwriter genre but with a core sound that remains in modern jazz.

With their European style of melodic composition, set to an almost American sounding rhythm section that is exciting and dynamic, yet grounding and settled, Reis-Demuth-Wiltgen share the diversity of current jazz and a laid-back Europe.

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Shakespeare Schools Foundation transforms lives through the unique power of Shakespeare. In this, the 19th year of the Festival, SSF celebrates a season of ‘infinite variety’ as young people of all ages and backgrounds discover the possibilities presented by Shakespeare in their school rehearsal room, culminating in thrilling nights of theatre.

The Capstone Theatre is proud to be part of the Shakespeare Schools Festival, in partnership with Shakespeare Schools Foundation. Performances presented will feature a series of unique abridged Shakespeare productions by local schools.

See Shakespeare’s timeless stories brought to life like never before, and support young people from your local community as they take to the stage.

SHAKESPEARE SCHOOLS FESTIVALTuesday 19th - Thursday 21st November 2019, 7pm£9.95 (£8 concessions) / Group rate: £7

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12 MARIUS NESETFriday 22nd November 2019, 7.30pm£11.50

Marius Neset - saxophonesJim Hart - vibesIvo Neame - pianoPetter Eldh - bassAnton Eger - drums

In April 2011, Norwegian-born/Copenhagen-based saxophonist Marius Neset released his debut album Golden Xplosion leading the saxophonist and composer to become one of the most talked about newcomers on the European jazz scene. Described by Terje Mosnes (Dagbladet) as “the most talented Norwegian saxophonist since Jan Garbarek,” he has continued to dazzle audiences across Europe with his exemplary technique, energetic creativity, imagination and virtuosity on tenor and soprano saxophones, as well as his brilliance as a composer of intricate, compelling music.

His subsequent releases – Birds (2013), Lion (2014) and Pinball (2015) - have proved that Neset is on his way to being one of the biggest new draws on the circuit, with five years of heavy touring behind him, including sold out shows at some of Europe’s most prestigious festivals including North Sea Jazz, Stuttgart Jazzopen and Kongsberg Jazz Festival.

On tour, his group will be featuring music from Marius’s newest album Circle of Chimes release on ACT Music in September 2017, taking the listener on a journey and bringing together his world of influences with remarkable energy, creativity and most of all, his highly original sound.

Marius Neset is a marvel. He makes his instrument dance like a gazelle and soar like an eagle.The Telegraph

PIANO FORTE is a celebration of the piano as a solo instrument, featuring five Liverpool based pianists and composers (Giacomo Fazi, Nina Windsor-Roe, Jez Wing, Karen Wynne and Nick Smith) performing all original material composed exclusively for this event.

Giacomo Fazi, also known as "Jacques Malchance", is a Composer, DJ, Producer, Promoter and Radio Host from Rome, Italy, based in Liverpool, UK. He is the founding member of bands Hapytap and Barberos, as well as net-label and events collective Upitup Records and arts collective Distant Future. His works span across electronic music, classical music and contemporary experimental music and he has composed commissioned work for Light Night, The Kazimier and Walk The Plank.

Nina Windsor-Roe was a founding member of The Frocks in the early 90’s. Her work ranges through theatre, radio and film and she has performed her music in many UK venues. She has recently finished putting together her own professional piano tracking studio, and performed her own original material at the Discordia Exhibition.

Composer, songwriter, and producer Jez Wing is the current keyboard player for Liverpool post-punk legends Echo & The Bunnymen. The solo piano compositions he will perform with his trademark percussive, pop-organ keyboard technique, are from a piano-based LP in the making, entitled The Land Of The Living.

Karen Wynne is a pianist, guitarist, clarinet player and composer. Her recent work has been largely with dance companies performing and composing, but over the years she has also played keyboards, sung in a Senegalese mbalax band, performed sacred choral music, been part of a successful psychedelic rock band and worked in street theatre (amongst other things!).

Nick Smith is a pianist and composer who has performed at some of the world's top venues including the Royal Albert Hall and Royal Festival Hall, London, and the Lincoln Center, New York. He has also recorded in studios such as Abbey Road and Air Studios for film and TV soundtracks including Star Wars and Sleepy Hollow. His compositional work includes commissions for international online and TV campaigns across brands such as Google, Facebook, Heineken, Alfa Romeo and Burberry.

JACQUES MALCHANCE & THE CAPSTONE THEATRE PRESENTSPIANO FORTESunday 24th November 2019, 4pm£10

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14 THE FROG PRINCESS PUNKEDTuesday 26th November 2019, 7.30pm£10 (£8 concessions)

A punk fairytale for adults with story, music, and live projections. What happens when Ivan marries a frog? Big sounds, a wicked racket! Urban meets forest. Patriarchy meets feminism. Baba Yaga meets Koschey the Deathless! The Frog Princess Punked is funny, feminist, dark, and definitely for adults only!

Pioneering storyteller Sally-Pomme Clayton and girl punk band, The Swamp Girls, create a hybrid hullabaloo of spoken word, distorted guitars, scorching drums and riotous songs, set in a shifting collage of surreal projections v-jayed live! The raw power of punk explodes a Russian fairytale, exploring the dangers of annexing the wild and the wisdom of liberating the female.

This provocative collaboration brings together women from different cultures, art forms, and generations. Sally-Pomme Clayton has spearheaded storytelling for adult audiences across the UK. Dawn Rose is an outstanding female drummer who performed with Altered Images and Right Said Fred. Georgia Kalogeropoulou is a young musician inspired by the sounds of punk and is re-making them anew. Joining them is honorary Swamp Girl Fotios Begklis, an innovative digital artist, who has created animations, loops, and films which she VJs live.

15BELLE CHENFriday 29th November, 7.30pm£11.50

Handpicked by Brian Eno as ‘the one to watch’, pianist Belle Chen has distinguished herself with her unique live performances and recorded works that are unbound by tradition - often mixing classical music language across multiple genres through improvisation, electronics, extended technique, and sound design.

Her creativity as a performer has seen her grace the stages of major UK festivals and international venues ranging from BBC Radio 3’s 70th Anniversary at The Southbank Centre, Latitude Festival, The Roundhouse and Melbourne Recital Centre. In 2018, she was one of nine official jury-selected showcase artists to perform at De Doelen for 2018 Classical:NEXT, where she appeared representing Australia and the UK, and became the first Australian artist to perform at the world's largest global art music conference.

A musical maverick, Belle Chen's music is forever evolving. Her newest set of works (Departure, 2019) draws inspiration from traditional music and sounds from around the world. In this set, she transforms the acoustic piano to evoke the sounds of a wide array of instruments including the Indonesian Gamelan, flamenco guitar, Chinese guqin, steel drum, cajón, and more.

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A vibe-alike tribute drawing from across John Martyn’s unrivalled catalogue of music, the Solid Air Band captures the emotion and sensitivity of John Martyn’s live performances eliciting the great artist’s original and idiosyncratic sound whilst creating an atmospheric and spontaneous tribute to the strength and intent of a true master.

SOLID AIR BANDThursday 5th December 2019, 7.30pmVenue: The Warehouse Theatre, Liverpool Hope University Creative Campus£10 (£8 concessions)

Mark Byrne - guitar/vocalsPete Hughes - bassAndrew Myers - saxophoneTony Peers - trumpet

Unlike most tribute bands that play for a living, it’s clear that the Solid Air Band play for the love of the musicLiverpool Acoustic

Maghull Wind Orchestra will bring you plenty of festive spirit with The Magic of Christmas. This extravaganza will be brimming with whip-cracking tunes, rousing fanfares, and festive favourites. Maghull Wind Orchestra is a community based symphonic wind orchestra with over one hundred members. The orchestra was founded in 1978 and provides high quality,

enjoyable and fun opportunity for local musicians to play music together - regardless of age or ability, with professional level directorship and without audition or fee.

Directed by Phil Shotton, they will perform an evening of joyful music to fill you with sparkle and cheer. This concert will definitely be a firm Yuletide favourite!

MAGHULL WIND ORCHESTRA: THE MAGIC OF CHRISTMASSaturday 7th December 2019, 7.30pmVenue: The Great Hall, Liverpool Hope University Creative Campus£10 (£6 concessions) (door)

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Join the LMO for an afternoon of festive fun suitable for all the family under the baton of their principal bassoonist, Robert Howard, also a fine conductor. The programme will include Prokofiev’s timeless narrated tale of Peter and The Wolf, in which a different instrument in the orchestra represents each character in the story. The orchestra is delighted to welcome back Roger Phillips, of Radio Merseyside fame, as the narrator for this performance. The instruments featuring

in the opening piece of the concert will be the strings, for Corelli’s ever-delightful Christmas Concerto. The second half will include some staples of the annual New Year’s Day concert from Vienna, including Johann Strauss’s most famous waltz, The Blue Danube, and also some perennial Christmas favourites such as Leroy Andersen’s Sleigh Ride. With other delightful musical lollipops for you to enjoy there will be something for everyone in this seasonal celebration!

LIVERPOOL MOZART ORCHESTRA: "A SEASONAL SELECTION"Sunday 8th December 2019, 2.30pm£12 (£6 concessions)

Corelli – Concerto Grosso Op.6 No.8 "Christmas Concerto"Prokofiev – Peter and the WolfJohann Strauss Jr. – Blue Danube WaltzEnnio Morricone – Gabriel’s OboeLeroy Andersen – Sleigh Ride

Conductor: Robert HowardNarrator: Roger Phillips

Capstone regulars Allerton Brass return for a performance of their new Festive Show to help get you in the mood for Christmas. As ever, this popular Band from South Liverpool will entertain you with a varied mix of seasonal favourites for all the family that really will get you into the Christmas spirit.

This year the Band is delighted to be joined on stage by Louise McVey and the children of St Austin’s Catholic Primary School Choir for what will be their first ever performance together.

ALLERTON BRASS: IT’S BEGINNING TO LOOK A LOT LIKE CHRISTMASSaturday 14th December 2019, 7.30pm£10 (£8 concessions)Tickets available by calling 07752 678224

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Venue InformationAccessibilityThe Capstone Theatre is fully accessible to wheelchair users. When booking tickets, please advise TicketQuarter staff of your requirements. The Theatre has a number of accessible seats with space next to them to accommodate wheelchair users. For each ticket booked for one of these spaces, you will be offered a free ticket for an accompanying carer, if required. An induction loop system is in operation at The Capstone Theatre. If you have any further questions about venue accessibility please email us at capstone@hope.ac.uk.

Times of EventsTimes indicated are performance start times. Venue doors normally open 45 minutes before the performance start time. Venue staff reserve the right to restrict entry into the theatre for performances that have started, to avoid disruption.

ParkingThere is limited parking available on site from 45 minutes prior to evening performances. This is available on a first-come first-served basis.For cyclists, there is also a small bike parking area next to the main entrance of the Theatre.

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The Capstone Theatre Liverpool Hope University Creative Campus 17 Shaw Street, Liverpool L6 1HP T: 0151 291 3578 E: capstone@hope.ac.ukwww.thecapstonetheatre.com

By Car Directions from the M62: At the end of the M62, follow signs for City Centre, continuing straight ahead for about 2 miles. Turn right onto Low Hill (also signposted for City Centre) continuing straight ahead at the traffic lights leading onto Erskine Street. Turn right at the next traffic lights onto Shaw Street. The Capstone Theatre is almost immediately on the left.

Directions from the M56: From Junction 15 join the M53. Continue to Liverpool via the Wallasey Tunnel (Kingsway). Exit straight ahead toward Scotland Road/Byrom Street. Keep in the left-hand lane and at the traffic lights follow to left (signposted Warrington, Manchester and M62) on to New Islington. Stay in the left-hand lane to the second set of traffic lights and turn left on to Shaw Street. The Capstone Theatre is almost immediately on the left. By Public TransportBus: From Liverpool City Centre (Queen Square) the Arriva and Stagecoach bus services travelling to the Creative Campus are the 12, 13 and 14 which stop on Brunswick Road. A two minute walk down Shaw Street will lead to the venue (on the left opposite the Collegiate). The 21 from Queen Square travels along Shaw Street and can drop you directly in front of the venue.

Rail: The Creative Campus is around ten minutes’ walk from Liverpool’s largest and main railway station, Liverpool Lime Street. The main entrance to Liverpool Lime Street is opposite Queen Square Bus Terminal from where you can travel by bus (see above).

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