2021 - Line up of Events

Blackfest and Yammtree Present: Immunity for our Community

BlackFest are partnering with Yamm Tree to bring you a workshop dedicated to healing through food.

Join us a part of the daily ritual we all partake in: Art of food.

This is a series of our decolonial practices celebrating Black and brown heritage and culturally rooted diasporic foods.

Exploring the different ways to boost our natural immunity and how to incorporate it into our daily lifestyles. Using ancestral foods.

We are going to be exploring different recipes for simple but powerful immune boosting dishes. Enjoy this while receiving an empowering presentation about immunity as we reach back self-organise and reclaim lost ancestral knowledge that has been hidden in plain sight.

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An exhibition celebrating the work of visual artist Gold Maria Akanbi.

A night of artistic expression of music, poetry, dance and live theatre from some of our amazingly talented artists

Our 1st Autumn Equinox food workshop will invite you to enjoy a celebration of the yam harvest and its importance in world heritage and food culture.

Victoria Evaristo Trained at the Guildhall School of Music and drama. She is an Actor, director and freelance drama tutor

There are many nuances to the black identity but only a few come to light. This has been shaped by the entertainment industry, the media. Hollywood has filtered our perception of what a black woman looks like, what she thinks, and feels.

MC Nelson is a manifestation of the generation who came of age in the midst of the thwarted coalition government.

All white party for Sickle Cell
In Loving Memory of Naomi Loy

Visual artist Gold in an interactive workshop, she will be running a workshop to explore her work, process, inspirations, materials, artistic experiences and methodologies.

A pre-show* spoken word workshop with the country’s leading Performance Poetry and Spoken-Word organisation, Apples and Snakes

We would like to invite you to an exciting showcase of new emerging writers of colour, supported by The Royal Court Theatre's Community Participation Director Miriam Mussa and guided by independent writing guru Maurice Bessman.

We would like to invite you to an exciting showcase of new emerging black writers and writers of colour, supported by The Royal Court Theatre's Community Participation Director Miriam Mussa and guided by independent writing guru Maurice Bessman.

Join exciting panellists as we continue the dialogue on inclusion and diversity from UK nationwide perspective with our amazing line up.

Purchasing a 'Festival Ticket' will give you access to all BlackFest 2021 events via a 'Promo Code' that you can use on all our other Eventbrite events! Booking is still required for each event to guarantee entry.

This year is 40th Anniversary of the Toxteth Uprisings, we will be showcasing collection of pictures and quotes from members of the community

Our mission and values will always be to support artists to access funding themselves.

A selection of 4 amazing spoken word poets that are bringing different perspectives on social parallels raising awareness on mental health and disparities between races.

YammTree cooking will be hosting a workshop/education session in the Grapes Garden @ Squash Liverpool

We would like to invite you to an exciting showcase of new emerging black writers and writers of colour, supported by The Royal Court Theatre's Community Participation Director Miriam Mussa and guided by independent writing guru Maurice Bessman.

Letters To Gil (A Memoir) by Malik Al Nasir w/Foreword by Lemn Sissay live book launch presented by BlackFest Festival 2021. Hosted live @ Liverpool Everyman Theatre Bistro

As we are in October we greet Black History Month with remembrance, celebration, peace and love. The line-up includes community performances and entertainment to bring everybody together to celebrate the multicultural city we live in.