ArtsGroupie
About Us
ArtsGroupie is a Liverpool based community interest company that is promoting and providing access to the arts in the North West and beyond.
We achieve this through developing our own touring theatre and music productions, and by facilitating educational workshops for both adults and children in creative writing and spoken word.
Ethically, our productions are created in collaboration with local artists to champion North West talent. We then take theatre and writing showcases to overlooked areas where access to the arts is limited. This has previously included Liverpool’s most deprived areas and rural areas nationally.
Our workshopping and educational opportunities for the community have previously been taken to schools and community hubs in Liverpool. As an organisation we have a particular interest in producing and promoting work that champions women, older people and the LGBTQA+ community, and our work promotes positive attitudes towards these groups.
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This is the real and original Hogarth, who stars in our logo. He’s been with ArtsGroupie since the very start.
The ArtsGroupie Timeline
ArtsGroupie is an arts organisation that's all about Liverpool, its history, it's culture and its people.
ArtsGroupie CIC was formed
A 30 minute version of Kitty: Queen of the Washhouse was showcased at Hope Street, the play was chosen for an evening that celebrated Strong Women organised by Make it Write.
Liverpool John Moores University and the University of Wales invited us to give a series of lectures.
St Georges Hall, Small Concert Hall, sold out two performances
The play was also performed in Broad Square Primary School, L11 and St Vincent de Paul, L 1, (the site of Kitty’s original washhouse). The children participated in workshops including learning an old Mill Song.
ArtsGroupie won a place on Lloyds SE NorthWest Start Up - this funded the branding and logo.
We commissioned local artist Ella Dalton to draw a pen and ink version of Hogarth and a new version of the Liverpool Coat of Arms.
Weave went through Research and Development and played three sell out evenings at Hope Street Theatre.
We took Kitty: Queen of the Washhouse on the road for the Shropshire Rural Tour. Produced by Drama Chameleon, Arts Centre, Ellesmere College, Millennium Hall, Cockshutt, Shawbury Village Hall.
We ran a series of Creative Writing workshops or students with ADHD and autistic spectrum disorders at Hugh Baird College.
ArtsGroupie were proud to present Weave by John Maguire and Samantha Alton (who also played the lead) at Liverpool's famous Royal Court Theatre.
When Coronavirus made UK landfall to everyone's shock and dismay, many of our projects went on hold. Undeterred, ArtsGroupie set about figuring out what we COULD do.
Swiftly adapting to life under lockdown, ArtsGroupie devised and delivered a series of Creative Writing workshops for MyClubmoor, a Community Engagement Hub in Liverpool L13.
With just a few days of 2020 yet to unfold, we finally launched ArtsGroupie's brand new website, created by Gina at Here's the Cavalry.
A collaboration with Incredible Edible Knowsley, Horti-Culture. There will be classes on growing vegetables and ArtsGroupie will provide the creative arts and writing provision.
Horti - growing, planting and nurturing
Culture - writing, reading and feeding your imagination
There's always lots of plans brewing under Hogarth's watchful eye! Watch this space. Sign up for updates!
ArtsGroupie is an arts organisation that's all about Liverpool, its history, it's culture and its people.
A 30 minute version of Kitty: Queen of the Washhouse was showcased at Hope Street, the play was chosen for an evening that celebrated Strong Women organised by Make it Write.
ArtsGroupie CIC was formed
Liverpool John Moores University and the University of Wales invited us to give a series of lectures.
St Georges Hall, Small Concert Hall, sold out two performances
The play was also performed in Broad Square Primary School, L11 and St Vincent de Paul, L 1, (the site of Kitty’s original washhouse). The children participated in workshops including learning an old Mill Song.
ArtsGroupie won a place on Lloyds SE NorthWest Start Up - this funded the branding and logo.
We commissioned local artist Ella Dalton to draw a pen and ink version of Hogarth and a new version of the Liverpool Coat of Arms.
Weave went through Research and Development and played three sell out evenings at Hope Street Theatre.
We took Kitty: Queen of the Washhouse on the road for the Shropshire Rural Tour. Produced by Drama Chameleon, Arts Centre, Ellesmere College, Millennium Hall, Cockshutt, Shawbury Village Hall.
We ran a series of Creative Writing workshops or students with ADHD and autistic spectrum disorders at Hugh Baird College.
ArtsGroupie were proud to present Weave by John Maguire and Samantha Alton (who also played the lead) at Liverpool's famous Royal Court Theatre.
When Coronavirus made UK landfall to everyone's shock and dismay, many of our projects went on hold. Undeterred, ArtsGroupie set about figuring out what we COULD do.
Swiftly adapting to life under lockdown, ArtsGroupie devised and delivered a series of Creative Writing workshops for MyClubmoor, a Community Engagement Hub in Liverpool L13.
With just a few days of 2020 yet to unfold, we finally launched ArtsGroupie's brand new website, created by Gina at Here's the Cavalry.
A collaboration with Incredible Edible Knowsley, Horti-Culture. There will be classes on growing vegetables and ArtsGroupie will provide the creative arts and writing provision.
Horti - growing, planting and nurturing
Culture - writing, reading and feeding your imagination
There's always lots of plans brewing under Hogarth's watchful eye! Watch this space. Sign up for updates!
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