Convenience Summer Festival 2022

Saturday 20th August 2022 

For our 3rd Birthday we hosted a full day summer festival with a line up of incredible activity powered by local talent. Across the day we hosted a art fair featuring 25 stalls focused on supporting independent artists and creatives within the city region, 

Workshops explored an introduction to our Uncovering Birkenhead Working Class History and a partner project with LIverpool city region combined authority share the skill to work creatively with bamboo. 

We had a series of live acts at 6:30pm with performances from Live musicians and DJs. It was a wonderful sunny day and brilliant to have so many people attend. 

The full programme: 

Convenience arts market: (2pm-6pm)

Plush crafts

Charlie ann buxton

Dripped goods

Clay Crap

Joy Clark and Max Fearon

Ellsquared

SBEIsden Artist

George welch artists

Marilynn Baby

Rosa Illustration

Print n Tha’

Black paper uk

Biggles_art

Jon_A_edgely

Convenience Gallery

Free Workshops: (2pm onwards)

1. Highlighting our new project commissioned by Historic England: Uncovering Working-Class histories of Birkenhead

2. second workshop from our partnership work with the Liverpool City Combined authority for Imagine Bamboo for the Bridge 2 bamboo workshops with alex herring

Food: 

@enapaspices.sauces

Ena Pa African-Caribbean Spices & Sauces (serving amazing vegan and non vegan options on the day)

Performances and DJs:

6:30-7:15 Nil00pm performing the newly released EP ‘00’

7:30-9:00pm Wolfie (DJ)

9:00-11:00pm Luna Thee Frenchie (DJ) 

Check out photo from across the day:

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