What we've been up to

Written 6 Nov 2025

Did you know most of our ATL team are practising artists, writers and musicians? Here’s some of what they have been getting up to recently when not working with communities in Sefton.

Library Producer Joe Goff has been working with Reduce to produce a Supercut of the Homotopia Archive.

Kitchen Library Creative Producer, Greg Herbert is showing new works exploring the David and Indrė Roberts Collection at Castlefield Gallery.

Linny Venables’ show Sweet Factory is at the Atkinson until 28th February 2026 and she is giving a talk about the project on the 12th in The Atkinson. You can book your place for the talk here.

You can see The Colour of Pomegranates Creative Lead Karema Munassar’s work on show with Art.Uk until November 16th.

Nicki McCubbing, Creative Producer for Squish!, released a book earlier this year with Metal about The 86 bus, chronicling overheard snippets from the bus route. The book has been in Copenhagen this week for the Listening Biennial and is available to buy from local publisher and bookshop Dead Ink.

Our Head of Audiences Jessie is also a writer and recently wrote about Rimrose Valley and Kes by Ken Loach in STAT Magazine.

Sara Wolff, our Programme Producer, is a sound artist and musician and recently composed the score for a film called Carrot Cakeofficially selected for Aesthetica Short Film Festival in York later this month.

Click the links to find out more about each project and how you can see, visit, read or listen!

Image credit: Phoebe Verity, illustrations for Jessie's article in STAT

What's on for the next 4 weeks

Squish! Creative Play
10:30am, Tuesday 21st April
Bootle Library
Spaces Available
Holding Space to Sing
11:00am, Monday 27th April
Crosby Library
Spaces Available
Squish! Creative Play
10:30am, Tuesday 28th April
Bootle Library
Spaces Available
Squish Creative Play
10:30am, Tuesday 5th May
Bootle Library
Spaces Available
Movema Taking Flight Performance
10:30am, Wednesday 6th May
Bootle Library
Spaces Available
International Shared Reading
2:00pm, Wednesday 6th May
Crosby Library
Spaces Available
Loved and Lost Shared Reading
2:00pm, Wednesday 6th May
Formby Library
Spaces Available
Grief Gathering with Brendan Curtis
2:30pm, Friday 8th May
Formby Library
Spaces Available
The Colour of Pomegranates with Dora
10:30am, Saturday 9th May
Bootle Library
Spaces Available
Holding Space to Sing
11:00am, Monday 11th May
Crosby Library
Spaces Available
Squish Creative Play with Soph
10:30am, Tuesday 12th May
Bootle Library
Spaces Available
Movema Taking Flight Performance
10:30am, Wednesday 13th May
Bootle Library
Spaces Available
Find out more about what's happening At The Library