BlackFest 2026 Presents: Visual Arts Workshop with Nina Edge

Nina Edge is running a visual arts workshop at The Royal Liver Building on Wednesday 21 October, part of the BlackFest 2026 programme. It's an in-person session, so you'll be working alongside her rather than just watching from the back.

Edge is a visual artist, writer and urban design activist whose practice covers a lot of ground. She works with radical textiles and ceramics, street performance, public art and short films, and she describes herself as a dual-heritage British Asian woman. She trained as a ceramicist and built her reputation on using low-status craft materials to challenge established artistic hierarchies. Her work developed alongside the political Black British Art movement of the 1980s, and she's spent a good deal of her career working with communities on collaborative projects. In Liverpool, that includes the Princes Park Health Centre and Granby Winter Garden; she's also worked on West Close in Cardiff Bay.

The workshop is presented by BlackFest, and it runs from 11:00 to 14:00, so you'll need to clear a three-hour window on a Wednesday morning. Tickets go from £9.38 to £11.55 and are booked through Eventbrite. The venue is The Royal Liver Building, Pier Head, Liverpool, L3 1HU.