events archive
Previous Picnics:
Nurture - Paddle 
Hilbre. Possibly the only place on Merseyside where you can experience the sort of isolation everyone knew until recently, cut off from the mainland until the tide allows you back again. Although today we also have the backup systems of lifeboats checking for advice on the internet and calling for support by mobile phone.
Nuture - Walking the Bounds
Walk the bounds of our shrinking city and discuss the maintenance and potential of our land.
Seed - Liverpool: The Garden City
'pool present an evening to celebrate local producers. It takes place in the Bluecoat's new garden, the site of the oldest vegetable plot in Liverpool.
Whether you are an agriculturalist, a local allotment holder or a dab hand on the window ledge, whether you make the policies or simply like eating the stuff, come and meet people who make a living from cultivating their own produce locally or are keen, keen gardners and independent growers.
Seed - Sustenance, Subsistence and Soil
Paddy Byrne, owner of the Everyman Bistro invited us to come and see his allotment at Midsummer. We gratefully accepted and 20 of us went along to see how someone who has been providing Liverpool with the best of organic and local food for 30 years grows his own.
Our Daily Bread
Local food production has never been as high on the agenda as it today. We invite you to consider the food chain all the way from planting to eating on a visit to Church Farm organics. We ask questions about growing food at a local level and find out how the professionals make their gardens grow.
Where the wild things are
Realising a winter of potential at the Shorefields allotments . . .
Finding Marshes, Molyneuxs and Whitfields
The search for namesakes of forgotten figures from Liverpool's past.
For more information:
email: info@poolproject.co.uk
call: +44(0)7928027180
Walk on the Wild Side - Liverpool Free Thinking Festival
Start: Salt Dock (Albert Dock) / Finish: FACT
Liverpool artist Jean Grant invites you to share a tour of Liverpool with a difference. Dig down below the city’s modern surfaces uncovering stories and characters that shaped the city’s history and discover stories no-one has told you.
Urban Picnic: Make Room for the Pumpkins
Share some pumpkin soup while you mind the gap before twilight descends.
Paddle to Hilbre Island
Our adventure imagining what the rocky outcrop of Liverpool would have been like in the 13th century
Collaboration with the Everyman Bistro, Wapping Brewery and Landlife
Our event addressing the question - Can we grow food within walking distance?
Urban Strawberry Lunch
Collaboration picnic with Urban Strawberry Lunch
Turn Around
Exploration of the renovated Ropewalks area
Passing Glances/Rolling Views
Bus trip and walk to Liverpool's highest vantage point...
InOut
What is hidden from the common wealth?
Picnic examinng the archeology under Queen Victorias Skirt...
Earth
Journey deep into the cities bones, history and anatomy and picnic in paradise.
A Baptism of Fire
Invoke the sun, barbeque and say goodbye to our smallest iconic building in appropriate ways
Tidal Dreams
An elemental journey into watery futures as the sun sets
The Breath of Life
The highs and lows of a breathable city
Bridging The Gap
Our walk through Liverpool in conjunction with our current exhibition - Construction Site (now showing at Liverpool Vision - click here to find out more and get involved)
The Spaces Between: Reorient your city
Discovering Liverpool's forgotten streets and corners
Shake
Sensory exploration of the citys jiggers.
Journey through Liverpool's back alleys
Exhibitions:
Tidal Dreams in Paradise