What’s On – University and Liverpool events | November and beyond
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We’ll be refreshing our events programme throughout the year, and details are shared in our monthly alumni newsletter. Have you been receiving our emails? Make sure to keep your contact details up to date to stay informed about upcoming events and opportunities.
2025 Seamus Heaney Lecture - Sir Simon Schama
📅 Date: Thursday 13 November
🕒 Time: 6-7.30pm
📍 Venue: Yoko Ono Lennon Centre
🎟️ Cost: Free, registration required
The Annual Seamus Heaney Lecture is a highlight of our events calendar and this year we are looking forward to hearing from historian and TV presenter Sir Simon Schama. There will also be readings of Seamus Heaney's poetry by Liverpool born actor Leane Best of Cold Feet and Ted Lasso.
John Hamilton Lifelong Learning Lecture with Dr Shabna Begum: 60 years since the first Race Relations Act: How much has changed?
📅 Date: Thursday 13 November
🕒 Time: 6-7.30pm
📍 Venue: TBC
🎟️ Cost: Free, registration required
At this 60 year juncture, it is timely to revisit who 'we' imagined we were when we passed the first Race Relations Act and who we now imagine 'us' to be.
An Evening with John Illsley about the Life and Times of Dire Straits.
📅 Date: Friday 14 November
🕒 Time: 7.30pm
📍 Venue: The Tung Auditorium
🎟️ Cost: Standard £35, booking fee applies
Step inside the extraordinary story of one of rock’s most legendary bands with John Illsley, founding member and long-time bass player of Dire Straits.
Lanterns and Light Chester Zoo
📅 Date: From 14 November
🎟️ Cost: Ticket prices vary
Chester Zoo will transform after dark into a glowing winter wonderland of light, colour and sound.
Comic Con Liverpool
📅 Date: 15-16 November
📍 Venue: Exhibition Centre Liverpool
🎟️ Cost: Ticket prices vary
Comic Con Liverpool is one of Europe's largest pop culture conventions, attracting tens of thousands of fans to our biannual shows.
Liverpool Christmas Market
📅 Date: From 15 November to 24 December
📍 Venue: St George's Plateau and William Brown Street
This year’s market promises a delightful array of festive treats, crafts, and winter fairground rides.
Bringing the World to Liverpool: Stepping into Leadership
📅 Date: Wednesday 19 November
🕒 Time: 1-2pm
📍 Venue: Online webinar
🎟️ Cost: Free, registration required
Hear from a group of recent Liverpool graduates, sharing real stories about growing confidence, making decisions, stepping up and figuring it out as they go. This relaxed and honest panel talk will explore how leadership can take shape in many ways and how you can start developing your own leadership style from wherever you are now.
Enchanted Knowsley Safari
📅 Date: From 22 November
🎟️ Cost: Ticket prices vary
This Winter, Knowsley Safari transforms into a breathtaking wonderland of light and enchantment!
Barkla Lecture in Theoretical Physics 2025: A 40-Year Journey
📅 Date: Thursday 27 November
🕒 Time: 5-7pm
📍 Venue: Central Teaching Hub
🎟️ Cost: Free, registration required
The Department of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Liverpool is delighted to welcome* Nobel Laureate in Physics, Professor Reinhard Genzel, to deliver the annual Distinguished Barkla Lecture in Theoretical Physics 2025 entitled "A 40-Year Journey".
National Brick Events
📅 Date: Saturday 29 November
📍 Venue: Aintree Racecourse
🎟️ Cost: Ticket prices vary
National Brick Events is a event for EVERY LEGO fan. Stalls selling rare and long retired LEGO sets, the latest releases, dedicated minifigure stalls where you can pick up that missing figure, and lots more for you to view and purchase. Activities for children include a play area where you can sit and play with hundreds and hundreds of LEGO bricks.
December
Matilda The Musical
📅 Date: From 2 December
📍 Venue: Liverpool Empire Theatre
🎟️ Cost: Ticket prices vary
With book by Dennis Kelly, music and lyrics by Tim Minchin and directed by Matthew Warchus, Matilda is the story of an extraordinary little girl who, armed with a vivid imagination and a sharp mind, dares to take a stand and change her own destiny.
Liverpool Philharmonic Youth Brass Band: A Festive Fanfare
📅 Date: Wednesday 3 December
🕒 Time: 7.30-9.30pm
📍 Venue: Tung Auditorium
🎟️ Cost: Standard £10.00 Concession £5.00, booking fee applies
Come and celebrate the beginning of the festive season with some of the best of Liverpool's emerging brass talent – Liverpool Philharmonic Youth Brass Band.
Science in the Snug: Santa An Entangled Particle
📅 Date: Thursday 4 December
🕒 Time: 6.30-8pm
📍 Venue: School of the Arts Library, University of Liverpool, 19 Abercromby Square
🎟️ Cost: Free, registration required
Over the past ten years Professor Myers has developed his theory of Santa. Introducing the latest research on space time Professor Myers will now explain some of the problem brought up after the last presentation, epically over the aging of Santa.
LivWiSE Chistmas Lecture 2025
📅 Date: Thursday 4 December
🕒 Time: 5.30-7pm
📍 Venue: Central Teaching Hub
🎟️ Cost: Free, registration required
Join us for our annual Liverpool Women in Science and Engineering (LivWiSE) Christmas Lecture. Dreaming of a “Green” Christmas: Can Festivities be Sustainable?
Further events
- Upcoming alumni events: For all upcoming alumni events, please visit our alumni events pages.
- Upcoming reunions: For all upcoming reunions, please visit our reunion pages.
- Find out what your local alumni network has planned: Some of our international networks will have a list of upcoming local events. Please visit the relevant pages below to find out what's on.