Liverpool has special plans in place to re-live its hosting of the most successful Eurovision Song Contest of all time.

Liverpool Loves Eurovision - a series of free events - will take place on Saturday, May 11, to revisit the incredible fortnight in May last year by paying homage to elements of 2023’s incredibly popular programme.

Liverpool won the bid as host city and saw a rollout of one of the biggest events programmes in contest history, with business grants, school projects, street parades and endless unforgettable events reaching every corner of Merseyside.

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Taking place on the evening of the Grand Final, Liverpool Loves Eurovision's free events include:

  • Between 1-7pm, Beats on the Streets will take over Castle Street, Liverpool ONE and the Royal Albert Dock Liverpool when 30 pop-up music and dance performances by local artists will take over the locations throughout the day. Expect a soundtrack of Eurovision hits from across the years performed by some of the best local talent.
  • The Bluecoat will mark the anniversary with Fly High – a beautiful art installation of blue and yellow butterfly lanterns created at family sessions. The butterflies represent how Liverpool shone under the global Eurovision spotlight and have been curated by artist Andrea Ku from B4 Biodiversity.
  • As a stand-alone commission to mark the anniversary of Liverpool 2023, Welcome to Aquatopia will see the return of the blue and yellow submarine underwater disco - this time taking over the Pier Head. Curated by the Invisible Wind Factory, this is a family-friendly event with DJ sets, dance performances and sea puppetry on the Submarine Stage (located near the Ferry Terminal) and Crafty Fish workshops in Mann Island atrium, which will see families encouraged to create their very own fishy fashion accessory in order to join the roller-skating jellyfish and giant octopus in a special deep-sea disco. It will run from 2pm until 7pm and will include a whole host of collaborations with local communities and Ukrainian performers.

More events will be added to the line-up soon, including a reimagining of the treasure-hunt spectacular Spot Sonia, but this time with some very well-known Eurovision legends.

All of the activities will complement the Malmö on the Mersey Grand Final Screening at the Exhibition Centre Liverpool on May 11. Find out more about the impact of hosting Eurovision for Liverpool and the wider City Region here.

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