We produce arts & cultural heritage projects & events in collaboration with refugees, asylum seekers, migrants and under-resourced groups in the North West
📢 Big News! We're hosting a day festival of live music, poetry & spoken word — BEATS BEYOND BORDERS!
🗓️ 22nd June | 📍@future_yard
🎟️ Line-up & tickets 👉 https://t.co/e0JxbPvmIW
100% of profits go to: Heart 4 Refugees, Medical Aid for Palestinians & Save the Children Sudan
BEATS BEYOND BORDERS - 2 stages, 16 incredible artists, poetry, and family-friendly activities from 1pm, to be enjoyed both indoors and outdoors☀️
This Sunday, we'll take over @future_yard ! Tickets from £12 (PWYF) 👉 https://t.co/e0JxbPvmIW 100% of profits go to our charities!
BBB ARTIST SPOTLIGHT: Scouse-Yemeni poet Amina Atiq 🥰Amina is a published poet, performance artist, practitioner & award-winning activist working across culture & education. She’s also an anti-racism advisor for @CuriousMindsNW & @LivEveryPlay 🎟️ https://t.co/e0JxbPvmIW
⚡BBB ARTIST SPOTLIGHT: Tom Lane 🤩Liverpool-born songwriter blending raw, reflective lyrics with Scouse soul and stripped-back psychedelia. Music that sits between the everyday and something a little bit further out 🎟️ https://t.co/e0JxbPvmIW #RefugeeWeek2025#RefugeeWeek#BBB
ARTIST SPOTLIGHT: Merse Wylie 🥰Liverpool based singer, songwriter, arranger & music director, acclaimed for blending alt-pop, R&B, classical & jazz with neo-soul flair. Her upcoming Ep 'Woman' explores feminist themes with emotion and power.🎟️ https://t.co/e0JxbPvmIW
📢BBB ARTIST SPOTLIGHT: Lorcan Nelson 🤩Blending heartfelt indie pop with folk influences, Lorcan Nelson's music explores themes of love, insecurity, and self-reflection-delivered with an honest, narrative-driven style that resonates deeply with listeners🎟️https://t.co/e0JxbPvUyu
⚡New Artist Alert: Two Blinks, I Love You❤️Lo-fi, raw & heartbreakingly human, crafting fragile alt-folk wrapped in tape hiss & late-night introspection.Liam Brown's sound draws on early 2000s NYC indie, Elliot Smith melancholy, & a love of imperfections🎟️https://t.co/e0JxbPvUyu
⚡BBB Artist Spotlight - Credits🤩Blending Laurel Canyon Americana, 2000's chamber pop, & alt-country, their sounds land between Wilco, Clean Cut Kid, & Midlake. Hailing from Liverpool, they've tenure in some of the regions indie heavyweights between them🎟https://t.co/e0JxbPvmIW
#BBB Good cause spotlight:@Heart4Refugees CIC in Birkenhead♥️Profits from the festival's ticket sales will go towards funding upcoming art therapy sessions for refugees & asylum seekers who are members of the organisation. Find out more👇
🎟https://t.co/e0JxbPvUyu #refugeeweek
📣Artist Spotlight: @brokendowngolf Cart🛺A 2-piece collision of spacey grunge+fuzzy weird love-stripped back & turned all the way up🤩Rooted in the raw spirit of ‘90s grunge but spun into danceable psych-pop, BDGC delivers lush harmonies & playful chaos🎟https://t.co/e0JxbPvmIW
#BBB Artist Spotlight: France, You’re on Your Own!🤩
The Liverpool folk-punk duo mixes raw gang vocals with heavy autotune for a sound that’s intimate, chaotic, and emotionally charged. Lyrically, they explore isolation, identity, and a world in decline.🎟https://t.co/e0JxbPvmIW
📢#BBB Artist Spotlight: Arthur Layne and The Wanderers, a band of kindred spirits—traveler's at heart—drawn together from distant corners of the world. With roots tangled in folk, rock, & raw emotion, they craft worn, honest, & full of longing songs maps🎟https://t.co/e0JxbPvUyu
#BBB Charity Spotlight: Medical Aid for Palestinians✨When the people in charge loose their humanity, grassroots action & community care become essential. With your ticket 👉https://t.co/e0JxbPvmIW you'll be supporting health workers on the ground in Gaza doing lifesaving work❤️
📢BBB Artist Spotlight: our headliner Ellis Murphy🤩Ellis has amassed a cult following with his timeless brand of storytelling,through his songs that are both current & fresh but also reminiscent of a time when troubadours were the voice of a generation👉https://t.co/e0JxbPvmIW
📢#BBB Artist Spotlight: @poemsbyem🤩Emily Tootle is a local, Liverpool writer who blends her passion for poetry & politics into evocative & thought provoking verse. Listen to her powerful and incredibly moving poem 'Sweet Child of Palestine'🇵🇸Tickets here https://t.co/nrCCtAyIXj
🌿BBB Artist Spotlight: Jessica Dives🤩Purbeck Rising 2025 finalist & winner of the Liverpool Songwriting Challenge 2024,Jessica is a promising up & coming folk singer-songwriter with a vibrancy that shines through in her material & performance. Tickets👉https://t.co/e0JxbPvUyu
⚡BBB Artist Spotlight: DBA! - leading figures in Liverpool’s emerging music scene, combining vivid, introspective lyricism & anthemic tendencies to perfection. Their unique sound has earned praise from DIY, Dork, So Young, CMU & Rough Trade🤩 Tickets 👉 https://t.co/e0JxbPvmIW
⚡BBB ARTIST SPOTLIGHT: @TenderClaws take on alt rock is a mix of powerful grunge-influenced outbursts & softer episodes, scattered with jagged guitar & synth elements. Her most recent is 'Serenity’, an #altrock ‘lullaby’. Tickets 📷 https://t.co/e0JxbPvmIW