Comics Drawing with Comics Youth
10.30-12.20
Join Sara and Seb from creative collective Comics Youth for a drop-in comic-making session. Illustrate your favourite match day memories or sketch a short sports-themed comic strip. No experience needed, just bring your imagination!
Comics Youth is a youth-led community organisation based in Merseyside, empowering young people to find their voice through drawing and storytelling. All welcome. Ages guidance 8-16 years old.
Sketch-a-stadium
11.00-12.00 (age guidance 5-10 year olds), 12.30-13.30 (age guidance 11-14 year olds) and 14.00-15.00 (age guidance 15-18 year olds)
Join Ivy or Edie, our resident architectural drawing experts from the Learning team at the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) to explore stadium design through drawing. Get inspiration from our Home Ground display to create your own pencil stadium design. Think about shapes, materials and spaces and explore scale, plans sections and elevations.
Sustainable stadium build
11.00-15.00
Build two table-top stadiums with recycled newspaper and materials. Help us tackle designs that will evolve from your ideas and construct our stadiums as a team throughout the day. Pop back later to see how they're developing, check the structures are sturdy and let us know which one you think is the winning design. All welcome. Children must be accompanied by an adult.
City of Supporters: Collective banner project with Emma Norbury
10.30-15.00
Join LFC banner maker Emma Norbury to contribute to a collective football banner, celebrating Liverpool as a city of supporters. Paint a section of text, colour the city backdrop and add your own banner of support for whoever and whatever you support. All welcome. Children must be accompanied by an adult.
Emma Norbury is a local artist and designer who has been dressing the Kop with giant hand-painted banners since 2009.
Home Ground curator tours with Pete Collard
10.30-11.15, 12.00-12.45, 14.00-14.45
Join RIBA curator Pete Collard for a tour of Home Ground: The Architecture of Football. Hear stories behind the works and discover the process of putting on an exhibition. Tours are free but booking is essential. Book your ticket here.
Homebaked bakery pies
12.00-14.00
Grab a match day pie for sale from Homebaked Bakery. Whether you're buying one hot to eat on the spot or taking it home to bake later, these pies are match day staples. Since 2012, Homebaked Bakery has been providing pies to football supporters and Liverpool locals alike, and has become a hub for the community to connect, socialise and learn.
Florrie: A Football Love Story with Anna Trench
15.00-15.45
Join author and illustrator Anna Trench as she shares the inspiration behind her debut graphic novel, Florrie. Through the story of a female footballer, Anna's book explores friendship, falling in love, and the little-known history of the women's game, including the impact of the FA's 1921 ban on women's football. Anna will discuss the motivations and stories behind the book and share her perspectives on the game as a player, a fan and a creative storyteller. All welcome.
Anna Trench is an author, illustrator and teacher based in London. Her book Florrie has been shortlisted for the First Graphic Novel Award and the LDComics Award.
The Art of Football Story
16.15-17.00
Join sports journalist Neil Atkinson from The Anfield Wrap and award-winning radio and podcast producer Lizzi Doyle to explore how football stories are shaped on the pitch, in the stands and behind the mic. In this interactive Q&A session led by Curator Pete Collard, hear what drives their work, some challenges of sports journalism and how to make a story resonate with fans.
