https://www.bluecoatartscentre.com/ Where Art Lives, Breathes & Provokes en Wed, 08 Jul 2026 16:13:39 GMT https://www.bluecoatartscentre.com/ten-uk-performance-artists-rewriting-rules-live-art/ https://www.bluecoatartscentre.com/ten-uk-performance-artists-rewriting-rules-live-art/ From former industrial spaces in Sheffield to converted chapels in Cardiff, a generation of performance artists is dismantling the comfortable boundaries between art and audience, self and society, body and politics. These are not artists waiting to be discovered — they are already doing the work. Bluecoat Arts Centre presents ten practitioners whose live art demands your attention before the rest of the country catches up. Bluecoat Arts Centre Performance & Live Art Wed, 08 Jul 2026 16:13:39 GMT https://www.bluecoatartscentre.com/three-centuries-creative-defiance-bluecoat-britains-oldest-arts-centre/ https://www.bluecoatartscentre.com/three-centuries-creative-defiance-bluecoat-britains-oldest-arts-centre/ Long before 'arts centre' entered the cultural lexicon, a handsome Queen Anne building on School Lane, Liverpool was quietly incubating a revolution. The Bluecoat's 300-year journey from charity school to radical creative powerhouse is not merely institutional history — it is a living argument for why publicly supported art remains indispensable. As funding cuts continue to reshape Britain's cultural landscape, we examine what this extraordinary building has always known: that provocation is not Bluecoat Arts Centre Heritage & Culture Wed, 08 Jul 2026 16:13:39 GMT