Lessons On Love: Drop-in Lunchtime Community Story Sharing

Lessons on Love: drop-in lunchtime community story sharing, 20 – 28 September
Join these sessions with community members sharing stories of how they have fostered love in their lives and for their area. Speakers are:

• Fozia Choudhry, founder of Fozia’s Kashmiri Kitchen.
  Fozia’s Restaurant, 7pm - 9pm on Tuesday 23 September

• Sophie Colligan, a local non-denominational celebrant.
  Wavertree Library, 2pm- 3pm on Thursday 25 September

• Paul Rivera, a retired Park Ranger, and resident of Wavertree since the age of 6.
  Wavertree Library, 10am - 11am on Saturday 27 September

Be sure to check out Metal's other events as part of Make Time For Love - a weeklong celebration of the creativity that exists in Wavertree and Picton.

About Make Time For Love

Make Time For Love is a project by arts organisation Metal, with artists YARA + DAVINA, commissioned by Culture Liverpool, Liverpool City Council. Make Time For Love is the finale of a 2-year programme called Picton Play with communities in L15, to celebrate the creativity that exists in the Wavertree and Picton neighbourhoods as part of Culture Liverpool’s Creative Neighbourhoods programme.

Everyone is invited to take part in this week of events from 20 - 28 September. The range of activities and events have been shaped by three commissioned short stories set in Wavertree and Picton. The book, Stories, Mystery and Love, will be shared with all households in the L15 postcode over the course of the week. Copies will also be available in libraries across Liverpool. Events also take inspiration from James Picton’s Clock Tower (1884), created in loving memory to his wife of 50 years, Sarah Pooley. Make Time for Love celebrates love for families, neighbours, community, and friends.

The programme on Wavertree High Street launches with a day of celebratory events on Saturday 20 September, and includes a drop-in floral tribute and postcard making workshop at the Rose Garden, readings by commissioned writers Hanan Issa, Sophie Herxheimer and Joelle Taylor at Wavertree Library, a live musical performance by Capeesh, and the unveiling of four very special clocks.

Make Time For Love © by YARA + DAVINA, 2025. A project by Metal. Commissioned by Culture Liverpool and supported by Arts Council England, Liverpool City Council, the University of Liverpool and Art Fund.