Make Time For Love - Floral Tribute and Postcard Making workshops

As part of Make Time For Love - Celebration Day, join artists YARA + DAVINA in the Rose Garden on Wavertree High Street for free Floral Tribute and Postcard Making drop-in workshop sessions.

Join artists YARA + DAVINA for free drop-in postcard and floral tribute making workshops in the Rose Garden. Design your own postcards featuring the people, places, and ideas that help you make time for love. Or lend a hand in the floral tribute making workshops. Add some flowers in YARA + DAVINA’s signature colours of pink and yellow and help create this tribute to love spelling out Make Time For Love. Once finished, it will be on display in the window of Occasions Florist for the rest of the celebration week, 20 – 28 September.

There will be 6 workshops each lasting 20 minutes, beginning at 11am and finishing at 1pm, in the following time slots: --

11:00-11:20

11:20-11:40

11:40-12:00

12:00-12:20

12:20-12:40

12:40-13:00

Booking is not essential - walkups are welcome - but reserving here will guarantee you a space. Otherwise sessions will be run on a first come first served basis.

For anyone who would like to be included in the procession to carry Floral Tributes to the Clock Tower, this will occur at 1pm from the Rose Garden. Please meet and assemble there to join us in that.

To book your place, follow the ticket links here on Eventbrite and reserve a space.

If weather doesn't permit outdoor activity, we will move to Wavertree Library nearby - Picton Rd, Liverpool L15 4LP

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.

For more information on Make Time For Love, visit https://metalculture.com/projects/make-time-for-love/

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.

About Picton Play

Make Time For Love is the finale of a two-year artist in residence project called Picton Play, commissioned by Culture Liverpool, Liverpool City Council, as part of the Creative Neighbourhoods programme, bringing together artists, community organisers, young people and other curious residents to celebrate the creativity in Wavertree and Picton and to explore new ways of getting together through play.