Make Time For Love - Unveiling of the Clocks

Make Time For Love - Unveiling of the Clocks

Meet at Wavertree Town Hall at 1:15pm on Saturday 20 September as artists YARA + DAVINA unveil their specially commissioned Make Time For Love artworks. These clock faces have been created in collaboration with Asylum Link, Capeesh, Damien John Kelly House and Love Wavertree.

After speeches and the unveiling of the designs, join us inside the illustrious High Street venue of Wavertree Town Hall for a celebratory drink, meet the artists and Metal team. Then head with us to Wavertree Library for Live Readings from Stories, Mystery and Love.

Four bespoke clock faces will be on display this week on the outside of Wavertree Town Hall, making statements on love and the passing of time, from 20 - 28 September.

The ghosts of Sarah Pooley and James Picton still keep time – they slow it down at bus stops, run it backwards in junk shops, speed it up at home. Sophie Herxheimer, excerpt from WIN WIN from the newly published Stories, Mystery, and Love.

The clocks have been created by YARA + DAVINA in collaboration with Asylum Link, Capeesh, Damien John Kelly House, and Love Wavertree, through workshops, which began in the summer of 2025.

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.

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.