An exciting week-long festival of arts and culture is coming to The Capstone Theatre and Liverpool Hope University’s Creative Campus this March! From 20th until 27th March, Angel Field Festival is showcasing an enthralling and diverse programme of music, art, dance, film, workshops and discussion. Here’s what’s on….
Dife Youth Ensemble: Thurs 20th March, 7pm, The Capstone Theatre
The award-winning Dife Youth Ensemble, from Acadiana’s Best Dance Studio of 2024, FE Conservatory, is excited to bring the vibrant culture of Louisiana Creoles to Liverpool. This captivating performance will showcase the heart and soul of Louisiana’s rich heritage, infusing the infectious rhythms of traditional Zydeco music with the expressive power of contemporary dance.
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The Utopia Strong: Fri 21st March, 7.30pm, The Capstone Theatre
The Utopia Strong is a British electronic band formed in Glastonbury, England in 2018. The group consists of snooker legend Steve Davis, Kavus Torabi, and Michael J. York. They released their self-titled debut album in 2019 and their second, International Treasure, in 2022. As no less a sage than Andrew Weatherall proclaimed, The Utopia Strong are “gnostic sonics in a nutshell”.
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The Savoy Jazzmen: Sat 22nd March, 2pm, The Capstone Theatre
Liverpool’s Savoy Jazzmen, who formed in 1960, first performed at the Mardi Gras Jazz Club Liverpool on Tuesday 3rd May 1960. They also played regularly in the Downbeat Jazz Club in the 1960’s and a poster can be seen in the World Museum advertising the group’s session in the club with the Swinging Blue Jeans. The band played at the original Cavern (which began as a traditional jazz club before the Beatles appeared there) and a brick in the wall opposite the new Cavern commemorates these sessions.
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HMO – Mozart, Music from the Final Year, 1791: Sat 22nd March, 7.30pm, The Great Hall
A stunning showcase of Mozart’s great work of 1791 featuring Barbara Ruzsics (soprano), Sarah Helsby Hughes (mezzo-soprano), Hugh Kaliski (tenor) and Joseph Murphy (bass). The year 1791 saw Mozart complete several great works – the piano concerto in Bb, k.595, the operas The Magic Flute and La Clemenza di Tito, the Clarinet Concerto k.622, the string quintet in Eb k.614, the much-loved motet Ave Verum Corpus.
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Kininso Koncepts presents Waterside: Sun 23rd March, 4pm, The Cornerstone Theatre
Waterside is an emotional, thought-provoking and magical journey that unravels the culture of totemism and taboos, plagues in the Niger Delta, and the significance of culture, family, memories, and dreams, delving into historical issues of oil exploitation and struggles of Nigerian youth, in particular unemployment.
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In a Landscape — The Music of Erik Satie, John Cage and David Revill: Sun 23rd March, 7.30pm, The Capstone Theatre
A concert of music of a reflective nature featuring works by the composers Erik Satie, John Cage and David Revill. French composer Erik Satie (1866 – 1924) was an early pioneer of musical modernism exerting a profound influence on 20th-century music, meanwhile American composer John Cage (1912- 1992) was a legendary American composer and music theorist. British composer David Revill, who passed away in 2024, is the author of The Roaring Silence, the authorised biography of Cage.
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Stages Of Youth: Mon 24th March, 7.30pm, The Capstone Theatre
Stages of Youth is a celebration of our young talent from Liverpool Hope University Drama Society, Young Everyman Playhouse Programme and a debut performance of the The Wee Wake, written, directed and produced by second year student Aoife Kane. Liverpool Hope Drama Society has developed its Stages of Youth performance employing a range of exciting devising techniques.
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(a contemporary) phantasmagoria (2) – Artist Talk and Private View: Tues 25th March, 4.30pm, The Cornerstone Building
This artist talk and private view relates to the exhibition, (a contemporary) phantasmagoria (2), taking place in the Cornerstone Gallery during the period of the Angel Field Festival 2025. The talk at 4.30pm will take place in the Grace Room (COR 114) at Liverpool Hope University Creative Campus, Cornerstone Building, 17 Shaw Street, Liverpool L6 1HP and be followed by a Private View in the Cornerstone Gallery (same location) at 5.45pm.
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East Meets West – A Musical Interpretation of Poem’s Savors: Tues 25th March, 7.30pm, The Capstone Theatre
East Meets West – A Musical Interpretation of Poem’s Savors is a programme that includes a piano recital alongside a lecture on the subject of contemporary piano works combining Eastern and Western cultural influences.
Hua Lin is one of the most prominent contemporary Chinese composers and Chinese pianist Lei Cai, Professor of Piano at Ouachita Baptist University, USA, will perform these pieces and introduce the works to the audience through reading his English translations of the Chinese poems and showing traditional Chinese paintings of the artistic conception.
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The Hairy Girl: Weds 26th March, 7.30pm, The Capstone Theatre
Once upon a time there was a king and a queen who lived in a castle full of gold, diamonds and good food, but they didn’t have any children. This is the very ordinary beginning to one of the wildest of Scandinavian fairy tales! The Hairy Girl thunders through the world on her goat, beats up troll hags, saves her sister from a grim destiny, and uses all her cunning to find a future for them both.
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Discover Moutya — A UNESCO-Inscribed Cultural Heritage of Seychelles: Thurs 27th March, 7.30pm, The Capstone Theatre
The Angel Field Festival proudly presents Moutya, a soulful and evocative performance steeped in Seychelles’ history. Recently inscribed as a UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage, Moutya is more than a dance; it’s a profound expression of freedom, resilience, and unity. Born out of the hardships endured by enslaved Africans, Moutya became a means of secret communication and a form of resistance. Today, it is a proud symbol of Seychellois identity and Creole heritage.
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Angel Field Festival is an exciting week-long festival of arts and culture is coming to The Capstone Theatre and Liverpool Hope University’s Creative Campus this March! From 20th until 27th March, it will showcase an enthralling and diverse programme of music, art, dance, film, workshops and discussion.
Angel Field Festival / 20th — 27th March 2025 / Liverpool Hope University Creative Campus, 17 Shaw Street, Liverpool, L6 1HP
