Merseyside Festival - June 22nd & 23rd 2024
Tickets now available! An exciting 2-day Festival in Bootle for the climax of the #ZeroSuicideSociety #JoinTheDots tour 2024.
Merseyside Festival with Lived Experience Voices
Tickets now available via this Eventbrite page here.
A minimum donation of £20 – please give what you can to support this vital cause and what you think this Festival is worth
Tickets can be purchased for the Saturday or the Sunday or you can buy 2 tickets and attend both days.
Each ticket provides you with access to ‘Festival with Lived Experience Voices’ at the Lock and Quay in Bootle, and also a couple of other iconic gatherings in Liverpool – the ‘Hope Gathering in Hope Street’ and a ‘Mass Choir’ event’
As well as the big start Launch Conference at the Baths Hall in Scunthorpe on Wed 12 June, there’ll have a big finish Merseyside Festival at the end of the Tour on Sat 22 June & Sun 23 June.
And it really is a big finish!
The generously donated venue has a capacity for several hundred people to attend!
The amazing venue
The Festival will be held at the Lock and Quay in Bootle which has been so generously donated because they’ve been following The Jordan Legacy’s work from afar for the past 3 years and want to do all they can to support this cause (now up close!).
The venue is well known in the region, especially for the Bootle Music Festival, illustrated here:
So What’s Happening at the Festival?
There’ll be different genres of music including Soul & Motown, Country, Rock, Pop, choirs – and no doubt everything else in the ‘Karaoke’ slot! – all rounded off by a different headline act on each of the two days.
Performers on the stage
Aged just 20, Joseph from Liverpool is already an award-winning performance poet and Spoken Word Artist with an incredible body of work, and some legendary videos (available on YouTube). At age 16, Joseph was showcasing his poetry at school assembly. From there, it’s been BBC Radio Merseyside, Sean’s Place, the Benjamin Zephaniah Show, and BT Sport. Sean’s Place Founder, Debbie Rogers, tells us that Joseph is “insanely talented” – we agree!
Shannon has been a Country Music fan for most of her life. From a teenager she has sung in pubs, clubs and many other venues. She has performed in her early days at the London Palladium and the O2 in London. She is very much involved in the suicide prevention world and is looking forward to playing her part in the #ZeroSuicideSociety #JoinTheDots Tour. She is especially looking forward to sharing the sounds of Country Music’s greats like Dolly Parton, Taylor Swift, The Shires, Ward Thomas and many more.
Listen to Shannon singing to Ingrid Andress’s ‘More Hearts Than Mine’
Liam Cook aka L.B.C.
Tickets now available via this Eventbrite page here.
A minimum donation of £20 – please give what you can to support this vital cause and what you think this Festival is worth.
Speakers on Our Stage
Listen to this enlightening podcast featuring Paul: “Suicide – a means of death, not a cause of death – Spotify link here.
Debbie lost her brother Sean to suicide in July 2019, and responded by trying to create the kind of place that she felt Sean needed so it would help other men like Sean get the support they need and not take the course Sean did. Under Debbie’s leadership, Sean’s Place has been a phenomenal success, helping 1000s of men struggling with their life or their mental health.
Darren Barden
There’s more to come
Further speakers and performers to be announced soon.
There’ll be a mix of performing arts, poetry, comedy, sports & leisure activities on site, face-painting for the kids, etc…all in a space with stalls & displays for suicide prevention charities & service providers.
And there’ll be lots of short cameo slots for people with lived experience to get up on stage and say a few words about the person they’ve lost or coming through their own crisis, what they’re doing now to help others, and how they’re ‘joining the dots’.
This page will be regularly updated to provide more details and give the latest news.
Tickets available now
Each ticket provides you with access to ‘Festival with Lived Experience Voices’ at the Lock and Quay in Bootle, and also a couple of other iconic gatherings in Liverpool – the ‘Hope Gathering in Hope Street’ and a ‘Mass Choir’ event’, including when tickets go on sale – at the minimum price we need to charge to cover our costs.
And…
We’d love to have you attend this unique suicide prevention Festival – and for the other events & activities that will be taking place in Merseyside between 21-23 June, including ‘the Hope Gathering on Hope Street’.
Tickets now available via this Eventbrite page here.
A minimum donation of £20 – please give what you can to support this vital cause and what you think this Festival is worth.