{"id":62047,"date":"2025-04-30T04:53:14","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T04:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/62047\/"},"modified":"2025-04-30T04:53:14","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T04:53:14","slug":"find-out-the-free-family-entertainment-happening-at-smithdown-festival-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/62047\/","title":{"rendered":"Find out the free family entertainment happening at Smithdown Festival this weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Smithdown Festival is excited to announce more information on the family events for their 10th birthday celebration taking place from 2nd to 5th May.<\/p>\n<p>The free festival will be taking place over venues along Smithdown Road and Penny Lane \u2013 all in support of the Whitechapel Centre.<\/p>\n<p>A new area for the event is the outdoor space at\u00a0<strong>Penny Lane Development Trust.<\/strong>\u00a0On Saturday along with acts such as The Jesse Janes the kids can enjoy some interactive improvisation and looping with multi-instrumentalist, JamesLyons.<\/p>\n<p>One of the highlights of that day will be the live wrestling performance from Atomic Wrestling X Infinite Promotions which has been a festival favourite over the years. With face painting, picnic area, stalls, children play space there\u2019s plenty for all the family to enjoy. On Sunday the stage is run in collaboration with The Rock Project, the UK\u2019s premier school for contemporary music tuition.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"714\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Screenshot-2025-04-30-at-10.15.35-e1745979870580.png\" alt=\"Smithdown Festival\" class=\"wp-image-219343\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Along with this the\u00a0<strong>Wavertree Coffee House<\/strong>\u00a0will have a fun afternoon of outdoor live music, adventure playground and bbq.\u00a0<strong>Smithdown Social Arts Hub<\/strong>\u00a0will also be hosting a \u2018zine making workshop.<\/p>\n<p>At the\u00a0<strong>Quaker Community Garden<\/strong>\u00a0the Uke Club Liverpool will be headlining with support from Miles Temp and John Fellner amongst other great local acts. At the\u00a0<strong>Garmoyle Community Garden<\/strong>\u00a0popular Liverpool blog \u2018Then and Now\u2019 have a photo exhibition showing how life once was around wavertree comapred to how it is now.<\/p>\n<p>As usual there\u2019s plenty of live music in venues stretching from Black Cat all the way to R and H Wines on Allerton Rd. Highlights include Xander and the Peace Pirates at Handyman Bar, Six In the City curating Frank\u2019s Friday night, a new stage at Luminous and Gen and the Degenerates at Black Cat.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the full Smithdown Festival line up <a href=\"https:\/\/onefellswoop.us4.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=fdbbb938e6db84343a39cd4d4&amp;id=9aeab5b2ed&amp;e=296bdea2f6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here.<\/a><br \/>\nFind out the latest in Liverpool <a href=\"https:\/\/theguideliverpool.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Find out what\u2019s good up North on our new platform, The Northern Guide.\u00a0<br \/>\nFrom the best hotels, beauty spots, days out, food and more up North \u2013 visit<a href=\"https:\/\/thenorthernguide.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u00a0thenorthernguide.com<\/a>\u00a0and follow The Northern Guide on Instagram\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/thenorthernguideuk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">HERE.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                <script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Smithdown Festival is excited to announce more information on the family events for their 10th birthday celebration taking&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62048,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8815],"tags":[748,2766,393,920,390,31979,4884,179,269,31980,31981,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-62047","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-liverpool","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-culture","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-events","12":"tag-family","13":"tag-family-day-out","14":"tag-great-britain","15":"tag-liverpool","16":"tag-music","17":"tag-smithdown","18":"tag-smithdown-festival","19":"tag-uk","20":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114425128955965755","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}