Engage has been very keen to get our residents into places not otherwise visited by the public. After more than 10years of organising 3 seminars per year that gets increasingly challenging! This year we are visiting 2 venues that you will almost certainly have been inside before. One is the Cunard Building and the other is the new boat the Daffodil in Canning Dock on the Strand.

The venue you probably won’t have been in before is the City of Liverpool College, Duke Street Campus. This is tucked away inside the  East Village which fronts onto Duke Street with Il Forno, Sapporo Teppanyaki and the Indian Tiffin Room. You might be wondering why these places? Well firstly we like to move residents around the city, so this year we start at the Pier Head on the waterfront for the first seminar, then travel up Duke Street to almost the top for the second and then head back to the waterfront for the third seminar.

Each place has a reason why we have negotiated hiring their location. Firstly we want to engage with Liverpool City Council, both elected members and council officers, so we couldn’t have made it easier for them to attend than holding the first seminar in the Cunard Building, their work place!  Also we were keen to make a statement about the importance of food sustainability for citizen and societal health by making sure we began our series in the major civic building for the city.

The second location is related to food and is the main place where students in the city learn about food preparation, cooking and serving. The City of Liverpool College, at their Duke Street Campus, prepares students for careers in hospitality and many will graduate into the cafes and restaurants of the city. We hope our series will be of interest to many of them.

The final and third location is another food-related producer which is the extraordinary former Mersey Ferry, the Daffodil, moored along the Strand in Canning Dock.  Phil Olivier, the owner of the boat who has invested his own funds into rescuing the boat and converting it into a restaurant, bar and event space, has welcomed Engage onto the vessel for the final seminar where we explore food we prepare at home and food where we eat out in the city.

Please book your place on each of the seminars and enjoy being inside some of the most iconic and fascinating spaces in the city. You can register HERE. Places are free (and students can request a special code) but we ask for a donation to help us cover our costs.