A new festival Mersey Makers is landing in the city this March

Bruntwood SciTech is launching a new spring festival to mark the arrival of lighter nights and celebrate the plethora of skilled talent, innovation and diverse creativity that the city has to offer. Mersey Makers is a free-to-attend festival curated to celebrate Liverpool’s status as one of the UK’s leading cities of innovation.

The festival will take place on Thursday 20th March from 10.00am til 2.00pm in St Paul’s Square outside The Plaza and will feature stalls, entertainment and workshops all curated with the theme of innovation in mind.

A new festival Mersey Makers is landing in the city this March

Mersey Makers will include a pop-up indie market featuring 20 stalls spanning traders, makers and innovators as well as food, drink and entertainment. Visitors will have the opportunity to learn more about the crafts, processes, and innovations behind the businesses, and buy high-quality, local products.

Hands-on and interactive workshops will also take place inside The Plaza throughout the day – one of Bruntwood SciTech’s innovation hubs in Liverpool city centre, allowing visitors to learn about creative processes behind successful local businesses.

Kate Heathcote, Community Engagement Manager for Bruntwood SciTech, said:

“Our aim for the Spring Festival is to showcase the amazing talent that Liverpool has to offer, and the fantastic innovations homegrown in the city that are putting us on the map both nationally and internationally. There’s going to be an impressive mix of traders selling their products, as well as offering insights into the creativity and technology behind their business making it a valuable experience for people to come along to eat, drink, shop and at the same time learn about what makes a good innovator from local traders and talent. We can’t wait to welcome everyone to The Plaza and St Paul’s Square and to see the buzz that the event will bring to the city centre.”

More information on the Spring Festival Makers Market is here.

The Spring Festival will also include an Innovation and Business Growth Breakfast event organised by the company at its neighbouring Cotton Exchange building. It will offer tech, digital and innovation-led businesses the opportunity to showcase their companies and follow with a panel discussing the support available for such businesses to drive momentum and growth and scale Liverpool’s tech sector. Supported by Liverpool BID and the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce, the Spring Festival aims to celebrate Liverpool being one of the UK’s leading cities of innovation and showcase its most exciting, pioneering and innovative business ventures.

You can sign up for the Innovation and Business Growth Breakfast Event here.