A submarine parade through the streets and a rave held simultaneously in Liverpool and Kyiv will feature in a cultural festival in the run-up to this year’s Eurovision Song Contest.
Liverpool will host the contest in May, with the two-week festival taking place in the city ahead of the event.
The English National Opera will perform their take on classic Eurovision songs.
And in Liverpool Cathedral, Ukrainian artist Katya Buchatska will recreate a train carriage used to flee the war.
Ukraine won the Eurovision contest in 2022, but it was deemed too dangerous to stage the event in the winning country this year following the Russian invasion.
