Key Events: Arts Editor's Pick of the Day

Oct 20 2008 by Vicky Anderson, Liverpool Daily Post

IRISH FESTIVAL: Award-winning authors Dermot Bolger and Sebastian Barry, two of Ireland’s finest contemporary writers, read from and discuss their work this evening as part of the continuing Liverpool Irish Festival. The Cornerstone, Hope at Everton, 7.30pm. Tickets £6/£3. 0151 709 3789.

MUSIC: Worried About Ray and Goodbye Mr A hit-makers The Hoosiers, above, come to Liverpool tonight. Liverpool University Guild of Students, Mountford Hall, tickets £17.50. 0151 256 5555.

BIENNIAL: Fact presents the work of several artists under the theme of Made Up, including an awe-inspiring automated creature created by U-Ram Choe, and Ulf Langheinrich's fully immersive, sensory environment in gallery 1. Stranger than Fiction brings together work from Terrence Handscomb, Stella Brennan, and Michael Bell-Smith in Gallery 2, and the media lounge is transformed into a Creature Creation Station, where you can create and take away your very own creature. Fact, Wood Street, free, open daily. 0151 707 4450.