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Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts

Liverpool

  • Location: City

About us

LIPA is a leading provider of university-level performing and creative arts training. We are an international community of creatives, performers, technicians, filmmakers and business people who learn by working together on fully realised productions and projects.

A year at LIPA

This video, produced for our July 2024 Graduation Ceremony, highlights some of the many projects and performances our graduating class worked on, as well as some of the special guests we welcomed to LIPA. The music is ‘Signs of Life’, written, co-produced and sung by graduating student Katya Madeleine Birkeland, an alternative pop artist from Oslo.

What makes us different

LIPA brings together world-class creative and performing arts training, deep industry connections and exceptional facilities. Our programmes are intensely practical, collaborative and rooted in real-world projects, preparing graduates for sustainable careers across music, performance, management, design filmmaking, and creative technologies. We are a small and specialist institution, meaning we treat our students  as individuals, supporting you to take creative risks and develop their own artistic voice. Cross-disciplinary working and collaboration is central to what we do, reflecting how the creative industries actually operate. Located in the heart of Liverpool’s rich cultural landscape, we draw on the city’s global creative legacy while continually pushing new ideas forward.

Course locations

Main Site

Mount Street, Liverpool, L1 9HF