YOU Festival is a new festival, produced by LMA for the next generation of creative students, featuring 3 days of workshops, panels, Q&As, mentoring sessions, keynotes & live entertainment across music, film, tv, acting, dance, games design and musical theatre.

YOU festival is based inside the incredible M&S Bank arena and ACC exhibition Centre, Albert dock, Liverpool. See venue page here

YOU Festival is free to LMA students, £59 to returning alumni and £99 for international students (with a 20% discount for classes of 25). Visit our ticket page to book your ticket now

YOU Festival 2025 is open to LMA degree students (L4-L6) from both London and Liverpool campuses, as well as returning LMA alumni. For the first time, we are excited to announce YOU Festival 2025 is also open to international students from across the Galileo group.

You will be emailed details of how to buy tickets and your unique promotional code on W/C 30th September.

Once you have your code, simply head to the You Festival official website and hit one of the ‘BOOK NOW” buttons found on every page. This will take you to the YOU FESTIVAL TICKET SITE.

Once on the YOU FESTIVAL TICKET SITE, hit the 'BUY’ button found in the bottom right. This opens up a Promotional code box. Enter your unique Promotional code and the site will give you an option for 1 FREE ticket. The site will ask you for the usual information, name, address, etc and generate you a ticket. Please bring your ticket with you to You Festival so we can scan you in and issue you with a wrist band.

We believe in sustainability at You Festival and attendee travel is one of the primary drivers of carbon emissions around events. To counter this and to help bring all our attendees safely to Liverpool and back, we have partnered with Avanti West Coast, holding over 4100 seats at a special You Festival rate of just £52.80 return! 

You can fly direct to Liverpool from most European cities. Alternatively you can travel via air or Eurostar to London, and book on one of our YOU Festival coaches, or take a direct train from London Euston station to Liverpool Lime Street. See our Travel page for more details and links to operators and hotels.

We have partnered with Avanti West Coast, holding over 4100 seats at a special You Festival, standard rate of just £52.80 return!

If you have a PayPal account, you may be able to split payment for your train ticket into 3 monthly payments of £17.60

We have 22 departures leaving Euston to Liverpool Lime St across Sunday 19th, Monday 20th and Tues 21st of January.

Tickets will go on sale soon, and we will be emailing you a special link in the coming weeks to the You Festival train page. You will also be able to find this page from the You Festival website.

You Festival trains return to London from Liverpool Lime St on Thursday 23rd and Friday 24th Jan. We will contact you as soon as trains are available to book

We have secured hotel rooms across Liverpool with a discount across all accommodation. 

Rooms start at £49 per night. You can book accommodation now via our You Festival hotel page DIRECTLY FROM THE YOU FESTIVAL WEBSITE. We strongly advise booking accommodation early to avoid disappointment

We are working with the venue on this and will have an update shortly

YES! We will host networking events, speed dating events, panels, workshops and Q&As, You will get to meet agents, labels, publishers, promoters, bookers, TV directors, casting agents, artists, producers, and industry figures from all the major music and TV/ Film streaming platforms and social media platforms

Level 6 students perform on our arena stage (don't worry, your time will come! But there will be plenty of opportunities to perform and participate throughout the event itself.

Bring a smile and a positive attitude and be prepared to meet people that one day may help you get to the next level! Take notes on your phone, or bring a notepad, but please don't bring anything valuable like a laptop etc, leave these safely in your room to avoid stress!

The wellbeing & safety of our student attendees is our priority. Our full time student engagement teams work at both LMA campuses, looking after the needs of our students 24/7. Our teams work hard across You Festival to ensure that all our attendees have support throughout the even

You bet! We have an exciting range of merchandise coming soon! We will let you know when our online store is open. You will be able to order online and pick up your items at You Festival. Merch is coming soon, so check the Merch tab to find out more!

The You Festival opening party is on Monday evening, doors and funfair open at 7pm, so plenty of  time to travel to Liverpool, get settled at your accommodation and make your way down to the arena!

Parties and performances by Level 6 students in our arena! Plus amazing indoor funfair, festival food trucks and bars! Our arena is the place to be!