FESTIVAL OF NEW CINEMA AND DIGITAL CULTURE
SAVE THE DATE –
Abandon Normal Devices, 23-27 September 2009, Liverpool
Abandon Normal Devices (AND) is a new festival of Digital Culture and New Cinema, inviting us to consider what are our normal devices? And why and how might we abandon them?
AND kicks off 23 September 2009 in Liverpool with five days filled with screenings, exhibitions, public interventions, debates and workshops. Highlights of the festival include influential artists such as Apichatpong Weerasethakul, The Yes Men, Krzysztof Wodiczko, Carolee Schneemann, Jamie King and DJ Spooky.
At the heart of AND lies a fascination with ideas about social, physical and technological norms, offering artistic approaches from the playful to the downright provocative, and featuring a distinctive emphasis on critique and ideas. A Northwest festival, AND will continue with future editions in Cumbria, Lancaster, Cheshire and Manchester.
AND is presented by FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology) (Liverpool), Cornerhouse (Manchester) and folly (Lancaster). The festival forms part of WE PLAY, the Northwest cultural legacy programme for the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
Visit www.andfestival.org.uk for details and sign up to our newsletter to stay in the loop!
Thursday, 13 August 2009
Monday, 24 November 2008
The Tate’s Research Strategy and their collaborations with higher education institutions
The Tate’s Research Strategy and their collaborations with higher education institutions
Professor Nigel Llewellyn, Head of Research, Tate
Wednesday 3 December 08, 3.30 – 4.30pm
at Liverpool John Moores University,
Dean Walters Building, St James Road, off Duke St, L1 7BR
(by the entrance to the Anglican Cathedral)
Christoph Grunenberg, Director, Tate Liverpool has kindly arranged for Professor Nigel Llewellyn, Head of Research, Tate to give a presentation followed by discussion, on Tate's research strategy and their different collaborations with higher education institutions.
Nigel was educated at Cambridge and the Warburg Institute. He took up the post of Professor of Art History at Sussex University prior to taking up the post of Head of Research, Tate.
Colleagues of Culture Campus Liverpool Board are invited to join us at this event arranged by Culture Campus Liverpool and kindly hosted by Liverpool John Moores University.
We would be very grateful if you could circulate the invitation to relevant parties, and for those attending to let Erica Jones know by 24 November 08 ericajones@cityoflearning.org.uk
Professor Nigel Llewellyn, Head of Research, Tate
Wednesday 3 December 08, 3.30 – 4.30pm
at Liverpool John Moores University,
Dean Walters Building, St James Road, off Duke St, L1 7BR
(by the entrance to the Anglican Cathedral)
Christoph Grunenberg, Director, Tate Liverpool has kindly arranged for Professor Nigel Llewellyn, Head of Research, Tate to give a presentation followed by discussion, on Tate's research strategy and their different collaborations with higher education institutions.
Nigel was educated at Cambridge and the Warburg Institute. He took up the post of Professor of Art History at Sussex University prior to taking up the post of Head of Research, Tate.
Colleagues of Culture Campus Liverpool Board are invited to join us at this event arranged by Culture Campus Liverpool and kindly hosted by Liverpool John Moores University.
We would be very grateful if you could circulate the invitation to relevant parties, and for those attending to let Erica Jones know by 24 November 08 ericajones@cityoflearning.org.uk
Thursday, 11 September 2008
UNeECC General Assembly and Conference, Liverpool, 16-17 October, 2008
The University Network of the European Capitals of Culture (UNECC) has the pleasure to announce you the UNeECC General Assembly and Conference held on 16-17 October, 2008 in Liverpool, this year’s European Capital of Culture.
The title of the Conference is ‘Whose Culture?’. Please find registration details and the Programme of the Conference at the UNeECC website: www.uneecc.org
The deadline of registration is 15 September, 2008.
The Conference will be jointly hosted by Liverpool Hope University, the University of Liverpool and Liverpool John Moores University. This unique collaboration clearly demonstrates how universities can and must contribute to the success of a European Capital of Culture programme.
The central theme of our conference is: Whose culture(s)?
University students and faculty, as well as cultural professionals active in past, present and future European Capitals of Culture will present papers in three different conference tracks:
1. European Capitals of Culture - whose culture? : high vs. popular culture;
cultural identity; centre vs. periphery; European culture vs. European (local?)
cultures.
2. European Capitals of Culture and their impact on culture(s): socio-cultural
impact of ECCs; ECCs as catalysts of cultural awareness; ECCs - fleeting events or
milestones?; ECC-bids, cultural competition and attraction.
3. Events and culture (non-academic track): Presentations about ECC-events and
cultural attractions of given ECCs.
The Liverpool conference will touch upon key issues emerging from the way culture is perceived and dealt with by the different stakeholders in European Capitals of Culture, e.g. cultural policy makers, the general public, local authorities, citizens, visitors and tourists, academics, artists etc. Given the academic objectives of the conference, presentations will focus on new insights into the functioning of European and international culture and the relevance of these insights for cultural policy makers.
Information and Registration
Online registration is requested on the UNeECC website: www.uneecc.org
The deadline of registration is 15 September 2008.
Further information on the Conference is available on the UNeECC website at
www.uneecc.org
The title of the Conference is ‘Whose Culture?’. Please find registration details and the Programme of the Conference at the UNeECC website: www.uneecc.org
The deadline of registration is 15 September, 2008.
The Conference will be jointly hosted by Liverpool Hope University, the University of Liverpool and Liverpool John Moores University. This unique collaboration clearly demonstrates how universities can and must contribute to the success of a European Capital of Culture programme.
The central theme of our conference is: Whose culture(s)?
University students and faculty, as well as cultural professionals active in past, present and future European Capitals of Culture will present papers in three different conference tracks:
1. European Capitals of Culture - whose culture? : high vs. popular culture;
cultural identity; centre vs. periphery; European culture vs. European (local?)
cultures.
2. European Capitals of Culture and their impact on culture(s): socio-cultural
impact of ECCs; ECCs as catalysts of cultural awareness; ECCs - fleeting events or
milestones?; ECC-bids, cultural competition and attraction.
3. Events and culture (non-academic track): Presentations about ECC-events and
cultural attractions of given ECCs.
The Liverpool conference will touch upon key issues emerging from the way culture is perceived and dealt with by the different stakeholders in European Capitals of Culture, e.g. cultural policy makers, the general public, local authorities, citizens, visitors and tourists, academics, artists etc. Given the academic objectives of the conference, presentations will focus on new insights into the functioning of European and international culture and the relevance of these insights for cultural policy makers.
Information and Registration
Online registration is requested on the UNeECC website: www.uneecc.org
The deadline of registration is 15 September 2008.
Further information on the Conference is available on the UNeECC website at
www.uneecc.org
Friday, 11 July 2008
Liverpool Biennial Voluntary Positions
Want to be at the heart of the UK’s biggest festival of contemporary art and learn about what it takes to put it on?
Liverpool Biennial is the UK’s largest festival of contemporary art, with a global reputation that puts the city on a par with other Biennial cities including Venice, Sao Paolo and Sydney.
Liverpool Biennial is currently looking for enthusiastic Volunteers to help support the International 08 exhibition, MADE UP. If you are a student or recent graduate, retired or simply interested in contemporary art with time to spare in September, October and November get in touch.
Hours are flexible to suit the individual.
Liverpool Biennial 2008, 20 September – 30 November
For further information go to www.biennial.com or email jobs@biennial.com
Liverpool Biennial is the UK’s largest festival of contemporary art, with a global reputation that puts the city on a par with other Biennial cities including Venice, Sao Paolo and Sydney.
Liverpool Biennial is currently looking for enthusiastic Volunteers to help support the International 08 exhibition, MADE UP. If you are a student or recent graduate, retired or simply interested in contemporary art with time to spare in September, October and November get in touch.
Hours are flexible to suit the individual.
Liverpool Biennial 2008, 20 September – 30 November
For further information go to www.biennial.com or email jobs@biennial.com
Wednesday, 23 April 2008
Student Design Awards
Student Design Awards
Enter online: www.designshowliverpool.com/students
Closing date for entries: Friday 2nd May 2008
We’re looking for entries for the Student Design Awards, organised
in conjunction with Design Show Liverpool.
The awards are open to all higher education students in UK – both
undergraduates and postgraduates.
Entries are welcome from all art and design disciplines and can be
submitted as complete prototypes, drawings or clearly expressed
ideas. The aim is to celebrate design, invention and, as Wayne
Hemingway, MBE, Head Judge says, “a passion for change”.
The winner of the Award will be able to show a truly innovative
approach to creating a new and practical design.
There are great financial and commercial reasons for entering the
competition so to find out more, visit our website:
www.designshowliverpool.com/students
Liverpool Student Design Awards
supported by: Liverpool School of Art and Design
Sponsored by: DuPont™ Corian ® Solid Surfaces
Enter online: www.designshowliverpool.com/students
Closing date for entries: Friday 2nd May 2008
Enter online: www.designshowliverpool.com/students
Closing date for entries: Friday 2nd May 2008
We’re looking for entries for the Student Design Awards, organised
in conjunction with Design Show Liverpool.
The awards are open to all higher education students in UK – both
undergraduates and postgraduates.
Entries are welcome from all art and design disciplines and can be
submitted as complete prototypes, drawings or clearly expressed
ideas. The aim is to celebrate design, invention and, as Wayne
Hemingway, MBE, Head Judge says, “a passion for change”.
The winner of the Award will be able to show a truly innovative
approach to creating a new and practical design.
There are great financial and commercial reasons for entering the
competition so to find out more, visit our website:
www.designshowliverpool.com/students
Liverpool Student Design Awards
supported by: Liverpool School of Art and Design
Sponsored by: DuPont™ Corian ® Solid Surfaces
Enter online: www.designshowliverpool.com/students
Closing date for entries: Friday 2nd May 2008
Monday, 21 April 2008
moves08
moves08 screenings and forums running in Manchester, Lancaster and the UK!
moves08 film installations kicked off the festival on Friday morning after the press launch previewing the highly acclaimed 3 Pesos (UK/Cuba, 2007, R.Cross) - up for public screening this Saturday at the Dukes Lancaster.
Screenings start from tomorrow at the RNCM off Oxford Road (Manchester). Films will be playing every day at 6.30pm and 8pm, including some extra-screenings over the week-end. Films will be showing at the Dukes Lancaster on Thursday and Saturday too.
Conference forums and special events including the Dance For Camera Nights at moves08, Alex Reuben's live sound performance Now That's What I Call Modern Disco Dancing Classics Vol 1 and our industry brunch run from Tuesday to Saturday.
The full festival programme has been broken down for you whether you are a film lover, a performing arts lovers, or a sound and new media geek!
We look forward to seeing you at one of our events or at our Sandbar festival hub for a drink!
Filmicly yours,
moves08 team
moves08 film installations kicked off the festival on Friday morning after the press launch previewing the highly acclaimed 3 Pesos (UK/Cuba, 2007, R.Cross) - up for public screening this Saturday at the Dukes Lancaster.
Screenings start from tomorrow at the RNCM off Oxford Road (Manchester). Films will be playing every day at 6.30pm and 8pm, including some extra-screenings over the week-end. Films will be showing at the Dukes Lancaster on Thursday and Saturday too.
Conference forums and special events including the Dance For Camera Nights at moves08, Alex Reuben's live sound performance Now That's What I Call Modern Disco Dancing Classics Vol 1 and our industry brunch run from Tuesday to Saturday.
The full festival programme has been broken down for you whether you are a film lover, a performing arts lovers, or a sound and new media geek!
We look forward to seeing you at one of our events or at our Sandbar festival hub for a drink!
Filmicly yours,
moves08 team
Badged Apprenticeship Workshops
Badged Apprenticeships is a unique project that gets young people involved with Liverpool's Capital of Culture programme.
Young people on Apprenticeships in retail, hospitality, tourism or leisure can access a range of FREE cultural workshops that capture the amazing creative learning opportunities 2008 brings.
Some of Liverpool's foremost cultural and creative establishments are involved including Liverpool Philharmonic and Tate Liverpool.
This website outlines the cultural workshops on offer, who is eligible, and how local employers can benefit. There's also a chance to read feedback from young people who've already participated.
To book a place on a workshop email ayesha@gmlpf.org
www.badgedapprenticeships.co.uk/index.htm
Young people on Apprenticeships in retail, hospitality, tourism or leisure can access a range of FREE cultural workshops that capture the amazing creative learning opportunities 2008 brings.
Some of Liverpool's foremost cultural and creative establishments are involved including Liverpool Philharmonic and Tate Liverpool.
This website outlines the cultural workshops on offer, who is eligible, and how local employers can benefit. There's also a chance to read feedback from young people who've already participated.
To book a place on a workshop email ayesha@gmlpf.org
www.badgedapprenticeships.co.uk/index.htm
Thursday, 10 April 2008
Martha Rosler Library at Site
Martha Rosler Library at Site
Private View: Friday, April 11, 2008 at 6pm
68 Hope Street, Liverpool
Comprised of approximately 7,700 titles from the artist's personal collection, the Martha Rosler Library was opened to the public by Anton Vidokle in November 2005 as a storefront reading room at e-flux, on Ludlow street in New York City. It has since traveled to Frankfurter Kunstverein, MuHKA, Antwerp, Unitednationsplaza, Berlin and Institut national d’histoire de l’art, Paris. The library will remain on view in Liverpool through 14 June and will travel to Stills in Edinburgh in the Fall.
"In an act of incredible generosity, one of America's most important living artists temporarily dispossessed herself of the vast majority of her personal library so that it could be made available for consultation. No borrowing was possible, but the eclectic ensemble of books on economics, political theory, war, colonialism, poetry, feminism, science fiction, art history, mystery novels, childrens books, dictionaries, maps and travel books, as well as photo albums, posters, postcards and newspaper clippings could be studied at will. Smart, decidedly political in orientation, often funny, and all over the place (in that way a perfect mirror of its owner), the library is packed with essential reading and titles that even your better bookstores would love to get their hands on. As the product of decades of avid reading, the contents of the library are both the source of Rosler's work and an installation/artwork that continues many of the concerns with public space, access to information and engaged citizenship that traverse her entire oeuvre."
--Elena Filipovic, Afterall, issue 15, Spring/Summer 2007
A personal library represents the private sphere of an individual, her way of acquiring and combining knowledge. Accumulation is the result of an intellectual inquiry that takes place in parallel with a more random search, which can lead us to unexpected textual, and therefore mental, spaces. Martha Rosler Library offers the visitor an opportunity to approach this open source of information with her or his own interests, and to create new affinities and connections between the elements of the library that add to more than the sum of knowledge contained in it. The bibliography, currently in process, can be accessed online at http://www.e-flux.com/projects/library
Talks
Martha Rosler Library project includes a series of informal public conversations, lectures and discussions which started in New York and continued at all its venues.
Saturday 12 April, 1pm: Martha Rosler and Anton Vidokle in conversation.
Tuesday 13 May, 6.30pm: Simon Sheikh, curator, critic, and director of critical studies, Malmo Art Academy, Berlin/Copenhagen.
Thursday 16 May, 6.30pm: Centre of Attention is Pierre Coinde and Gary O'Dwyer.
Monday 2 June, 6.30pm: Shepherd Steiner, art historian and theorist, and Maria Hlavajova, curator and director of BAK, Utrecht.
Admission is free. All are welcome.
Publication
The exhibition will be accompanied by a publication including interviews with Martha Rosler and Anton Vidokle by Stephen Wright, and an essay by Elena Filipovic.
Private View: Friday, April 11, 2008 at 6pm
68 Hope Street, Liverpool
Comprised of approximately 7,700 titles from the artist's personal collection, the Martha Rosler Library was opened to the public by Anton Vidokle in November 2005 as a storefront reading room at e-flux, on Ludlow street in New York City. It has since traveled to Frankfurter Kunstverein, MuHKA, Antwerp, Unitednationsplaza, Berlin and Institut national d’histoire de l’art, Paris. The library will remain on view in Liverpool through 14 June and will travel to Stills in Edinburgh in the Fall.
"In an act of incredible generosity, one of America's most important living artists temporarily dispossessed herself of the vast majority of her personal library so that it could be made available for consultation. No borrowing was possible, but the eclectic ensemble of books on economics, political theory, war, colonialism, poetry, feminism, science fiction, art history, mystery novels, childrens books, dictionaries, maps and travel books, as well as photo albums, posters, postcards and newspaper clippings could be studied at will. Smart, decidedly political in orientation, often funny, and all over the place (in that way a perfect mirror of its owner), the library is packed with essential reading and titles that even your better bookstores would love to get their hands on. As the product of decades of avid reading, the contents of the library are both the source of Rosler's work and an installation/artwork that continues many of the concerns with public space, access to information and engaged citizenship that traverse her entire oeuvre."
--Elena Filipovic, Afterall, issue 15, Spring/Summer 2007
A personal library represents the private sphere of an individual, her way of acquiring and combining knowledge. Accumulation is the result of an intellectual inquiry that takes place in parallel with a more random search, which can lead us to unexpected textual, and therefore mental, spaces. Martha Rosler Library offers the visitor an opportunity to approach this open source of information with her or his own interests, and to create new affinities and connections between the elements of the library that add to more than the sum of knowledge contained in it. The bibliography, currently in process, can be accessed online at http://www.e-flux.com/projects/library
Talks
Martha Rosler Library project includes a series of informal public conversations, lectures and discussions which started in New York and continued at all its venues.
Saturday 12 April, 1pm: Martha Rosler and Anton Vidokle in conversation.
Tuesday 13 May, 6.30pm: Simon Sheikh, curator, critic, and director of critical studies, Malmo Art Academy, Berlin/Copenhagen.
Thursday 16 May, 6.30pm: Centre of Attention is Pierre Coinde and Gary O'Dwyer.
Monday 2 June, 6.30pm: Shepherd Steiner, art historian and theorist, and Maria Hlavajova, curator and director of BAK, Utrecht.
Admission is free. All are welcome.
Publication
The exhibition will be accompanied by a publication including interviews with Martha Rosler and Anton Vidokle by Stephen Wright, and an essay by Elena Filipovic.
Monday, 7 April 2008
Chester Performs
Screen Deva
Monday 9th - Sunday 15th June 2008
Call for Submissions
Introduction
Chester Performs is planning a film and digital media happening for Chester.
A celebration of a digital age - screenings, family events, new work,
projection, networking, youth and student culture and animation. Taking
place
around the city, indoors and out, the festival offers a range of
opportunities
for schools, community groups, artists and individuals to get involved.
Chester Performs aims to provide a platform for talent, innovation and
enthusiasm.
The festival will take place Monday 9th - Sunday 15th June 2008
Chester Performs is seeking submissions of both new and existing work by
filmmakers from Cheshire and the surrounding region (work by North West and
North Wales filmmakers also accepted).
Chester Performs is also looking for expressions of interest from digital
media artists based in Cheshire and the surrounding region (work by North
West
and North Wales artists also considered) to take part in Chester Performs'
inaugural Screen Deva festival in June.
Monday 9th - Sunday 15th June 2008
Call for Submissions
Introduction
Chester Performs is planning a film and digital media happening for Chester.
A celebration of a digital age - screenings, family events, new work,
projection, networking, youth and student culture and animation. Taking
place
around the city, indoors and out, the festival offers a range of
opportunities
for schools, community groups, artists and individuals to get involved.
Chester Performs aims to provide a platform for talent, innovation and
enthusiasm.
The festival will take place Monday 9th - Sunday 15th June 2008
Chester Performs is seeking submissions of both new and existing work by
filmmakers from Cheshire and the surrounding region (work by North West and
North Wales filmmakers also accepted).
Chester Performs is also looking for expressions of interest from digital
media artists based in Cheshire and the surrounding region (work by North
West
and North Wales artists also considered) to take part in Chester Performs'
inaugural Screen Deva festival in June.
Thursday, 27 March 2008
7 @ The Anglican
7 @ The Anglican
27 March - 11 April 2008
Liverpool Anglican Cathedral, War Memorial Chapel (8am - 6pm everyday), free.
7 @ The Anglican is the latest exhibition of Liverpool based artists, the '7 @ Group'. After meeting and forming on the LJMU Fine Art course during 2006, the group, all of whom have recently graduated, have exhibited together numerous times across Liverpool. This latest exhibition at the magificant setting of the Anglican Cathedral, will see three new members, Alice Roberts, Kirsty Evans and Keiron Finnetty exhibit alongside six original members.
The artists are not brought together by a common theme or method of working, but by chance and are driven onwards by the spirit of exploration and collaboration. The relationships between the artists - whether intentional or co-incidental - and their dissimilarities are evident and both equally vital to the reception of the works.
This presentation of individual works within a group context offers singular contemplation of the work as well as a overall collective judgement. This double entendre allows both the uniqueness and disparateness of the works to be appreciated and the overall aims and desires of the artists to be acknowledged.
The 7 @ Group are;
Hannah Fray
Kirsty Evans
Jane Hughes
Keiron Finnetty
Kathryn Kimber
Anne Marie Prior
Alice Roberts
Becky Swift
Jack Welsh
For more information visit www.the7atgroup.com
27 March - 11 April 2008
Liverpool Anglican Cathedral, War Memorial Chapel (8am - 6pm everyday), free.
7 @ The Anglican is the latest exhibition of Liverpool based artists, the '7 @ Group'. After meeting and forming on the LJMU Fine Art course during 2006, the group, all of whom have recently graduated, have exhibited together numerous times across Liverpool. This latest exhibition at the magificant setting of the Anglican Cathedral, will see three new members, Alice Roberts, Kirsty Evans and Keiron Finnetty exhibit alongside six original members.
The artists are not brought together by a common theme or method of working, but by chance and are driven onwards by the spirit of exploration and collaboration. The relationships between the artists - whether intentional or co-incidental - and their dissimilarities are evident and both equally vital to the reception of the works.
This presentation of individual works within a group context offers singular contemplation of the work as well as a overall collective judgement. This double entendre allows both the uniqueness and disparateness of the works to be appreciated and the overall aims and desires of the artists to be acknowledged.
The 7 @ Group are;
Hannah Fray
Kirsty Evans
Jane Hughes
Keiron Finnetty
Kathryn Kimber
Anne Marie Prior
Alice Roberts
Becky Swift
Jack Welsh
For more information visit www.the7atgroup.com
Tuesday, 18 March 2008
Liverpool Irish Festival
Welcome to the Liverpool Irish Festival, celebrating and exploring the links between Liverpool and Ireland.
Liverpool Irish Festival 2008 will take place between 17 October - 2 November.
New events announced for 2008! Click here
Want to know more? Join the Liverpool Irish Festival mailing list
Email liverpoolirishfestival@yahoo.co.uk with your name, email address, postal address and phone number.
We will keep you updated with all the latest news and you will be one of the first to receive the 2008 events publicity.
We want your feedback!
The Liverpool Irish Festival receives funding from Liverpool Culture Company - please click here to tell them what you think of the Liverpool Irish Festival events that you have attended.
Liverpool Irish Festival 2008 will take place between 17 October - 2 November.
New events announced for 2008! Click here
Want to know more? Join the Liverpool Irish Festival mailing list
Email liverpoolirishfestival@yahoo.co.uk with your name, email address, postal address and phone number.
We will keep you updated with all the latest news and you will be one of the first to receive the 2008 events publicity.
We want your feedback!
The Liverpool Irish Festival receives funding from Liverpool Culture Company - please click here to tell them what you think of the Liverpool Irish Festival events that you have attended.
Thursday, 13 March 2008
Imogen Stidworthy wins inaugral Liverpool Art Prize
* Audio/Visual Artist, Imogen Stidworthy wins the inaugural Liverpool Art Prize
* The Singh Twins win the People’s Choice Prize
At a crowded special awards ceremony today, Sunday March 9 2008, Ian Jackson, Director of artinliverpool.com
announced that Imogen Stidworthy is the winner of the Liverpool Art Prize 2008.
A cheque for £2000 was presented by the main sponsor Paul Hyland of chartered accountants Duncan Sheard Glass.
The People’s Choice award went to the painter twins, Amrit & Rabindra Singh who were given a
cheque for £500 by the award sponsor Arthur Diamond.
Over 440 votes were cast by visitors to the gallery in just 10 days since the exhibition opened at
the new Contemporary Urban Centre in Greenland Street, Liverpool.
Stidworthy was chosen as the winner by a panel of judges including Terry Duffy, Moira Kenny,
Callum Moncrieff, Angela Heslop and Robbie Davison.
The people responsible for setting up the Liverpool Art Prize, Ian & Minako Jackson of artinliverpool.com said
“We are really thrilled and proud. The exhibition looks fantastic thanks to the artists and curator, Tomas Harold
and the wonderful venue. Its been a great success so far and we offer our congratulations to the winners and sincere thanks to all the artists.
We look forward to many years of organising this major annual art event here in Liverpool and hope that it is something
that all Merseyside-based artists will aspire to be a part of.”
The exhibition continues at the Contemporary Urban Centre NW until May 7 2008
* The Singh Twins win the People’s Choice Prize
At a crowded special awards ceremony today, Sunday March 9 2008, Ian Jackson, Director of artinliverpool.com
announced that Imogen Stidworthy is the winner of the Liverpool Art Prize 2008.
A cheque for £2000 was presented by the main sponsor Paul Hyland of chartered accountants Duncan Sheard Glass.
The People’s Choice award went to the painter twins, Amrit & Rabindra Singh who were given a
cheque for £500 by the award sponsor Arthur Diamond.
Over 440 votes were cast by visitors to the gallery in just 10 days since the exhibition opened at
the new Contemporary Urban Centre in Greenland Street, Liverpool.
Stidworthy was chosen as the winner by a panel of judges including Terry Duffy, Moira Kenny,
Callum Moncrieff, Angela Heslop and Robbie Davison.
The people responsible for setting up the Liverpool Art Prize, Ian & Minako Jackson of artinliverpool.com said
“We are really thrilled and proud. The exhibition looks fantastic thanks to the artists and curator, Tomas Harold
and the wonderful venue. Its been a great success so far and we offer our congratulations to the winners and sincere thanks to all the artists.
We look forward to many years of organising this major annual art event here in Liverpool and hope that it is something
that all Merseyside-based artists will aspire to be a part of.”
The exhibition continues at the Contemporary Urban Centre NW until May 7 2008
Thursday, 6 March 2008
Hope Street Apprenticeship Programme
Hope Street is now recruiting for its Apprenticeship Programme
We are looking for:
• 4 workshop leaders
• 5 actors
• 1 director
• 1 musical director
• 1 production manager
• 1 filmmaker
• 2 designer/makers
• 1 digital designer
• 1 lighting designer
• 1 sound designer
• 1 press and marketing
The projects on the apprenticeship programme this year are
Streets Ahead Liverpool, About Another Place, 37, Time,
Message from the Flight Path and Market of Optimism.
Details of these projects are on our website:
www.hope-street.org/diary.htm
The programme will also involve initial training and ‘Business
Matters’.
For an application pack please contact Helen Parr
helen@hope-street.org or download it:
www.hope-street.org/ApplicationforApprenticeships.htm
For further information please contact Alan Richardson
alan@hope-street.org
Deadline for submission of application 5.00 pm on 27th
March 2008
Auditions and Interviews 7th – 11th April 2008
Programme runs from May 12th – October 15th 2008
We are looking for:
• 4 workshop leaders
• 5 actors
• 1 director
• 1 musical director
• 1 production manager
• 1 filmmaker
• 2 designer/makers
• 1 digital designer
• 1 lighting designer
• 1 sound designer
• 1 press and marketing
The projects on the apprenticeship programme this year are
Streets Ahead Liverpool, About Another Place, 37, Time,
Message from the Flight Path and Market of Optimism.
Details of these projects are on our website:
www.hope-street.org/diary.htm
The programme will also involve initial training and ‘Business
Matters’.
For an application pack please contact Helen Parr
helen@hope-street.org or download it:
www.hope-street.org/ApplicationforApprenticeships.htm
For further information please contact Alan Richardson
alan@hope-street.org
Deadline for submission of application 5.00 pm on 27th
March 2008
Auditions and Interviews 7th – 11th April 2008
Programme runs from May 12th – October 15th 2008
Monday, 3 March 2008
Fab4Store gift shop and Starbucks Coffeehouse
We would like to invite you to take an exclusive look around our new Fab4Store gift shop and Starbucks coffeehouse!
Be one of the first to browse around our bespoke Fab4Store, which is now located in Anchor Courtyard. Our bespoke gift shop is now 3 times larger and offers the widest range of Beatles merchandise and souvenirs for fans of all ages.
You will also have the opportunity to enjoy a freshly brewed coffee in our Starbucks coffeehouse. Evoking the spirit of the Beatles era with memorabilia and 1960s style artwork, our new Starbucks store provides the perfect surroundings to relax with your beverage.
Date: Thursday 6th March
Time: 6-8pm
Location: Fab4Store @ The Beatles Story
Anchor Courtyard
Albert Dock
Be one of the first to browse around our bespoke Fab4Store, which is now located in Anchor Courtyard. Our bespoke gift shop is now 3 times larger and offers the widest range of Beatles merchandise and souvenirs for fans of all ages.
You will also have the opportunity to enjoy a freshly brewed coffee in our Starbucks coffeehouse. Evoking the spirit of the Beatles era with memorabilia and 1960s style artwork, our new Starbucks store provides the perfect surroundings to relax with your beverage.
Date: Thursday 6th March
Time: 6-8pm
Location: Fab4Store @ The Beatles Story
Anchor Courtyard
Albert Dock
Liverpool Reads
On Thursday 6th March, World Book Day, Liverpool will launch its fourth annual reading adventure! Author Mal Peet will be in the city to celebrate the distribution of thousands of books across Liverpool – 10,000 copies of Keeper, a novel about a poor South American logger's son who learns to become a World Cup-winning goalkeeper so good he is almost unbeatable, and 3,000 copies of Tamar, which is about the Dutch resistance in the Second World War – secrets, lies, love and espionage.
Liverpool Reads is a city-wide reading adventure where each year, books are distributed for free across the city and a programme of outreach activity, author events, reading groups and much more, is coordinated to accompany the big read. This year, the initiative is being jointly sponsored for the first time by Cobalt Housing and Liverpool Housing Trust (LHT).
2008 is the National Year of Reading as well as Liverpool’s year as European Capital of Culture and author Mal Peet is proud to be in the city for its celebrations:
“Books are free travel passes for journeys through space and time, and it’s a brilliant, radical idea on the part of Liverpool Reads to distribute them to the people of Liverpool. And I feel hugely honoured that in 2008, the National Year of Reading and the year in which Liverpool is the European Capital of Culture, my books have been chosen as the City Reads. All it will take now for my happiness to be complete is either Liverpool or Everton winning the Premiership and the Cup. (One each would do!)”
Pick up a free copy of Keeper from your local library – just take one of the coupons printed in Liverpool Echo on the 6th, 7th, and 8th March along to participating Liverpool libraries. Please see www.liverpoolreads.com or call 0151 794 2291 for a list of participating libraries. The launch will take place at Central Library at 6pm on Thursday 6th March – please note, tickets are now sold out.
Liverpool Reads is a city-wide reading adventure where each year, books are distributed for free across the city and a programme of outreach activity, author events, reading groups and much more, is coordinated to accompany the big read. This year, the initiative is being jointly sponsored for the first time by Cobalt Housing and Liverpool Housing Trust (LHT).
2008 is the National Year of Reading as well as Liverpool’s year as European Capital of Culture and author Mal Peet is proud to be in the city for its celebrations:
“Books are free travel passes for journeys through space and time, and it’s a brilliant, radical idea on the part of Liverpool Reads to distribute them to the people of Liverpool. And I feel hugely honoured that in 2008, the National Year of Reading and the year in which Liverpool is the European Capital of Culture, my books have been chosen as the City Reads. All it will take now for my happiness to be complete is either Liverpool or Everton winning the Premiership and the Cup. (One each would do!)”
Pick up a free copy of Keeper from your local library – just take one of the coupons printed in Liverpool Echo on the 6th, 7th, and 8th March along to participating Liverpool libraries. Please see www.liverpoolreads.com or call 0151 794 2291 for a list of participating libraries. The launch will take place at Central Library at 6pm on Thursday 6th March – please note, tickets are now sold out.
39 Art Weekend (Thank You Art Weekend)
39 Art Weekend (thank you art weekend)
Date: Sat 8th & Sun 9th March 2008
Place: Various venues in Merseyside
Enjoy a gallery crawl, celebrate art & receive special offers!
“39 Art Day” (Thank You Art Day) is March 9th. It’s a special day to appreciate, promote,
and otherwise positively engage ourselves in contemporary art worldwide.
This year as March 9th falls on Sunday and some places may be closed that day, we,
the Liverpool Art community decided to make it a weekend-long celebration!
On March 8th and 9th, various art galleries and artists in Liverpool are organising special
events or giving you special offers e.g. discount on artworks & goods, free gifts, welcome
refreshment upon arrival or lucky draw etc.
Confirmed art venues and organisations include
Artinliverpool.com, Artfinder’s Gallery, Bluecoat Display Centre, Dot-art, Editions, Eggspace,
FACT bookshop, Gallery4allarts, Gostins Gallery, Liverpoolgallery.com, New Bright Art,
Pete Carr, Red Dot Exhibitions and View Two Gallery.
Ian Jackson, Director of artinliverpool.com, says “We are really pleased that so many
galleries and artists are participating again this year. It has already been a very busy and
successful start to 2008 with numerous arts events but we feel it is important that we remind
ourselves to visit galleries, enjoy fantastic works by local talents, re-discover the rich and
vibrant artistic environment we are fortunate enough to have in Liverpool and say ‘Thank You Art’.”
For full details on the events and offers, please check the websites below;
39 Art Day website (Worldwide listing): http://www.39art.com/index-e.htm
Artinliverpool website (Liverpool only):
http://www.artinliverpool.com/index.php/39artday/262-39artday08/418-39-art-day-details-2008
Review of the 2007 Events:
http://www.artinliverpool.com/blog/blogarch/2007/03/39_art_day_2007.php
What is 39 Art Day on March 9th ?
39 Art Day (www.39art.com) was initiated by a Japanese artist Yoshiaki Kaihatsu ( www.yoshiakikaihatsu.com )
in 2000 to foster the appreciation of contemporary art in Japan, the country where support for contemporary
art is still weak at best, if not altogether absent. In Japanese, "thank you" rhymes with 3/9 (san-kyuu),
because there is no "th" sound in Japanese and the Japanese people tend to pronounce "th" as "s."
Thus, 39 Art Day is on March 9th.
A number of art galleries/spaces, as well as individual artists and internet-based entities around the globe
are offering special tie-in events on March 9th. The aim is to encourage people to enjoy a gallery-crawl
and think about art on the day.? Participants are from Japan, Germany, Ireland, USA, Hong Kong, Netherlands and UK.
Liverpool was the first UK city to join in 2007, organised by Artinliverpool.com.
Learn more about 39 Art Day: Official website www.39art.com
For further enquiries, contact Artinliverpool.com CIC via
Email: info@artinliverpool.com (Ian or Minako Jackson)
Phone: 0151 707 3510
or contact individual art venues listed on the websites.
Date: Sat 8th & Sun 9th March 2008
Place: Various venues in Merseyside
Enjoy a gallery crawl, celebrate art & receive special offers!
“39 Art Day” (Thank You Art Day) is March 9th. It’s a special day to appreciate, promote,
and otherwise positively engage ourselves in contemporary art worldwide.
This year as March 9th falls on Sunday and some places may be closed that day, we,
the Liverpool Art community decided to make it a weekend-long celebration!
On March 8th and 9th, various art galleries and artists in Liverpool are organising special
events or giving you special offers e.g. discount on artworks & goods, free gifts, welcome
refreshment upon arrival or lucky draw etc.
Confirmed art venues and organisations include
Artinliverpool.com, Artfinder’s Gallery, Bluecoat Display Centre, Dot-art, Editions, Eggspace,
FACT bookshop, Gallery4allarts, Gostins Gallery, Liverpoolgallery.com, New Bright Art,
Pete Carr, Red Dot Exhibitions and View Two Gallery.
Ian Jackson, Director of artinliverpool.com, says “We are really pleased that so many
galleries and artists are participating again this year. It has already been a very busy and
successful start to 2008 with numerous arts events but we feel it is important that we remind
ourselves to visit galleries, enjoy fantastic works by local talents, re-discover the rich and
vibrant artistic environment we are fortunate enough to have in Liverpool and say ‘Thank You Art’.”
For full details on the events and offers, please check the websites below;
39 Art Day website (Worldwide listing): http://www.39art.com/index-e.htm
Artinliverpool website (Liverpool only):
http://www.artinliverpool.com/index.php/39artday/262-39artday08/418-39-art-day-details-2008
Review of the 2007 Events:
http://www.artinliverpool.com/blog/blogarch/2007/03/39_art_day_2007.php
What is 39 Art Day on March 9th ?
39 Art Day (www.39art.com) was initiated by a Japanese artist Yoshiaki Kaihatsu ( www.yoshiakikaihatsu.com )
in 2000 to foster the appreciation of contemporary art in Japan, the country where support for contemporary
art is still weak at best, if not altogether absent. In Japanese, "thank you" rhymes with 3/9 (san-kyuu),
because there is no "th" sound in Japanese and the Japanese people tend to pronounce "th" as "s."
Thus, 39 Art Day is on March 9th.
A number of art galleries/spaces, as well as individual artists and internet-based entities around the globe
are offering special tie-in events on March 9th. The aim is to encourage people to enjoy a gallery-crawl
and think about art on the day.? Participants are from Japan, Germany, Ireland, USA, Hong Kong, Netherlands and UK.
Liverpool was the first UK city to join in 2007, organised by Artinliverpool.com.
Learn more about 39 Art Day: Official website www.39art.com
For further enquiries, contact Artinliverpool.com CIC via
Email: info@artinliverpool.com (Ian or Minako Jackson)
Phone: 0151 707 3510
or contact individual art venues listed on the websites.
Monday, 25 February 2008
The Reader at the Bluecoat
On Saturday 15th March, as part of the re-opening of the Bluecoat, The Reader Organisation (based at the University of Liverpool) is running a workshop that aims to help you cope with some of life’s difficulties. Members of The Reader team will offer advice and possible solutions to your problems or contemporary issues. The Reader Clinic will turn to the pages of novels and poetry n order to find some answers. "My boss tells me he loves me but there’s another, and she’s so beautiful. I can’t work out what I should do, my heart tells me one thing and my head another …”
What book could possibly help with such a problem? Perhaps Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre?
How about this predicament: “I am a tall, gangly lad and I keep tripping over my own
arms and legs. None of the other kids will let me play football. What can I do?” Solutions to this problem can be found in Liverpool Reads’ book for 2008, Keeper by Mal Peet. From Shakespeare’s Richard III, we may be able to identify certain similarities with our own PM Gordon Brown and that of Richard, the future king: “Now is the winter of our discontent…”
How can books help?
Bring your concerns, questions or dilemmas to the Bluecoat Arts Centre on Saturday 15th March, 2.30– 3.30 (just turn up at the venue, no ticket required) and meet the editors of The Reader magazine and members of The Reader Organisation as they host this special event to offer advice with the help of some great books. You can also hear more about The Reader Organisation’s projects, including the nationally acclaimed ‘Get Into Reading’ project and learn about the background of Blake Morrison’s feature article in The Guardian.
What book could possibly help with such a problem? Perhaps Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre?
How about this predicament: “I am a tall, gangly lad and I keep tripping over my own
arms and legs. None of the other kids will let me play football. What can I do?” Solutions to this problem can be found in Liverpool Reads’ book for 2008, Keeper by Mal Peet. From Shakespeare’s Richard III, we may be able to identify certain similarities with our own PM Gordon Brown and that of Richard, the future king: “Now is the winter of our discontent…”
How can books help?
Bring your concerns, questions or dilemmas to the Bluecoat Arts Centre on Saturday 15th March, 2.30– 3.30 (just turn up at the venue, no ticket required) and meet the editors of The Reader magazine and members of The Reader Organisation as they host this special event to offer advice with the help of some great books. You can also hear more about The Reader Organisation’s projects, including the nationally acclaimed ‘Get Into Reading’ project and learn about the background of Blake Morrison’s feature article in The Guardian.
Sistas Doing It For Liverpool
March 7th 2008 @ The Liverpool Philharmonic Hall.
Performances include Jazz and Reggae by the Legendary 'Queen of Lovers Rock'
Janet Kay and Carroll Thompson, saxophonist YolanDa Brown.
Tickets from £10-20 available from The Liverpool Philharmonic Hall Box Office;
Doors open at 7pm
0151 709 3789 ov visit www.liverpoolphil.com
Performances include Jazz and Reggae by the Legendary 'Queen of Lovers Rock'
Janet Kay and Carroll Thompson, saxophonist YolanDa Brown.
Tickets from £10-20 available from The Liverpool Philharmonic Hall Box Office;
Doors open at 7pm
0151 709 3789 ov visit www.liverpoolphil.com
Thursday, 21 February 2008
Arena Open Studios
Arena Art and Design Association will be holding our regular Open Studios - which are the last Friday of every month - on Friday 29th February, 12.30pm - 6.00pm.
For more information please visit www.arena.com/uk or call 0151 707 9879 for more information
For more information please visit www.arena.com/uk or call 0151 707 9879 for more information
Wednesday, 20 February 2008
Volunteers Needed for the Contemporary Urban Centre NW, Liverpool Art Prize
Volunteers Needed for the Contemporary Urban Centre NW.
Opening with the Liverpool Art Prize 2008 exhibition on Feb 28
and the Hawkins & Co exhibition on March 6, volunteer staff are urgently
required for invigilating and possibly other duties.
The CUC - North West is a phenomenal building that offers an extensive range of facilities that provide businesses and the general public alike a venue in Liverpool to be truly proud of. It has been developed over a period of seven years, in a close partnership with local community groups and the city.
The venue covers 170,000 sq feet within a Grade 2 listed converted warehouse in a prominent location close to the city centre. It lies within an area of Liverpool increasingly labelled the 'Independent Arts Quarter' and is a major regeneration catalyst for the area.
http://www.novasscarman.org/contemporary-urban-centres/north-west/
http://www.liverpoolartprize.com
Contact Rosita Mohamed on 0151 708 3530
email: rosita.mohamed@novas.org
There will be a volunteers induction this Friday 22/02/08 at 10.30 at the CUC but don't worry
if you miss that, its not too late.
Opening with the Liverpool Art Prize 2008 exhibition on Feb 28
and the Hawkins & Co exhibition on March 6, volunteer staff are urgently
required for invigilating and possibly other duties.
The CUC - North West is a phenomenal building that offers an extensive range of facilities that provide businesses and the general public alike a venue in Liverpool to be truly proud of. It has been developed over a period of seven years, in a close partnership with local community groups and the city.
The venue covers 170,000 sq feet within a Grade 2 listed converted warehouse in a prominent location close to the city centre. It lies within an area of Liverpool increasingly labelled the 'Independent Arts Quarter' and is a major regeneration catalyst for the area.
http://www.novasscarman.org/contemporary-urban-centres/north-west/
http://www.liverpoolartprize.com
Contact Rosita Mohamed on 0151 708 3530
email: rosita.mohamed@novas.org
There will be a volunteers induction this Friday 22/02/08 at 10.30 at the CUC but don't worry
if you miss that, its not too late.
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