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Refresh your Ears with a City Centre Soundwalk starting at the Bluecoat.
“When was the last time you went somewhere just to hear the sounds there? Whether experienced as private meditation or as collective silence SOUNDWALKS refresh your ears and reset your sensual awareness to where you are, live or work"
A soundwalk is a practice: it is walking without talking, focussing on the sound around, focussing on being there rather than talking about it. The Listening Room takes you to undiscovered places: means of transport, your senses.
AND festival preview events 22- 23 June 2012
Abandon Normal Devices Festival heads back to Manchester during the Olympic summer, with an eclectic programme of art, new cinema and digital culture.Celebrations begin with the AND Festival Preview, Fri 22 - Sat 23 Jun, timed to coincide with the Manchester leg of the Olympic Torch Relay.
Last October Liverpool Acoustic held it's first Music Afternoon at Mathew Street’s View Two Gallery. And they had so much fun that they’ve decided to do it all over again!
This coming Saturday 9th June 2012 Liverpool Acoustic will be hosting a relaxed event featuring mainly open mic with a couple of booked guests thrown in for good measure. It’s all taking place in the View Two Gallery’s top floor performance space from 1.00pm to 4.00pm and is free to attend.
Musicians wanting to take part in the open mic can just turn up on the day – the spaces will be filled on a first-come, first-served basis. The gallery opens at 12.00pm and closes at 5.00pm.
Thousands of visitors are expected to descend on Liverpool this Friday for the city’s annual arts and culture festival LightNight.
On Friday 18th May from 4pm until late Liverpool’s best arts & heritage venues will throw open their doors for fun-seekers of all ages.
With a mixture of over 70 FREE exhibitions, performances and hands-on activities LightNight offers visitors a chance to rediscover and celebrate Liverpool’s impressive world-class cultural offer.
Tonight it's the Rathole Roadshow @leafteashop and it will be one of the most engaging performances in Liverpool for a long time. Not only is it FREE but there is going to be enough technology in the room to sink a small battleship. I was asked earlier on Twitter what I meant by saying it was going to enage an online audience so I'll go into those details now. You can read the press release below about Rathole Radio.
Ian McCulloch to open Liverpool's new Epstein Theatre
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Two Evenings with IAN McCULLOCH INCLUDING AN ACOUSTIC SET WITH VERY SPECIAL GUEST IAN BROUDIE
Liverpool music legend Ian McCulloch has revealed plans to play two intimate acoustic shows in Liverpool on 10 and 11 May, and becoming the first official act to perform at the newEpstein Theatre (formerly The Neptune).
The shows lead up to the release of Ian McCulloch’s fourth solo album called “Pro Patria Mori”. McCulloch will be showcasing songs like ’Different Trees’, ‘Lift Me Up’ and ‘Watch Me Land’ from his forthcoming album, along with classic Echo and the Bunnymen songs and other solo tracks from the albums ‘Candleland’, ‘Mysterio’ and ‘Slidling’”.
Centrifuge nos #16 Press release: Manchester 22nd May
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Centrifuge brings an exciting collection improvising musicians from around the North together in Manchester. 
LightNight Friday 18 May 4pm - late at various venues across Liverpool city centre
Over 70 events FREE
Following Liverpool’s giant spectacular weekend of Sea Odyssey, thousands of visitors are expected to again descend on Liverpool this May for the city’s annual arts and culture festival LightNight. Over 50 of Liverpool’s finest attractions and arts organisations have joined forces to offer a whirlwind night of exciting activities and events for everybody for LightNight 2012.
On Friday 18th May from 4pm until late, over 50 of Liverpool’s best arts & heritage venues will throw open their doors offering over 70 FREE events to choose from including special underground tours, a mass sing-along, candle-lit labyrinth,fascinating exhibitions and open studios, Chinese arts showcase, architecture tours, ceildhs, spectacular light projections,street theatre, live music and lot’s more.
AND is currently seeking features, short films and artists moving image.
AND is joining forces with the micro-commissions scheme to support small ideas that have big potential.
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It didn't come as news but Design Initiative have closed after 20 years of operation, all the staff left the Liverpool office some time ago and now it is Manchester's turn as the organisation closes completely. Design Initive started in Liverpool and had some real success, and was a great resource for artists, designers and commissioners. At one point you couldn't start in business as a creative in Liveprool without first visiting LDI, they had access to information which would help you set up and survive that important first year of trading, but not only did it provide advice and guidance then came the workshops and exhibitions, some which drew the eyes of the national media to Liverpool. I remember well in the early years of LDI the BBC Design Awards exhibtion held at the now old but brand new at the time Alham Robarts Learning Resource Centre. Whatever became of Muriel Gray?
It is hard to say what the first signs of the decline of Design Initiative were but I think they may have over reached when they tried to run activities across the whole of the North West plus afford the rent of two offices in Manchester and Liverpool, growing to fast without consolidating their foundations. However, in recent years it appeared to have a rennaisance with the annual Liverpool Design Festival but alas underneath it all it was not possible for them to afford two offices and at the end it had lost it's way, it's voice in the industry, in fact it had lost it's initiative. Goodbye LDI I loved you so.
FutureEverything Manchester - here are a few highlights for you
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FutureEverything is nearly upon us and it gets better and better every year, so below is some news and highlights of the programme. Remember one day all festivals will be made this way.
Audio Voyeur and Rebel Soul present 'A Culture Less Ordinary' - Progressive and eclectic music from a culture operating beyond the parameters of convention. Paddy Steer and his mothership will be landing in Liverpool for one night only. With support from Americans and DJ Audio Voyeur, the evening promises to be full of strange musical happenings and joyful noise.
A Culture Less Ordinary
Venue: Mello Mello
Date: Saturday 28th April 2012
Time: 8pm
Entry: £3
Programme launch for Writing on the Wall Festival
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The Writing on the Wall festival launches at the beginning of next month and once more they are promising a mix of idelogically challenging content with a daring difference. The programme is linked below take a look and tell us if you agree.
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