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Tuesday, 26 May 2009 11:59

Hub Festival 2009, Wellington Dock

Move it back to Otterspool in 2010
 
This is one of the great acts that I missed over the weekend at the Hub Festival. Don't get me wrong I did go but you could not see anything of the hip hop dancers as the sight lines were so poor. Everything was so poor about this festival apart from the weather.
 
No signage for the free buses in town meant you had to guess where they were and where they were going, with one woman sruggling to get her baby buggy onto the bus as they were all stepped double deckers - great access - not.
 
 
The Trial

     As part of Liverpool Sound City 2009

4 Days and Nights of the best music the North West has to offer.

Friday and Saturday 22nd and 23rd May

Taking place at the Victorian Law Courts in St. Georges Hall, The Trial is a form of immersive theatre, entertainment and education where a professional legal team will cross examine key witnesses. With proceedings undertaken in a genuine court and overseen by a judge, a jury of young people will consider detailed evidence before delivering the verdicts of their deliberations. Connecting with young consumers The Trial dispatches with the usual conferencing template.

The rulings will evaluate how well modern business understands and caters for young consumers and musicians, and aims to influence direction and decisions as the findings provide a voice to the industry’s future cohorts. Creative workshops and a dedicated newspaper will also be part of The Trial’s make-up, where participants will, in their own terms and through their own selected medium, illustrate what the festival means to them through artistic expression. The Trial is an exclusive partnership between British Underground and Liverpool SoundCity.
 
   

Northwest Regional Development Agency - Ideas wanted for world's first user-generated event

NWDA is inviting Mancunians to come up with inspirational ideas for the world's first user-generated day of events on Saturday 20 June in Ancoats in east Manchester. "Cutting Room Experiment" is a day of events decided by the audience, where every event has been created out of an idea from members of the public. Very different 'flash mob' style events will take place on the hour every hour and hundreds of people will be able to take part in the activities, which could range from 100 people playing violins at once, to a mass poetry reading.

Peter Mearns, Executive Director of Communications and Marketing at the NWDA, said: "Over the last ten years, the progress made on the regeneration of Ancoats into a heritage area where people want to live and business want to base themselves, has been outstanding. Cutting Room is the area's first public outdoor space and the first chance we have to celebrate the tremendous amount of work and dedication that has gone into transforming Ancoats into what it is now. Cutting Room Experiment is what it says - an experiment - and it depends on the people of Manchester to get involved, to generate ideas and to turn up on June 20th to create not just one unique event but several, which will involve hundreds of people. Cutting Room Experiment is a wonderful opportunity to showcase the undiscovered gem that is the new Ancoats."

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Monday, 18 May 2009 09:05

Imagine by John Lennon

This special commission from Futuresonic 09 festival, artist Cleo Evans worked with the campanologists to produce thsi peice played on the Bells of Liverpool's Anglican Cathedral.
 

Sunday, 17 May 2009 18:50

Writing On the Wall Events This Week

Monday 18th May-

Can he do it? Obama and the movement for change

Tuesday 19th May

Palestine: Outsiders in their Homelands

Sunday, 17 May 2009 18:12

Cutting Room Experiment

cutting roomIt's coming. The world's first, totally user generated event is upon us, and it's happening on Saturday 20th June in Manchester

In 12 different themes 12 different flash mobs will be created involving genres such as art and design, dance, science to classical music. So if you have always wanted an idea to be seen at an event but never found the way, this is your chance to make it happen.

 

 

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