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Our meanderings through the Liverpool Visual arts scene, this week we also attempt to remember as many ROLF HARRIS hits as possible as he is in town to open the show at he Cornerstone Gallery and I make up a fictitious story about FACT being made over with crash cushions, soft furnishings and lots of house plants to take away the hard edges of the place.  Quick Rolf treat.  Onwards....   

BIG NEWS

Liverpool’s Pier Head and Albert Docks will become Britain’s greatest FREE outdoor cultural venue for a spectacular season of ‘On The Waterfront’ events this summer - this sounds great - Lets hope we have hot weather like we have over the past few days.

Music on the Waterfront         31 July – 2 August

Friday 31 July 20.00 – 22.00 Pier Head
Liverpool Phil & The Rightful Owners of the Song.
The return of the sell-out Liverpool ‘08 Commission featuring the city’s best pub singers delivering a unique performance with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra

Saturday 1 August 17.00 – 22.30 Pier Head
World Music at the World Heritage Site
An evening and night time programme of family-friendly, culturally diverse music from internationally renowned artists. 

Sunday 2 August 13.00 – 16.00 Pier Head
Lazy Sunday Afternoon
An easy and gentle afternoon of jazzy bluesy niceness produced by some of Liverpool’s finest players on the stage, supported by world music performers.

Art on the Waterfront   14-16 August
Fri 14^th 21.00-22.00 and Sat 15th 20.30-22.30 Pier Head
Inspired by Tate Liverpool’s summer exhibition Colour Chart, the evening programme will lead to a special Sound and Light event featuring coloured lanterns, coloured fire, lighting effects and projections working to an especially commissioned sound score with additional performance elements on the Saturday night.

Sat 15^th and Sun 16th 12.00 – 17.00, Albert/Salthouse/Canning Dock
With Colour Chart at Tate Liverpool as a catalyst, join us for a family-friendly weekend programme with interactive theatre performances, an outdoor Colour Tent in Mermaid Court hosting a range of colourful creative activities including lantern making.

Expect colourful interactive animations, street performances and aquatic installations.

Film on the Waterfront   25 - 27 September
Located at the south end of the Pierhead site, with the window of the new Liverpool Museum acting as a gigantic cinema screen, this is a weekend of cinema and digital arts produced in partnership with FACT. 

Fri 25^th 19.30 – 23.00
Abandon Normal Devices – AND Festival
AND is a Festival of New Cinema and Digital Culture, and a partnership between three of the northwest’s media art organisations ;FACT, Folly and Cornerhouse. Expect cinematic shenanigans and an evening of remixed and remastered innovative and contemporary screen work.

Sat 26^th 19.30 – 22.00
Pictures at the Pierhead
A night of big screen cinema classics, with thematic connections to the waterfront location, and a supporting programme of locally produced short films.   

Also in the NEWS

Art in Liverpool have a variety of opportunities, jobs and calls for submissions so check out www.artinliverpool.com classifieds 

Roundup of the week

St Helens Dream - absolutely brilliant.  Launch went well with thousands of locals joining in the celebrations. Should look great for another 100 years.  Watch Ian's Dream Video on Youtube.

TATE - Colour Chart: Reinventing Colour, 1950 to Today
29 May  –  13 September 2009
At a time of unprecedented interest in the role of colour in graphic design, fashion and interior design, Tate Liverpool will be presenting Colour Chart: Reinventing Colour, 1950 to Today. The exhibition looks at the moment in twentieth-century art, when a group of artists began to perceive colour as 'readymade' rather than as scientific or expressive. This rich and vibrant exhibition is the first major exhibition devoted to the significance of colour in contemporary art and will include works by more than forty artists, including Ellsworth Kelly, Andy Warhol, Gerhard Richter, Frank Stella, Yves Klein, Richard Serra, John Baldessari, Dan Flavin, Damien Hirst, David Batchelor, Jim Lambie, Angela Bulloch and Cory Archangel.

Mike McCartney was at the Beat Goes On exhibition in the World Museum Liverpool today to launch his ‘mini ’60s’ show of 4 of his photographs. There’s 2 pictures of his brother Paul McCartney with John Lennon rehearsing in the Cavern and 2 pictures of Mike’s own group the Scaffold. These and some others from Mike’s collection will be moving onto the new Museum of Liverpool when it opens in late 2010.

CUC - Go Pink & Blue 09
29 May - 19 July 2009
Following the success of Go Pink 08, Novas Contemporary Urban Centre are again supporting this year's exhibition.  Over 70 local artists are donating their work to raise awareness & funds for male & female related cancer charities.

Ye Cracke - Cracke in The Summer
28 May - 19 July 2009
Announcing the first show in a brand new exhibition space at Ye Cracke pub, Rice St, Liverpool L1.  Featuring original works by eight artists.  Exhibition opened by Ian & Minako Jackson (artinliverpool.com).

Ian and MInako also enjoyed themselves at the Collage Party at A Foundation - they even joined in!

As one of the final events or the Climate for Change show at FACT there was a Sustainable Fashion show tonight in the gallery. In fact, there were two shows, both fully booked and very good, lots of inventive ideas and not too many bin bags in sight. Its given us a few ideas and Minako’s already sorting through that bag of old clothes thats been waiting to go to the charity shop for ages.  All the items were made by local designers from recycled materials and the show was introduced by Kirsty Doyle.

THIS WEEK

FURTHER AHEAD

OPENS: Cecil Beaton: Portraits

FRIDAY 26 June 2009 at The Walker Art Gallery
A stunning exhibition of nearly 50 portraits by Cecil Beaton, one of the most famous photographers of the 20th century, captures the glamour and excitement of some of the world’s greatest celebrities.  Exhibition details