Daily Post & Echo Building - The Liverpool Map exhibition

The Liverpool Map exhibition 
15-26 February 2010
An exhibition charting the creation of a new art work that will stand in the Museum of Liverpool opens at the Daily Post offices on Old Hall Street, Liverpool. Created by international artistsInge Paneels and Jeffery Sarmiento, the sculpture will be made up of 5ft-tall panels of glass. The exhibition includes photographs used in the piece’s manufacture and samples of glass showing how it will be fused together.

Night at the Museum - VIP Fundraising dinner event. The New Museum of Liverpool is looking fantastic but just an empty shell at the moment - great views of course. Opens Spring 2011 - You can see Ian and Min's great pictures here.

Plantastic at World Museum is great fun for the family, and Wrong Love at A Foundation was an interesting alt-valentine 'happeninig' (Ian and Mina left before midnight coz they are in their own words - boring). I arrived late and left at the end - Not sure what that means.

WEDNESDAY 17 February 2010, 13-14.00 at The Walker. FREE - Tickets avaliable from the gallery.
Designer Enameller Ruth Ball will be giving a talk about her work and techniques.
Glass Metal Fire is a new display of work in the Craft and Design Gallery by designer enameller Ruth Ball. The showcase outlines the various methods of enamelling, highlighting how traditional techniques can be used in a contemporary way. Ruth is highly aclaimed for her innovation in enamel as well as her commitment to educational work in this specialist area.

Fidgeting has a difficult reputation. It suggests a kind of restlessness, a vague, sourceless unease. I think we should be willing to see more in fidgeting than just this futile, fitful fevering. I will think about a number of fidgetable objects, including paperclips and elastic bands, to suggest that fidgeting is a process of searching for an ideal 'thinking thing', which conjoins tactility and reflection. When we fidget, we put ourselves into play, we use fidgetable objects to play with ourselves, even to play with our own play, seeking its possibilities and limits. The secret magic of such things is their capacity, as we give thought through and to them, to give our thought back to itself.

Free - More Details and Booking

SATURDAY, 20 February 2010  18:30 - 21:00 at the Bluecoat. Migration Songs I: Kwame Dawes and Ray Costello
Kwame Dawes presents a combined lecture/performance on the Black Atlantic, exploring how literature, reggae and popular culture have dealt with narratives of the slave trade and the Middle Passage. A Forward Prize for Poetry recipient, he was born in Ghana and spent his early adult life in Jamaica.