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Abandon Normal Devices FestivalFestival Dates: 23 – 27 September 2009
Opening Launch: 23 September 2009
Abandon Normal Devices (AND), a new Northwest festival of New Cinema and Digital Culture, is excited to announce the full programme for the inaugural festival.
ROUNDUP
Revolver – Bernadette O’Toole at Old Barber Shop – another good painting show, abstracts relating to piles of paper. Nimrod by Bedwyr Williams at Ceri Hand gallery. Tony Dash and Colin Holmes at Gostins drew a good crowd. Saw all the go-penguin designs that were on show to the potential sponsors – some gooduns.
THIS WEEK
VIEWING: SUNDAY by Duane Hopkins
WEDNESDAY 23 September, 18.00 – 20.00 at Open Eye Gallery
As part of AND Festival of new cinema and digital culture, Open Eye Gallery is proud to present an exhibition by artist, photographer and award-winning filmmaker Duane Hopkins. Exhibition details
VIEWING: Some people deserve everything they get.
THURSDAY 24 September 18.00 – 22.00 at Royal Standard (The Long Night) Some people deserve everything they get assembles the most remarkable, outstanding, significant and superlative artists graduating from courses the length and breadth of the country this year. These graduates outshone their peers with unrivaled aesthetic choices; climbing the supreme ladder of success to pass with flying colours… Exhibition details
VIEWING: Under the Volcano: an exhibition for Malcolm Lowry (1909 – 1957)
THURSDAY 24 September 2009 at the Bluecoat (The Long Night) The Bluecoat celebrates Lowry’s centenary with an ambitious programme that includes an exhibition, a book, live music, dance, talks and special participatory events such as a Mexican Day of the Dead altar dedicated to Lowry. The influence of Lowry’s work has extended beyond writers to visual artists, and this exhibition brings together twelve from Merseyside, the UK, Mexico and Chile, who respond to Lowry in different ways. Exhibition details
TALK & LONG NIGHT: New British Cinema
THURSDAY 24 September from 19.00 at Open Eye Gallery Join us for an informal talk about New British Cinema, discussing Duane’s work in the context of the current crop of UK filmmaker auteurs, including Peter Strickland, Andrea Arnold, and Ben Hopkins. This is part of AND Festival and The Long Night. The gallery stays open from 18.00 to 22.00. Exhibition details
VIEWING: Keep it Slick: Infiltrating Capitalism with the Yes Men
THURSDAY 24 September 2009, 16.30 onwards at LJMU Art & Design Academy (The Long Night) AND Festival will present the very first UK solo exhibition of the most important political artists of the last decade. The show will also involve opportunities for interaction with The Yes Men themselves. Exhibition details
VIEWING: “Normal service will resume.”
THURSDAY 24 September 18.00 – 21.00 at Wolstenholme Projects “Normal service will resume” is programmed as part of Liverpool’s ‘Long Night 2009’ which has been organised in conjunction with FACT’s ‘Abandon Normal Devices’ and ‘On the Waterfront’ Film Festival. Live music organised by Brickface Press to follow from 9pm until late: Chrik, We Came out like Tigers & Bagheera. Exhibition details
The Really Long Night at A Foundation
THURSDAY 24 September at 12.00pm – Friday 25 September at 12.00pm Part of the Long Night of the AND Festival, A Foundation takes the long night a little bit further with a full 24 hour programme including an after-party for the Long Night of the AND Festival from 10pm with music and dancing, live dance from TILT, all-night cinema programme (bring your own sleeping bag!) plus TAXED: 24 Hour Interview Snickers.
OPENS: Bridget Riley: Flashback
FRIDAY 25 September 2009 at The Walker Art Gallery Bridget Riley: Flashback is the first in a major new series of touring exhibitions from the Arts Council collection, Southbank Centre. Riley’s distinctive and optically vibrant paintings generate extraordinary sensations of movement, light and space. Eight large scale paintings will be on show, with four coming from Riley’s personal collection. Alongside these are aound 30 drawings and studies that illuminate her working methods over her five-decade-long-career. Many of these will be exhibited for the first time. Exhibition details
VIEWING: Under the bridge: Eclipse
Eclipse by ?ukasz Jastrubczak, as part of Under the bridge – Eight artistic interventions in the public space of Gda?sk and Liverpool from May to October 2009
OPENS: Riverpool
TUESDAY 29 September 2009 at Liverpool Academy of Arts
A creative Art and Prose celebration of the Mersey as seen through the eyes . . . pens, paintbrushes, charcoal and pastels of established Liverpool born artists and poets – Peter Grant, Cathy Roberts, accompanied by Maria Saunderson with the original illustrations from her latest children’s book – “The Brave Little Ferryboats”. Venue details
EVENT: The Big Draw at Williamson Art Gallery and NML and St Helens
SUNDAY 11 October 2009, 11.00 – 16.00 at Williamson Art Gallery A day of getting stuck in with one of the fundamentals of art – drawing in many different forms. open to all. This years event will include lots of different artists from the merseyside area working in different parts of the gallery. So come and join us for the Big Draw! Venue details