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This week we’re Up for Arts, with Afro Modern, and Laurence Payot.
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Click Podcast :: Art in Liverpool 27 January 2010 http://www.defnetmedia.com/pods/artinliverpool/art_in_liverpool_podcast_27_january_2010.mp3 to listen and for a free download.
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You listen – now take part in the Art in Liverpool podcast – we need your sonic art, interviews, reviews, artists talks for art in liverpool fm. Click to Send us your audio . Thanks for listening and we hope you enjoy.
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You watch – now take part in Defnet TV you can submit your video shorts. We are accepting artists short video’s in any format. Contact us and I’ll send you details of how to send us your video.
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NEWS
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Nominations for the Liverpool Art Prize have closed. We have 95 nominations!! You can see the full list here
Go Penguins auction will be online only – shame we were looking forward to an exciting event. Last chance to see them – all in one place – at St George’s Hall on 3/4 February Details here: http://www.gopenguins.co.uk
ROUNDUP
Greatly enjoyed Mike Badger’s Reclaimed World at the Vitreum, as did many others, he sold several works too.
You can hear my interview podcast with Mike and Mick Gill the art director . Ends 12 Feb, you need to mke appt if you want see the show.
As ever the works of local printmakers such as Emma Gregory, Pete Clarke and Emily Johns are excellent, at the Cornerstone ‘5’ runs until 19 Feb. Plus another nice little show in the back room at Ye Cracke on the theme of Northern Songs runs until 15 March
Bluecoat Display Centre ‘Birds of a Feather’ features just 2 artists who share studios in Bristol – one embroiders the other does ceramics, both works have lots of character – they remind us of ‘creature comforts’.
Laurence Payot’s intervention in the city centre on Saturday was excellent but was for the one day only, you can read and see photos on Ian’s blog
THIS WEEK
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STARTS: Afro Modern: Journeys through the Black Atlantic
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FRIDAY 29 January 2010 at Tate Liverpool Taking its inspiration from Paul Gilroy ?’s seminal book The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness (1993), the exhibition is the first to trace in depth the impact of different black cultures from around the Atlantic on art from the early twentieth century to today. Exhibition details
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VIEWING – Sonia Boyce
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FRIDAY 29 January 18-20.00 at the Bluecoat. Sonia Boyce: Like Love – Part Two n
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Up For Arts WEEKEND Events
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SATURDAT 30th and SUNDAY 31st January 2010 between 11.00 and 16.00, Up For Arts would like to invite you to a free fun filled weekend of arts and crafts for adults at BBC Radio Merseyside’s Performance Space, Hanover Street, Liverpool.
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The weekend of arts and crafts tasters is an exciting part of the Up For Arts project; a collaborative venture between Voluntary Arts England and BBC Radio Merseyside which celebrates arts and creativity across the whole of Liverpool.
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MULTIMEDIA Event – Promised Lands
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SATURDAY 30 January 2010. 20.30 at FACT. FREE. Promised Lands – a metaphor for the migrant experience told through music, words, and images
As part of Liverpool’s city-wide Black Atlantic Season, FACT presents internationally-profiled sound artists Edward George and Anna Piva’s (Flow Motion) ongoing project Promised Lands. Told through songs and texts gathered from a multicultural archive, Promised Lands is a multi-media sound art performance that explores historical and contemporary accounts of migration.
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LAUNCH: ‘Icons in Transformation’
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SUNDAY 31 January 2010 at 19.30 at Liverpool Cathedral An exhibition by Ludmilla Pawlowska . With ‘modern Icons’ as the subject matter, no less than 180 pieces of dramatic and intriguing contemporary art and sculpture are displayed throughout the Cathedral. You are warmly invited to the launch of the exhibition by the Bishop of Liverpool, Rt Rev James Jones with guest speaker on the night Professor Phil Redmond CBE. Exhibition details
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STARTS: Jo Hughes Solo Exhibition
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MONDAY 1 February 2010 at Blackburne House Cafe A solo exhibition by Jo Hughes , featuring mixture of Acrylic paintings and Photographs. The theme is blue skies, I paint local scenes and further afield and photograph mainly boats and beaches from a different aspect. Exhibition details
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STARTS: Bags and Baggage
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TUESDAY 2 February, 2010 at Liverpool Academy of Arts On display are works of art dreamed up by our local artists on the subject of bags – handbags, suitcases, hat bags, carrier bags, we even have one with ‘tea bags’ etc. The only essential was that bags must be the central theme of their work. Exhibition details
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DISPLAY: Preview for Go Penguins Charity Auction
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WEDNESDAY 3 February 8am – 8pm (closed 12noon – 2pm) & THURSDAY 4 February 8am – 8pm at St George’s Hall ONE LAST CHANCE for trail fans to see 63 of their beloved penguins on display at St George’s Hall, before they head for their new homes. The Go Penguins Charity Auction will be happening online from 12noon on Thursday 4 February until 2pm on Friday 5 February. Those wishing to bid can either register online or place a sealed bid at the preview.
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FURTHER AHEAD
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STARTS: China:Through the Lens of John Thomson 1868 – 1872
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FRIDAY 5 February 2010 at Merseyside Maritime Museum The vanished world of Imperial China is vividly captured on glass plates by an intrepid Scottish photographer John Thomson who travelled throughout the country meeting people from all walks of life. The exhibition startlingly reveals the character of the vast empire mainly through its remarkable people. Exhibition details
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