With less than a week to go until Liverpool’s FREE Africa Oyé festival at Sefton Park, this year’s event is shaping up to be bigger and more exciting than ever. Featuring performers such as Marcia Griffiths and The Sierra Leone Refugee Allstars, fervent festival goers from all walks of life have expressed their excitement at what promises to be another hugely enjoyable Africa Oyé.
BUILDING THE CITIZEN TV REVOLUTION!
The "Making News Roadshow" is a series of free-of-charge large-scale workshops in citizen TV reporting in locations around the UK, organised by visionOntv, an internet television station and training project based in London. It kicks off in Liverpool on the weekend of 17th June, at The Casa, 29 Hope Street, L1 9BQ. The programme is also international, starting in Japan in September.
There are two types of cell in nature. They are fundamentally different because of their size and internal construction.
This talk will be given by Dr. Geraint Parryf rom the Department of Plant Sciences at Liverpool University.
Tuesday 14th June, 7.30pm in the Old Book Room, Hope Street Hotel, Liverpool
Liverpool SciBar – 3rd May 2011
Learning the secrets of scarless wound healing and tissue regeneration
At the next edition of SciBar in Liverpool, Professor Enrique Amaya of The Healing Foundation Centre at the University of Manchester, will discuss how an understanding of the molecular and cellular mechanisms responsible for wound healing in frog embryos may be used to improve wound healing and tissue regeneration in human patients.
Derek Hatton (Degsy) to appear at Liverpool’s Writing on the Wall Festival on Saturday 14th May
Derek’s back and he’s sure to provoke a debate! Derek became the face of 1980’s militancy as one of the ‘47’ councillors who took on Thatcher in 1984 and put himself on the line when surcharged and banned from office by the House of Lords.
At this next edition of SciBar in Liverpool, Dr Louise Dennis, Post-Doctoral Researcher in the Login and Computation Group at the University of Liverpool, will discuss the concept of reasoning in computers.
Much of Liverpool: City of Radicals is still in the planning stages so you will have to check elsewhere for up to date details - but here is a line up of what is known now to be taking place throughout the year.
Liverpool, ‘City of Radicals’ 1911 - 2011
In 1911 society was in ferment, a series of city-wide strikes shook Liverpool and radical artists rubbed shoulders with inspirational workers' leaders. NERVE's 2011 calendar celebrates this centenary through images and significant dates. Come along and find out more about how the Bluecoat and others will be marking next year as 'Liverpool, City of Radicals'. Saturday 4th Dec 2010 The Bluecoat, School Lane
The 2010 Design Show opens to the public this weekend - Saturday 20 November & Sunday 21 November - from 10am to 6pm at St George's Hall, Liverpool.
Liverpool Design Festival & Show 18 – 27 November 2010
All the design conscious, stylish and fashionable people will be heading to Liverpool this November for the second annual Design Festival. The festival is a celebration of contemporary design in a city famed for its love of fashion.
LIVERPOOL DESIGN FESTIVAL PRESENTS: INTERCHANGE FILM SCREENINGS FOLLOWED BY Q&A AT METAL
Interchange is a special screening of three works by Liverpool based designers and artists; Jon Barraclough, Sam Meech and Markus Soukup. Each of the works has been developed with other artists and in relation to other artistic practices such as spoken word and music.
No musical experience necessary! A perfect opportunity to make that screechy sound when you rub your fingers over electrical contacts. Yep you can get a chance and making music with your favourite Liverpool bands as Soundnetwork announces it's DIY Music Day.
14th August 10-5pm FREE World Museum
William Brown Street
Liverpool
Liverpool writer Frank Clarke will be screening his acclaimed feature film The Fruit Machine as part of a Clapperboard presents... event on Sunday 8 August at Fact, Liverpool.