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City as Gymnasium, Manchester
CITY AS GYMNASIUM’ - 10th July – 3rd October 2009
Preview Thursday 9th July 6-9pm
CUBE continues to showcase cutting edge projects that explore the Urban Built Environment. Building on our well established reputation fusing together architecture, contemporary art and design.
Their forthcoming exhibition ‘City as Gymnasium’ is Inspired by London 2012 games has been granted the Inspire mark as part of the Cultural Olympiad. The projects aim to showcase ‘alternative’ ways the city is often used as a gymnasium.
The exhibition features work by Lottie Child, Neville Gabie, Peter Liversidge, MediaShed and Tsui Kuang –Yu.
Image above taken from Invisible City: Liverpool Top 9! By Tsui Kuang Yu – the film will be screened daily in the gallery
AND - Festival of New Cinema and Digital Culture
Abandon ye Normal Devices and brake out the abaci
23-27 September 2009 & 2011 Liverpool
April 2010, 2011, 2012 Cumbria & Lancashire
September 2010 & 2012 Manchester & Cheshire
The Phil's Balls
The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and Vasily join Vincent and Flavia for a spectacular and Liverpool's first Summer Ball.
Liverpool City Council and St. George's Hall has announced yet another magnificent Ball in the Great Hall. The Summer Ball 2009 welcomes the return of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Vasily Petrenko, following the unique and exciting Viennese Balls in 2008, which became one of the highlights of Liverpool's cultural year.
The first Summer Ball 2009 will take place on the evening of Saturday 11th July 2009 and will have all the attributes of the glittering Balls that took place in 2008 and earlier this year at the Spring Ball, both of which sold out.
Joining the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and Vasily Petrenko will be multi award-winning dance champions and BBC's Strictly Come Dancing stars Vincent (2008 runner-up with Rachel Stevens) and Flavia, who stole the hearts of the British public with their breathtaking Argentine Tango and The Magic Waltz sequence, who will showcase their talent and flair with dance performances throughout the evening.
More music comes from the wonderful Greg Francis Orchestra & Singers and the evening will be hosted by TV and radio presenter Esther McVey.
Writing On the Wall Events This Week
Monday 18th May-
Can he do it? Obama and the movement for change
Tuesday 19th May
Palestine: Outsiders in their Homelands
Cutting Room Experiment
It's coming. The world's first, totally user generated event is upon us, and it's happening on Saturday 20th June in Manchester
In 12 different themes 12 different flash mobs will be created involving genres such as art and design, dance, science to classical music. So if you have always wanted an idea to be seen at an event but never found the way, this is your chance to make it happen.
FUTURESONIC OPENING NIGHT EVENT
FUTURESONIC OPENING NIGHT EVENT
CONTACT THEATRE CONFERENCE GALA EVENT
MARK PILKINGTON & TIM O'BRIAN: SPACE 2009:TOUCH THE STARS
Wednesday 13 May 2009
WOW - Shafted: The Media, the Miner's Strike and Militant Liverpool
Monday 11th May
Shafted: The Media, the Miner's Strike and Militant Liverpool
In association with the Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom (CPBF) Writing on the Wall presents a night of discussion and debate on the 25th anniversary of the Miners' Strike of 1984, the role of the media during the dispute, and of Liverpool’s battle with the Tories in that year. Brian Reade, Daily Mirror columnist, broadcaster and writer, leads an expert panel:
Nick Jones: CPBF National Council and industrial correspondent during the 1984-85 miners' strike for BBC radio.
Peter Lazenby: co-author of Shafted and Industrial Reporter for the Yorkshire Evening Post at the time of the strike.
Granville Williams: editor of Shafted, author of Remembering How It Was: a history of mining in the Leeds area, CPBF National Council.
Paul Astbury: one of the 47 Liverpool Labour Councillors surcharged and removed from office following their campaign against government cuts.
7:00pm
The Casa, 29 Hope Street, L1 9BQ
Entrance £4.00/£2.00 concessions, pay on the door
This event is part of the Writing on the Wall festival
BEATING BERLUSCONI!
This new footballing comedy is set to tour the North West throuthout May
“A real page turner - you’ve captured the city.” Jimmy McGovern
Written by Radio 4 playwright, John Graham Davies, BEATING BERLUSCONI is based on the bizarre true story of a real Liverpool fan who went to the Istanbul final in 2005, somehow got into the AC Milan Director’s box and then almost had a fight with the Mussolini loving Italian PM when the Reds equalised.
Drawing on this true story as its inspiration, BEATING BERLUSCONI is the hilarious story of one man’s attempt to rediscover his belief in himself, his club, his city and his class.
LONG LIVE PHYSICAL MEDIA!
SOUNDNETWORK & BURNEVERYTHING: LONG LIVE PHYSICAL MEDIA!
Saturday 16th May 2009 11.00am - 6.00pm
Live interactive installation / performance
Nexus Art Café, Dale Street, Northern Quarter Manchester, Opposite Picadilly Records
SoundNetwork are collaborating with design studio BURNEVERYTHING to explore
analogue and digital media's relationship, in design and sound in an increasingly unsustainable and unstable present.
The installation / performance will allow festival goers to produce their own personal print
and create a unique live sound piece which will only exist in a one off live performance and as a physical recording.
The 'micro-recording plant' will be operated by you and the PHYSICAL MEDIA machinists and key
guest sound artists curated by SoundNetwork & BURNEVERYTHING.
Holocaust Connection
The vanished Flying Boat Factory, village and Holocaust connection revealed in Lake District exhibition
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Africa Oye announce dates
Break out your Picnic gear as Oye warms up.
Every year I promise that I'll get my blanket ready and head for Sefton Park for Africa Oyé, but every year I turn up and have to sit on the grass but not this year (I hope). I'll also have to make sure I turn up early so the queues at the food stands aren't to long but there is plenty of time as Africa Oye 09 is on Saturday 20th and Sunday 21st June 2009 - 12:30pm-9:30pm on both days and it's Free
Manchester Theatre in Sound - MANTIS
A series of performances on Saturday 6th and Sunday 7th March, Manchester
MANTIS (The Manchester Theatre in Sound) presents several concerts of electro-acoustic music each year, and aims to promote, disseminate and perform new works from composers based at The University of Manchester. Facilities at the Martin Harris Centre for Music and Drama allow, among other things, for the diffusion of work on a 40-loudspeaker sound system in a 350 seat concert hall.
MANTIS has run the festival in co-partnership with organisations like Sonic Arts Network EXPO, taking the festival to numerous venues in Manchester, such as the Victoria Baths. More recently hosted guest distinguised composer Francis Dhomont at his 80th birthday and focused on themes like MANTIS: South-North, including music from Latinamerican composers and a first MANTIS call for pieces which received 186 submissions from all over the world.
A Frakture Concerts Special - Saturday 28th February
A subject-based non-narrative audiovisual multimedia improvisation using digital synthesis, field recordings, prepared electro-acoustic guitar and manually-manipulated projected images by two free-improvising musicians and an image wizard."
A multimedia experiment documenting the vivid sights and sounds of the Purple Garlic Harvest in Las Pedroñeras, Spain, supported by the Frakture Big Band.
Saturday 28th February
The Bluecoat, School Lane, Liverpool, L1 3BX
Doors open 7.30 pm for 8.00pm start
Admission: £5
Box office. 0151 707 5324
http://www.thebluecoat.org.uk/
Purgatory St Lukes Church
Purgatory is a horror performance set in St. Luke's Church on Friday the 13th of March.
The story of five ghosts trapped within the grounds of the church will be told. Each tale stripped down to its raw emotional impact.
These original short pieces have been devised to explore the dark side of our spiritual nature. The performance will be held together on the evening by an environment of sights and sounds that will turn the church into a cauldron of menace.
The audience will witness an ongoing supernatural struggle between spectres and their fates. The artists involved have dealt with unsettling themes within the stories, but never lost sight of the sheer joy of terrifying people.
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