Services London Community Officer SAW red as Health and Safety infringes musicians right to perform
Norwegian musician Ragnhild Zeigler was asked to cease and desist her busking by a Community Support Officer as she performed on Saturday 21st March.
Playing by the London Eye the officers explained that the Sandvik 18 inch wood Saw the 23 year old was playing was “an offensive weapon and health and safety hazard to the public”
Arts and Media workshop - 16th March 09
Socialise your Media - Workshop
Find out
• How can cultural organisations use social networking technologies to engage with their audiences?
• Can blogging, poking and Twittering be more than just a way of showing you’re ‘down with the kids’?
• Could the explosion of new social media possibilities really get more people through the doors of our cultural venues?
They'll be asking all these questions and more at the first in a series of audience engagement workshops on Monday 16th March at FACT (the Foundation for Art and Creative Technology) in Liverpool.
Liverpool's Voluntary Services face slashing cuts
Cuts to Community Involvement in Liverpool
Liverpool Charity and Voluntary Services (LCVS) needed an extra £500,000 to maintain its engagement and empowerment programmes with Liverpool’s third sector and Liverpool residents after April 2009.
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.
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.
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/
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