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WOW - festival programme announced
May sees Liverpool's own brand of Literary festival - Writing on the Wall -celebrating it's tenth anniversary with a fantastic line up to inspire, enlighten and entertain.
Pauline Melville…Paul Farley…Julian Daniels…GENERATION X…Kind-a-Blue…In the Red…Blank Pages…Clare Campbell…LEGENDS…China Miéville…APPLES & SUBMARINES…Phil Scraton…Pulp Idol… REBEL RANTS…Bonnie Greer…Richard Milward…Joe Dunthorne…Robert Shearman…IS THIS ENGLAND…Jon Morter…Don Letts…X FACTOR…Phil Hayes…Martin O’Shea…Kevin Sampson…Levi Tafari…The Beat…HIGH HEELS…The DPM Crew…Tindal Street Press…DALEKS…Luke Brown…The Monocles…STREET STYLE…The Cipher…LowKey…LOVE…Gavin Martin…Dean Johnson…ART AND REBELLION…Phil Thornton…Ian Prowse…Paul Du Noyer…Clarissa Pouncer…Marianne Hyatt…Zoe Street Howe…Colin Hall…Anthony Cartwright…Helen Walsh…Stewart Home…David Jacques…Ted Polhemus…Sara McEwan…ANOTHER TIME ANOTHER PLACE…Roddy Doyle…Niall Griffiths…PUB CRAWL…Writing on the Wall celebrating 10 years…NOT TO BE MISSED… Saturday 8th – 22nd May
Paloma Faith confirms for Liverpool Sound City 2010
Liverpool Sound City have announced the first two headline acts to play in this year’s music festival. The girls lead the way with stunning vocalist Paloma Faith and Mercury Prize winner Speech Debelle visiting the city.
Also confirmed is musical legend Seymour Stein as the first of the keynote speakers, plus Wave Machines, Hook & the Twin, Grosvenor and Gold Panda joining the line up. They are all taking part in what has quickly become one of the top music festivals in the World today.
Dave Haslam - Close Up with Mark E Smith
‘Close Up’ at the greenroom, Manchester is an opportunity to get up close and personal with musicians, poets, artists and actors discussing their life and work in-conversation with DJ/writer Dave Haslam.
The first two events feature Kevin Rowland (Dexy’s Midnight Runners) and Mark E Smith (The Fall), two iconic frontmen with cult followings and uncompromised opinions.
TEDx comes to Lancaster
Next month the Storey Institute launches Lancaster's own series of TED Talks.
The topic will be ‘Creativity in Education’ and will feature Sir Ken Robinson and Elizabeth Gilbert.
TED -Technology, Entertainment, Design talks started from an annual conference in 1984 but since then, have proliferated across the globe.
Manchester Group show Neck of the Woods
Neck of the Woods is an exhibition investigating artists’ responses into the concept of community and how this is evolving.
Artists and practitioners join from throughout the UK and Internationally to challenge the audience’s preconceptions of community and how this can be explored within their own personal artistic practice.
Dinner Ladies support Half Man Half Biscuit
The funniest album of all time means that Half Man Half Biscuit are touring again with Liverpool Dinner Ladies.
OK, not real Dinner ladies (actually I don't know) but Peter Benthams' not a Dinner Lady - That I know for sure. But they are all heading out on a tour across the country.
Rebel Rants with Martin Bell
This week sees the launch of Writing on the Walls Rebel Rants series with Martin Bell appearing at the Bluecoat on the 27th January.
Rebel: An individual who resists authority or control
Rant: To speak or shout at length in a wild, impassioned way
Liverpool Sound city returns
The Dreadful Hours comes to Liverpool Everyman
Tmesis Theatre embark on their biggest and most innovative collaboration to date with the upcoming tour of The Dreadful Hours which premieres at the Liverpool Everyman from 11th – 13th Feb 2010 and also to the Studio at the Manchester Royal Exchange from 3rd – 6th Mar 2010.
Alun Parry launches Woody Guthrie Folk Club
Liverpool is to have it's own Woody Guthrie folk club launching at the end of February.
Woody, a famous American singer-songwriter and folk musician inspired some of the greatest folk singers in our time most famously Bob Dylan.
'I want it to be the place to go for folk music that is fun, exciting, a bit dangerous, and that will make you sit up and take notice.' Alun Parry
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CLAPPERBOARD PRESENTS…CAR PARK directed and written by Bill McCoid
Recently premiered at Salford Film Festival, Car Park comes to Liverpool
Clapperboard in partnership with The Multi Story Film Company and Picturehouse, are supporting new local director/writer Bill McCoid, with a Liverpool screening of his first low budget feature film Car Park.
Car Park was recently premiered at the Salford Film Festival and received great reviews.
Fascinating series of lectures launches with Merseyside’s Turner Prize winner
Turner Prize winner Mark Leckey is to give the first of a new series of ‘Tate-Hope’ lectures in January.
Mark, who was born in Birkenhead and went to school in Ellesmere Port, will speak about the influence that growing up in Merseyside has had on his work. The talk will be held at Liverpool Hope’s Cornerstone campus in the city centre on January 14th. The day after the lecture, Mark will visit the university’s art department and talk to staff and students.
Christoph Grunenberg, Director of Tate Liverpool said: “We are delighted that Mark Leckey is re-launching this partnership that brings the best contemporary artists to Liverpool. “The influence Mark’s roots in Merseyside have had on his work is profound and this is an exciting opportunity to hear more about how the work of this significant contemporary artist has developed in the place where he is from.”
The event renews the successful partnership between Tate Liverpool and Liverpool Hope University building on joint aims to bring the best contemporary artists to Liverpool.
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