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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
Winning ideas announced for world’s first user-generated event
On Saturday 20th June the world’s first user-generated event will take place in Ancoats, east Manchester where people are invited to come along and take part in a series of flash-mob style activities.
Following a four-week flurry of web activity that attracted 103 ideas and 1,166 people counting themselves in, the winning ideas and the confirmed line up can be announced.
People can join Inspiral Carpets and XFM’s Clint Boon in a sing-along of his favourite Manchester classics from his brand new boon army mini, compete in a space hopper race, become an author of a book, play musical statues, set off an Alka Seltzer rocket, break a world record with the longest conga line, dance at a silent disco or help the European Architecture Students Assembly build a model city out of cardboard.
Digital artist handbook update
folly and GOTO10 are pleased to announce the latest articles to be added to the Digital Artists’ Handbook
The digital artists handbook is a reliable and accessible source of information that introduces artists to different tools, resources and ways of working related to digital art. With a focus on Free Software and Open Content, the handbook covers topics such as working with graphics, sound and digital video, software art, developing your own hardware, collaborative working and publishing your work.
The first of two new articles, “Video editing with open source tools”, has been written by Valentina Messeri and Eleonora Oreggia.
Valentina Messeri studied Philosophy of Technology and has been living in Spain since 2002. She is an advanced GNU/Linux user and video-maker, an expert in video streaming, teaches multimedia and works freelance in post production and live audio/video streaming.
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Reverend Billy at The Bluecoat Thursday 28 May 2009
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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.
Hub Festival 2009, Wellington Dock
Liverpool Sound City 2009 - Don't miss the trial this weekend
As part of Liverpool Sound City 2009
4 Days and Nights of the best music the North West has to offer.
Friday and Saturday 22nd and 23rd May
The rulings will evaluate how well modern business understands and caters for young consumers and musicians, and aims to influence direction and decisions as the findings provide a voice to the industry’s future cohorts. Creative workshops and a dedicated newspaper will also be part of The Trial’s make-up, where participants will, in their own terms and through their own selected medium, illustrate what the festival means to them through artistic expression. The Trial is an exclusive partnership between British Underground and Liverpool SoundCity.
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Northwest Regional Development Agency - Ideas wanted for world's first user-generated event
Northwest Regional Development Agency - Ideas wanted for world's first user-generated event
NWDA is inviting Mancunians to come up with inspirational ideas for the world's first user-generated day of events on Saturday 20 June in Ancoats in east Manchester. "Cutting Room Experiment" is a day of events decided by the audience, where every event has been created out of an idea from members of the public. Very different 'flash mob' style events will take place on the hour every hour and hundreds of people will be able to take part in the activities, which could range from 100 people playing violins at once, to a mass poetry reading.
Peter Mearns, Executive Director of Communications and Marketing at the NWDA, said: "Over the last ten years, the progress made on the regeneration of Ancoats into a heritage area where people want to live and business want to base themselves, has been outstanding. Cutting Room is the area's first public outdoor space and the first chance we have to celebrate the tremendous amount of work and dedication that has gone into transforming Ancoats into what it is now. Cutting Room Experiment is what it says - an experiment - and it depends on the people of Manchester to get involved, to generate ideas and to turn up on June 20th to create not just one unique event but several, which will involve hundreds of people. Cutting Room Experiment is a wonderful opportunity to showcase the undiscovered gem that is the new Ancoats."
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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.
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