Services 
News (300)
Financing and Funding the Digital Age - Seizing the opportunity
North West Vision and Media have a number of free tickets for Vision+Media members. Visit thier site and register your interest.
A brand-new one-day conference for entrepreneurs, investors, corporate venturers, government officials and media that showcase the wealth of UK innovation in the creative industries and gets to the heart of the issues affecting entrepreneurs and investors who are shaping the future of the technological innovation.
Hear from serial entrepreneurs and investors & lend your voice to the debate.
Where are the hotspots for enterprise? Is Britain's innovation infrastructure self-sustaining? What can UK entrepreneurs learn from their Silicon Valley counterparts? And what can they give back?
"Ground-loop Problem" free download EP by Gary Fisher
Sound art pieces, live compositions and improvisations featuring loop-based compositions of sounds from various objects and sources.
Sound Networks DIY Music day perfect for all the family
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 Artist wins FringeMK Painting Prize 2010
Brendan Lyons has been awarded 1st Prize jointly with 3 other artists, for the annual FringeMK Painting Prize 2010. The selectors were unable to agree on an outright winner, and so the 4 shortlisted artists were awarded the prize jointly and share the £8000 prize, with each receiving a cheque for £2000 at the ceremony on July 16th in Milton Keynes.
Clapperboard present The Fruit Machine
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.
Live 8pm tonight - Uncannily Magical Live Art Comedy Experience at Vinny’s Flat
Live at 8pm Tonight 15 July 2010
Amidst layers of domestic chaos your hosts serve up the leftovers of a promising relationship punctuated by the uncanny intrusion of some half invited special guests.
Isolation - A film tracing the life of ex paratrooper Stuart Griffiths
Showing at FACT, Liverpool on 17th July Isolation traces Stuart Griffiths’ extraordinary life. After five years of service as a paratrooper, Stuart left the army and became homeless, disillusioned and penniless. He eventually rebuilt his life and is now a renowned social photographer. Griffiths narrates the documentary as he travels across the UK, uncovering the personal and controversial stories behind the military statistics. Isolation explores the internal demons and uncertain futures faced by soldiers leaving the army.
In the past few years he has returned to the hostels he haunted while homeless to embark on a series of intimate portraits of fellow ex-veterans.
Guinness are looking for inspirational individuals
Looking for Inspirational individuals in London, Birmingham, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Liverpool and Manchester
The Guinness Bring it to Life Awards in association with UnLtd and Rathbone is open for applications. We are looking for 25-35 year olds who have a brilliant idea to make their communities a better place to live.
LIVERPOOL ARABIC ARTS FESTIVAL OPENS TO ALL
The award winning Liverpool Arabic Arts Festival (LAAF), sponsored by UNISON North West, opens its doors yesterday with a weekend of activities spanning the visual arts, literature, dance, film, food and music. The ever popular Family Day hosted at the Bluecoat building and gardens on 3 July brings the full flavour of the orient to Liverpool city centre.
Win Elvis’s Guitar
Ahead of his sold out performance at the Liverpool Philharmonic Hall on the 28th June Elvis Costello announced that he is gifting one of his Gibson
acoustics to the Picket music venue in Liverpool.
The venue will raffle the instrument to raise funds for the work it does with young bands. The Gibson DSM guitar handmade in Canada comes complete with a hard case and a personal note from Mr. Costello no less!
More...
AND CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: MOVING IMAGE
Next Liverpool Cafe Scientifique Meeting - The Challenges of Successful Ageing.
The Next Liverpool Cafe Scientifique Meeting takes place on Tuesday 13th July, 7.30, at the Hope Street Hotel and covers The Challenges of Successful Ageing.
Writing on the Wall needs you suggestions for next years festival
There is no better way of programming your festival than to let others do it for you, in fact I remember Nuffield Theatre in Lancaster won an award for doing just that in 2008. Now Writing on the Wall, Liverpool's outstanding writing festival are doing just the same as they explain below. This is a great idea and at Defnet Media we applaud them
Shocking rip off winner allegedly from JMU student
Nokia run the Nokia MiniMO awards so a UK students making movies on their mobiles can win a trip to Cannes. It appears and it appears to close to be purely a coincidental that a student from John Moores University, Liverpool has submitted a film for the awards which is a complete rip off of the one displayed below.
Tech-news