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Those hard-working folk at p-ornithology have put together some information on accommodation and travel for those coming to the Awards night who may want to stay over.

"The information includes maps and background info on the hotel. I am waiting for the Reservations Manager to ring me back (as we are negotiating a group discounted rate)" See Update below.

Its all in a Word doc which you can download here.

Update: I'm afraid as we are only able to reserve 35 rooms, the hotel have only given us a very small Group Discount - The room rates now stand at £66.00. You must quote the Group Discount code (156161715) on booking - if they ask what company, please state "the 100Shirts".

Please do book your rooms by 17th Feb as they will only be able to reserve the rooms until then. After this date, the hotel will be open for it's usual custom and so there could be a chance you will miss out if you leave it past this date.

You can book online at http://www.ichotelsgroup.com/h/d/hi/925/en/hd/lplad
Or call the reservations line below.

Express by Holiday Inn
Brittania Pavilion Albert Dock
Liverpool, L3 4AD
Hotel Reservations: 0870 400 9093

If you need any further information about the hotel facilities/ parking rates, please call the hotel front desk on 0151-709-1133
Hope that helps you all!

Morning all!

VERY IMPORTANT NOTICE - Re: VOTING ONLINE

Unfortunately the p-ornithology and 100Shirts website is down due to problems with the extra bandwidth caused by the online voting. The website itself is hosted by an external server/ company and so there are set limits as to the bandwith (usage) we are able to push through our website.

The online voting has been far more successful than we estimated and this has caused us big problems! There have been over 50,000 votes pushed through as so this has put too much strain on the external server/ company as too much of the bandwith - to be shared by a number of websites - is actually being used up by our website alone.

In order for them to prevent other websites from suffering, they have had to shut down our website until we rectify the problem - Which, as aforementioned, is the massive number of votes we have recieved!! A good problem to have really!

To this end, I am sorry to say that we will have to ask you all to chill a bit with the voting!

If you would like to vote for a design (and we hope you do) then please do vote - but just the once! I have been encouraging people to vote-vote-vote as obviously, the more votes the merrier but I'm afraid we did not by any means think the website would be so very popular and I certainly did not know we'd have a problem sustaining high volumes of hits.

Please remember, the online voting will not - in any way - effect the judging panel's decision for the winners of the 3 prizes as these will be chosen during the exhibition itself.
The online voting is simply for fun and promotion of your designs.

The external server company will switch back on our website once we have the issues under control - They will, however, suspend and remove our website permanently should be continue to misuse the website. So please, do help us in this matter and spread the word to all your friends and family members - Only vote once please!!

We would really appreciate your co-operation in this matter - The p-ornithology and the 100Shirts website is a vital part of this project and remains a vital resource to getting your designs out to the UK public.

Many thanks,

Bob :-)

I called into Microzine today to check out how the p-ornithology guys were getting on with setting up the exhibition.
As you can see Robbie and Bob were hard at work trying to get all 100 shirts neatly stuck to the walls on the 1st floor.
I'm going back tomorrow to see the finished product.
Remember they're on show until the Awards Evening on March 2nd. Have you booked your place yet?

Looks really good. Robbie and Bob were there till late last night and they must have used some awful big step-ladders! Think the shirts are stuck to the wall with some magic Velcro stuff.
There's a few going up in the 08 place today.
Do call in and have a look, I'm surprised how different the designs look when printed on a real T shirt.

Microzine is at 65-67 Bold Street, Liverpool, L1 4EZ

From Bob at p-ornithology.....

Hi All!

The 100Shirts Exhibition is up and running!
As of yesterday, the 100Shirts Exhibition went live! You are now able to go and visit the exhibition in MICROZINE, on Bold Street in Liverpool City Centre. There has already been considerable interest from other designers and artists who have seen all of your designs up so we think the exhibition will continue to draw the crowds over the next two weeks!

The 08 PLace - Liverpool Capital of Culture
A couple of weeks ago, we contacted four artists who's designs had been chosen to go into production by the 08 Place - the official Capital of Culture Shop in Liverpool City Centre. The chosen designs have been produced on to limited edition tees to be sold during the exhibition as an added feature, alongside the 100Shirts Exhibition at MICROZINE.

The designs were chosen to feature in the 08 Place as they felt the artwork fitted well with their own branding and the capital of culture theme.
The 4 lucky artists who had their designs chosen for the 08 Clothing range are:

Lynsey Hackett - Liverbirds - Produced into Limited edition Women's tees
Jeremy Southgate - Who's your daddy? - Limited edition Men's tees
Joe Bramall - Tower Birds - Limited edition Men's tees
Jenny Knight - Birds by Knight! - Produced into limited edition children's tees

Their tees have now all been printed and labelled and will be on sale at the 08Place on Monday morning. Congratulations to all of you!

Press Releases
There will be various press releases over the coming two/ three weeks. The first one will be through the Culture Company and again, several artists have been contacted already regarding these. We are just waiting for the artist's to grant us permission and will let you all know how the interviews go!

We expect there to be several more over the next couple of weeks and hope to involve different 100Shirts artists where we can. If you are interested in talking to the press and taking part in a short interview, email me and let me know and I can put you forward for the next ones when they arise! (How exciting!?!)

Well, that's all for now! If any of you take any good digipics when you visit the exhibition in MICROZINE, please do send me a couple and I will make sure they are shared around & posted on to the blog!

We will be coming to you all with options for purchasing your shirts too - Hopefully by tomorrow - So stay peeled if you are wanting to buy your shirts.

That's all for now folks! Have a great weekend!

Bob :-)

I should have done this a while ago.
I have created a 100 Shirts set on flickr.com and put a few pictures there, more to follow.
If anyone would like to add more photos just email them to me and I will add them with your name.
No huge files please - low resolution.
email pics to info@artinliverpool.com
Link to the flickr set. http://www.flickr.com/photos/34175263@N00/sets/72057594066763294/
Thanks to Stephen Burnett for the first batch taken on Saturday.

A couple more pics by Paul Mealey on the flickr set.
The 4 that Culture Co. chose are on sale in the 08 place now. I haven't seen them yet.

Remember you need to email the100shirts@aol.com to get on the guest list for the awards evening NEXT THURSDAY March 2nd.

BIRDS ON T-SHIRTS

· Unique opportunity for artists
· Exhibition - 100 T-Shirts printed with their designs on show

A UNIQUE T-shirt competition is unveiling 100 designs in an exhibition this week.

Artists from all over the country have been invited to submit their artworks on the subject of birds in the city for organisers, p-ornithology, to sift through with an expert panel of judges. The top 100 designs have been put onto T-shirts and will be exhibited in Microzine in Bold Street and in the 08 place, where four designs will be on sale. The top three designs will net their creators cash prizes totalling thousands of pounds.

Liverpool City Council leader, Councillor Warren Bradley, said: "Most people wear T-shirts on a regular basis so to use this popular forum to display artwork makes a truly mobile art gallery!"

P-ornithology create artistic and thought-provoking clothing. The 100 shirts project is supported by the Liverpool Culture Company, Merseyside Acme, the Liverpool and Manchester Design Initiative, Microzine, The Arts Council, Merseyside Special Investment Fund, and Acme Art.

Director Robbie Davison from p-ornithology said: "We wanted to inspire, support and facilitate the talents of visual artists from all over the UK and provide every artist who enters, the opportunity to win awards and exhibit their work. We feel that this competition has opened up the raw potential of T-shirts to be recognised as a perfect template for visual art."

There is also an online exhibition at www.p-ornithology.com. There will be an awards night at Microzine, starting at 7pm.

Here's the 4 designs that are on T shirts on sale in the 08 Place in Whitechapel and a picture that I took this morning of them in situ.
£15.99 for adults (both men's and women's sizes) and £13.99 for children's sizes (five different age ranges), although not all designs are available for all the sizes

Hi All,

We have been attempting to make the project as complete as we possibly could for everybody who made it into the 100Shirts Exhibition. During the competition/ exhibition process, we have been working hard to produce materials that reflect and promote the quality of all the designs. It was important to create a legacy.

We have always felt that the best way to do this would be to produce a book containing your designs. We are now happy and relieved to tell you that the book has been produced.

Our intention was to have the full cost of the book covered by sponsorship, however, due to the short lead time we were unable to secure the full sponsorship. Feeling it was a vital tool and a fitting tribute to the project, we decided to produce the book anyway. We therefore will need to make a nominal charge for the book to cover the shortfall in sponsorship. This charge is £4.00. If you would like to buy a few books, we will be able to supply them in bundles of 3 for £10.00.

Similarly, with the posters, there was no project budget allowing for production of the posters. As a gesture, every artist attending the Awards Night will be given a free poster at the Awards Night; Outside of this, we will need to charge a nominal fee for these posters (A2 size). This charge is £3.00 (in a secure postal tube). If you would like to purchase several posters, we can supply them in bundles of 4 for £10.

Both the 100Shirts Book and Poster are of high quality and we're proud with the finished products - We hope you like them too.

To accomodate an easy transaction, we have set up an ebay store. You can access the store on the link below and use either paypal/ credit cards or cheques to purchase the above items.

LINK ->http://members.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewUserPage&userid=the100shirts


One final response to requests to purchase shirts from the 100Shirts Exhibition -
A number of artists (as well as exhibition visitors actually!) have asked if they can buy their tshirt/ others from the 100Shirts Exhibition.
As you all know, the 100Shirts Project is funded and so we did not have the budget to produce and sell 100 different tshirts.

However, with the growing number of requests to purchase shirts from the exhibition, we are looking to offer a solution. It's possible for us to produce shirts at a relatively low cost but the process of low cost and quality is all about numbers - Therefore, the minimum print run we will be able to offer is 10 (all of same size/ design). This may or may not be of interest to those of you who have expressed an interest in getting hold of a number of shirts with your design on, but due to the costs associated with producing 1 high-quality screen printed tshirt, it is not viable to produce any of the designs in quantities less than 10.

If this approach is of any interest to you, the minimum order of 10 shirts (all of same design and size) and £95.00 + P&P (We always suggest Recorded Delivery). Bob will be making purchase of these available through the ebay store by tomorrow (MON) evening for those who are interested.

To be clear, we are only producing shirts for artists who want their design produced for their families and friends. We are not selling shirts to the wider public.

There will be a 21 day turn-around on shirt orders due to the potential complexity of producing runs of ten for many of the 100Shirts.

Again, for more information on sizing etc, please refer to link to our ebay store.

LINK ->>http://members.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewUserPage&userid=the100shirts

We will be able to answer questions but please be aware, this is the 100Shirts Awards Week! And the three of us are going crazy at the moment!

One last thing, are you coming to the Awards Night on Thursday 2nd March?! Have you got your name/s on the Guest List?! If not, please do email them over to us asap.

See you soon!

Robbie, Bob and Barry.
p-ornithology.com