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SAT 26TH SEPTEMBER – FOR ONE DAY ONLY! as part of Bold Street Festival and AND Festival A SMALL CINEMA ON BOLD ST (in the old Rapid next to Christians Fruit and Veg shop) 3 fantastic screenings of great short [...]
Abandon Normal Devices this September! – It’s time for you to get involved Abandon Normal Devices (AND) Festival of New Cinema and Digital Culture, hits Liverpool and the region in full and for the first time this September. Based at [...]
A new partnership formed of FACT (Liverpool), Cornerhouse (Manchester) and folly (Lancaster) has been awarded major funding from the Legacy Trust UK to deliver Abandon Normal Devices (AND), a new cross-regional festival of New Cinema and Digital Culture for WE [...]
Abandon Normal Devices » Blog Archive » Festival Trailer unleashed. The good folk at Uniform have got the festival images to come to life in this string of short animations. Expect to see it on screens across the city, including [...]
Abandon Normal Devices – Full festival programme announced Festival Dates: 23 – 27 September 2009 Opening Launch: 23 September 2009 Abandon Normal Devices (AND), a new Northwest festival of New Cinema and Digital Culture, is excited to announce the full [...]
War veteran stories projected large scale on streets of Liverpool AND Festival 2009 In a timely statement, acclaimed Polish artist Krzysztof Wodiczko presents War Veteran Vehicle – where large scale slide projections documenting the experiences of returning veterans from Iraq [...]
Enjoyed the performance by DJ Spooky at St George’s Hall last night. He gave a brief introduction, explaining that the original Birth of a Nation film was essentially a KKK propoganda silent movie made in 1915. For the performance he [...]
The main focus of the Abandon Normal Devices Festival is film. It is, after all, the festival of New Cinema and Digital Culture. We don’t often go to the Cinema, even struggling to use up our free ticket allocation that [...]
Glowing Pathfinder Bugs from squidie on Vimeo. This video is from the PPP website and shows a previous event but it was just the same in the Arthouse Square behind FACT today. I think its really aimed at children but [...]
This is really cool, I could interact with this for ages. The lights somehow connect to the people on the ground then joins them all up to make patterns which change shape as the people move round. You really do [...]
The Abandon Normal Devices Festival finally launched today and I was tickled on the Big Screen – which was nice. Earlier we saw the Carolee Schneemann ‘Precarious‘ exhibition at Tate Liverpool which is a video installation – good job the [...]
Another of this evening’s events from the AND Festival. A lot more serious and unsettling, I hadn’t realised there would be audio and the sound of guns along with the projections – makes it a lot more dramatic. Look out [...]
Another piece from the AND Festival, this is delightful. Next to the entrance to FACT under a gazebo, it is not always easy to hear above the noise of traffic and people but it does sound really nice. It looks [...]
Not in Liverpool this year but not too far away in parts of Lancashire and Cumbria. I like the look of that Cloud Project. This spring join the AND festival on a digital journey across real and virtual worlds in [...]
This was originally advertised as part of the Film on the Waterfront event but has now been moved to St George’s Hall PUBLIC SPACE: DJ Spooky – Rebirth of a Nation Friday 25 September 2009 Now presented in the historical [...]
Spectacular outdoor arts events set to bring Cumbria alive One of Britain’s biggest and most innovative seasons of outdoor arts events will take place across Cumbria again this spring and summer, set against the county’s beautiful and varied landscape and [...]
We went to the launch of Abandon Normal Devices at FACT last Friday, its all very exciting though it doesn’t actually take place until late September. AND is presented by FACT (Liverpool), Cornerhouse (Manchester) and folly (Lancaster), great to see [...]
You don’t have to wait until 2012 to be part of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. London 2012 are already encouraging and inspiring people to open up and join in, through the London 2012 Open Weekend. PARTICIPATE AND BENEFIT: London [...]
Carolee Schneemann at Tate Liverpool As part of the Abandon Normal Devices (AND) Festival 23-27 September 2009 Admission Free As part of the inaugural Abandon Normal Devices (AND) festival, Tate Liverpool will present an exhibition and performative lecture by the [...]
The Long Night of the AND Festival 30 Galleries, 11 Music venues, 10 guided tours, 24 hours and breakfast. THE LONG NIGHT RETURNS! Thursday 24th September 2009 18.00 to late. Following its success in 2008 the popular Long Night returns [...]
WE PLAY programme for 2012 launched today It wasn’t easy but we managed to get to the National Cycling Centre (the Velodrome) in Manchester before 10.30 this morning. As cyclists cruised almost silently around the track, Debbi Lander (Northwest Creative [...]
