10.00 – 17.00

‘The People’s Photographic Exhibition’ for the Heswall Arts Festival

Cetra Studio, 50 Pensby Rd, Heswall, Wirral CH60 7RE

FREE event (donations welcome)

‘The People’s Photographic Exhibition’ is an exhibition displaying local photographers images, professional and non-professional. We want everyone to get involved to show off their talent! Pop in during the Heswall Arts Festival and vote for your favourite image. There will be four categories this year: People, Nature, Places and a new category – The Number 2, e.g the shape of a tree, pebbles on a beach, cloud forms, etc.)

The Exhibition runs in conjunction with The Heswall Arts Festival

Buy Art Fair returns to Spinningfields, Manchester 17-29 September 2013.

The largest art fair outside London.

Free tickets

www.buyartfair.co.uk

14.00 -16.00

This art appreciation mini-course, led by Sara-Jayne Parsons, provides some basic tools for looking at, understanding and enjoying art, historic and contemporary. Sessions are aimed to help you develop a critical vocabulary and become better equipped to communicate how art affects you.

Tickets: £10 per session/£32 for all 4

St Helens artist Claire Weetman presents new animation video work in the Vide, inspired by the rhythm and movement of escalators, arrows and directional signs encountered during her recent residency in Shanghai.

Sat 17 August at 2pm

Artists Talk: Claire Weetman

Free but ticketed

An exhibition by Rebecca Chesney, Tadhg Devlin, Dave Evans, 0point3recurring (David Henckel, Dan Wilkinson & Leon Hardman), Hannah Wooll, Kai-O Jay Yung

Bringing together eight North West-based artists, this exhibition celebrates creative talent in the region and features new works specially commissioned by the Bluecoat.

Rebecca Chesney’s new installation about village life and myth stems from her experiences during a recent residency in Romania, while Tadhg Devlin explores the theme of immigration in Liverpool through black and white photography.

Dave Evans pursues his ongoing fascination with science fiction, time and history, and attempts to articulate the epic and the mundane in sculptural objects. Hannah Wooll’s surreal drawings and paintings reference historical depictions of women while simultaneously locating them in firmly in the present.

Performance features critically in the work of collaborative project 0point3recurring, where cars, rather than people, are the performers. Further developing her performance practice Kai-O Jay Yung transforms the gallery into a dance studio. Through workshop collaboration with local dancers, she sets out to learn new choreographic skills, documenting the process.

The exhibition also includes literary contributions and interventions from artist and writer Jack Welsh.

Thur 8 August at 6pm

Exhibition tour/talk: Rebecca Chesney

Free but ticketed

Thursdays/Fridays 13.00 – 15.00

Back by popular demand, summer holiday activities for families run with support from volunteer artists with learning disabilities from our Blue Room project. Drop in for these free art activities linked to our summer exhibition.

Free, donations accepted

14.00 – 22.00

The best alternative home-grown musical talent – rootsy blues, delicate folk, singer songwriters, country music and DJs – fills the Bluecoat with the city’s unplugged underground.

Free

The popular Liverpool Arab Arts Festival celebrates Arab culture through exhibitions and events at different venues in the city. At the Bluecoat, alongside gallery exhibition I exist (in some way), there are films, Freedom Hour debates on current affairs, culture and change in the Arab world, markets, workshops and performances.

19.00

Lucky Dragons invite you to manipulate their sound, connect with the music and other spectators, or simply sit back and take in their ecstatic take on experimental electronica. Drawing Paper and Deep Hedonia will also be performing under DRAWING ENSEMBLE #1, an improvised marriage between live music and drawing.

Tickets £7 available from www.deephedonia.com

18.30

Through music and words inspired by a letter that tells of the emptiness felt by those who leave their homeland, La Carta is a celebration of Latin American song, its rhythms and melodies. This new and original composition by Chilean artist Francisco Carrasco provides poignant images of untold journeys and presents exceptional musicians with an exceptional story to tell.
Tickets: £7/£5