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Voluntary Arts England is presenting a free one-day national conference on Tuesday 30 March 2010 at FACT, Liverpool; Restoring the Balance: the effect of arts participation on informal learning, health and wellbeing The conference, part of the Up For Arts [...]
An evening for art lovers to support Alder Hey Imagine Appeal Art lovers in Liverpool can treat themselves to an evening of art indulgence at the forthcoming ‘Imagine on Canvas’ event which supports Alder Hey Imagine Appeal. The inaugural event [...]
Oil City Confidential Special Guest of Liverpool Sound City + Director’s Q&A + Wilko Johnson Live Thursday 20th May 2010 at FACT Ticket £12.50 Following the success of the Oil City Confidential screening at FACT on 2 Feb 2010, Liverpool [...]
1897 OVERHEAD RAILWAY FOOTAGE TO BE SCREENED Lumière Brothers’ film showcased to public at FACT Members of the public are invited to attend a free lecture and screening showcasing new findings on the famous Lumière Brothers’ Liverpool Overhead Railway films, [...]
A sculpture of cloud for the Mersey skyline: Anthony McCall shortlisted for ambitious new art commission FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology) and Liverpool Biennial are delighted to announce that Anthony McCall’s Projected Column has been shortlisted for Arts [...]
Ah, music and sleeping. Two of our favourite things. Music and Sleeping in an arts centre – what could be better? Well I suppose we could lie on the sofa at home with the headphones on but we’d miss out [...]
Bernie Lubell – A Theory of Entanglement at FACT, Liverpool 19 June – 6 September 2009 Its not every day you get the chance slowly wind yourself into a coffin-shaped box and still communicate through a sort of tin-can telephone [...]
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 [...]
Here’s me receiving direction for my very small acting part in this recreation of the 1965 film Diana. I’m Mr Glass smoking a cigar. Mrs J also took part, it was good fun but with the likes of us hamming [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
There’s still places available for this very interesting event… Art of Digital Conference Novas CUC, Liverpool 23 September 2009, 09-18.00 FREE “Rethink, rewire, explore and utilize…” Tickets for the Art of Digital Conference are now available – a we’ve got [...]
Liverpool artwork of the week 2009-24. ‘…and the Synapse Sweetly Singing 2003′ by Bernie Lubell. ‘A Theory of Entanglement’ at FACT 19 June – 6 September 2009. It looks like a coffin because it is a coffin but for the [...]
Liverpool artwork of the week 2010-1. ‘Cosplayers’ (2004) video by Cao Fei in ‘Space Invaders: Art and the Computer Game Environment’ at FACT, 18 December 2009 to 21 February 2010. I had not heard of COSPlay before seeing this video [...]
Liverpool artwork of the week 2010-25. ‘The Space Beyond Me’ (2010) by Julius von Bismarck in Persistance of Vision at FACT, 18 June – 30 August 2010 A lot to see and interact with in this new exhibition at FACT. [...]
Liverpool artwork of the week 2010-51. Aunt and Uncle 1986 by Nam June Paik at Tate Liverpool 17 December 2010 – 13 March 2011. Actually two artworks and part of a larger series as there were also grandparents and children. [...]
Photo of detail by Minako Jackson Liverpool artwork of the week 2010-38. ‘Dialogical Abrasion’ by Yves Netzhammer at FACT 18 September to 28 Novembers 2010 as part of Liverpool Biennial Don’t ask me to explain this, it’s just weirdly wonderful. [...]
Thai and Southeast Asian Shorts Programme The Box@FACT, 10 November 2009 18.30 – £4.00/ £3.00 (Members & concs) Governments come and go, but the spiritual, biological and seasonal cycles of daily life go on. The Thai people seem to take [...]
‘Funny, How Thin The Line Is’: Documents from The Atlas Group Archive – Walid Raad/The Atlas Group at FACT until January 8th 2006. Reviewed by Adrain Searle in todays Guardian. Link.
Got to a couple of Big Draw events today. In the Box at FACT we were able to draw on the screen using light, still images were taken with a camera and relayed to the screen in bursts. Organised by [...]
Breakfast with the Artist at FACT – Bernie Lubell 19 June 2009, 10.30am – 12.30pm FACT, Screen 3 Price: £4.00/£3.00 (Members & concs) With the launch of our new exhibition at FACT this Friday, you are invited to join us [...]
Speaking of photography, there is another interesting Film with Q & A event at FACT on Monday 20 December 2010 which features photography and and a glimpse into the crazy, sordid, controversial world of the gallery private views that we [...]
Climate For Change Events at FACT There’s so much going on its difficult to keep track of, here’s the list of upcoming events from the climate for change website The show ends on May 31 2009, don’t forget the Shop [...]
Short notice … Collaborative Listening The Box, FACT 88 Wood Street, Liverpool, L1 4DQ 06 July 2010 7pm – 9pm £3 An evening of collaborative music appreciation. Bring along some of your own or other people’s music that you’d like [...]
It was a digital day yesterday. The fourth OneDotZero dvd arrived in the morning post. The onedotzero festival of short films, animations etc. takes place in London each May, then some of it goes on tour (it came to FACT [...]
Wednesday 17th December 2008 18.00 The Box, FACT, 88 Wood Street Liverpool L1 4DQ m-Log Kit Purchase an mLog kit and you get a full days workshop and all the materials needed to build & customise an m-Log to your [...]
This could be a really interesting discussion TODAY. Discussion: Assault on Culture III 26 April 2009 1.00pm at FACT Location: Gallery 1 Price: FREE It’s Not Easy Being Green – Screening and Discussion Series Mute Magazine Contributing Editor Anthony Iles [...]
If you have walked along Bold Street recently you will, hopefully, have noticed all the colourful drawings on the shop windows, much nicer than all those ‘sale’ posters. Flowers for Bold Street: FACT helps celebrate Liverpool’s well-loved street FACT is [...]
Looking forward to Saturday 21 Feb.2009 – Should be a good day. Be sure to visit the Ding Dong exhibition before then, well worth a visit. Full details of the closing events on the FACT blog. On Saturday 21 February [...]
FACT – Persistence of Vision Artist Wins Award FACT would like to congratulate Lindsay Seers, one of the artists featured in our Persistence of Vision exhibition earlier this year on being a recipient of a Paul Hamlyn Foundation 2010 Award [...]
FACT | What’s On | Changing Perspectives on Contemporary Conflict. Price: £8.00 / £6.00(Members & concs) Sunday 18 Apr 2010 times: 1:00pm in The Box FACT hosts a symposium on the changing nature of war, where speakers and audience members [...]
FACT | What’s On | QUEERFEST: Paris Is Burning & Darren Suarez. Certificate: 15 Listing features: FACT Film Screening Monday 07 Feb 2011 times: 6:30pm in The Box QUEERFEST To celebrate LGBT History Month, FACT is presenting a jam-packed month [...]
Good to see our Arts Centres pledging to train their workers. FACT MAKES THE SKILLS PLEDGE The UK’s leading digital arts centre is making a new investment in training. FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology), which is based in [...]
Dark drama, Pete Postlethwaite and quirky comedy – FACT announces the selection for Liverpool Film Night 2010 Nine films have been selected for this year’s Liverpool Film Night programme. The event, which takes place on Thursday, 11 November at 6.30pm, [...]
FACT Cafe is closed at the moment for refurbishment but re-opens soon as Franklins at FACT. Where do all the regulars go when its closed? Will there be veggie / vegan options? FACT café relaunches as Franklins at FACT on [...]
Other road users and pedestrians beware! Get on your bike: FACT presents a work for cyclists by acclaimed UK artists Blast Theory Part of its exhibition Space Invaders: Art and the Computer Game Environment (18 December – 21 February), Rider [...]
FACT TV – Now watching Energy Suite Trailer. Opening at FACT on Friday 12 December 2008 Energy Suite is an innovative collaboration between OMD, Peter Saville and Hambi Haralambous that captures the architecture and sounds of power generating facilties. Electronic [...]
FACT’s Programmes Director named as a ‘Woman to Watch’ in prestigious national list Laura Sillars, Programmes Director at FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology), Liverpool has been recognised as one of the most talented and ambitious women in the [...]
Breakfast with the Artists provides a unique opportunity to hear some of the MyWar artists, including Thomson & Craighead and Knowbotic Research, talk about their work and the themes of the exhibition. Thomson & Craighead’s ‘A Short Film about War’ [...]
What does war mean to you? From 13 March to 30 May 2010, FACT is presenting an exhibition called MyWar – a radically personal look at conflict through the work of 12 international artists. Their artwork investigates identity, participation and [...]
A little reminder that as well as showing the mainstream films, the Picturehouse Cinema at FACT plays host to loads of Independent film viewings, special film nights, Q & As with producers and other movie people etc. Here’s a couple [...]
Look out for this, I think it’s switched on every evening. The exhibitions at Tate and FACT are very good too of course. Giant laser beam to connect two Liverpool galleries A huge green laser will conjoin FACT (Foundation for [...]
Some very nice work in this one-day exhibition and art sale at FACT last night. We bought an excellent drawing by Edward Timmons at a bargain price. Hopefully there will be more of these pop-up shows, there appeared to be [...]
My clothes are already art of course, some are installations that have taken many years to perfect. Donate a piece of your clothing to become part of an artwork to be exhibited at this year’s Liverpool Biennial festival! Finnish artist [...]
Howduino Liverpool May 23rd – Home. One of the many events happening at FACT as part of their Climate for Change show Howduino is a free, one day event about connecting the internet to the real world, breathing life into [...]
Should be good, language is a fascinating subject. Imogen Stidworthy talks to Stephen Naylor – ‘Banging On’ at FACT, Thursday 21st May 2009, 18.30 – 20.30, FREE http://soundnetwork.org.uk http://fact.co.uk
Clapperboard UK in partnership with picturehouse@fact presents In His Life: The John Lennon Story with acclaimed Liverpool producer, Colin McKeown and Liverpool actor Gillian Kearney Monday 4th October 2010 at 19.00 Picturehouse at FACT FACT, 88 Wood Street, Liverpool, L1 [...]
