Subsidised video projects for 13-19 year olds

Published by Ian Jackson on February 8, 2010 21:19 in Course / Workshop and Film. 0 Comments Tags: .

Via Soap Box Films…

BIG LOTTERY AND CHILDREN IN NEED SUBSIDISED PROJECTS WITH YOUNG PEOPLE

Soap Box Films have been awarded a Big Lottery grant and funding from Children in Need to develop work with young people (13-19) across Merseyside (Liverpool, Knowsley, St Helens, Halton, and Birkenhead, Bootle & Netherton). These video training projects have many outcomes including a 5-10 minute DVD, an enhancement of the participants’ communication and team-working skills, a local and an annual screening, and the potential to gain an OCN accredited qualification.

We are trying to set up meetings in the different boroughs and areas to discuss, in detail, what this means for your area and organisations, and how this can fit in with what work you currently do with young people. See our training page for details on previous video training projects.

We have already run projects during the summer and since in Kirkby, Runcorn and Widnes, Liverpool 8, Birkenhead, Central Liverpool and Netherton, and we have set-up future projects in Huyton. For more details on these projects visit our Big Lottery and Children in Need Project’s page.

PLEASE NOTE – Until the end of May 2010 our subsidy is 58% off the total cost of the project.

If you are interested, Soap Box would like to come over to your area and meet with you face to face to discuss in further detail how we can work together. Initially, you could contact us for more detailed information on 0151 708 8008 or info@soapboxfilms.org.uk

Published by Ian Jackson on February 8, 2010 21:19 in Course / Workshop and Film. 0 Comments Tags: .

Baltic Creative Board to lead £5.2m development plan

Published by Ian Jackson on February 8, 2010 20:36 in News. 0 Comments Tags: .

Liverpool Daily Post.co.uk – LDP Business – Business News – Baltic Creative named board to lead £5.2m development plan.

Some familiar names on the board, looks good. It won’t be easy but I really hope the area thrives.

THE new body leading the £5.2m plan to transform Liverpool’s Baltic Triangle district into a creative quarter has appointed a manager and board of directors to push the project forward.

The Daily Post revealed last year that a new company called Baltic Creative was being formed to help transform the neglected area into a hub for creative and digital businesses.

The company, funded by the Northwest Development Agency and the European Regional Development Fund, has bought four buildings and aims to transform them into accommodation for more than 60 businesses.

Now Baltic Creative has named Erika Rushton as chair of its board, with Mark Lawler as creative manager.

The other board members include Jayne Casey, the artistic director for the European Capital of Culture opening at St George’s Hall in 2008 and one of the best-known figures on Liverpool’s music scene.

Several creative organisations, including the New Picket music venue and Elevator Studios, are already based in the Baltic Triangle. If Baltic Creative proves a success, it could spark more development in an area seen as ripe for regeneration.

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The Singh Twins to Exhibit at National Portrait Gallery

Published by Ian Jackson on February 8, 2010 12:46 in Art Preview. 0 Comments Tags: , .
Liverpool 800 (2007) c. The Singh Twins

Liverpool 800 (2007) c. The Singh Twins

Wirral based artists Amrit and Rabindra Singh, winners of the Liverpool Art Prize ‘People’s Choice’ Award in 2008, are to have an exhibition of works in the National Portrait Gallery starting in March 2010.

Contemporary Connections: The Singh Twins
11 March – 20 June 2010
Studio Gallery

The Singh Twins are contemporary British artists whose style is a fusion of Indian traditional and contemporary Western influences which they label ‘past modern.’ Their use of colour, decorative patterns, symbolism and flattened perspective reflect Indian miniature paintings yet these are cut through with modern political, social and cultural themes. Their work continues a long tradition of artistic interaction and influence between cultures. Selected works and a trail by twin sisters Amrit and Rabindra Singh offer a contemporary response to The Indian Portrait 1560 – 1860 exhibition and the Gallery’s permanent collection.

The Singh Twins

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Artwork of the Week – Aaron Douglas

Published by Ian Jackson on February 8, 2010 10:50 in Art of the Week. 0 Comments Tags: .
Aaron Douglas Aspiration 1936 © Estate of Aaron Douglas, Courtesy Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco

Aaron Douglas Aspiration 1936 © Estate of Aaron Douglas, Courtesy Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco

Liverpool artwork of the week 2010-6. ‘Aspiration’ (1936) by Aaron Douglas in ‘Afro Modern: Journeys Through the Black Atlantic’ at Tate Liverpool 29 January – 25 April 2010

This is the first picture in this excellent exhibition and one of my favourites.

The Harlem Renaissance artist Aaron Douglas can be seen as a foundational figure of Black Atlantic modernism. In his paintings, Douglas depicted African heritage as a source of pride, and modern African-American life as a focus for aspiration. He also created illustrations for the magazine The Crisis, embodying founding editor W.E.B. Du Bois’s idea that African-Americans lived in a state of double-consciousness: ‘It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one’s self through the eyes of others…’

Afro Modern at Tate Liverpool

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LAUNCH: Year of Health and Wellbeing 2010

Published by Ian Jackson on February 6, 2010 11:40 in Art Preview. 0 Comments

LAUNCH: Year of Health and Wellbeing 2010.

SUNDAY 7 February 2010, 10.30 – 16.30 at Lifestyles Tennis Centre
You are invited to the launch of the ‘Year of Health and Wellbeing 2010′ with the Festival of Health and Activity! Come along to this free event and try your luck on a trampoline, scale a climbing wall or take a guided tour of the park with the Liverpool Park Rangers.  Feeling a little less adventurous? Treat yourself to a free neck massage or take in the Tai Chi demos!  Younger visitors will have the chance to enjoy some storytelling, arts & crafts, bracelet making, X-bikes, golf and much more…

This is a free, fun and informative festival for all the family celebrating awareness of healthier and more active lifestyles.

Venue:
Lifestyles Tennis Centre, Wavertree Sports Park

Full details:
www.festivalofhealthandactivity.co.uk

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Icons in Transformation at Liverpool Cathedral

Published by Ian Jackson on February 4, 2010 20:56 in Art Review. 0 Comments Tags: .

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Liverpool Cathedral – ‘Icons in Transformation’
1 February – 18 March 2010
New exhibition by Ludmilla Pawlowska

Around 180 artworks are taking up a lot of space in Liverpool Cathedral at the moment, the presentation is interesting with most icon paintings being of similar size placed on plinths with sloping tops.

Also some much larger ones are suspended from the bridge, I quite like them. Then there are some which have been made into large geometric shapes. The artist has employed various sculptural techniques, cutting, shaping, mixed media as well as the traditional gold leaf.

Regular readers will know I have no interest in religion but I’m ok with some of the abstract pieces as artworks. Maybe too many similar pieces in one place here though, one of the best things about the cathedral is its hugeness, seems odd for it feel cluttered .

www.ludmilapawlowska.se

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Published by Ian Jackson on February 4, 2010 20:56 in Art Review. 0 Comments Tags: .

Batala Samba Band Raise over £3k for Haiti

Published by Ian Jackson on February 4, 2010 20:16 in News. 0 Comments Tags: , , .

batala-logoWell done Batala!

LOCAL SAMBA BAND HELPS THE NEEDY IN HAITI  IN COLLABORATION WITH LIVERPOOL ONE

A few weeks after Haiti was hit by an earthquake that left thousands dead and hundreds of thousands in a dire situation, Batala Liverpool, a non-profitmaking community project, decided to use its music to help those in need.

Upon contacting Liverpool ONE the band was  promptly allowed to parade and collect donations throughout the streets of Liverpool ONE from 1pm – 4pm last Saturday (30th  January 2010). The performance attracted crowds of thousands  and in just three hours, donations exceeded £3200.

“We regularly invite Batala to play at Liverpool ONE and the response from our shoppers is always really positive.  When they contacted us to ask if they could collect for Haiti we didn’t hestitate to get involved and are genuinely overwhelmed by the amount raised, which is testiment not only to the popularity of Batala but also the big-hearted nature of the people of Liverpool.”  Said Estate Director Chris Bliss.

Ritchie Tunstall,Musical Director of Batala Liverpool commented: “I couldn’t believe the generosity of everyone on Saturday.We only had two buckets and had to keep stopping to empty them out and start all over again. I’m really proud of our players for their spirit and energy that day.We hope to do more fundraising like this in collaboration with Liverpool ONE in the future to help other worthy causes and people in need”.

Batala Liverpool Community Samba Band would like to thank the people of Liverpool for being so giving on Saturday afternoon during the parade.

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Northern Songs at Ye Cracke

Published by Ian Jackson on February 4, 2010 18:18 in Art Review. 0 Comments Tags: .
Martin Lloyd and Colin Serjent

Martin Lloyd and Colin Serjent

Another very nice show in Ye Cracke pub. This one has the title and theme of ‘Northern Songs’ and includes photographs of Mark E Smith by David Hynes and Mark Jones of Zeb by Colin Serjent as well as paintings of the Beatles (Paul Francis), Kraftwerk (Matthew Dolan) and even Ye Cracke itself (Micheline Robinson). Also good works from Nick Jones, Alison Little, Martin Lloyd, Mick Gill, David Smith and Tony Kennedy.

Ye Cracke – Northern Songs

22 January – 15 March, 2010
Mick Gill and Micheline Robinson

Mick Gill and Micheline Robinson

Paul Francis, Alison Little and David Hynes

Paul Francis, Alison Little and David Hynes

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