From Liverpool City Council…

‘Tell us what you love about your City’ – Liverpool Shanghai Photo Mission

If you had a chance to show millions of people ‘your city of Liverpool’ what would you show them?

English Heritage are inviting people living in or around Liverpool to enter a photo competition where the winning images and ideas will be shown at the World Expo 2010 in Shanghai. You don’t have to be a fantastic photographer or have any experience at all! You don’t even have to have a camera! It’s for anyone with an idea of what represents their city. This is for anyone over the age of 8 – right up to 108!

You can enter in a number of ways; you can send us one digital image of something that for you represents the city, you can e-mail us up to 100 words telling us what is most important to you about the city or you can write a letter to us telling us what you think is most important about your city.

A specially formed group of people from local creative organisations will choose 10 people’s ideas from the entries. Those 10 people will be invited to work with professional digital storytellers to create short digital pieces including images and voice recordings to represent ‘their city of Liverpool’.

The finished 10 pieces will be shown in the Liverpool pavilion at the World Expo 2010 in Shanghai. Liverpool is the only city in the UK to be represented at the World Expo 2010 later this year and many millions of people – mostly families – will attend the show during the 6 months that it is being held.

What do you do next if you would like to enter the competition?

• Think about how you would represent Liverpool in photos
• Either; choose one image which for you represents ‘your Liverpool’ or write down not more than 100 words about what is most important to you about the city.
• E-mail your digital photo or your 100 words to; liverpoolshanghaicompetition@english-heritage.org.uk
• If you would prefer to write your 100 words in a letter, please send it to; Louise O’Brien, Historic Environment of Liverpool Programme Manager, Planning and Building Control, Liverpool City Council, Millennium House, Victoria Street, Liverpool L1 6JF.
• This competition is open to anyone over the age of 8. If you are under 18 and you win one of the places in the workshops you will need the permission of your parent or carer to take part and you will also need to be accompanied by an adult at the workshop sessions.

The closing date for this competition is Monday 22^nd February 2010. The 10 winners will be chosen by the 26^th February 2010. The workshop sessions for the winners will take place in the first week of March 2010.

The decisions of the panel as to who will win the 10 places at the workshop will be final and no correspondence will be entered into.