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Above the Beaten Track and Culturepool Birthday 14 Aug 2010

Published by Ian Jackson on August 10, 2010 20:27 in Art Preview and Music. 0 Comments Tags: , .

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This is great. A festival and birthday party in our own city centre. No need for long distance travel or camping in mud, just stroll through Liverpool ONE and enter (free of charge) the wonderful oasis that is the Bluecoat Garden. Those arty, crafty people from LOACA will be selling their wares in the front courtyard too. BBQ too of course! So that’s this Saturday afternoon / evening sorted, see you there.

SATURDAY 14 August 2010, 14.00 – Late at the Bluecoat
Above The Beaten Track is a festival celebrating the creative grass roots scene of Liverpool, featuring live music and DJs, performance art, poetry and audio-visual spectaculars – shedding a bit of light on Liverpool’s cultural underground, all in a relaxed festival-like atmosphere. Moving to a new home at The Bluecoat for our third annual event, Above The Beaten Track’s heart and soul are beating stronger than ever. Free event.

Our philosophy is all about inclusion, not only giving a platform for the oft maligned marginal grass roots musicians of our fair city but letting our friends and partners have a hand in running the festival. In addition to the usual Mellowtone and Beaten Tracks offerings, this year we have stages being hosted by Liverpool Acoustic, Lazy Genius, Bagism and Culturepool (celebrating their 4th Birthday) will be returning once again to add their birthday festivities to our little soiree. Draw The Line, the social art event specialists make a welcome return also, along with newcomers from Loaca.Art and the Bluecoat traders. The restaurant upstairs will be serving food and drink all day, and let’s not forget our BBQ either – join us in the courtyard for some festival flavours in between stages.

We welcome back musical friends old and new this year – Irish whirlwind Atlantic Massey, psychedelic darlings The Wicked Whispers, indie folk upstarts Misery Guts and our favourite Nordic siren Ragz, plus a whole lot more. Our Beaten Tracks DJ team have been busy too, scouring the city to gather up a raggle-taggle bunch of the city’s finest spinners of vinyl old and new – expect a wide range of quality tunes from the hands at the helm of the old 1-2’s.

All in all, we like to have a party. The sort of party that we’d like to go to. With our friends, music that we all love, films, art, food and drink. So here it is, the return of Above The Beaten Track for another year and all we ask is that you come and join us.

Published by Ian Jackson on August 10, 2010 20:27 in Art Preview and Music. 0 Comments Tags: , .

Call for Proposals – Bed-In at the Bluecoat

Published by Ian Jackson on August 5, 2010 09:53 in Opportunities. 4 Comments Tags: , , , .

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Call for Proposals – Bed-In at the Bluecoat
Non-violent action for a better world

The Bluecoat are now inviting applications from individuals or groups for
Bed-In at the Bluecoat

In celebration of John Lennon’s commitment to peace, the Bed-In at the Bluecoat will pay homage to one of the actions that John Lennon and Yoko Ono carried out in 1969 immediately after they were married. Their week long bed-ins for peace, staged first in Amsterdam then in Montreal, were expressions of non-violent protest against war.

‘Drove from Paris to the Amsterdam Hilton
Talking in our beds for a week
The newspapers said
Say what’re you doing in bed
I said we’re only trying to get us some peace.’
(The Beatles, The Ballad of John and Yoko)

This year, to mark the birth of John Lennon 70 years ago and his death 30 years ago, Liverpool City Council is holding a John Lennon Tribute Season in Autumn 2010. Bed-In at the Bluecoat will be part of this season and is endorsed by Yoko Ono, who has a long-standing relationship with the Bluecoat, where she performed in 1967 and again in 2008, and the city:

‘I think it’s wonderful that they will be doing Bed-In ….. There should be many lively discussion (sic) with the visitors of the bed and the couple in the bed, just like there were at the time John and I did it. There is much to discuss in terms of War and Peace now.’

The Bed-In can’t happen without you! Would you like to be a part of this special event?

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Published by Ian Jackson on August 5, 2010 09:53 in Opportunities. 4 Comments Tags: , , , .

Four Corners 2010 at the Bluecoat

Published by Ian Jackson on July 23, 2010 10:19 in Art Review. Closed Tags: , .
Creative Producer Jen Heyes and Councillor Wendy Simon inspect a giant poppy

Creative Producer Jen Heyes and Councillor Wendy Simon admire a giant poppy

All photographs © Minako Jackson

Pop into the Bluecoat during the next few days to see or take part in the Four Corners exhibition and activities, the gardens and adjacent rooms look great. I love the oversize fruit and plants and the mosaic grass.

Four Corners at the Bluecoat
22 July – 27 July 2010
Four Corners is Culture Liverpool’s major community participation arts project. This year, using the theme of Health and Wellbeing, this project will be exploring healthy neighbourhoods, healthy relationships, healthy minds and healthy bodies. There will be an exhibition and a whole programme of activity ranging from Yoga and Tai Chi in the garden to Origami workshops and Lunchtime Poetry planned in for you to enjoy.

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Published by Ian Jackson on July 23, 2010 10:19 in Art Review. Closed Tags: , .

Liverpool Arabic Arts Festival 2010

Published by Ian Jackson on July 3, 2010 17:40 in Art Review. Closed Tags: , .

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The 2010 Liverpool Arabic Arts festival launched last night with the opening of the exhibition at the Bluecoat – Arabicity: ‘Such a Near East’. The family day today was as popular as ever and great fun with live music, food, storytelling and various stalls.

The festival continues with ten days of artistic events including Arabicity, which features six new artists, an eclectic series film schedule including Palestinian animation Fatenah and opportunities to create Arabic-inspired poetry and textiles or learn traditional dance.

Earlier this year LAAF was recognised by the Arab British Centre which honoured it with the Arab British Culture & Society Award 2010 for an outstanding contribution to the British public’s knowledge and understanding of the life, society and culture of the Arab people.

LAAF is sponsored by UNISON North West and acknowledges the tremendous support provided by Liverpool City Council and Arts Council England.

Festival Manager Ngozi Ikoku said: “The Liverpool Arabic Arts Festival is designed for Arab and non-Arab audiences alike and for all ages. I’d like to welcome everyone to participate and to savour some of the rich and diverse culture the Middle East has to offer.”

http://www.arabicartsfestival.co.uk/

Rango perform in the Bluecoat garden

Rango perform in the Bluecoat garden

Published by Ian Jackson on July 3, 2010 17:40 in Art Review. Closed Tags: , .

Printmaking Courses, Workshops and Events at the Bluecoat

Published by Ian Jackson on May 25, 2010 21:50 in Course / Workshop. Closed Tags: , .

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Lots of lovely courses and workshop in the expanded print studios in the Bluecoat taking place over the next few months.

See the full list in our classifieds Courses/Workshops section

or go to www.thebluecoat.org.uk

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Published by Ian Jackson on May 25, 2010 21:50 in Course / Workshop. Closed Tags: , .

moves Double Bill: Programme Launch & moves Night. 16 Mar 10

Published by Ian Jackson on March 12, 2010 22:05 in Art Preview. Closed Tags: , , .

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This moves festival which takes place at the Bluecoat in April sounds really interesting, think I’ll go along to CUC on Tuesday to find out more. (They need volunteers to help out as well)

Invitation to: moves Double Bill: Programme Launch & moves Night

moves10: FRAMING MOTION – ONSCREEN | ONSITE | ONLINE

Join us for a crisp drink on a springtime evening as we launch the festival in Liverpool with the 2010 theme Framing Motion. Following a taster screening of programme highlights, artists Bridget Fiske and Rachel Davies will offer an exclusive glimpse of what’s to come.

7pm, Tuesday, 16 March 2010
Mezzanine Bar, Contemporary Urban Centre (Novas), 41-51 Greenland Street, Liverpool, L1 0BS

To confirm your attendance please RSVP to moves@movementonscreen.org.uk

moves10: FRAMING MOTION | 21-25 APRIL 2010 | LIVERPOOL & across the UK
www.movementonscreen.org.uk

Published by Ian Jackson on March 12, 2010 22:05 in Art Preview. Closed Tags: , , .

Bluecoat Hosts a Day of Conspiracies – 27 Feb 2010

Published by Ian Jackson on February 22, 2010 20:45 in Art Preview. Closed Tags: .
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Dr Bill Aitchison

THE TRUTH IS OUT THERE AS THE BLUECOAT HOSTS A DAY OF CONSPIRACIES

With increased reports of flying objects and ­attempted alien abductions, and everyone from Dana Scully to Danny Dyer promising ‘the truth is out there’, our obsession with conspiracy theories shows no signs of waning.

Where there is a major event, there is usually a major conspiracy to boot. And adding further fuel to the conspiracy fire is the Bluecoat’s Views from the Grassy Knoll event on Saturday 27 Feb 2010, from 2.00-10.00pm.

Curated and headlined by esteemed international artist and researcher Dr Bill Aitchison, this free day of conspiracy talks, screenings and performances will reveal everything from links between the war on terror and dog cloning, to Mayan astronomy and the novels of Saddam Hussein.

Aitchison arrives at the Bluecoat as part of a world tour and will deliver his groundbreaking conspiracy lecture, 2012.

Other conspiracy theorists appearing include Thomas Shephard, an artist living in Liverpool, whose talk exposes power structures that kill culture in the name of capitalism –different wording?

Author Peter Goddard will examine the case of Ali Abbas, whose photograph of a boy, severely injured after a rocket attack, became an iconic image of the Iraq war. He will suggest how this image was represented by the British press to fit agendas about civilian suffering and charity, that had very little to do with the genuine suffering of the Iraqi people.

Anthropologist Jane Parish’s examines the occult economy and conspiracy theorising, specific to African communities in Liverpool.

Reporter and lecturer Adrian Quinn discusses conspiracy theories in contemporary society, drawing on examples from the 2001 book, The Age of Anxiety: Conspiracy Theory & the Human Sciences, to which he contributes.

Artistic Director at the Bluecoat, Bryan Biggs said: “From the bloodline of Christ to celebrity deaths, the world has long been fascinated by conspiracy theories, and Views from the Grassy Knoll provides a platform from which to investigate intriguing phenomena.

“Through presentations by leading conspiracy theorists, the event sets out to challenge some of our assumptions and preconceptions about our contemporary world”

FREE – The Bluecoat Performance Area

Dr Bill Aitchison

Dr Bill Aitchison

Published by Ian Jackson on February 22, 2010 20:45 in Art Preview. Closed Tags: .

Workshops at Landbaby

Published by Ian Jackson on January 18, 2010 12:04 in Course / Workshop. Closed Tags: , .

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Some great workshops coming up at Landbaby at the Bluecoat…

Feeling creative?

Ever wanted to see how its made and have a go yourself ?

Look no further as landbaby introduces a series of workshops showing you just how easy it is to create something from nothing.

VINTAGE BUTTON BOUQUET IN AN OLD BOTTLE… TUESDAY 26TH JAN, 7PM– 8.30PM £15

1940’S INSPIRED FELT FLOWER BROOCH…. TUESDAY 2ND FEB, 7PM-9PM £20

WAXED PAPER FLOWERS, IDEAL AS A VALENTINES GIFT… TUESDAY 9TH FEB , 7PM-8.30PM £15

Workshops will take place in landbaby shop and will last approximately 2 hours. All materials and a take home guide will be included in the price alongside tea and cakes to keep us going .
For more information or to book a place , please see Claire at landbaby, or email us at landbabyshop@gmail.com or text us on 07504479440 :)

LANDBABY IS SITUATED IN THE BEAUTIFUL COURT YARD OF THE BLUECOAT , LIVERPOOL

Published by Ian Jackson on January 18, 2010 12:04 in Course / Workshop. Closed Tags: , .