Philippe Chancel Talk
19.00 Friday 1st December
Open Eye Gallery, Wood St, Liverpool.

A limited number of tickets are still available for Philippe's talk on Friday, where this highly acclaimed art / documentary photographer will be discussing his latest exhibition and book - DPRK - a unique investigation into life in North Korea.

Pop along to http://www.openeye.org.uk to read more and then go to Order+tickets+online to book your place.

Issue 9 of the arts, culture and social issues magazine, Nerve is available now.

Main articles...
Merseyside and the 1926 General Strike
Stanley Park - Birthplace of Liverpool Football
Mary Bamber - Free Radical
Liverpool & the Spanish Civil War
The Belve is Back!
The Garston Riots in 1912
Peter Blake Interview
All's Fair in Love and War?
Orwell and the Liverpool Docker
The Liverpool Seamen's Revolt of 1775
City of Ghosts
Roger Hill Interview
Book Reviews...Editorial...Local Arts
Artist Profiles...Music Profiles

Nerve 9 launch night at Aigburth Cricket Club (Next to St Michael's Train Station) on
Saturday 2 December 20.00 to midnight.
Live music by Happy Accidents (featuring Tom George and Neil McDonald) and other bands.
Also a series of short films by Liverpool artists.
Free admission but donations will be welcome on the night.

A life in art is how local artist William Simm sums up his private viewing at the Rainford Gallery in St. Helens.

Says William, whose exhibition is on show until December 16 at the gallery in the Gamble Building, Victoria Square: "The paintings and drawings are working spanning my life from leaving art college to the present day. they represent my interests in narrative paining, an excursion into portrait commissions, observational drawings and paintings, mainly landscapes."

The larger oil works are narrative pieces trying to attempt to recount events, experiences, thoughts and feelings.

www.sthelens.gov.uk

ST.HELENS SELECTED FOR CHANNEL 4 “BIG ART”

The project will be managed by The Biennial's Public Art Team

The former Sutton Manor Colliery site in St.Helens, Merseyside has joined an elite number of select prime locations throughout the UK, with Channel 4’s confirmation that it will become home to a “Big Art” project as part of a major new television series to be screened in April 2008.

Channel 4’s Big Art Project is the UK’s biggest ever public art commissioning scheme, with over 1,400 sites across the country having being nominated by members of the public. Having made the 12-strong shortlist, the St.Helens site narrowly missed out on becoming one of the six initial locations announced earlier this year. Inspired and undaunted, local nominators continued to develop their ideas for delivering a landmark piece of new public art in St.Helens anyway, while levering in additional funding and building a positive dialogue with Liverpool Biennial. These efforts and continuing local commitment were enough to convince the Big Art Trust, the Project’s governing body, to review its decision and include the St.Helens site after all.

Sutton Manor itself has important local cultural resonance as a former colliery that employed more than 1,600 people in its heyday, before closing in 1991. The site also enjoys a strategic location at the gateway to Merseyside and Liverpool - Europe’s 2008 Capital of Culture - near Junction 7 of the M62, and is visible for miles around, offering an excellent vantage point for seeing Manchester, the Pennines, Derbyshire, Cheshire, and the Welsh Hills.

The intention is for the artwork to symbolise the positive post-industrial and cultural transformation that St.Helens has undergone in recent years - built on a long, proud heritage, fuelled by a spirit of innovation, and signalling a promising future. As with all the Big Art sites, the whole process from project development, artist selection, commissioning, and production, to ultimate unveiling in 2008, will be documented by independent production company Carbon Media on behalf of Channel 4. The focus throughout will be on the local community and the former miners who helped nominate the Sutton Manor site in the first place.

Lewis Biggs, Chief Executive of Liverpool Biennial adds: “Liverpool Biennial has a wealth of expertise and experience in managing major public art initiatives and we are delighted at the prospect of working in partnership with St.Helens Council and Channel 4 to help manage and deliver this Big Art project. Given its location and heritage, this certainly has the potential to be both iconic and transformational, and to leave a lasting legacy for St.Helens and the rest of Merseyside, not least in terms of community engagement. The timing is also ideal – with the scheduled unveiling of the artworks and screening of the TV series during Liverpool’s year as European Capital of Culture in 2008 when the next Biennial will also be coming to Merseyside”.

Big Art - St Helens
Biennial Public Art

Transvoyeur Update ...

Collaboration of Performance and Poetry: Gaynor Evelyn Sweeney (Artist) and Andrew Taylor (Poet), 27 November 2006.

Gaynor Evelyn Sweeney (Visual/Performance Artist) and Andrew Taylor (Poet/Writer) are collaborating on a new series artwork. The objective of the research is on a mutual subject, which both artists in conjunction will produce performance images from Sweeney and prose from Taylor. There is proposed a secondary stage to the development of art and that is to enable audience members to contribute in a similar mode of expression. The live art collaboration is one set on the multi-disciplinary creativity of the two artists to present a hybridised art form.

Sweeney is a performance artist and graduate of Liverpool John Moores University, England, in 2002. She is currently on her doctorate and researching the body within contemporary arts, science and culture. Her art explores the temporality and spatiality of body politics within the postmodern environment and institutional structures.

She has performed and exhibited in an array of international events, such as the Liverpool Biennial, Venice Biennial, Performance Art Festival (US), Hong Kong Biennial and Berlin Kunst Salon. Her art is strongly founded on the canon and philosophy within the context of live performance interventions, as well as considering new and innovative modes of expression modified through digital technology and optical engineering. Other projects and commissions have been in London, New York, Paris, Copenhagen and many other places.

Although she pursues her independent practice in performance art, she is a strong advocate of contemporary art practice, creating projects for exchange and dialogue in the concepts and philosophies of postmodern art and society. To collaborate and share to realise new and diverse modes of thinking and creative expression in the international arts market.

She is also founder and Projects Co-ordinator of Gesquoi and TransVoyeur UK, both research and management programmes in arts and culture within the international market. She was also one of the original founders of the Whores of Babylon Arts Collective (UK).

Taylor is a poet and writer. His work published in many independent publications in England and abroad, such as Turn for Home, The Brodie Press, August 2003, Poetry and Skin Cream erbacce Press, December 2004 and Cathedral Poems Paula Brown Publishing, August 2005

His creative writing is not only explored in text, but presented at many live readings. He further explores the concepts of spatiality of text and written word in a visual art installation, which becomes interaction with audience members where they can contribute to work.

He has been featured in many publications and participated in large-scale poetry events nationally and internationally. His writing style is one abstract form, at times autobiographical, but these are residues of experience and memory deconstructed and reconstructed. He is currently finalising his PhD.

The current collaboration with Sweeney and Taylor is proposed to be exhibited early next year and further information will be available on this at www.transvoyeur.co.uk.

Gaynor Evelyn Sweeney (Artist)
E-mail: artist@gaynorevelynsweeney.co.uk
Website: www.gaynorevelynsweeney.co.uk

Andrew Taylor (Poet/Writer)
E-mail: andy@andrewtaylorpoetry.com
Website: www.andrewtaylorpoetry.com

I have never been there myself so don't really have an opinion. Generally I'm not in favour of keep old buildings going just because they have a history but its a shame to see any cinema closed unless its to be replaced by a better one.

Press Release from the campaign team...
BANDS RALLY TO SAVE LIVERPOOL'S OLDEST CINEMA

Friday 1st December 2006 sees the New Picket host a fund raising gig for the 'Save Woolton Cinema' campaign. Woolton Cinema is almost 80 years old and has survived the great depression, World War II and the multiplex invasion of the 1980s. It is also a childhood haunt of John Lennon's, inspiring the lyrics to his 'A Day in the Life'. He and the Quarrymen (Lennon's original band) called it 'The Bug House'. With its art deco interior and plush Pullman seats, it is loved by many and since its closure on 3rd September 2006 there has been an outcry around Liverpool and beyond.

A team of campaigners have been working tirelessly to raise the profile of the cinema and fund raising in the hope of buying the building which is up for sale and run it as a charity. A website designed by one of the charity trustees, Andy Roberts, keeps everyone informed of how the campaign is going (www.savewooltoncinema.co.uk). There is a page of supporters including Willy Russell, Alex Cox and many more. There is a guestbook which has been signed by people as far away as Canada. Supporter Willy Russell said, "in all the world my favourite place to watch a film is Woolton Cinema".

Although the campaign has supporters from Liverpool City Council, there has been no offers of funding, suggesting that those holding the purse strings at the council do not feel that the wonderful picture house has a part to play in Liverpool's Capital of Culture 2008.

Glen Simpson and Sally Morrison-Griffiths, the initiators of the campaign, contacted Phil Hayes of the New Picket to organise a fundraising gig because they knew he had been through a similar plight when the original Flying Picket was threatened with closure. Phil did not hesitate to help out and between the three of them they put together a line-up in just 3 weeks!

One of the eighties’ best loved bands and Liverpudlian legends, CHINA CRISIS will be headlining. They are celebrating 25 years since their debut release 'African and White' and are about to embark on a tour in 2007. Formed in Liverpool in 1979, core duo Gary Daly and Eddie Lundon rose to fame with intelligent, melodic slices of post-punk pop such as the classic hits 'Black Man Ray', 'King In A Catholic Style (Wake Up)' and 'Wishful Thinking'.

"We are so lucky to have China Crisis playing the gig, we're really looking forward to it. We are pleased with the support we have had from so many Liverpool bands - so many infact we might have to put on a couple more gigs!", says Sally Morrison-Griffiths. The line-up includes Liverpool bands MuddyHead, The Mersey Beatles, The Circle and The Riffs and also an all female rock band called the Tommys, that has been compared to Blondie and the Ramones. www.savewooltoncinema.co.uk/supporters.htm

Other bands including Hot Club de Paris, Amsterdam and the Aeroplanes are supporters of the campaign too. "It doesn't surprise me that local bands get behind something like this because there is a huge artistic community in Liverpool as well as people with a strong sense of what is right. Surely if Liverpool City Council claim to call Liverpool the Capital of Culture, it is right that they should support the art and culture that we have, because there's plenty of it!" says Sally.

Steve Howard of the Mersey Beatles says, "I'd hate to see yet another piece of Liverpool heritage disappear to make way for a souless replica of a business found in any city in the country".

The fundraising gig is on Friday 1st December 2006 at the New Picket, Jordan Street, Liverpool L1 0BW
0151 708 6789
Tickets are £8 or £5 for concessions and are available from Liverpool's Probe Records in Slater Street 0151 708 8815 or directly from Campaign HQ info@savewooltoncinema.co.uk or tel: 0151 428 8495

New Website for Transvoyeur Artist ... Tony Knox ... www.tonyknox.org.uk, 26 November 2006
Written by Gaynor Evelyn Sweeney.

Tony Knox, a visual artist and one of the founding members of Transvoyeur, has a new website released to provide insight into his creative professional and acadmic practice. The website centralises to himself as an artist and as he stated 'it is my objective to focus more on my practice and the new website will provide a platform of information and images people can access'.

For further information, please go to
www.tonyknox.org.uk

One for your diaries. A winter's walk in Calderstones park can be very refreshing.

Artist: lel
Exhibition of Original, Contemporary Art for Sale.

Venue: 'The Coach House', Calderstones Park, Liverpool
Dates: 11th - 17th December 2006
Open: 09:30 - 17.00 daily

Artist website: http://www.lelart.co.uk/

Tuesday 28th November 2006 - Liverpool Film Festival Unwrapped

To kick off Liverpool Film Festivals re-launch there will be a night of films and networking. This will include an introduction to the Liverpool Film Festival, who we are and what we do, networking, socialising and a selection of our best short films.

RSVP to events@furiousfilms.co.uk if you are interested

28th November 2006 18.30 at the FAB Café, Hope Street, Liverpool (so you can still get to the film show at Cornerstone for 20.45)

Liverpool Film Festival Company will be holding various regular events which will include filmmakers networking and screenings.

The Liverpool Film Festival 2007 will be held early in 2007 over a minimum of three days.
Events will include: features, shorts with various categories, workshops and various other events.

www.liverpoolff.com

info@liverpoolff.com
0776 3486 141
0788 0958 570

The Cornerstone Festival at Liverpool Hope University
Cornerstone Artists Cinema: Dance on Film II
Tuesday 28th November 2006, 20.45

A selection of artists' film and video which reflects the dynamic relationship between a variety of dance forms and avant-garde visual practice. Curated by James Harding and Virginia Taylor (Head of Dance, Liverpool Hope).

Programme:
1. Joelle Bouvier & Regis Obadia La Chambre (The Room), France, (1988).
2. Jayne Parker, Reprise, UK, (2001).
3. Anthony Atanasio – Dust, UK, (1998).
4. Amy Greenfield - 4 Solos for Four Women, USA, (1980).
5. Maya Deren – The Very Eye of Night, USA, (1959).

Total Length: 68 mins approx.

Address:
Liverpool Hope University (10 mins from City Centre, near Royal Hospital)
Shaw St, L3 8QB
For more information please visit:
Cornerstone Cinema
Or email James Harding: hardinj@hope.ac.uk

"Through the Looking Glass" The creations of Emma Simcock-Tooth, fine artist.

From Tuesday December 5 2006 into 2007

Emma's portraits are classically painted in oils, in such fine detail they are almost photographic, yet carry a warmth and richness only a gifted artist could breath into canvas.

The classic style of Emma's beautiful paintings at first belie their character and depth, the subject matter brings to our attention segments of 21st century society which we have not seen depicted with such quality, thought and love.
Portraits of contemporary Goths, tattooed characters, actors and her own husband now have a brilliance only before given to pre-reconnaissance subjects. These fine paintings are guaranteed to be taken by collectors of the best new artists in this country.

At South Bohemia, 196 Smithdown Road
Liverpool
L15 5JT

Contact Peter Worthington:
peterworthington1@yahoo.co.uk

Ben Allen – Wonderland Exhibition

From Friday December 1 2006, Microzine Gallery will be presenting an exhibition by Brighton based artist Ben Allen.

Entitled Wonderland, Allen’s work is a modern creative vehicle of escapism. Through his art you can venture beyond the canvas and leave behind the constraints of the consumer and technology obsessed world we live in. Fairly ironic, then, that Allen has chosen to exhibit within Microzine.

“As a fairly young artist, it is important to take opportunities and support offered from whomever may be prepared to offer it. I think that a more diverse selection of people will see my work at Microzine than if it were on display at a gallery.”

The original Art-Deco interior of Microzine Gallery represents an ideal environment for Allen’s unique graffiti-graphic style.

A culturally and socially aware individual who has an affinity with the world around him, his art is not as much inspired by politics, war and consumerism as it is his awareness to create a release from the confines of them.

Throughout his work you will encounter iconic pop culture and exotic graffiti, fused with mischievous and playful characters that emerge, float and melt into dreamlike backgrounds.

While most retailers are busily turning their stores into Wintry Christmas scenes, Microzine choose an altogether different Wonderland for their final exhibition of 2006.

You have probably seen this image all over the place these past few months and apparently women are pouring into the Philharmonic Hall just to see the 'gorgeous' new principal conductor, Vasily Petrenko in action.

But I was more interested to learn that the photograph was taken by Liverpool photographer Mark McNulty.
Its good to see that major work like this is going to local artists and looking at Mark's updated website I see that he's been working on quite a few big projects lately including the Met Quarter and Liverpool Playhouse.

He also now has a section for stock images of Liverpool which is looking really impressive.

www.mcnulty.co.uk

You may have seen Laurence Payot's latest artworks parked outside Arena Gallery during this year's Biennial. She had painted some lovely designs onto a few cars and vans like the one pictured here.

She also does more traditional paintings and photography as well as being involved in various community art projects.

Laurence says
"My practice finds its place at the edge of kitsch - falsely naïve, with a hint of irony.

Using labour-intensive craft techniques I play with strong anonymous generic images and ubiquitous items that are designed to seduce.

Frequently this draws me to cultural forms that exists beyond conventional validations of quality and good taste."

She has her own website:
www.laurencepayot.com

Although only 20 years old, Ash has already achieved a lot.

From Sheffield and studying Graphic Design in Liverpool he is a finalist in the 2006 Noise Festival and has had work featured in Digit, Dazed & Confused and Hooker magazines.

He says
"I am into the more conceptional side of graphic design but also enjoy illustration and the freedom it brings me.

If you have a project or want to work with me, get in touch! "

You can see more of his work on his website

www.ashspurr.co.uk

If you have visited any of the good crafts shops such as Bluecoat Display Centre in the past couple of years I'm sure you will have noticed Rebecca Gouldson's fine etched metalworks.

Rebecca says "I create one-off etched wall pieces and sculptural forms from a variety of metals, including copper, gilding metal and silver. Through fine-tuning a variety of etching techniques,

I have developed a rich ‘palate’ of textures to decorate the surface of my metalwork. These expressive surfaces are accentuated by areas of patination, electro-plating and metal leaf. "

She has her own website:
www.rebeccagouldson.co.uk

Looking forward to seeing this in the Walker next January.

Taken from the NML Blog...

Chris Moseley, the head of ship and historic models conservation, is shown relaxing after what must have been quite a nerve racking day. Chris and his colleagues have been conserving the model of Lutyen's unbuilt design for Liverpool's Catholic Cathedral for more than a decade. Today the finished pieces of the model were assembled for the first time, to make sure that everything fitted together. Luckily they did!

There isn't enough room to fully assemble the huge model in the sculpture conservation studio, so it had to be put it together in the nearby paintings conservation studio. The model is being photographed there this week, then it will be taken apart again and transported to the Walker Art Gallery, ready to go on display in the exhibition The cathedral that never was in January 2007.

Update 22 November 2006: you can now see a slideshow of photos of the model being assembled on flickr.

You can find out more about the exhibition in our advance news release or read how you might be able to help out with an exhibit.

Ee, by eck, int it grand! A Northern Art Prize for Northern Artists and 16K is a lot of brass for us poor northerners.

Not clear exactly where the boundary for the North is though.

via 24hourmuseum...

A glittering gathering at Leeds Art Gallery, on November 22 2006, saw the naming of a select panel that will judge the winner of the brand new £16,000 arts award, the Northern Art Prize.

The new prize is being introduced as a unique award to celebrate the talents of contemporary artists based in the North of England and carries a seductive £16,500 winner’s fee.

Wakefield born 2001 Turner Prize Winner, Martin Creed will head the judging panel with other elite members of the UK’s art scene. Tate Collection curator, Ann Gallagher, will join The Independent’s art critic, Tom Lubbock, together with Turner Prize judge, Greville Worthington, to judge the prize.

Creed hopes that in acknowledging Northern artists, the prize will help to encourage new and exciting artworks and media. He said, “Art – like everything else – is all about competing, about being the best, about not losing. I hope the Northern Art Prize will help.”

Twelve arts professionals from the North East and North West of England and Yorkshire have also been selected to nominate competitors up until summer 2007, when four artists will be shortlisted for the award.

Their work will be exhibited in Leeds Art Gallery in November 2007 when the gallery re-opens after a £1.5 million refurbishment. The winner of the Northern Art Prize will be announced at a special prize giving in January 2008, where they will receive £16,500 and each of the three runners up will be given £1,500.

More from John Brady...

Dear Independents,
We are now working on the special edition souvenir post-Independents critical review publication and would like to consider images for inclusion in it.

If you have an image of an artwork or art-event you would like to be considered for the publication please forward a LOW RESOLUTION image (no more than 800x600 pixels) to
indie_biennial@btconnect.com
This email address is now dedicated for the reception of images.

Please do not send images to our other email addresses.

When sending an image include 3 items of information, namely
(1) title of artwork/event,
(2) the name of its creator, and
(3) the name of the person who took the photograph.

The deadline for receipt of low resolution images is midday on Monday December 11th, 2006.

From John Brady....

PARTIES

All independents are independent, but some are more independent than other (independents). There were 3 maps so 2 parties will come as no surprise.

Tonight - Friday November 24 2006
Crack Zombie @ museumMan, 25 Parliament Street

Starts at 21.00 till forever
Bands include; The Toxic Pijin, Bow and Arrow Kramer
VS.Kramer vs.Godzilla, and more. DJs include Tony Loco
The Mulliner Nannies, Oddity plus MCs

Projections By Noise Club & Toxic Pijin

Also Featuring Crack Cave and Glen of Tranquility

More details check out www.myspace.com/crackzombie

£3 Door Donation
BYO

Tomorrow - Saturday November 25 2006
No Excuses also @ museumMan, 25 Parliament Street

19.00
Will feature the following lovely people:
Tony Loco
Oddity
Coli
Stav
Bass Kid

www.myspace.com/noexcuses

Always been a fan of onedotzero though I'm a bit annoyed with them for not issuing a DVD this year. It usually arrives around the time of my birthday in September but they were too busy this year apparently.
Anyway they have teamed up with MTV to launch this interesting project called Bloom , nice website too.

be radical. be bold. be inventive

calling new moving image makers, directors, creative students and graduates

mtv and onedotzero have launched bloom - a competition to find the best up-and-coming moving image talent from around the world and to commission a series of one-minute-films that explore identity and community

if you are over 18 and are an up-and-coming director, animator or other moving image maker, we invite you to submit a creative written treatment for a one-minute film that represents your local environment, country and community as seen through your eyes. we want to see innovative techniques that reveal your perception of your home town, city, country, and its connection with the global community. it should show a view of your country that others would not normally see!

the entries will be judged by a panel of experts from mtv networks international creative and onedotzero. the winning creative treatments will be commissioned and be given the chance to get in front of a global audience: to be shown on mtv channels, digital platforms worldwide and feature in the onedotzero festival as it tours across the world. the films will also be showcased on a website gallery, complete with credits and contact details for the winning directors.

your submission should be sent in the form of a written treatment, no longer than a side of a4, and must be accompanied by at least one of the following: mood boards with visual references, storyboards, test films, animatic.

the techniques used in the film treatment are completely open and could include animation such as stop frame, cell and digital techniques as well as motion graphics, 3d, photography, film, and video. the use of audio is also open to interpretation, there may or not be music, there may or may not be sound effects, whatever you feel is right for your piece. you may choose to use a narrative, however you should not rely upon language, as your piece will be shown across the world, and will not be using subtitling or dubbing. we are looking for impressive responses, both in terms of mood and emotion and in terms of technique and exploring new angles that challenge conventional perception.

entries must be received by january 31 2007 (early entry is advised)

full creative brief and terms + conditions can be found at the bloom website
www.mtvonedotzero.com

winners will be announced in february 2007

be radical. be bold. be inventive.

Via liverpool08.com...

Capital of Culture's latest round of funding has opened for applications. Voluntary and community groups, public sector arts, cultural organisations and individual artists are able to apply for grants under two themes outlined below.

The Creative Communities Theme
Grants of between £500 and £5,000 are available to encourage diverse community arts and sports events and activities to celebrate the city's heritage and 800th birthday. It has a total of £240,000 to distribute with £40,000 of this being specifically allocated to the Sporting Chance sub theme. More details about the Roots and the World in One City sub-themes are given on the website.

The Innovation and Development Theme
Grants of between £500 and £10,000 are available for arts and cultural organisations based in the city who want to deliver benefits to communities and build the capacity of artists. Project proposals should increase access to Liverpool's diverse arts and media through partnerships, employment opportunities, participation and innovative approaches. There is £200,000 available for distribution within this theme.

How to apply
This year's application process is being administered by Liverpool City Council's Community Resources Unit. You can download an application form and guidance notes by clicking on the links on the website.

The closing date for applications is Monday 18 December 2006, 16.00

For any other funding advice call Creative Infrastructure Development Manager, Phil Taylor, on 0151 233 5604 or e-mail phil.taylor@liverpool.gov.uk

Link to full details

Adam Bee - Huis Clos at The Cornerstone Festival Theatre
Monday November 27 2006 10.00 - 22.00

Adam Bee is on the technical staff of Liverpool Hope University and the Cornerstone Festival. He is also currently undertaking the MA by Creative Practice at Liverpool Hope, and this work (part of his MA study) is an installation that challenges the notion of ‘what a performance is’.

Based upon Jean-Paul Sartre’s seminal and controversial play of the same name, Bee’s installation arose from an interest in existential theory, and the process of taking ideas across art forms.

The play (trans. No Exit) is about 3 characters trapped in a nonsense existence who gradually come to realise that (in the words of one of the three, Garcin) ‘Hell consists of other people’.

Jason, Cornerstone Gallery curator says it's a piece of work not to be missed, people have been known to stay within the performance space for hours.

Cornerstone Festival

UPDATE: Deadline extended to January 20 2007 and more news
http://www.artinliverpool.com/culturearch/2007/01/word_is_they_say_update.html

From Amanda DeAngeles

To Story-lovers,
Have you finished writing your novel, play or autobiography? Are you a local (or locally-based) writer, and is your work unpublished or self-published?

Do you want people to hear your written words? Are you willing to speak-up for yourself?

Word Is They Say . . . everyone has a book in them. Why not tell your story?

Contact me by Friday 8th December 2006 if you wish to take part in the first WORD IS THEY SAY . . . (January 2007)

seraphrenology.books@yahoo.co.uk
www.amandadeangeles.net
Tel/Fax 0151 280 3163
Mobile 07854 211 984

Another artist with a painting in the 2007 Liverpool Heritage Calendar is Raela K.

This striking image of Hope Street entitled 'Journeys End' is well worth its place in the 08 merchandising I think.

At the moment Raela is collaborating with the award -winning photographer Ken Hayes using Liverpool as the subject, as well as working on some private commissions.

Raela K and Ken Hayes share the same website

www.elanarts.co.uk

Not intentional but the combination of detritus and rainwater collecting has caused this globe in the Penelope sculpture in Wolstenholme Square to look very much like a big yellow eyeball.

It was swaying in the wind causing the 'iris' to move around.

Thanks to Billy for bringing this to my attention

As part of the BBC's Simon Schama's Power of Art the artists Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard have been commissioned to present a series of seven podcasts about Liverpool.
The first is the the artists talking about their connection to Liverpool and their Silent Sound work for the a-foundation and Liverpool Biennial 2006.

Each episode will feature a single guide who will pull sharp focus onto a particular area or aspect of Liverpool, with participants including the band To My Boy, entrepreneur Gary McClarnan and Ceri Hand, Director of Exhibitions at FACT. The podcasts will be available to subscribe to or download as individual episodes from this page and various podcast directories including iTunes.

Liverpool Art Tripper
Power of Art

Liverpool Biennial
Executive Director £45-50k

Liverpool Biennial is a charitable agency engaging art with people and place, and promotes the UK's festival of international contemporary visual art. Following its extraordinary record of achievement and growth in the last 6 years, the Trustees are now seeking a senior member of staff to lead the company's development as a business to the level of success reached in its artistic programme.

Liverpool Biennial will deliver a major contribution to the European Capital of Culture 2008. The challenge to this post is to make that contribution sustainable.

For more information email jobs@biennial.com
Closing date: 3 January 2007.
Interviews week commencing 15 January 2007.

Job Description, Application form etc. on the website
http://www.biennial.com/content/AboutUs/JobOpportunity.aspx

Isabel O'Rourke has lived on Merseyside since graduating in Fine Art some 15 years ago.

Since then she has followed a traditional artists path doing a bit of teaching and has some work in the View Two other local galleries and several cafes.

One of her paintings 'Ship at the Albert Dock' has been included in the Liverpool Heritage Calendar 2007 published by the Culture Company.

She is now looking for group exhibitions and portrait commissions.

For lovers of Vodka and Lomo cameras. That includes us here at artinliverpool.

Absolutlomo.com takes center-stage in the ABSOLUT LOMO campaign; visitors are invited to a Gallery featuring ABSOLUT LOMO art. For the first time ever in ABSOLUT history, people are encouraged to participate with own photos in the project. The pictures will be hand-fitted to the Gallery wall and featured in the exhibition.
Absolutlomo.com goes live on November 20 and photographers are welcome to send in photos until February 28, 2007. This is the outcome of a unique collaboration between ABSOLUT and The Lomographic Society.

The ABSOLUT LOMO print advertising displays how six dedicated artists have interpreted the ABSOLUT VODKA brand and their artwork – through a Lomo camera lens. This is also the base for the photo exhibition on display on Absolutlomo.com, launching on November 20.

The website also clashes digital and analog: the featured Gallery is a real room, located in the center of Stockholm/Sweden, where the photos sent in by photographers from around the world will be printed out and fitted on the wall.
Twice an hour, a high-resolution image will be taken inside the Gallery. As these pictures are constantly updated on the website, a
stop-motion-film is created. This way, consumers will be able to see how the exhibition is evolving day by day.

ABSOLUT LOMO: http://www.absolut.com/lomo
The Lomographic Society: http://www.lomography.com

Its a singles event really but don't let that put you off.

Meet new people and explore our venues at 'In the City' events

Since November 2004 National Museums Liverpool has held a regular programme of 'In the City' events. These popular occasions are an ideal opportunity to meet new friends in a relaxing and informal space.

Museums and galleries make fascinating places to meet new people in beautiful and interesting surroundings. Recent events have included private tours of exhibitions and the permanent collections with our friendly expert staff. There has also been music and dancing with salsa and swing dancing demonstrations - and guests have had the opportunity to learn a few moves themselves.
Next event
Social Sunday brunch at Cafe Eros, 26 November 2006, 12.30 - 15.00

The perfect chance to meet new friends and see the National Conservation Centre's Biennial exhibition Cape Farewell. Tickets cost £5 including brunch, a prize draw and much more. Ring 0151 478 4616 or email National Museums Liverpool events to book your place.

Places are limited so please book in advance.

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CALL FOR ENTRIES - ARENA ART AUCTION

THE LARGEST CONTEMPORARY ART AUCTION IN THE NORTHWEST

Arena’s unique Christmas Art Auction is being held on Sunday 17th December 2006 at 82-84 Duke Street, Liverpool L1 5AA

Traditionally a platform for Arena artists to show and sell, we are having an open invite this year for all artists in all mediums to submit work.

Highly exciting and fast-paced, Arena Auctions draw crowds from all around the Northwest and have gained in reputation.

Please submit actual artworks, up to three pieces on the delivery dates below. Unselected works will be stored at Arena until the removal days. Very large and heavy pieces may be difficult for us to accommodate, so please call in advance if you are unsure.

All works have an agreed reserved price and must have some written information with it either regarding the artist or the work to inform the auctioneer and the public.

Commission of 30% taken on each sold piece.
Selection committee to be confirmed.

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Receiving days at 82-84 Duke Street:
- Sunday 10th December 11am – 4pm
- Monday 11th December 10am – 4pm

Selection day – Wednesday 13th December
Notification of acceptance – Thursday/Friday 14th and 15th
Auction – Sunday 17th December

Picking up unsold/unselected works at 82-84 Duke Street:
- Monday 18th December 11am – 4pm
- Tuesday 19th December 11am – 4pm

Please note: Intellectual copyright remains with the artist. The artist forfeits the rights to any artworks left in Arena after end Dec 2006. Arena is not responsible for the loss of or damage to any works. Successful candidates will be responsible for transport to and from the location and insurance. The artists must allow the Organisers reproduction rights for the works submitted to create the catalogue, archive the images of submitted works and publicise the works on the website and in any other form of communication chosen by the organisers.

arenastudios@clara.co.uk
http://www.arena.uk.com/

Goshka Macuga - Sleep of Ulro
Discussion

Thursday 23rd November - 18.30

Speakers
Chris Bernard - Spiritualism in Liverpool
Leander Wolstenholme - Manchester Museum Curator of Botany
Sally O'Reilly critic and curator
Goshka Macuga - artist

Admission is free.

Greenland Street is open Wednesday–Sunday, 12.00 - 18.00
late night Thursday until 20.00
Admission is free

67 Greenland Street
Liverpool L1 0BY
Tel: +44 (0)151 706 0600

Vocal Play: Voice workshops, Liverpool: December 2006

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First Date Announced
Saturday 2nd December: 13.00 - 15.00
Location: Toxteth TV Studio, Windsor Street, Liverpool
Workshop web-presence: http://www.frakture.org/workshops/vocalplay.htm
Location web-presence: http://www.frakture.org/contactinfo.htm

For the first Vocal Play session, please let us know if intend to attend,
Via 0151 709 6123 or email swim@frakture.org
and/or Register your interest now.
http://www.frakture.org/workshops/contact_form_vocalplay.htm

Following on from the success of The Feral Choir, SWIM: (Sound workshops in music) will deliver the Vocal Play sessions : starting in 2nd December

"This is an exciting opportunity to explore the human voice. The workshop will open up and explore the notions of vocal sound, as a personal form of expression or as an instrument producing abstract sounds. Vocal Play invites
you to celebrate the voice in a session driven by free improvisation and a sense of play, no singing experience is necessary, just PLAY."
All welcome

Vocal Play will explore the voice using "free improvisation" as its road-map.

To play might mean: to do it now, as you are; to improvise, to use what is at hand; to enter into a game, not just to act according to someone else's set of rules, but to invent processes, ways of doing things, protocols; to imagine new ways of being together, of proceeding.
They will cost £2.00 per session
SWIM: Sound Workshops In Music
Frakture
PO BOX 1147
Liverpool
L69 8WH

0151 709 6123
swim@frakture.org
http://www.frakture.org

FACT New Tools courses

Illustrator Beginners - 23 November
Illustrator Next Steps - 24 November
11-12 December - DV Production

January courses include: Digital Audio and Computer Music; SuperCollider.

Course Fees:
£35 / £105 per day (artists & funded art organisations/non-funded organisations)

For more information or to book contact Lian Harter on 0151 707 4430,
email: harter@fact.c.uk
For a fulll ist of courses: http://www.fact.co.uk

FACT's New Tools is an arts training and development programme, aimed specifically at addressing the current and future needs of artists, gallery staff and curators, offering supportive and informative routes into understanding and developing the creative applications of new media technologies.

FREE Drawing Workshops with Nichola Pemberton:
Wednesday 29th November 13-15.00
Saturday 2nd December 14-16.00 (for Children, See below)
To book call 07810627763 or email vc.bartlett@hotmail.com

The Bridewell Gallery
Prescot Street
Liverpool
L7 8UL
0151 263 6730

DRAWING WORKSHOPS FOR CHILDREN-LIVERPOOL
Nichola Pemberton is an artist who takes a highly creative and imaginative approach to drawing. In her current exhibition at The Bridewell Studios she is exhibiting a series of drawings that she produced while bouncing on a trampoline!

On the 2nd of December Nichola will teach a drawing workshop specifically for children. Using group work and a playful and creative approach to drawing, she will lead the group in the creation of a number of large scale drawings. The workshop is a playful and fun activity that allows kids to get creative!

All welcome

Workshops are free and will take place:
Saturday 2nd December 14-16.00 for children
Refreshments and materials provided.

Volunteers (Liverpool)

The Living Market is an established Arts and Crafts Market located at 52 Roscoe Street, Liverpool.

We are looking for volunteers to help with our Christmas Markets, flyering, setup and takedown. Also looking for performers (music/drama/dance) for our busker's spot.

We will feed you, keep you topped up with warm drinks and make sure you have some fun.

Please leave a message for Beccy Williams on 0151 727 0487
or email living_market@yahoo.co.uk

Exhibition and Sale of artworks at The Royal Standard, Liverpool

“Unburdened by curatorial pressure to be civic and useful, the artists here were free to make objects of great curiosity and pleasure.”

James Westcott, ArtReview online, Sept 2006.

This is a call for proposals for artworks to be exhibited as part of our 3-day annual commercial exhibition, from the 14th-16th December 2006. We would like to receive cross-disciplinary work, from artists’ video to artists’ bookworks as well as drawings, paintings, object- and performance-based works produced by the best emerging artists in the UK.

To submit work to the exhibition please email eleanor@the-royal-standard.com for an application form, to be completed and sent by email along with a cv and images of your work.

The deadline for receipt of proposals is: 5pm on Friday 24th November.

All works sold will be subject to 30% commission.

Artists will be responsible for the transportation of works to and from The Royal Standard. In return we will make every effort to sell as much work as possible!

Selected works must arrive at the gallery by 12pm on Friday 8th December at the latest.
All work must be for sale.

The Royal Standard is an artist run gallery, studios, and social initiative situated in a former pub in Liverpool.

2 Grey St, off Windsor st, Liverpool L8 1XN

www.the-royal-standard.com

via liverpool08

Capital of Culture Update Meeting

St George's Hall, William Brown Street, Liverpool, Merseyside.
Date(s): 12/12/2006 - 12/12/2006
[t]:0151 233 2008
[e]:rsvp@liverpool.gov.uk
[w]:www.liverpool08.com

Have you got something to say about Capital of Culture?

Then why not make your voice heard at the Liverpool Culture Company Update Meeting?

It takes place on 12 December between 6.30pm and 8pm at St George's Hall.

Places are strictly limited and will be allocated on a first come, first served basis. To reserve your place, e-mail rsvp@liverpool.gov.uk stating your full name, postal address and daytime contact number, quoting 'update meeting'.

Alternatively, call 0151 233 2008, or visit the 08 Place in Whitechapel. The deadline for reservations is Tuesday 5 December.

You will be sent a confirmation letter a few days before the event which you will need to show on the door.

Roger Glover, bassist with rock group Deep Purple has donated one of his paintings to The Linda McCartney Centre to be auctioned as part of their fund-raising exhibition which opened today and runs until Friday 24 November 2006.
You can make a bid for the painting now, see the website for details

http://www.yourcentre.org/news.html

There are several other affordable paintings on sale, mostly donated or supplied by local artists via South Bohemia Gallery or The Liver Sketching Club.
Some nice acrylics by Alison Darling, Peter Worthington's Pastels, Michelle Campbell's Faery prints in very nice frames are a good bargain. Also good works by David and Susan Brown.

There are also several music items being auctioned, for instance a CD of John Lennon's Imagine signed by Yoko Ono and a Remo Drumhead signed by Ringo Starr.

The proceeds from the exhibition will go to purchase equipment for the Linda McCartney Centre.
The Centre has its own entrance on the South side of Royal Liverpool Hospital or you can find it by following the signs from the main entrance on Prescot Street.

Linda McCartney Centre
yourcentre@rlbuht.nhs.uk

You can see more of Roger Glover's fine artworks on his official website
http://www.rogerglover.com/paintings/index.html