BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.5//EN TZID:Europe/London X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/London BEGIN:VEVENT UID:614@artinliverpool.com DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20160305T103000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20160305T170000 DTSTAMP:20160229T142757Z URL:https://www.artinliverpool.com/events/alternator-studio-translating-th e-street-birkenhead/ SUMMARY:: Alternator Studio: Translating the Street - Birkenhead DESCRIPTION:Saturday 5 March 2016\, 10.30 - 17.00 in Various locations.\n\ nPLUS Special short live performance by Jeff Young and Martin Heslop in th e Alternator Studios at 17.45 on Saturday 5 March.\n\nTRANSLATING THE STRE ET – BIRKENHEAD\n\nEver wondered what happens on the periphery of the lo cal High Street? What goes on in those small shops\, hair salons and cobbl ers that serve the community and survive against the fierce competition of national and international megastores?\n\nOxton Road is one such peripher y. It connects the homogenous High Street and indoor Shopping Arcades of B irkenhead with the lush heights of Oxton Village. Alternator Studio\, loca ted at the top end of Oxton Road\, considers this street as a great place to start thinking about issues around site and identity. Oxton Road is ful l of independent shops and small-scale businesses and artefacts\, from mod el ships to parrot cages\, from brooms and light fittings to exotic fruits \, and from international hair studios to world food shops.\n\nOver the pa st few months\, three international artists\, Haleh Jamali\, Harold Offeh and Jeff Young\, have been the guests of three independent shops on Oxton Road and the adjacent Borough Road.\n\nThey have been listening\, filming\ , photographing and travelling with their hosts into the personal and prof essional lives of the shop owners and their clients. They collected storie s about all the mended shoes that were never picked up\, the roasted chest nuts\, the riots and Audrey Hepburn and have translated these creatively i nto new artworks that will be presented in the shops on Saturday 5th March 2016\, 10.30am- 5.00pm.\n\nCurated and organised by Brigitte Jurack of Al ternator Studios\, Birkenhead\, details of the presentations are:\n\nHarol d Offeh\, internationally known video and performance artist\, will bring a 70s flair into the All Nations Hair &\; Beauty salon\, 5 Oxton Road\, Birkenhead CH41 2QQ. Fascinated by early L’Oreal advertisement videos\, Harold will present photographs taken in the shop\, observing the wondrou s transformations of clients\, all set to a backdrop of Audrey Hepburn.\n\ nHaleh Jamali\, known for her powerful portraits\, will project two intima te and thought-provoking new videos entitled ‘Frontier’ and ‘Crossin g the line’ onto the back wall of the colourful exotic fruit and veg tra der\, K&\;N. Amidst boxes of produce from all corners of the world\, qu estions of identity are posed with particular urgency. K&\;N Fresh Vege tables &\; Fruit shop\, 55 Oxton Road\, Birkenhead CH41 2QQ.\n\nJeff Yo ung\, nationally acclaimed playwright\, pays homage to the longest serving cobbler on Merseyside\, Frank Cavanagh. His shop sits within the last rem aining business in a row of Victorian houses on Borough Road and he has wo rked there for around sixty years. Collecting impressions from this living archive on 369 Borough Road\, CH42 0HA and the nearby Birkenhead Central Library\, Jeff will take the audience on a trip through trams\, tills and riots.\n\n\nTRANSLATING THE STREET will take place on Saturday 5 March 201 6\, 10.30am - 5.00pm. The event is free to attend.\n\nAlternator Studio a nd Project Space at the Old Bakery\, Balls Road East\, Birkenhead - Facebo ok Page ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.artinliverpool.com/wp-content/upload s/2016/02/alternator-translating-the-street.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/London BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20151025T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR