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:1364@artinliverpool.com DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20161022T100000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20161022T180000 DTSTAMP:20161019T141415Z URL:https://www.artinliverpool.com/events/bluecoat-2016-lowry-lounge/ SUMMARY:Bluecoat: Bluecoat: The 2016 Lowry Lounge DESCRIPTION:The 2016 Lowry Lounge\n\nEach year since 2009 Bluecoat has stag ed a celebration of the life and work of Wirral-born writer Malcolm Lowry (1909-1957)\, famous for his influential 1947 novel\, Under the Volcano. T he book is regarded as a classic of modernist literature and is listed in The Guardian’s Top 100 Novels. It was described by novelist Anthony Burg ess as “a Faustian masterpiece”\, and the great Colombian writer Gabri el Garcia Marquez found it a constant source of inspiration.\n\nBluecoat ’s annual event\, The Lowry Lounge\, takes place this year at the arts c entre and includes a guided tour of Liverpool city centre\, a book launch\ , talks\, readings and a film.\n\nThe central character of Under the Volca no is a drunken British consul in Mexico on the eve of the Second World Wa r\, roaming the streets of a fictional Cuernavaca during the Day of the De ad\, and this year’s Lounge adopts a consular theme.\n\nIn 1927\, the ye ar of Lowry’s first sea voyage as a young deck hand bound for China\, Li verpool had 43 foreign consulates\, including Argentina\, Austria\, Brazil \, Colombia\, Italy\, Germany\, Nicaragua\, Norway and the United States – most of them now gone. New Brighton-based Lowry expert\, Colin Dilnot\ , will start the Lounge by leading a walking tour of these ‘lost’ cons ulates\, stopping at each site to reveal their relevance to Lowry and to r ead short extracts from his work.\n\nThe day continues at Bluecoat with ta lks and readings on a consular theme from Liverpool-based poets Helen Took ey and Robert Sheppard\, and Mark Goodall from University of Bradford.\n\n Canadian publisher Ottawa University Press has an ongoing series of Lowry- related books and Bluecoat will host the European launch of its new volume of essays\,Malcolm Lowry’s Poetics of Space\, including readings from t wo of the book’s authors\, Mark Goodall and locally-based short story wr iter Ailsa Cox.\n\nThe Lounge finishes with a toast to Lowry and screening of one of his favourite films\,Mad Love (1935) - the American horror adap tation of Maurice Renard's story The Hands of Orlac - directed by Karl Fre und and starring Peter Lorre.\n\nProgramme:\n\n• 10.30am-12.30pm: A walk ing tour of the ‘lost’ consulates of Liverpool\n\n• 12.30-1.30pm: Br eak for lunch\n\n• 1.30-2.30pm: Readings by Helen Tookey and Robert Shep pard\; Ralph Rumney: The Consul\, followed by a talk by Mark Goodall on th is British member of the Situationist International\, known as ‘The Cons ul’\n\n• 2.30-3.45pm: Book launch\, Malcolm Lowry’s Poetics of Space \n\n• 3.45pm: Lowry toast and announcement of Bluecoat’s 2017 Lowry pl ans\n\n• 4- 4.15pm: Afternoon break\n\n• 4.15-6pm: Film screening - Ma d Love (The Hands of Orlac)\n\nTickets: Whole day £8\n\nWalk only (limite d number) £5\n\nAfternoon programme £5 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.artinliverpool.com/wp-content/upload s/2016/10/Lowry_reclining.jpg LOCATION:Bluecoat\, School Lane\, Liverpool\, L1 3BX\, Liverpool\, United K ingdom GEO:53.404542;-2.984173 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=School Lane\, Liverpool\, L 1 3BX\, Liverpool\, United Kingdom;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Bluecoat:geo :53.404542,-2.984173 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20160327T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR