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:6890@artinliverpool.com DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220703T110000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220918T170000 DTSTAMP:20220624T143446Z URL:https://www.artinliverpool.com/events/bluecoat-are-you-messin/ SUMMARY:Bluecoat: Bluecoat: Are you Messin'? DESCRIPTION:Are You Messin'?\n\n\n\nDiscover a special exhibition for child ren and their adults\, featuring work by leading UK artists that is design ed to be touched and explored.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGet hands-on with artworks in this interactive exhibition that will immerse and captivate audiences of a ll ages\, and inspire creativity in young visitors.\n\nDuring the summer h olidays\, a special programme of free workshops\, performances and storyte lling will take place within the exhibition. More info to come soon!\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\nGallery One\nIn Gallery One\, Gregory Herbert (Liverpool)\, collaborating with children from the Bluecoat’s Out of the Blue after- school art clubs\, presents an immersive sensory room with stimulating vis uals\, soothing sounds and comfy spaces - this room will provide a calm an d engaging place to dwell.\n\nHerbert is interested in the relationship be tween living organisms and their environments\, particularly taking influe nce from models of collaboration and coexistence. Herbert has previously e xplored the movements of fungi\, sea slugs\, frogs\, octopuses\, sea anemo nes\, gut flora and lichen in his practice\, as well as incorporating food preparation and planting.\n\nHerbert has been working with local children from Leamington Community Primary\, Four Oaks Primary\, Princes Primary  and Smithdown Primary schools for nine weeks\, collaboratively develop ing the artworks that will make up his sensory space. The children have be en helping him to design the space as part of the Bluecoat’s ongoing com mitment to making art accessible to all.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGallery Two\nAcr oss Gallery Two\, Katie Schwab (London/Glasgow) will layer textures\, to uchable surfaces and sculptures to create two rooms that invite tactile en gagement and learning through play for all ages.\n\nKatie Schwab is an art ist with a special interest in early-mid twentieth-century design and craf t\; her practice is emphatically hands-on\, collaborative and participator y. For her installations at the Bluecoat\, Schwab takes inspiration from a number of twentieth-century art &\; design reference points. These inc lude the iconic 1950s ceramic tile work produced by Carter of Poole that o nce decorated the Lewis’s department store public cafeteria in Liverpool city centre and ‘The Tactile Workshops’ book by Italian artist &\; designer Bruno Munari (1907-98). Munari’s book suggests making a touc hable library for children - a collection of materials with different tact ile qualities - which are reflected in Schwab’s installation which encou rages children to experiment freely. This artwork is a joint commission in partnership with Collective (Edinburgh).\nGallery Three\nArtists from th e city and wider North present ‘inspiration works’ - prints\, drawings and sculptures - as the starting point for creative responses\, playfully displayed in a hands-on making artist studio specially designed and scale d for children. The space will feature artworks by Penny Davenport\, Kate Hodgson\, Aliyah Hussain\, Fauziya Johnson\, Josie Jenkins\, Kohenoor Kam al\, Emily Lansley\, Millie Toyin Olateju\, Niloo Sharifi\, Linny Venables  with furniture by Crown Building Studios.\n\nThe children’s artist st udio\, complete with making resources\, will be animated with regular free live and pre-recorded artist workshops. Bookable activities aimed at babi es and toddlers (0-3) and children (4-11 years old) including story tellin g\, demonstrations of techniques and sensory play sessions\, will take pla ce mid-week during the summer holidays. The full programme of workshops an d events including dates and how to book will be publicly announced by Jul y 2022.\nGallery Four\nChildren and families can enjoy a contemplative lib rary space with a specially selected reading list including dual language books focused on creativity and identity. The room will be embellished wit h a hanging mobile by Millie Toyin Olateju (Liverpool). Millie Toyin Ola teju makes colourful abstract paintings and drawings that are the result o f free play with her materials. Spontaneous and process led\, they are a m eans to connect to the present moment and joyfully explore colour\, shape and texture. Her new artwork in at the Bluecoat will take the abstract for ms and shapes from her paintings and translate these into a mobile.\n\n\n\ n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.artinliverpool.com/wp-content/upload s/2022/06/Knots-2_Family-Day_BALTIC_2018.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:20220327T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR