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:7105@artinliverpool.com DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230307T170000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230307T190000 DTSTAMP:20230208T153510Z URL:https://www.artinliverpool.com/events/equalise-nightlife-research-arti st-talk/ SUMMARY:John Lennon Art and Design Building: Liverpool School Of Art & Desi gn: Equalise Nightlife: research/artist talk DESCRIPTION:BOOK HERE: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/equalise-nightlife-rese archartist-talk-tickets-511644842497\n\nThe Equalise Nightlife project is a programme of research\, led by Dr Amanda Marie Atkinson*\, with research support from Beth Meadows. It explored women and LGBTQ+ people’s experi ences of alcohol and nightlife spaces such as bars and clubs. Taking an in tersectional feminist perspective\, it investigated how drinking and night life are experienced unequally and are influenced by alcohol brand and nig htlife venue marketing. The exhibition presents a number of art works conc eptualised and created by Amanda such as sculpture\, as well as collaborat ive photography\, and poetry created by research participants. Art works a re underpinned by findings of an analysis of brand and venue marketing\, i nterviews with women and LGBTQ+ people\, and discussions with marketers an d venues. It explores the:\n\n pleasures and risk involved in drinking an d nightlife participation\n\n\n importance of drinking and nightlife to f eminine and LGBTQ+ identity making\n\n\n targeting of women and LGBTQ+ pe ople by alcohol brands and venue\n\n\n inequalities that exist in nightli fe and drinking including the normalisation of unwanted (sexual) attention \n\nThis is a public exhibition. Booking is not required for viewing the w orks.\n\nBooking is required for attending the research/artist talk from D r Amanda Marie Atkinson on Tuesday 7th March 5.00pm-7pm. The talk coincid es with International Women's Day\, and will provide an overview of the re search that underpinned the art works\, and explanation of each exhibited piece.\n\nThe exhibition runs from Mon 27th Feb-Fri10th March\, 8am-6pm in the John Lennon Art and Design building.\n\nEnquiries to Amanda Atkinson - A.M.Atkinson@ljmu.ac.uk\n\n \;\n\n*Dr Amanda Marie Atkinson is a Rea der in the Sociology of Public Health at Liverpool John Moores University. Her general research interests relate to consumption\, (gender) identity\ , media representations\, gender relations and feminism. She has researche d issues including young people's (gendered) drinking cultures\, (gendered ) substance use\, unwanted sexual attention\, and the role and influence o f media and marketing on identity making and experiences of drinking and n ightlife. She creates art works underpinned by her empirical research to d isseminate research findings to public audiences in accessible ways. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.artinliverpool.com/wp-content/upload s/2023/02/Flyer-front.png LOCATION:John Lennon Art and Design Building\, Duckinfield Street\, Liverpo ol\, L3 5RD\, Liverpool\, United Kingdom GEO:53.405426;-2.96999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Duckinfield Street\, Liverp ool\, L3 5RD\, Liverpool\, United Kingdom;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=John Lennon Art and Design Building:geo:53.405426,-2.96999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/London BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20221030T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR