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URL:https://www.artinliverpool.com/events/launch-new-faces-new-focus-stori
 es-we-share-and-next-up/
SUMMARY:Open Eye Gallery: Launch: New Faces\, New Focus: Stories We Share a
 nd Next Up
DESCRIPTION:Launch: Thursday 17 September / 6–8pm / Open Eye Gallery / fr
 ee\, RSVP\n\nJoin us for the launch of our new exhibitions: New Faces\, 
 New Focus: Stories We Share and Next Up!\n\nNew Faces\, New Focus: Stori
 es We Share is a collaborative touring exhibition bringing together new c
 reative work by artists and community participants alongside objects and a
 rtworks from three museums collections across the UK.\n\nCreated by Open E
 ye Gallery in partnership with Armagh\, Banbridge and Craigavon Borough Co
 uncil and Aberdeenshire Council’s Museums Service\, the exhibition is pa
 rt of Art Fund’s Going Places programme – a series of 12 exhibitions t
 ouring the UK\, created by museums working together to share and celebrate
  their collections in collaboration with local communities.\n\nDeveloped t
 hrough residencies in Liverpool City Region\, Armagh and Aberdeenshire\, t
 he exhibition explores the theme of journeys\, identity and home through t
 he voices of local communities whose stories have not always been represen
 ted in museum collections – including those with lived experience of mig
 ration and displacement.\n\nAcross all three locations\, participants have
  worked alongside artists\, curators and museum teams to explore the theme
  of journeys – from migration and exile to the milestones\, traditions a
 nd celebrations that shape our lives – creating new work inspired by mus
 eum collections and their own experiences of place\, identity and home.\n\
 nIn our Gallery 3 (upstairs)\, we will be launching Next Up-2026\, an ann
 ual graduate exhibition of work from the MA in Socially Engaged Photograph
 y course\, a joint programme Open Eye Gallery runs with the University of 
 Salford. This year\, it features work by Yaqeen Amir\, Ella Horniman\, Jac
 k Smith\, and Helen Constantinou in partnership with Homotopia (Contempora
 ry Fine Art MA).\n\nGoing Places is an Art Fund programme made possible wi
 th major support from The National Lottery Heritage Fund and The Julia Rau
 sing Trust\, with additional support from a generous group of trusts\, fou
 ndations and individuals. Art Fund is continuing to fundraise to reach the
  full potential of the programme and make the biggest impact for museums a
 nd visitors across the UK.
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LOCATION:Open Eye Gallery\, Mann Island\, Liverpool Waterfront\, Liverpool\
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