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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London;VALUE=DATE:20190712
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London;VALUE=DATE:20190713
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URL:https://www.artinliverpool.com/events/liverpool-city-centre-playing-wi
 th-fire/
SUMMARY:Liverpool: Liverpool City Centre: Playing With Fire
DESCRIPTION:Photo: Ronnie Hughes\n\nA piece by Lawrie that asks the questio
 n: “Are consecutive governments playing with fire by treating citizens w
 ith such disrespect? All citizens. It is a lottery who becomes homeless. I
 t is the removal of a basic human right. In the distant past we all had a 
 cave” - Lawrie 2019\n\nAbout the artist:\n\nLawrie was born in 1966 and 
 his first six years were spent on a house boat on the Lancaster canal. His
  next four years were spent living with his mother and older sister who ha
 d moved to London where his mother studied Direction at acting school. He 
 has no memory of these years that he was told were happy and fulfilling bu
 t of the problematic years that followed.\n\nLawrie’s father David\, who
  suffered from M.S. and alcoholism\, had moved from the house boat to a ba
 sement in Lancaster and at the age of ten Lawrie went to live with him. Ra
 ther than return to his father and his drunken friends Lawrie started to s
 leep rough. At that age he regarded it as an adventure and it became unexc
 eptional. He was forced into rough sleeping and homelessness on and off fo
 r more than thirty years. Despite this lifestyle and his own increasing dr
 inking he worked successfully in the construction and film industries.\n\n
 By the age of 42 he was an alcoholic\, ill\, unable to work and living in 
 a tent next to the Lancaster canal. Eventually he moved to Liverpool where
  the Whitechapel centre found him a bed in a hostel in Toxteth which led t
 o a flat in the same area in 2010. He still lives there and it is the firs
 t stable accommodation he has had in his life.\n\nIt took a further six ye
 ars for him to stop drinking and he is now thirty months dry. He wishes he
  had gone to art school and acknowledges that all that can be done is to s
 tart from where you are and move forward.\n\nIn his own words:\n\n“When 
 you wake up you just have to do something. So I do it\, whatever it is. I 
 just have to create something. If I don’t what else is there?”\n\nAbou
 t the project:\n\nThe intention is to take the piece around nine city cent
 res in nine days. The tour will begin in Newcastle on 4th July 2019 and co
 ntinue as below. Updates will posted daily on instagram page to be launche
 d in June 2019.\n\nLeeds (5th July)                   
                 Bristol (9th July)\n\nNottingham (6th July)
                          Birmingham (10th July)\n\
 nCambridge (7th July)                          Ma
 nchester (11th July)\n\nLondon (8th July)                
                 Liverpool (12th July)\n\nAcknowledgements\n
 \nLawrie would like to thank: Grahams Containers Speke\; Granby 4 Streets 
 CLT\; Joe Farag\; Hazel Tilley\; Bill Gayles 2CV Workshop Southport\; SHAP
  St. Helens\; Ronnie Hughes Sense of Place\; John Couchman
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