BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.7//EN TZID:Europe/London X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/London BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2808@artinliverpool.com DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London;VALUE=DATE:20171006 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London;VALUE=DATE:20171223 DTSTAMP:20171218T222116Z URL:https://www.artinliverpool.com/events/open-eye-gallery-culture-shifts- local/ SUMMARY:Open Eye Gallery: Open Eye Gallery: Culture Shifts: Local DESCRIPTION:Culture Shifts: Local presents new work from eight socially eng aged photography projects across Liverpool\n\nPhotography has become a cru cial part of the way that we communicate with each other every day\, a kin d of language of its own. How\, then\, can this global language be used in a way that unites communities and champions positive change? Culture Shif ts: Local\, a new exhibition at Open Eye Gallery\, presents new work produ ced by photographers working closely with communities across Liverpool Cit y Regions. The work demonstrates how photography as an art practice can be used to help communities define themselves\, bridge cultural divides and communicate the vital issues of today.\n\nThe group show at Open Eye Galle ry opens on 6th October\, with a free and open launch night on Thursday 5t h\, 5:30-8PM.\n\nThe projects are all part of the citywide\, long-term Cul ture Shifts project. Each of the eight projects involves select photograph ers working alongside one or more groups\, including a support and service s network for women\, residents of Granby Four Streets (site of the Turner prize-winning Assemble project)\, and youth groups dedicated to LGBTQ+ su pport and Youth Parliament.\n\nA selection of the work will be presented a t Open Eye Gallery throughout Autumn 2017\, with an additional solo offsit e exhibition for each project in a space in the neighbourhood of each comm unity featured: a total of eight exhibitions across 2017.\n\nUnlike docume ntary photography\, the staging\, selection and production of the images w as decided between the groups and the photographs they were working with. The question of who took the image is unimportant. This is part of Open Ey e Gallery’s mission to champion socially engaged photography - photo-bas ed projects that are participatory\, in which the collaborative and conver sational process of creating the photos is just as important as the final pieces.\n\nLiz Wewiora\, Creative Producer at Open Eye Gallery\, said:\n\n “It has been inspiring to see the Culture Shift projects develop over th e past 12 months\; to see each community and photographer come together an d break down traditional concepts that the camera captures a single view. Each collaboration has developed differently\, depending on the place\, pe ople and photographer involved\, reflecting the diversity and possibilitie s within socially engaged photography practice today.”\n\nOne of the pro jects involves two youth groups: New Beginnings is an LGBTQ+ support netwo rk for young people\, providing a safe and non-judgemental space\, and Sef ton Youth Voice is a youth parliament group. Working with Colin McPherson\ , the young people identified the societal issues they felt passionate abo ut and created staged shots to communicate the everyday reality of living with these issues. For the parliamentary group\, these include the media\, mental health\, and politics. For the New Beginnings LGBTQ+ group\, it in cludes labelling\, role models and perceptions. In addition to the showcas e at Open Eye Gallery\, an exhibition\, Positive Changes\, will take place at The Atkinson in Southport\, from 9th September - 5th November.\n\nTony Mallon worked with a group of older women based in his birthplace to the north of the city. The women are notable for offering their time to help r un a much-loved community centre in Kirkby after it announced its imminent closure\, volunteering their time to keep it open. These women\, some of whom have lived in the area for 50 years\, moved to the area on the promis e of fresh air and a better life away from the slums of 60s and 70s Liverp ool City Centre. The project features portrait shots of the women engaged in the everyday activism of keeping the centre open for their community. T hese images are shown next to found photographs of women in the area produ cing munitions in some of the UK’s biggest weapons factories. The work w ill form Winds of Change\, an exhibition at Kirkby Gallery\, from 18th Sep tember - 13th January.\n\nPhotographers Stephanie Wynne and Stephanie Fawc ett worked with two groups\, Wirral Change and Tomorrow’s Women Wirral. The exhibition is formed of two projects. Another Language involved workin g with international women from Wirral Change\, many of whom have English as a second language. In this collaborative project\, photography is used as a tool to communicate across barriers\, through long call-and–respons e photo sequences that stretch across the gallery like unfurled rolls of f ilm.\n\nIn the Pink Room was produced with Tomorrow’s Women Wirral\, a s afe female-only environment. The women have varied interests and reasons f or attending the centre\; this is reflected in the work produced. Each par ticipant photographed or collected images of personal interest\, they then applied these images to masks. They chose masks to display their photogra phs because they felt that we all\, often\, have to disguise our true selv es. With the support and fellowship found at Tomorrow’s Women Wirral the y feel they’ve been helped to remove their masks.\n\nThe project with Gr anby Four Streets Community Land Trust features portraits of local residen ts in their homes or places of work. Photographers Andrew Jackson and mult i media artists Darryl Georgiou &\; Rebekah Tolley worked with the loca l communities to produce work that reflected daily life in Toxteth\, an ar ea that is looking forwards to a brightening future yet still in some ways dealing with the fallout of the infamous ‘81 riots. The work will be on show at the new Winter Garden space\, created following a commission to r enovate one of the area’s derelict houses.\n\nCulture Shifts: Local laun ches 5th October at Open Eye Gallery. A series of off-site exhibitions wil l also take place at spaces around the region. To find out more\, head her e. 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