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:122@artinliverpool.com DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20150806T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20150806T180000 DTSTAMP:20150731T102143Z URL:https://www.artinliverpool.com/events/panel-discussion-on-migration-me mory/ SUMMARY:Open Eye Gallery: Panel Discussion on Migration & Memory DESCRIPTION:From 18.00\nFREE\nThis event is partnered with Out of the Archi ve\, currently on display at Kirkby Gallery. More information HERE.\n\nA p anel discussion with questions – chaired by John Davies. The panel will be made up of speakers who deal with both Migration and Memory. These two topics cover very different themes but both reflect the historic changes t o our perceptions of culture.\nWith Peter Hagerty\, Alix Davies &\; Mel Lyons.\nEach speaker will give a short presentation and then open to ques tions chaired by John Davies.\n \nPeter Hagerty talks about the histori c changes in photo practice and memory - a migration from analogue to digi tal.\nPeter was the first director of the Open Eye Gallery and has publish ed many articles on photography as well as the impact of digital culture  and virtual worlds.\n\nAlix Davies talks about the historical political c ontext of Bert Hardy's photos of Liverpool's black communities first publi shed in the Picture Post Magazine in 1949 (featured in the 'Out of the Arc hive' exhibition).\nAlix is a history scholar whose original research inve stigates colonial representation in British culture from 1949-51. She curr ently works at Lancaster University as Engagement Manager for Live at LICA .\n\nMel Lyons talks about the double edged sword of digital media when i nvestigating migration and cultural heritage.\nMel works for Liverpool's  Bling TV as an investigating journalist and has an interest in local commu nities and politics.\nMigration\n\nThe theme of migration is a wide-rangin g subject and is partly reflected in the content in the ‘Out of the Arch ive’ exhibition. Migrant photographers in the exhibition such as Vanley Burke\, Michelle Sank\, Chris Steele-Perkins and Tom Wood have all integra ted into as well as contributing to Britain culture.\n\nHistorically\, mig ration has been an important element in the growth of Liverpool and has co ntributed to the life and culture of the city. The 1949 photographs of the British Black communities and musicians in Liverpool by Bert Hardy is a s tarting point to investigate the cultural influences of migration.\n\nMemo ry\n\nPeter Hagerty reflects on the changes in photography since the days when he was the first director of the Open Eye Gallery:\n\n‘Its been mor e than thirty five years since the Open Eye Gallery first opened its doors and we can look back to a time when water and silver were essential eleme nts in the craft of classical photography and working in the dark room was the only way to make a photographic print.\n\nAlongside this we have witn essed a massive cultural shift in the use of photographic images\, the dem ise of the professional photographer and the rise of a self-authored media space\, which embraces the trivial alongside the revolutionary. There are also the stellar dollar values photographs as art objects can achieve\, i t’s all such a contrast with my memories of the late nineteen seventies when The Tate gallery eschewed the showing of photographs by photographers \; today photography seems to be all the rage’.\n\nBooking is not requir ed. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.artinliverpool.com/wp-content/upload s/2015/07/open-eye-panel.jpg LOCATION:Open Eye Gallery\, Mann Island\, Liverpool Waterfront\, Liverpool\ , L3 1BP\, Liverpool\, United Kingdom GEO:53.40423;-2.994412 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Mann Island\, Liverpool Wat erfront\, Liverpool\, L3 1BP\, Liverpool\, United Kingdom;X-APPLE-RADIUS=1 00;X-TITLE=Open Eye Gallery:geo:53.40423,-2.994412 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20150329T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR