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Tell Us How We’re Doing!

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Mary
on November 15, 2010
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Below are two surveys which allow you to have your say about how Liverpool Biennial as well as Liverpool cultural organisations in general are doing.

To help Liverpool Biennial assess our efforts, click here.  The survey only takes about 5 minutes and will help shape the 2012 Festival.

Liverpool Biennial is working with 7 other cultural venues in the city to promote great things to do for families and children. We’d really like your opinions on a few things to help inform this activity, and would ask you to answer a few questions. There are no prizes to offer you – just the knowledge that you’ll be helping us to make Liverpool the best city in the UK in which to grow up.

All your responses will, of course, be treated confidentially. If you’ve received the second survey from more than one Liverpool organisation, and have already completed the survey, please feel free to ignore this request.

An Important Notice About Opening Times

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Mary
on November 15, 2010
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Due to the clocks going back, all public realm sites (i.e. none gallery/Rapid) will be closing at 5pm everyday.  The Visitor Centre and exhibitions at Rapid/52 Renshaw Street will remain open unil 6pm everyday.  Please check the opening times and dates of the galleries you wish to visit in order to plan which days to come.  Tate Liverpool and A Foundation, for instance, are not open on Mondays.

Below are the opening times of each venue including <City States> at the C.U.C. and John Moores Painting Prize at the Walker:

Tate Liverpool

A Foundation – Tuesday to Sunday 12 noon – 6pm

Open Eye

FACT

Contemporary Urban Centre

The Bluecoat

The Walker

Please note that SQUAT Liverpool and The Cooperative, which have multiple venues, have more limited opening times.

Weekend Guide 8-10 October

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Mary
on October 8, 2010
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There are many events going on this weekend, so make the most of your time in Liverpool City Centre!  Most of these events are FREE but booking may be required.  Details below.

8 – 14 October:
Aurélien Froment – Pulmo Marina – Short film screening with the film A Town Called Panic (dir. Stéphane Aubier and Vincent Patar).  Book through FACT

8 and 9 October:
Screenings of Karl-Heinz Klopf’s new film – They – Saturday 12-5pm on the hour, Sunday 12-3pm on the hour.  Enjoy Karl-Heinz’s journeys in North Liverpool – what makes a community?  FREE no booking required – in the Contemporary Urban Centre

9 and 10 October:
Wolf Stenciling in the Visitor Centre – Like Carlos Amorales’s graphic wolves?  Want one on your shirt/bag/anything?  Come to the Visitor Centre on Saturday and Sunday to stencil whatever you want for only £2 a person.  We’ll provide fabric safe spraypaint and the stencils.

9 October
Curator’s Exhibition Tour – the Bluecoat’s Sara-Jayne Parsons – A FREE tour around the Bluecoat with the head curator, Sara-Jayne Parsons.  Get the inside story on all of the Bluecoat’s exhibitions.  For tickets, contact the Bluecoat
The Innovasion – Alternate Reality Game – Get immersed in a new world through this Live Action Role Play (LARP) Game.  Strange things are happening at the Biennial – and you (or a group) can be part of it!  Book online, or buy a ticket at the Visitor Centre before 9am Saturday morning.  You will be given further instructions and the game begins!
Liverpool Live Event – Bed-In at the Bluecoat - Saturday would have been John Lennon’s 70th birthday and 9 December is thirty years since his assassination. The Bluecoat marks these anniversaries by recreating John and Yoko’s famous 1969 peace protest. Each day a bed in our Hub will host a new action by performers, artists and others – selected from an open call – for a better world. FREE no booking required.
Art Mediator Tours | Neil Winterburn – Neil Winterburn is an artist who works with people to construct games, systems, and activities that manifest ideas, memories and emotions, in social spaces.  The Open Eyed Meditation Tour will combine traditional aspects of gallery tours, with discussions and a series of playful guided meditations, that help us look at the exhibition differently. FREE but booking is essential

10 October:
EarlySundays Tour with Eleanor Rees – Eleanor Rees, writer and poet, will take you on a take a poetic experience as she responds to the theme and exhibition of Touched.  FREE but booking is essential
Art Mediator Tours | Sophie Bower- Art Mediator tours are opportunities to see selected art works, focussing on 52 Renshaw Street on a tour led by a trained art mediator. Each tour will reflect the personality and interests of the mediator.  FREE but booking is essential

Exploring City States 2010

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Alistair Beech
on September 13, 2010
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Happy Monday everyone. We’re extremely excited in the office about opening the doors to Liverpool Biennial 2010 in five days time. Whilst we apply the finishing touches this week, there will be regular blogs previews of key 2010 projects as well as behind the scenes insights from the Biennial team.

Today’s preview takes in City States 2010…

What is it?

City States is a new collaboration between Novas Scarman Contemporary Urban Centre Liverpool and Liverpool Biennial for the 2010 Biennial festival. The Grade II listed warehouse has been converted to be a vibrant cultural and community centre at the heart of the Baltic Triangle, including a restaurant, café, bar, cinema, conference facilities and performance and gallery space.

Who is exhibiting?

We are delighted to welcome seven art groups from around the globe to CUC to showcase their work. They include Future Movements (Jerusalem),  City Without Walls (Vilinus), Three Movements (The Caribbean), The Nordic Pavilion (Scandinavia), Tactful Rituals (Québec City), Media Landscape (Zone East), and They (Karl-Heinz Klopf).

What can we expect?

We’ll hand over to Biennial programme director Paul Domela to explain more:

When and where?

City States is open from 18th September to 28th November at CUC, 41-51 Greenland Street L1 0BS from 11am – 6pm (Tuesday-Saturday) and 11am-4pm on Sunday. Entry is FREE.

Follow City States 2010 activity through the Twitter hashtag #CityStates and the Biennial blog.

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