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Made
in Liverpool 06
FOLLOWING on from the success of Made in Liverpool 04,
Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool Culture Company and the Scarman Trust
are working together on the development of Made in Liverpool 06,
which this year has the theme Beneath the Skin of the City.
A call for submissions has been made (24 April 2006) to local
filmmakers. The organisers are looking for films by 7 July 2006,
that specifically respond to how Liverpool is changing, exposing the
energy of a city in transition through the medium of moving image.
Funded by The Culture Company, as part of The Creative Communities
Programme, Made in Liverpool 06 is part of the artistic programme,
City in Transition. While tearing down the old and building up the
new is part and parcel of all cities, the pace of regeneration in
Liverpool is so fast that its citizens can be forgiven for finding
it overwhelming. The Culture Company presents a series of events
throughout 2006, making connections between the arts, architecture
and urban development. The programme will stimulate debate from all
sectors of the community, developing into an on-going programme of
events in 2007 and 2008 to leave a lasting legacy.
Made in Liverpool 04 was a series of locally made films that were
screened as part of the last Liverpool Biennial. This new project
creates an opportunity for local filmmakers to describe the
experience of living through the city’s significant changes and
provide a platform for these voices to be heard during Liverpool
Biennial 2006.
Selected films will be shown on the BBC Big Screen during the
opening weekend of Liverpool Biennial (15-17 September 2006) before
going on a tour of the seven Liverpool neighbourhood areas.
Celebrations will also include a special screening event and awards
ceremony.
Artists and established filmmakers Desperate Optimists have already
been commissioned to make a film for Made in Liverpool 06, which
involves the community groups in the process. The film is in
response to, and celebrates the Around the City in 80 Days projects,
which took place in Liverpool in 2005. Over the last 2½ years,
Desperate Optimists have been working on a project called Civic
Life. One of Civic Life’s main aims is to work closely with local
community groups and make short single take films for the cinema,
shot on 35mm cinemascope. This new commission is an opportunity to
create a major artwork, while developing new and innovative
approaches to presenting art in unexpected settings in response to
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BOMBED OUT CHURCH RELIVES IT’S PAST
WIRRAL young people give their interpretation of eye
witness accounts of the Blitz, inside Liverpool’s ‘Bombed Out
Church’. St Luke’s Church is normally closed to the public,
bit it will throw open its doors for free performances by Wirral
Youth Theatre on Monday May 1.
“Living With History”, staged in partnership with Urban
Strawberry Lunch is the latest event to take place at St Luke’s as
part of the FINEST HOUR SOUND ARCHIVE established by USL in 2003.
Ambrose Reynolds, Artistic Director of Urban Strawberry Lunch said:-
“65 years ago St Luke’s was partially destroyed by an
incendiary bomb during seven days and nights of continuous bombing,
and has since stood as an unofficial monument to the resilience of
the people who fought from the Merseyside Home Front. “Living
with History” will provide a rare and exciting opportunity to see
this spectacular building used as a setting to bring the blitz
alive."
Caron Drucker, Head of Wirral Youth Theatre added:- “Living
With History will use dance, music and drama to tell the true life
stories of ordinary people in Merseyside who recalled the days the
nights and days of terror spent in air raid shelters, under the
kitchen table or facing machine gun fire from enemy planes on the
streets of Liverpool and Birkenhead.”
The performance, supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund, will take
place at 7.40pm and 9pm on Monday 1 May 2006 at St
Luke’s Church, Leece Street, Liverpool.
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