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Southport Reporter® covering the news on Merseyside.

Date:- 04 June 2007

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Celebrate on 20/08

THE Liverpool Culture Company is asking local organisations and businesses to help celebrate the
city’s European Capital of Culture status.

Each year on 20 August – 20/08 – groups across the region are encouraged to celebrate Liverpool’s 08 success by making an ‘offer’ for the day. An offer can take the form of free or discounted entrance, or a special event or promotion.

Last year 20/08 day included hundreds of offers. People were given the chance to sample a huge selection of activities – from free lessons in rock climbing to taking an exclusive behind the scenes tour of a brewery, free CD loans from local libraries to discounted dining in city centre restaurants.

Councillor Warren Bradley, Leader of Liverpool City Council said:- “This will be the fifth year that we have celebrated 20/08 and the event has gone from strength to strength.

Last year’s celebrations had something for everyone, allowing thousands of people to sample a whole range of activities and I’d like to make this year’s celebrations even more successful.

There are so many things to see and do in the city - 20/08 is a chance to celebrate to find out exactly why we won Capital of Culture in the first place.

I’m appealing to organisations and businesses across the city – large and small – to think about what they can do to contribute to 20/08 this year.”


August 20 will also mark the 2nd birthday of the 08 Place – Liverpool’s one stop culture shop. The Whitechapel store opened its doors for the first time on 20/08 day in 2005.

It’s really easy for groups, businesses, or organisations to get involved in 20/08, they just need to visit www.liverpool08.com and complete the special 20/08 form. All offers will appear on the website and in a 20/08 day brochure, which is distributed to venues across the city.

The deadline for offers is Friday, 22 July 2007.

EU TRANSPLANT HOPE FOR SOUTHPORT PATIENTS

THIS year’s Southport Jazz Festival has been hailed as a huge success. Despite all the competition from lots of events throughout Merseyside over the weekend, the event has attracted an estimated 25 thousand visitors to the town.

The event which has been held over 31 May to 3 June 2007, took in not only four days and four nights but also twenty five venues with sixty five performances and over one hundred and seventy five artists. We took a quick look on Sunday at what was on offer, calling in to see the Fatchops at the Arts Centre, in the afternoon. Then we went to hear a regular to the event, the Tom Sykes Trio, who played in the Wayfarers Arcade. Eve, in Lloyds bar put on a stunning performance.

After a break till 8pm, we were off to see the Annie Long Duo at the Fifty One, followed by a quick stop at the Arts Centre to see the Zappatistas.

A fantastic helping of jazz at the Royal Clifton Hotel with the local big band, Liane Carroll and the Swingshift Big Band continued our tour. To round off the night we popped under Southport’s TIC, into the bar called Core, to see the Dave Roberts Duo.

Our editor was disappointed that he could not see more of this year’s event and cannot wait now to next year’s. One of the Sefton Tourism officers said:- "It has been a fantastic event. It is hard tosay how many people have come, but it has had a huge impact on the town yet again. We hope that next year we can get more venues on board as it will be a fantastic addition to Liverpool08 and that should help numbers of visitors to climb even higher still."

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