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GET
YOUR GUIDE TO LIVERPOOL '08
THE 202 page
publication, which charts the city’s year-long programme, is
available for £5 at Liverpool's tourist information centres as well
as Marks and Spencer’s outlets across the North West of England. It
will also be stocked at St George's Heritage Centre and the official
Liverpool FC store in Liverpool city centre.
More than 350 events including many World, European and UK premieres
are highlighted in the guide, complete with listings information,
maps and a detailed five-page calendar.
The guide takes a thematic and chronological approach to ‘08 with
sections on Music, Literature, Art, Streets, Stage, Participation,
Conversation, Sport and Exploring. There is also a section on the
cultural offer of Merseyside and North West in 2008.
Councillor Warren Bradley, Leader of Liverpool City Council and
Deputy Chairman of Liverpool Culture Company, said:-
"Liverpool’s year as the UK’s European Capital of Culture is of a
scale that has never been attempted before. To see it all in one
publication makes for a terrific read and should fill everyone
involved with pride."
Bryan Gray, Chairman of Liverpool Culture Company, said:- "The
guide to Liverpool ’08 is easy to read and provides everything you
would wish to know about what, when and where the city has in store.
The creativity of the city shines out of every page and underlines
the partnerships and sheer hard work among thousands of people to
deliver this amazing programme."
Phil Redmond, Creative Director and Deputy Chairman of Liverpool
Culture Company, said:- "This guide is the perfect way for
people to navigate 2008 and is a great memento of what will be a
momentous year. It also illustrates the ambition of Liverpool’s
cultural offer – including what the city already does on annual
basis. As its says at the start, Liverpool ‘08 will be a year like
no other."
The official guide to the European Capital of Culture 2008, which
was designed by Liverpool company Finch, is part of a family of
publications. The Liverpool Culture Company is also producing free,
four seasonal guides.
Formby Range High School Carol Concert
By C. Trollope
IT was on a
cold December night, on Tuesday 20 December 2007, that I had
the pleasure to attend, once more, the Formby Range High School's
Annual Carol Concert. The school has a very high reputation for its
concerts and the ability of its pupils. The evening was the usual
exciting and entertaining venue at what many would call professional
in standard; I would definitely fully agree with those sentiments.
It took place, with the kind permission of the vicar, Reverent
Jones, in Holy Trinity Church. It is the largest one in Formby, and
it was packed. No one was disappointed. The Music Staff in
conjunction with the RE Department were mainly in control of the
proceedings, which had been jointly planned by the Religious and
Music Departments of the School. As St Luke's Church, which is the
parish in which the school is situated, is in an inter-regnum, a
Reader, Ann Dixon, led the prayers. The well balanced choirs, which
were enormous, sang clearly, with expression, some very taxing carol
arrangements accompanied by the school's orchestra, a piano or a
guitar. The readings were excellently and clearly executed by
pupils, staff and a governor. The Service of Christmas worship
flowed freely without any announcements after an introduction by the
Headteacher, Mrs Mo Miller.
One of the many
exciting points about the concert was the fact that there were boys
singing in the choirs in addition to the well balanced religious
theme which was running through the whole of the proceedings.
The evening's worship
concluded with the congregation singing the much loved carol
"O Come All Ye Faithful" after the prayers and blessing.
It was an inspiring evening of worship with a good mix of
participation for everyone. Well done the Pupils, and Staff. |
LIVERPOOL 08 ARRIVES IN FREMANTLE FOR FESTIVE STOPOVER
LIVERPOOL'S
Pizza Express restaurant on Victoria Street, on 18 December 2007 had
been invaded by sculptures of the Coliseum, the Pope and the Spanish
Steps, created by experimental artist Prudence Emma Staite.
The models where made of enough dough to
cook 500 PizzaExpress Romana pizzas. If you can not think of how big
that is, that is a third of a tonne of dough! They where all baked
and moulded by hand and fixed together using cheese as cement. The
restaurant’s latest additions where on display to the public up to
21 December 2007.
A spokesperson at Pizza Express, said:- “To launch our new
Roman menu, PizzaExpress wanted something unique and innovative to
get the customers excited.”
The detailed creations took Prudence almost 300 hours to construct,
using the dough, much like a potter shapes clay. The sculpture of
The Pope was a life-sized embodiment, the bust standing three feet
high. The Coliseum followed a floor plan of the famous Roman tourist
hotspot and included the exact number of dough arches as the
original. The Spanish Steps included reproductions of each of the
landmark’s 138 steps.
Prudence, one of only a handful of food
artists worldwide, and the only one whose studio is in the middle of
a working farm, explains:- “Everyone thinks I’ve gone utterly
bonkers – even the animals are giving me dodgy looks! O
ne minute I was enjoying a meal at
my local PizzaExpress, the next, I was asking the manager to pack up
my pizza so I could take it home to play with.
And boy how I
enjoyed it! Maybe it’s too much country air, but from nowhere I’d
acquired a true taste for all things Rome – so what better way to
feed my new found addiction by combining the two things l love most,
art and food.” |
