Events > Visual Arts
 |
New ends, old beginnings
the Bluecoat, daily, 10.00am - 6.00pm.
Open Eye Gallery, Tuesday - Saturday: 10.30am - 5.30pm. Closed Sunday - Monday
the Bluecoat and Open Eye Gallery
Sat 12 July - Wed 3 September
Free
Image: Hrair Sarkissian - Untitled ('Unfinished' series), 2007
Courtesy of Kalfayan Galleries, Athens-Thessaloniki
Can Altay, Ziad Antar, Lara Baladi, Cevdet Erek, Tarek Al Ghoussein, Chourouk Hriech, Randa Mirza, Michael Rakowitz, Hrair Sarkissian, Sharif Waked and Tarek Zaki.
The diverse cities of the Arab region include sites of ancient civilisation, as well as some of the most youthful urban establishments in the world. Their heritage and contemporary culture are varied and complex. While cities such as Baghdad struggle to protect their museums and architectural heritage, others like Abu Dhabi are in the early stages of promoting a new urban cultural legacy by creating a space for the arts from scratch.
New Ends, Old Beginnings investigates the Arab region through artists' responses to local and everyday culture, a perspective that the world's media often overlooks or avoids making visible.
Comprised of photography, video, sculptural installation and performance, New Ends, Old Beginnings is curated by November Paynter and produced in partnership between the Bluecoat, Open Eye Gallery and Zenith Foundation. Funding has been provided by the Arts Council England, Liverpool City Council, Liverpool Culture Company, Esmeé Fairbairn Foundation and the Henry Moore Foundation.
For more information about the exhibition at the Bluecoat visit www.thebluecoat.org.uk or call 0151 702 5324.
For more information about the exhibition at Open Eye visit www.openeye.org.uk or call 0151 709 9460
Explore
Everyday
10.00am - 6.00pm the Bluecoat
Selection box of activities
Available from Tickets and Information at the Bluecoat
Free
A £5 returnable deposit is payable for an explore tin
A series of fun family activities to do while you explore the New Ends, Old Beginnings exhibition, the garden and the rest of the Bluecoat. Learn along the way with creative experiments and find new ways of learning together.
Your 'selection box' will contain 6 activities hand picked by the participation team at the Bluecoat, with something for everyone.
Explore in the Garden Room
Every Sunday
12.00pm - 4.00pm
Pic 'n' mix
Fill an explore tin with the perfect pic 'n' mix of activities for your family. Go and explore, then come back and make some art of your own with help from the staff.
There will be specially designed activities relating to Liverpool Arabic Arts Festival during the festival period, free for all the family to join in.
Superlambanana
Throughout June, July and August
Shine at the Bluecoat
with Yorkshire Bank
Shine is a changing monthly creative activity available to all who visit the Bluecoat or www.shineatthebluecoat.org.uk. 11 - 16 years olds who take part are eligible to enter the monthly competition. In April, the Shine challenge was to design an Arabic inspired Superlambanana. The winning entrants took part in a design masterclass and their giant Liverpool Arabic Arts Festival inspired Superlambanana is being exhibited in the Bluecoat front courtyard as part of the Go Superlambananas trail.
For more information visit www.shineatthebluecoat.org.uk or call Tickets and Information 0151 702 5324
Coal Frankincense and Myrrh: Yemen and British Yemenis
The Picton Reading Room, Central Library
Fri 11 July - Sun 27 July, Monday - Friday 9.00am to 6.00pm, Saturday 9.00am to 5.00pm, Sunday 12.00pm to 4.00pm
Exhibition
Free
Tim Smith
An exhibition of Tim Smith's photographs of Yemeni communities in Liverpool, South Wales and Sheffield during the early 1980s, photographs in Yemen between 2005 and 2007 and work being carried out amongst Yemeni communities in Britain today. Introductory texts, maps and extracts from oral history interviews accompany the photographs.
e-space lab
Fri 11 - Mon 14 July, 10.00am - 6.00pm
What's happening in Damascus and Liverpool right now?
the Bluecoat
Free
e-space lab is a public art laboratory, using digital technology and the world wide web to connect with Merseyside's sister cities of Shanghai and Gdansk. For the festival it is extending its global links to Damascus, this year's Arab Capital of Culture.
For four days in the Hub at the Bluecoat anyone can explore connections between Liverpool and Damascus, using live video links, blogs, e-mails and mobile phone generated images.
The project will generate a dialogue between citizens and communities in these two cultural centres, and help us see how change to our urban and social fabric is happening at a local and global level.
