Hope Street, Liverpool

Via Blackburne House…

We’re busily gearing up for the start of all our brand new courses in September and we’re going to be having another open day to shout about how great they are on Wednesday 8th September 2010, 10.30 – 15.30. We’d love you to come.

At Blackburne House we’re always looking for new and exciting ways that we can transform women’s lives, whether that’s by providing a training course to help you get a promotion… in work or by supporting and inspiring you to get back into education after a break – building confidence and independence. Even in these times of uncertainty, we can help you to make that new start.

We would like to take this opportunity to invite you to our Open Day on Wednesday 8th September. It will be a day where you can come along and get some hands on experience of our courses and speak to the people who deliver them. Continue reading Blackburne House Open Day – 8 Sep 2010

Liverpool Daily Post – News – Liverpool News – New £28m Everyman theatre ‘for the 21st century’ gets the go ahead.

Good news! This story keeps popping up as people get nervous about funding. Seems it’s causing some delay but still going ahead.

Well worth a visit…

The Temple of a Thousand Bells at the Oratory | Liverpool Art and Culture Blog.

Open Culture.

Taking place on Sunday 19 September, the Hope Street Feast is a popular event, which attracts thousands of visitors every year: an ideal setting for our Piazza Arts Market.

Whether you are an experienced self-representing artist or just starting to get your work out there, it’s a good opportunity to see what reactions your work sparks and speak directly to your audience and other creatives at the event.

If you are unfamiliar with the Hope Street Feast see www.hopestreetfestival.com for details on last year’s event.

How to apply

BEFORE you apply PLEASE DOWNLOAD & READ the event information:

Download PDF – Piazza Art Market Stallholders Information

Download Word -  Piazza Art Market Stallholders Information

You can then apply using the online form at http://tiny.cc/PAM2010

Deadline for applications: Midnight, Thursday 26th August 2010

The fifth HOPE STREET FEAST will be held on Sunday 19th September 2010

(via facebook…)

The Hope Street Quarter will be closed to traffic and open to merriment from 5am until 10pm. As well as the huge Farmers’ Market running the length of Hope Street, and intermingled with stalls promoting Wealth and Hell Being (provided by the street theatre geniuses that are Hope Street Ltd) there will be musical performances including ~

* the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Vasily Petrenko
* the very wonderful voice of Najma Akhtar with Gary Lucas on guitar (yes, THE Gary Lucas of Beefheart’s Magic Band and of Jeff Buckley albums)
* Realword Records’ latest gem Syriana, including a live soundtrack to the films of Nico Piazza
* A sampler session for THE IRISH SEA SESSIONS which are convening later in the autumn, including Ian Prowse, Terry Coyne, Eimar McGowan
* John O’Connell
* Mike Neary
* Alex Berger

and plenty more yet to be announced. The Can’t Cook Domes, and the usual craft fair, will be at Blackburne House; the Liverpool Philharmonic Open Day will include hands-on music making sessions in the Rodewald Suite; the LIPA stage will be at the top of Mount Street; Roscoe Street will host a beer festival around the Roscoe Head pub; there will be an art market on the Metropolitan Cathedral Piazza; and there’ll be great food on offer throughout the site, from Hope Street’s many fine eateries and visiting stallholders, with dining areas on Mount Street, Falkner Street, Myrtle Street and close to the Everyman Bistro.

This is only a taste of what’s on the menu!

The full programme and timings will only be available on the day for £1 from stewards: please help support the event by buying a programme – everything else, apart from what you choose to eat and drink – is free. We’ll be announcing more details here in coming weeks. Please note that the childrens’ films at Liverpool Philharmonic will be during the afternoon this year, with the Orchestra’s open rehearsal and performances earlier in the day.

TELL EVERYONE!

Artwork of the Week – Alice Lenkiewicz | Liverpool Art and Culture Blog.

Liverpool artwork of the week 2010-31. ‘Agnes Jones: Past and Future’ by Alice Lenkiewicz in Noble Women at Liverpool Cathedral 2-27 August 2010.

The Lady Chapel was the first part of Liverpool Anglican Cathedral to be consecrated for worship and is 100 years old this year. Although probably bigger than most churches it can easily be missed by visitors as it is hidden away in a corner of the vast Cathedral. It’s a fascinating place with portrait windows of Noble Women on the West wall of the Chapel. Restored after the Second World War they show women from different areas of life, including some local heroes like Kitty Wilkinson – helper of the poor – and Agnes Jones – a devoted nurse – as well as nationally known figures such as Grace Darling, Elizabeth Fry and Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

These were all incredible, brave, pioneering, radical women whose stories need to be told so it is great that artist Alice Lenkiewicz who lives within walking distance of the Cathedral has chosen to paint 6 Noble Women and the works will be in the Chapel throughout August. The paintings are quite narrative but do not dwell too much on the darker side of the life these women had to tolerate rather showing their brightness, heroism and beauty.

“I decided to create a painting of Agnes Jones 1865 aged 33.
In this painting I wanted to show the contrast of past and future in the life of Agnes Jones.
The story of her life surprised me and I found myself creating a symbolic painting inspired by South American folklore painting.“  Alice Lenkiewicz from her Noble Women Blog

Noble Women Exhibition
in the Lady Chapel at Liverpool Cathedral
2 – 27th August 2010
Paintings by Alice Lenkiewicz. A solo exhibiton of oil paintings depicting six pioneer women from the Noble Windows of the Lady Chapel: Grace Darling, Kitty Wilkinson, Agnes Jones, Elizabeth Fry, Josephine Butler and Christina Rossetti.

Liverpool Daily Post – News – Liverpool News – Hope Street honey beekeeping project launches in Liverpool.

VOLUNTEERS are turning the roof of a city centre institution into a haven for honey bees.

Ladies from Liverpool Central WI have trained as beekeepers to tend to an apiary housing the 40,000 honey bees now residing on the roof of Blackburne House.

The women are hoping to halt the decline of bees in Merseyside – but they also plan to make their Hope Street Honey enterprise pay.

Gary Manning, restaurateur and owner of 60 Hope Street, has already pledged to purchase the honey for his three city centre restaurants.

In the long-term, the honey and related products from the hives will be sold and the profits used to support the education activities of Blackburne House.

More photos on the artinliverpool blog…

Photoblog: Liverpool Brazilian Carnival 2010 | Liverpool Art and Culture Blog.

Not a huge amount of detail but you can see some drawings and a model of the proposed New Everyman Theatre in the ground floor cafe area at the moment.

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