Music For Sleeping
We recently staged a very special audiovisual event at St Helens Central Library as part of the ongoing Library of Dreams project. The show, entitled Music For Sleeping, featured animations, videos, sounds and spoken word recordings created by the public through a series of digital arts workshops at the library. The final presentation was a half hour long,...
Experiments in Time
At the last outing for a small cinema, there was a lovely selection of short films, one in particular Luminaris, got me thinking about trying some stop motion, which I’ve never really done seriously, just tinkered with. This film inspired me to look at it from the perspective of travelling light, so I’ve been waiting...
Liverpool Ships and Sailors
Although our Mapping and Memory project has close, we’ve kept in contact with some of the participants, particularly the group known as the ‘Retired Merchant Seafarers’. It turns out that the group used to run a website www.liverpoolsailorsandships.com where they had collected lots of stories and photographs and quite a large following. But, as happens,...
Pier Head Time Warp
The Pier Head Time Warp was an interactive video event by Re-Dock at the Museum of Liverpool on Saturday the 15th Oct. view full post »
Let’s go fly a kite…
Its been over a year since we started work on the Mapping Memory project, investigating peoples' experiences of Liverpool in the 1950's 60's and 70's. We were given a new perspective on our work by John Quirk, a former electrical engineer and avid kite photographer.
Swan Songs
The Swan Pedalo has had a busy few weeks. On 16 April she was launched upon the Duke’s Dock, next to the A;bert Dock. view full post »
Read, Write, Re-Imagine
In the last week before Christmas John, Sophie Bower and I, delivered a new course in Hume Manchester called ‘Read, Write, Re-imagine’ . The course focused on developing the facilitation skills of creative new media practitioners, so that they would be able to deliver top quality creative new media activities in Schools across the North...
