Graham House Project
Last month, I did a three weeks research in London working with artists Mark Whitelaw and Robin Whitmore on a potential Duckie project with Graham House, a homeless hostel for chronic alcoholics in Vauxhall, London, looking at residents lives and looking at routes into recovery. Duckie has a regular performance night with at the Vauxhall Tavern,...
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,...
Project Triangle
In September 2009, 12 young Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender people from Merseyside took part in a five-day cultural exchange trip to Auschwitz and Warsaw working with a group of young Polish LGB & T people from the Campaign Against Homophobia (KPH). The exchange provided the group with an appreciation of the Holocaust and fate...
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. We were asked by the Museum of Liverpool to run an activity that would get people working creatively with archive video, so we invented a time machine. This time machine was in reality,...
Swan Pedalo Broadcasts At FON
On Wednesday night I travelled from Liverpool to Barrow with John O’Shea and Dave Lynch to help set up and run a radio station on a pedalo. Our home became Lanternhouse in Ulverston and our base of operations was Barrow Park’s Piel House, which constantly buzzed with music and activity. We were joined by fellow Liverpool artists...
Electric Cinema, Birmingham
END OF CINEMA? Last week I went to the Electric Cinema in Birmingham to attend a seminar on the Digital Funding Partnership – a scheme to allow independent cinemas to get on board the ‘digital revolution’. It seemed to me to be both a revolution and an apocalypse, depending if your cinema survived. Either way,...
The Signs Are All There…
We have just started work on another Re-Dock project involving the Leeds-Liverpool canal. Building on the work we did for Canal &, we are using the memories and ideas gathered as a starting point for a signage installation next to the new Pennington Road bridge. ‘Constellation Of Signs‘ will be made of over 100 aluminium...
Rotunda Cinema
On Monday we had the first ever Rotunda cinema at the Lee Jones centre in Kirkdale. Over 40 pensioners and guests came and enjoyed the screening, developed and hosted by the young people from Rotunda college. We had adverts for local places of interest, trailers for classic films such as ‘The Quiet Man’, the ABC...
From Rotunda With Love
After 3 workshops with young people from Rotunda college and the ‘young’ people from the Lee Jones Centre, we are proud to announce: A Small Cinema at the League of Welldoers! “From Rotunda With Love” will feature several short films by local film-makers on a variety of issues, chosen by the young people for the...
Where Do You Go?
As part of the Make Your Own Liverpool project myself and John worked on in April, the young people added places that they went in Liverpool. This city-scape lacked a Liver Building, but had no shortage of McDonalds and Primarks.
