This week’s Culture Radar guest the Artistic Director and CEO of Liverpool Irish Festival, Emma Smith.
Loved: I certainly jumped at the gunshots — and laughed hard at Cameron McKendrink’s ‘drip-of-shame’ jeans, before he got covered in gunk — in The Lieutenant of Inishmore at The Everyman. I took the Brickworks exhibit at Tate Liverpool + RIBA North a little more seriously (on ’til January and well worth a look)!
Looking forward to: I’m not really allowed to say the Liverpool Irish Festival (17-27 Oct) am I? That covered, John Grant at The Philharmonic and The People’s Pyramid/Day of the Dead have both been in my diary for some time. No doubt the city’s River of Light will draw plenty of people down to the waterfront, too. Being from Leicester originally, I am a bit of a sucker for Diwali.
Trivia: People who know me well know: I love nothing more that getting in to a pottery class (Lark Lane and Altar Pottery are both brilliant) and making a mess of myself. I throw pots mainly and have not long completed a collection plate for the Liverpool Irish Famine memorial. If I don’t go for a while I start to miss the clay!