Event type: Talk

Ignite Liverpool- One more time #44

Fast paced talks designed to inspire – 6pm – 27th April upstairs at Leaf on Bold Street.

Now in its 12th year, Ignite LIverpool has been delivering events jam packed with inspiration since 2010 on a super wide range of subjects.

Anybody and everybody can give an Ignite talk, in fact that is what makes this event so special. Our 44th event has 12 speakers talking on subjects as diverse as Dementia, Music, Happiness, Foster Carers and Surfing Tankers.

These ideas and stories are conveyed by self nominated members of the public – in fact people just like you.

So head along and Ignite your fire! With 100’s of talks at Ignite over the years like…..

Longevity, Wimpey Restaurants, The Joy of Jogging, The river Mersey, Love, being a brain surgeon, How the internet has ruined everything, How to plan the perfect murder, systems modelling, the dark side of the universe, 0 + 0 = ? Or Much Ado About Nothing, Shah Rukh Khan is stealing my wife, 12 things you probably didn’t know about Ukraine – to name a few

Find out more: https://igniteliverpool.com/2022/04/ignite-one-more-time/

Book: https://igniteliverpool.com/book-tickets-for-ignite-liverpool/

The Mystery of Consciousness

Join the world’s leading philosophers of mind for an evening of lively debate and discussion.

‘How is it, exactly, that the brain’s 86 billion neurons give rise to conscious experience? As we’ll see, our answer to this question will not only shape our understanding of the human mind, but the fabric of reality itself.’ – Jack Symes

There is nothing more familiar to us than our conscious experience. However, understanding the origin and nature of consciousness might well be the greatest scientific challenge of our time.

Join some of the world’s most influential philosophers and scientists for an evening of lively debate and discussion on the mystery of consciousness.

Hosted by the team behind The Panpsycast, this event will feature Olly Marley in conversation with Rowan Williams, Jack Symes, Anil Seth, Laura Gow and Philip Goff. ‘The Mystery of Consciousness’ will also include an audience Q&A, live music, and author meet-and-greets.

Artist Talk and Q&A: Zinzi Minott

Join exhibiting artist Zinzi Minott in conversation with Maitreyi Maheshwari, Head of Programme at FACT, as they unpack Zinzi’s practice and discuss her new commissioned artwork. This artist talk will include a Q&A.

Since 2018, artist and dancer Zinzi Minott (UK) has released a new version of her annual series Fi Dem. These moving-image works explore both the histories of the Windrush Generation, and broader histories and experiences of Blackness, migration, and living in the diaspora.

Each iteration is a visual manifestation of a year lived: lives moved and moving. Within Let the Song Hold Us, we present the 2022 instalment: Fi Dem V – A Redemptive Song, developed in response to Liverpool.

Focusing on the city’s Caribbean community, Minott explores Liverpool’s history as a port and its part in the Atlantic slave trade, as well as amplifying the current struggles of Merseyside’s Windrush community.

Moments of dance, celebration and joy are contrasted and glitched with archival footage of the arrival of the Windrush generation, and discussion around the uncertain future of a community Caribbean Centre – highlighting the precarity perpetuated by political and civic systems in the UK.

Write the Future: Music Technology Con...

Conference for local musicians, creatives and industry execs; focusing on the exciting emerging technologies transforming the industry.

Influential creatives from across the UK are coming to Liverpool to take part in this conference; which explores the innovation and technologies that are transforming the music industry and creating immersive music experiences for fans.

The event will cover: Immersive technology including Virtual Reality, Spatial Audio, Artificial Intelligence, Augmented Reality, Music Marketing Best Practice and the road ahead for connected experiences.

As well as speaker presentations and demonstrations, there will be a Q&A session giving delegates an opportunity to ask the experts.

Conference line-up includes:

  • Jane Kinnard, Creative Shop at Meta: Providing ‘An introduction to music and the metaverse’
  • Representatives of Meta including: Ali Proctor Walsh, Producer, Creative Shop at Meta; Vanessa Bakewell, Global client Partner, Music & Movies at Meta and Natalie Kelly, Global Client Solutions Manager at Meta: Presenting a deep dive into various music case studies and use of AI, AR and VR.
  • Dawn Paine (ex CMO at Nintendo & Universal Pictures) and Valerie Bounds (Award winning digital strategy lead for 25 years) Co-founders of Aurora. They will be talking about the ‘Convergence of music, gaming, film and tech in 2022 and the road ahead.’
  • Sam Wiehl, Visual Artist: Explaining their real-time visualisation collaborations with artists including Ladytron and Mogwai, and his work in innovative audience experience with events like Psychfest (a festival of art, tech and music).
  • Phil Charnock, Draw and Code: Discussing their immersive technology work in the music industry, including augmented reality projects with Pink Floyd, Sony and more.
  • Garry Heywood, Kinicho: Showcasing their pioneering work in spatial sound experiences and software

More information about the speakers and their presentations will be revealed shortly.

Concrete Thoughts: Lynsey Hanley, John...

Two acclaimed writers on architecture and society, John Grindrod and Owen Hatherley, will join author and journalist Lynsey Hanley, at this in conversation event exploring the legacy of modernist architecture.

The writers will explore and compare modernism and some of the more recent architectural movements of the last 20 years and what effect these ideas have on how we use and feel in the built environments around us.

Grindrod’s Iconicon and Hatherley’s Modern Buildings in Britain are new key texts exploring some of Britain’s most iconic and distinctive modern and contemporary buildings.

Queer Liverpool – Then and Now

To celebrate Cherry Jezebel, Everyman have partnered with Homotopia – the UK’s longest running LGBTQIA arts and cultural festival – for a very special event charting the evolution of queer culture and the drag scene in Liverpool.

Homotopia has put together an inter-generational panel of speakers to chat about LGBTQIA life past and present, looking at the influence of drag, club culture and trans histories.

Panellists include Roger Hill and Dan Chan, plus more to be announced soon. Chaired by Char Binns, Festival Director at Homotopia.

No ticket necessary, just turn up to the Everyman at 4pm on Saturday 19 March.

An evening with Val McDermid in-conver...

Join Waterstones Liverpool ONE for an evening with bestselling crime authors Val McDermid in-conversation with Luca Veste.

Val McDermid – 1979

This is the atmospheric, heart-pounding first novel in a gripping new series by the Queen of Crime, Val McDermid.

The shadows hide a deadly story …

1979. It is the winter of discontent, and reporter Allie Burns is chasing her first big scoop. There are few women in the newsroom and she needs something explosive for the boys’ club to take her seriously.

Soon Allie and fellow journalist Danny Sullivan are exposing the criminal underbelly of respectable Scotland. They risk making powerful enemies – and Allie won’t stop there.

When she discovers a home-grown terrorist threat, Allie comes up with a plan to infiltrate the group and make her name. But she’s a woman in a man’s world … and putting a foot wrong could be fatal.

Luca Veste – You Never Said Goodbye

A DEVOTED MOTHER

Sam Cooper has a happy life: a good job, a blossoming relationship. Yet, there’s something he can never forget – the image seared into his mind of his mother, Laurie, dying when he was a child. His father allowed his grief to tear them apart and Sam hasn’t seen him in years.

A LOVING WIFE

Until an unexpected call from Firwood hospital, asking Sam to come home, puts in motion a chain of devastating events. On his deathbed, Sam’s father makes a shocking confession.

A LIAR?

Who was Laurie Cooper? It’s clear that everything Sam thought he knew about his mother was wrong. And now he’s determined to find out exactly what she did and why – whatever the cost.

What happens if you discover you’ve been lied to by your own family for twenty-five years?

Sam Cooper is about to find out.

The Science of Psychedelics with Dr. D...

An enlightening talk on Psychedelics from one of the worlds leading experts in this area.

The traditional use of psychoactive plants and fungi for spiritual and shamanic rituals has occurred for thousands of years, whereas the Western scientific research of these substances has only been explored in the last 100 years, and prohibition stalled the last 50 years of this.

In this talk you will be introduced to the science of these traditional psychedelics along with their modern counterparts first synthesized in the 20th century. Dr. Luke will also touch upon the mental health applications for these drugs.

Now that scientific research is resuming, what do psychedelics tell us about the weirder side of human consciousness, and what can be learned from the traditional shamanic practices with these substances? Find this out and more in this enlightening talk..

Dr David Luke is Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Greenwich. His research focuses on transpersonal experiences, anomalous phenomena and altered states of consciousness, especially via psychedelics, having published more than 100 academic papers in this area, including ten books, most recently Otherworlds: Psychedelics and Exceptional Human Experience. When he is not running clinical drug trials with LSD, conducting DMT field experiments or observing apparent weather control with Mexican shamans he directs the Ecology, Cosmos and Consciousness salon and is a cofounder and director of Breaking Convention: International Conference on Psychedelic Consciousness.

Meet The Maker: Claire Curneen

Meet Claire Curneen, one of the UK’s most celebrated ceramicists. Well known for her hand-built porcelain sculptures, she is showing her work at the Walker for the first time.

Claire will talk to exhibition curator Nicola Scott about the inspiration for her complex diorama Baroque and Berserk, on display in the 18th-century gallery.

This is also a unique opportunity for discussion of three of Claire’s sculptures on loan from a major, private collection, which form part of the display.

Book your free ticket through the website here.

The Trouble with Tombs

Tomb opening today is very rare and respectful, and burial inside British churches largely ended in the 1850s. Yet, remains of saints, clergy, royalty, and cultural icons have been exhumed to both verify and venerate them since at least the 7th century in Britain’s churches, and this continued on a regular basis until the late 19th/early 20th century.

Throughout this period, charnel collections of human bones created from pragmatic exhumations had cycles of being presented in churches, and tomb ‘treasures’ and historic human remains continued to be displayed in churches centuries even after the end of saints’ cults in the 1530s and 1540s.

Today, there is extensive public and media interest in Britain’s church charnel displays as well as saints’ bones in cathedrals; royal exhumations; and demands to exhume or investigate the graves of iconic individuals from history, such as the Princes in the Tower, King Harold, and William Shakespeare. HS2 construction involves unprecedented exhumation of thousands of skeletons from church contexts.

Chaired by Professor Lin Foxhall with a keynote lecture from Dr Ruth Nugent, an archaeologist specialising in Britain’s mortuary cultures from the 5th century AD onwards, this public lecture will explore the ways people have encountered and understood the ‘ancient’ dead in Britain since the 7th century and how we can use that knowledge to serve modern heritage and reburial of the long-dead today.

Dr Ruth Nugent will be joined by a panel of experts consisting of Harold Mytum, Professor of Archaeology at University of Liverpool; David Monteith, Dean of Leicester Cathedral; Andrea Bradley, MCIfA, Route-wide Burial Grounds Coordination; and Ian Dungavell, Chief Executive Friends of Highgate Cemetery.