This session brings together FACT board’s artist in residence, Jack Tan, FACT board member, Matthew Balnaves and artist, curator and cultural futurist Lauren Craig to consider accounting and accountability.
The panel will consider ways of drawing on other world views of accounting, to reconsider who and what is accounted for and the stories they represent, allowing them to shift the ways in which an institution is held to account. This session will be moderated by FACT’s Head of Programme, Maitreyi Maheshwari.
This event follows Jack’s recent Performing Trust conversation with Rachel Higham and Jane Wentworth from Framework for Trust, which questioned how to build, maintain and explore trust through organisational work and policy-making.
In this conversation and Q&A moderated by Dr Emma Murray (Senior Lecturer in Criminal Justice at Liverpool John Moores University and FACT’s Criminologist in Residence), FACT’s commissioned artist Melanie Crean and Anita Dockle (The Research Director for the Howard League for Penal Reform) discuss how artworks created in collaboration with participants can influence decision making.
Join the panel to learn more about how decision makers work alongside people with expertise through experience in participatory arts practices. The Machine to Unmake You, Melanie’s current work with the Veterans hub at HMP Altcourse, provides the framework for this conversation.
In this project, the incarcerated veterans share their expertise to create a campaign. This campaign will present their needs to those involved in the policy and practice of the criminal justice system.
Join the team at The Lady Lever Art Gallery to celebrate the Chinese New Year of the Tiger.
Their fun day of events will include:
- Spectacular lion dance performances from Hung Gar Kung Fu
- Tales of Chinese New Year with Billy Hui
- Elegant traditional dances
- Creative workshops for all the family to enjoy
The workshops will explore some simple scientific experiments which will blow your mind and help you to look closer at our wonderful world!
Over the winter holidays they will be looking at fire and ice and seeing how hot and cold objects behave together.
This event takes place in the World Museum Learning Base on the ground floor.
Artist collective Breakwater of Youngsook Choi and Taey Iohe present a powerful storytelling performance that brings awareness to the historical trauma of Chinese indentured labour.
The performance interweaves the 2004 Morecambe Bay cockling disaster and 2021 Atlanta spa shootings tragedy with the classic children’s story, We’re Going On a Bear Hunt, and symbols from Korean mythology. Yellow Furry Lullaby is a ritual and moment of collective healing performed alongside Fermented Flower (2021), a detailed tapestry by the artist duo that confronts the racist roots deeply embedded in the field of botany.
Breakwater is Youngsook Choi and Taey Iohe. Based in London, the Korean diaspora duo explore social practice across subject matters around climate justice and migrants’ lived experience.
This event is part of the Lunar New Year Weekend at FACT. Discover their full programme of events.
This special edition has been developed by FACT’s Learning Team with researcher and visual artist, Youngsook Choi, to explore the formation of families, community and kinship.
Together with the artist, they will make alternative family trees. A family tree usually shows the roots of our family history, made up of the names of our family members in a chronological order. Instead of focusing on marital names to show who our relatives are, this workshop explores the meaning of ‘family’ and ‘belonging’ by sharing stories and memories which will form the elements of a beautiful family mobile to take home.
All young people are welcome with their accompanying guardians/parents. Some of the more technical activities are suited for ages 7 up to 13. There will be craft-based activities available for under 7 years old, so the whole family can come along.
This event is part of the Lunar New Year Weekend at FACT. Discover their full programme of events.
2021 has been a wonderful creative year for ArtsGroupie. Their first production out of lockdown was the outdoor theatre interactive extravaganza, The Liver Bird, a collaboration with the marvellous ‘The Bookworm Players.’
It opened in Incredible Edible, Court Hey Park in the Summer and was the first theatrical play to visit Walton Hall Park in over forty years. The piece was performed throughout the Liverpool City Region, including Norris Green Park, Springfield Park and Devonfield Gardens.
The Bird even flew indoors to land on stage at Liverpool Central Library as part of the Liverpool Year of Writing, Writers Bootcamp and Marketplace that saw 922 creatives and the public come together for a celebration of workshops and literary activities.
To say thank you to all their friends and supporters this holiday, for a limited period Thursday 23rd December to 3rd January our filmed play The Liver Bird will be available to view completely FREE.
https://www.artsgroupie.org/the-liver-bird-the-play/
https://youtu.be/RQZKtp4oO30
This interactive piece was captured in a Black Box Studio at Toxteth Tv by VideOdyssey.
All they ask in return is that you leave any feedback about the work.
If you have not been on one of the walking tours, you can support their work by attending or booking tickets for friends and family. A two-hour fun informative and entertaining tour is an ideal birthday gift or surprise for someone.
Also, if you purchase a ticket you will know that you are helping a small local company, a collective of creatives to make work that is meaningful and important to our City.
Private tours are available between January to March at the reduced rate of £75 for up to 12 people.
Email artgroupie@outlook.com for further details.
Youth Engagement Forum is an informal session for 16-24 years old to meet other young people on a regular basis (monthly) and do creative projects inspired by our exhibitions and collections in our venues.
You’ll get to plan, create, produce and organise events and activities for other young people in the city and to help make their galleries and museums more diverse, inclusive and a space for everyone to enjoy.
Takes place in the World Museum Treasure House Theatre.
Find out more here.
The Tudors: Passion, Power and Politics will open at the Walker Art Gallery on 21 May 2022, featuring around one hundred objects.
This includes almost seventy works from the National Portrait Gallery, a selection of additional loans, and paintings from the Walker Art Gallery’s collection. It is the first time such a significant number of the National Portrait Gallery’s renowned Tudor portraits have been lent for exhibition.
The Walker’s show will follow a smaller exhibition of 25 works at The Holburne Museum in Bath in January, with both exhibitions encompassing some of the most famous portraits from the National Portrait Gallery’s Tudor collection.
The exhibition presents the five Tudor monarchs, Henry VII, Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary I and Elizabeth I, some of the most familiar figures from English history and instantly recognisable in the portraits that have preserved their likenesses for five hundred years.
The dynasty’s reign over sixteenth-century England, from 1485 to 1603, encompassed the tumultuous years of the Reformation; a literary renaissance; conflict with Scotland, France and Spain; conquest and colonisation in Ireland and America; and the expansion of England’s global reach through piracy and trade.
This major exhibition at the Walker will explore the Tudors from a range of perspectives. It will spotlight some historically underrepresented aspects of the period, including Black Tudor history and LGBTQ+ history.
Image: Queen Elizabeth, (c) National Portrait Gallery
Telling ghostly tales during the Christmas season has always been a tradition going back centuries… As the chill of these December days begins to bite and you settle in front of a roaring fire, safe and warm, it’s the perfect time for a chilling tale or two…
But instead of the roaring fire the folks at Shiverpool invite you to stretch your legs, take a deep breath of our River City’s salty sea air, wrap up in your finest woollen scarves and mittens and join us for a spooky stomp through time and place…
They dare you to journey through Liverpool’s most haunted heritage and share with them their sea soaked stories…
The Christmas tours are held December 16, 17, 18, 23, 28, 29, 30, 8.30pm and 2 January, 7pm. To book, see here.
