LIVERPOOL 08 'Capital of Culture'
Paul McCartney at Anfield
01 June 2008
The Liverpool Sound Concert
Sir Paul McCartney will be returning to his native city to headline at Anfield Stadium. Joined by other famous musicians, broadcast live on tv to a worldwide audience. Kaiser Chiefs have have also been confirmed to play at The Liverpool Sound. For those who aren’t lucky enough to get tickets, BBC2 & BBC Radio 2 will be covering the concert.
Beatles Day
10 July 2008
Beatles Day is quite simply for Liverpudlians to go about their daily business as normal on July 10th, the only difference being that they wear Mop Top wigs and share their Beatles stories with the rest of the city! The Liverpool Echo will print the best of your stories! Radio Stations will play Beatles songs and hold phone-ins. Shops all over the City will wear wigs, decorate their shop-fronts with Beatles memorabilia and play their songs all day. Pubs will hold Beatles Day Quizzes! School Children will wear wigs and learn about the band's heritage. Beatles Tribute Bands will play from rooftops. TV presenters will read the news wearing their wigs! Everyone can take part! 'Imagine The Concert' at Liverpool Arena where artists will be playing their Beatles favourites.
Tall Ships at Liverpool Docks
The fleet will be berthed in Liverpool from 18 to 21 July 08
Liverpool will host the world famous Tall Ships Race. It will bring 100 Tall Ships with over 3000 crew from all over the world, to the banks of the River Mersey. Liverpool will welcome one million people to witness the spectacular sight of the Tall Ship's fleet which will include a dazzling array of vessels, from 30ft yachts to square rigged ships over 300ft long.
These will be berthed in the city's historic Albert and Central Docks for four days before the race starts.
Gustav Klimt at Tate Liverpool
30 May – 31 Aug 08
Tate Liverpool is delighted to present the first comprehensive exhibition of Gustav Klimt’s work ever staged in the UK. The exhibition focuses on the life and art of one of the world’s most influential and revered artists.
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BBC Electric Proms Liverpool
The Electric Proms bringing together the best new and established live performers in its first time outside of London. Oct 08.
MTV European Music Awards Liverpool
Thursday 06 November 08
Broadcast live from Liverpool Arena!
Berliner Philharmoniker
Thursday 04 September 08
Liverpool Philharmonic Hall
Sir Simon Rattle who will conduct the Liverpool Phil and bring the
Berlin Philharmonic to Liverpool. One of Liverpool's favourite sons and, with Vladimir Ashkenazy, the Liverpool Phil's Artist Laureate 2008, Sir Simon Rattle comes home to conduct the orchestra in the concert hall where he began his stellar music career.
Liverpool Military Show
24,25,26 May 2008
This years show promises to be the best yet, with Challenger Main Battle Tank, Warrior Infantry Fighting Vehicle, Multiple Launch Rocket System (MLRS) and the impressive Titan mobile Bridge Layer, which will be shown for the first time on Merseyside. Walton Hall Park, just off the A580 East Lancs Road, follow the AA Signs for parking and access. Adults £5 / Children under 14yrs £3. Veterans with veterans badge and members of youth organisations in uniform – free! Show Opens 10am - 4pm
What's On In Liverpool 2008
Open Eye Gallery
Exhibition: Anne Collier
11 April - 24 May 08
Open Eye Gallery is proud to present the first solo exhibition in a UK public gallery of work by New York based artist Anne Collier.
Over the past decade Collier has created a body of work that investigates the role of photographs in contemporary culture. She takes images from everyday popular culture - 1970's posters, art magazines and record sleeves, then re-presents them in the white space of the gallery. Often re-photographing existing photographs - making images of images - Collier meditates on the nature of images and our ways of seeing them. Her formal, rigorous compositions hint at the stories of her own life, in what has been described as a kind of 'deflected self-portraiture'. She also investigates the wider world of images that we inhabit, reminding us that every photograph is a material object with its own history or 'biography'. Pointing up hidden nuances of power and gender relations, her work is laced with irony and dry humour. She explores our closeness to images, pointing out that we are entangled with them in ways that we rarely stop to consider.
Open Eye Gallery, 28-32 Wood Street, Liverpool L1 4AQ
www.openeye.org.uk
Liam Spencer Exhibition, Huyton Gallery
18th Feb - 11th May 08
Liam Spencer is one of the rising stars of the British contemporary arts scene. He's renowned for his vivid portrayals of the urban landscape. These paintings are on loan from the Elspeth and Imogen Turner collection, many of which are on public display for the first time.
Huyton Library, Civic Way, Huyton L36 9GD
FACT Liverpool
 FACT (Foundation for Art & Creative Technology) is the UK's leading organisation for the commissioning and presentation of film, video and new media art forms. Visit FACT to see films, exhibitions, education and special events.
FACT
88 Wood Street, Liverpool L1 4DQ
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What's On?
18 April – 08 June 2008
AL and AL ETERNAL YOUTH
UK artists AL and AL will open their first solo exhibition with a new commission at FACT. ETERNAL YOUTH will be shown alongside two of the artists’ previous award-winning films, INTERSTELLA STELLA and PERPETUAL MOTION IN THE LAND OF MILK AND HONEY. In FACT’s Media Lounge, throughout the course of the exhibition, AL and AL will be inviting the public to perform a part in a future AL and AL film production within a blue screen studio. ETERNAL YOUTH launches the second strand of FACT’s Human Futures programme and the My Mind strand, exploring the digital environment and our relationship to artificial life. - Gallery 1&2, Media Lounge and public spaces. Free entry.
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Liverpool Empire Theatre
The Scarlet Pimpernel
14 - 17 May 08
Evita
22 May - 07 June 2008
Aspects of Love
10 - 14 June 2008
Liverpool Empire. Lime Street, Liverpool L1 1JE
For the full What's On listings visit www.liverpoolempire.org.uk
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Summer 2008 in Liverpool
Liverpool International Carnival 2008
02 August 2008
Take part in the largest carnival in the North West. and see over 1800 costumed participants.
Go Super Lamb Bananas Street Art
16 June - 25 August 2008
 Liverpool is set to stage a world-class art participation event from late June to early September. Go Superlambananas will celebrate Liverpool’s communities and see the streets, parks, neighbourhoods and open spaces of Liverpool transformed into an open air, free to view, mass public art event.
 Up to 100, 1.8m tall Superlambananas, one of Liverpool’s most iconic and best loved pieces of public art – originally, created by Taro Chiezo for 'Arts Transpennine' in 98 - will be painted, decorated and adorned by local artists, community groups and celebrities. The Go Superlambanana sculpture has been specially designed to act as a 3D canvas to showcase the creativity of Liverpool – its heritage; architecture; regeneration and its world renowned arts scene.
'Let It Be' Liverpool - Photographic Exhibition
August 2008
Location: Central Library, William Brown St, Liverpool.
The exhibition by David Lydiate is a combination of three passions, Photography, Liverpool and raising the profile of Leukaemia research.
The exhibition will feature concepts that David is currently working on and a compilation of his best work. Any profits made from sales of prints will go towards Leukaemia Research.
See some of his photography here
Creamfields 10th Anniversary
Line-up including:
Fatboy Slim, Kasabian, Ian Brown, Paul van Dyk and Tiesto.
Sat 23 & Sun 24 August 2008
The worlds ultimate dance festival, Creamfields gathers more speed as day tickets to the most exhilarating weekend of the summer go on sale. After announcing the most diverse line up to date, the running order for August’s hottest dance weekender is now confirmed and Creamfields festival breaks a new dawn in live events marking a decade at the top.
Celebrating 10 years as the world’s most influential festival promoters, Creamfields have put together a stomping bank holiday weekend with boutique camping and a revolutionary line-up.
Liverpool International Tennis Tournament
Calderstones Park
10-15 June 2008
The Liverpool International Tennis Tournament has seen huge crowds thrilled by International stars such as Martina Navratilova, Goran Ivanisevic, Ivan Ljubicic, Marat Safin, Paradorn Schrichaphan, Pat Cash, Illie Nastase, Mansour Bahrami, Henri Leconte, Xavier Malisse and current champion David Ferrer. Since 2006 there has been a WTA players event featuring 2006 Junior Wimbledon Caroline Wozniacki, Ashley Harkleroad, Olga Savchuk, Nikola Hoffmanova and Kim-Alice Grajdek. The tournament is now firmly established as a blue chip summer sports event in the UK and is the largest exhibition event in Europe with ATP players, WTA players and the popular Legends part of the tournament programme. Tickets Here
www.liverpooltennis.co.uk
Design Show Liverpool
19-22 June 2008
The atmospheric crypt of the Metropolitan Cathedral will showcase the very best of product design, cutting-edge technology and stylish living. It will be a unique opportunity for the public to browse and buy from over 150 designers, who represent the best in regional, national and international design and contemporary fashion. map here
For more info visit www.designshowliverpool.com
Knowsley Flower Show
Sunday 10th August 2008
The 10th Knowsley Flower Show. 11am - 5pm Court Hey Park
Home of the National Wildflower Centre, Roby Rd, Huyton, Knowsley.
For more info visit www.knowsleyflowershow.com
The Mathew Street Music Festival 2008
24/08/2008 - 26/08/2008
Dates TBC
The BA Festival of Science 2008 - Liverpool
 06-11 September 2008
In September 2008 science and culture collide as Liverpool experiences an explosion of science. From hands on family days to debates on current hot topics; from trips to places of interest to unique opportunities to question the UK’s top scientists, with over 150 events, the BA Festival of Science offers something for everyone. Find out how Liverpool’s maritime traditions have influenced medicine and migration. Quiz the UK’s premier fertility expert and TV personality, Professor Robert Winston. Tell us your memories of the Beatles and join in a massive worldwide experiment on the memory and how it works.
Examine the issues surrounding the future of our planet and meet a man who has explored some of the most inhospitable parts of it, described by the Guinness Book of Records as ‘the world’s greatest living explorer’ - Sir Ranulph Fiennes.
The BA Festival of Science 2008 will be hosted by the University of Liverpool. - more info here
The Tour of Britain 2008
7th-14th Sept 2008
The 2008 elite cycle race will be 8 days long, beginning on the 7th September and finishing on the 14th. The race will finish in Liverpool as part of the Liverpool08 capital of culture celebrations.
www.tourofbritain.co.uk
John Moores Contemporary Painting Prize
Competition & Exhibition
20 Sept 08 - 04 Jan 2009
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the John Moores Prize. First held in 1957, it is the UK's best-known competition for painters and is named after Sir John Moores (1896-1993), the founder of the competition. The exhibition is held every 2 years at the Walker Art Gallery in partnership with the John Moores Liverpool Exhibition Trust.
This year the John Moores exhibition coincides with Liverpool’s year as European Capital of Culture 2008 when it forms a key strand of the well established Liverpool Biennial. The John Moores exhibition showcases the best new paintings produced in the UK today and attracts a broad spectrum of artists. No preference is given to levels of experience or particular practices of painting. The work is selected anonymously from an open submission by the jury, who also award the main prizes. There is a first prize of £25,000 along with 4 further prizes, each of £2,500. The visitor's choice prize is £2008. The 2008 Jury includes: The Chapman Brothers (Jake and Dinos Chapman), Sacha Craddock (art critic/curator), Graham Crowley (artist) and Paul Morrison (artist).
Everyman Theatre Liverpool
King Lear
October 2008
Pete Postlethwaite returns to Liverpool to play Shakespeare's most brassed-off king at the Everyman Theatre.
Booking Tel: 0151 709 4776 (lines open mon-sat 10am-7pm)
Please have your credit card ready when booking.
Everyman, 13 Hope St, Liverpool L1 9BH
To see what's on throughout 2008 visit
www.everymanplayhouse.com
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