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What’s on July Festivals Exhibitions Performances it’s liverpool Brouhaha Festival Brouhaha One City One Summer it’s liverpool MAIN EVENT Rich in culture, Liverpool’s often collective approach creates surprising and unmissable events that are the rocket fuel for the city’s renaissance and its international aspirations. Both its grand and more intimate spaces host unique experiences where heritage mixes with contemporary culture. Liverpool is home to some of the finest international art collections and cultural organisations, shaped by its compelling history, and we use these to look to the future with art and performances that are fresh, exciting and bold. You can get your cultural fix in Liverpool at any time of the year but this summer as part of the One City, One Summer cultural programme for the International Festival for Business (IFB) 2014, the city presents a sparkling season of over 120 events that includes a number of new commissions and a festival every weekend. You won’t have time to take in everything, but you can always come back to experience Liverpool’s unique and distinctive cultural life, all year round. In the July issue, we round up the fabulous festivals, art, museum exhibitions, theatre, film, dance and music happenings throughout the city. We also look forward to what’s on after One City, The spectacular finale for One City, One Summer... One Summer – the city’s celebrations run on 23-27 JULY 2014 throughout the year with Liverpool International Music Festival and Liverpool Pride, and into 2015 MEMORIES OF AUGUST 1914 with the historic visit of the Cunard fleet. Various locations This summer Liverpool welcomes back some Meet the Little Girl Giant, her canine companion giant-sized visitors to roam the streets of the Xolo and a new Grandmother Giant and see city. After their unforgettable visit in 2012, them tell their story throughout the city, at Royal De Luxe will return once again as Liverpool landmarks including William Brown Street, hosts one of the UK’s flagship 2014 World War Town Hall, the Waterfront, the Chinese Arch, One commemoration events. both Cathedrals, Newsham Park and Canning Remember the role of Liverpudlians in the Dock. And finally, bid them farewell as they sail ifb2014.com/culture Great War, the heroic achievements of the city away on the River Mersey. #OneCityOneSummer and rekindle the memories of Liverpool in this Memories of August 1914 is co-commissioned magical tale of hope, loss and bravery for a by Liverpool City Council and 14-18 NOW. @IFB2014 journey through time, when Giants wake from @VisitLiverpool slumber and a city commemorates. FESTIVALS For further details visit ifb2014.com/culture 11-19 JULY 2014 BRAZILICA 5 JULY – 26 OCTOBER 2014 Various locations LIVERPOOL BIENNIAL 2014 Brazilica, the UK’s largest samba carnival THE UK BIENNIAL OF CONTEMPORARY ART event, passes through the city’s streets Various locations on the evening of Saturday 19 July. This stunning spectacle is sure to be the International art that unfolds across Liverpool’s by Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra undoubted highlight of the festival. spaces, places and galleries. at Liverpool Cathedral. A recording of the Hundreds of performers will take part in this symphony will be played in Liverpool Cathedral This summer sees four months of free Rio-style carnival weaving its way through at selected times throughout the summer. exhibitions, events and performances by leading the city centre with glittering costumes, contemporary artists, including the 8th Biennial Also featured in Liverpool Biennial 2014 are floats and irresistible samba. Dancers, Exhibition A Needle Walks into a Haystack, Bloomberg New Contemporaries, the John Brazilian style drummers and spectacular curated by Mai Abu ElDahab and Anthony Moores Painting Prize and Adrian Henri at floats will start their journey through the Huberman. LJMU’s Exhibition Research Centre. A group city at 8pm. show at Open Eye Gallery will feature work from The Biennial Exhibition takes place across The festival also showcases Brazilian bands a number of artists, including Hans Haacke, Ugo the city at venues including The Old Blind at the main stage site in Williamson Square Mulas, Cristina De Middel and Ira Lombarda. School, FACT, the Bluecoat and Tate Liverpool. from midday to 11pm, and throughout the As well as a group show featuring work There will also be a free programme of music week there are live music performances, from over 17 international artists, there will events, talks, screenings and family workshops exhibitions, films and workshops, something be solo presentations from filmmaker and throughout the festival. for all the family and a taste of Brazil right photographer Sharon Lockhart, painter and On the Liverpool Waterfront is Dazzle Ship by here in Liverpool. flamboyant public figure James McNeill Whistler Venezuelan artist Carlos Cruz-Diez, and a transformation of Tate’s Wolfson gallery co-commissioned by Liverpool Biennial, by architect Claude Parent. 14-18 NOW WW1 Centenary Art Commissions As part of the opening weekend, on Saturday and Tate Liverpool, in partnership with 11-18 JULY 2014 5 July Michael Nyman’s Symphony No.11: Merseyside Maritime Museum. Hillsborough Memorial will be performed BROUHAHA INTERNATIONAL CARNIVAL Various locations The Brouhaha Festival opens with a bang on 11 July with Infecting the City, a dynamic event showcasing the work of 200 performers via a street parade and a number of site-specific performances. On 12 July, 1000 costumed participants take to the streets for Liverpool International Carnival, to celebrate the city’s diversity and creativity. The carnival will wind its way through Toxteth and come to rest in Princes Park, which will be alive with local and international performance work, global foods and family arts workshops. The Beautiful North one-day festival on 13 July begins with a spectacular carnival parade through Stanley Park to the Isla Gladstone Conservatory, then local and international dancers, circus artists, musicians and acrobats will dazzle audiences. From 14-17 July, Brouhaha brings you International Brunch - lunchtime international performances in Williamson Square. And to close the 2014 festival, Mandela Day on 18 July will see over 200 international performers in an outdoor large-scale performance spectacle at the Metropolitan Cathedral. Mark McNulty 2014 McNulty Mark 6 JULY 2014 FESTIVALS For further details visit ifb2014.com/culture ONE WORLD FESTIVAL Williamson Square 17 JULY – 2 AUGUST 2014 Celebrating the vibrancy of world cultures. With a ‘World in One FLUX City’ theme, the festival will be a fantastic cultural extravaganza that Various locations showcases the unique sights, sounds, tastes and artistic variety of the world continents, set in Liverpool City Centre. One World Festival Flux is a pioneering arts festival engineered by A partnership programme with over 30 arts 2014 will celebrate the multiplicity of cultures in Liverpool via street young people. Set within Liverpool’s world-class organisations, Flux aims to put young people at arts, animation, music, dance, acrobatics and carnival artists. It arts and cultural offer, audiences will be invited to the heart of the arts in the city region, acting as a presents an artistically diverse programme, bringing the city centre discover a range of multi-arts performances and catalyst to increase opportunities and reflect the to life and turning it into a powerful cauldron of global arts. Audiences events online and across the city. From literary aspirations of young people aged 14-25 years. will be treated to a fine mix of local, national and international acts events, film and music to gaming and visual arts, who will take them on an unforgettable artistic journey. there will be something for everyone. Not your usual festival, Flux provides a series of workshops and development programmes 19 – 20 JULY 2014 beyond the festival dates to nurture creativity and entrepreneurialism in young people. POLISH FOLKLORE WEEKEND Camp and Furnace Flower garlands, multi-coloured costumes and spirited folk music and dance! Merseyside Polonia presents Polish Folklore Weekend, exhibiting colourful Polish traditions. Head to the Museum of Liverpool to find out more about Polish Midsummer customs and the man who helped to preserve them, Oscar Kolberg – Polish ethnographer, folklorist and composer. There will be special workshops where you will be able to make your own flower headdress using fresh blossom, herbs and shrubs. During the day 25 JULY – 1 AUGUST 2014 there will be live shows of Polish dance. INDIKA Capstone Theatre UNTIL 16 JULY 2014 Free 5 – 13 JULY 2014 Milapfest’s annual festival of world-class Indian morning raga concerts and a family-friendly performing arts returns to The Capstone garden party on 26 July. FESTIVAL 31 WIRRAL FESTIVAL OF FIRSTS Theatre. With a host of India’s leading artistes The theme of Indika 2014 is collaboration and Various locations Various locations performing, this year’s festival features classical throughout the week audiences will have the Liverpool’s first official festival celebrating arts This international arts festival evening performances in the theatre, traditional opportunity to see collaborations between and culture from refugee communities, and boasts a full line-up of outdoor different Indian music genres and dance styles discourse around the refugee experience over performances, poetry and unusual instrument combinations. 31 days. happenings, writing workshops, The opening performance Light on the Path will a family film festival, comedians be a highlight of the festival on 25 July. Featuring and classical musicians. India’s leading Bharatanatyam dance duo The Dhanajayans, Carnatic pianist Anil Srinivasan, 5-6 JULY 2014 Free vocalist Sikkil Gurucharan and mridangam percussionist Patri Satish Kumar, this innovative SCARECROW FESTIVAL WEEKEND performance explores the theme of light, National Wildflower Centre devotion and enlightenment. Scarecrows created by schools Indika is the biggest celebration of classical Indian and community groups from arts in the North West and a highlight of the across Merseyside displayed Liverpool festival season.