What’s on 16-22 June

Festivals Exhibitions Performances it’s L to R: Simon Trpčeski and Vasily Petrenko, photo by Mark McNulty Mark by photo Petrenko, and Vasily Simon Trpčeski R: L to One City One Summer it’s liverpool

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’s theatres, its orchestra, festivals, galleries, museums and performers of every kind present 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. This week, Liverpool’s music takes centre stage: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and its artist in residence Simon Trpčeski perform Shostakovich’s brilliant First Piano Concerto on 15 June. Then, in , Chief Conductor Vasily Petrenko leads the Orchestra and Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Choir in a concert of soaring spiritual music on 17 June. Barbara Dickson, the original star of ’s , visits on 20 June and Africa Oyé festival – headlined this year by Mobo and BRIT award winner Finley Quaye – will see some 30,000 people head to Sefton Park on 21 and 22 June.

ifb2014.com/culture #OneCityOneSummer @IFB2014 @VisitLiverpool THIS WEEK’S EVENTS For further details visit ifb2014.com/culture

16 -27 JUNE Free 17 JUNE Ticketed FUTURE CITY AFTERNOON TEA AT THE ATHENAEUM Albert Dock Athenaeum The third and final pop up exhibition in Placed’s An opportunity to visit the Athenaeum and have Hidden Liverpool series, which explores ideas for a tour of one of the finest private members’ clubs re-using the city’s empty public buildings. in the UK.

16-28 JUNE Free 17 JUNE Ticketed ADVENTURE SAILING TRUST – IN CONVERSATION WITH THE APPRENTICE SHIP CUP MICHAEL HESELTINE UK West Coast St George’s Hall Eight traditional tall ships The ex-Deputy Prime Minister crewed by over 150 young and ‘Minister For Merseyside’ apprentices aged 16 – 25 will will talk about his life and career. take part in a race along the Musicians perform his five UK west coast. favourite pieces of music.

16 JUNE – 16 JULY Free 18 JUNE Free FESTIVAL 31 LIVERPOOL ART PRIZE AWARDS CEREMONY Various venues Edge Hill Station Liverpool’s first official The prestigious £2000 Liverpool festival celebrating arts Art Prize and £1000 People’s and culture from refugee Choice award winners are communities, and discourse announced for 2014. around the refugee experience over 31 days.

17 JUNE Ticketed CATHEDRAL CLASSICS Liverpool Cathedral Vasily Petrenko conducts the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir in sacred music played in the setting for which it was intended. THIS WEEK’S EVENTS

21 JUNE – 12 JULY Ticketed DEAD DOG IN A SUITCASE (AND OTHER LOVE SONGS) Everyman Theatre Everyman and Kneehigh collaborate on a radical new version of the Beggar’s Opera, John Gay’s classic musical satire. Bursting with wit, wonder and weirdness.

UNTIL 31 JULY Free 21-22 JUNE Free SPANISH PAVILION AFRICA OYÉ Fallout Factory Sefton Park Specially commissioned as part of the The UK’s largest festival International Festival for Business, Fallout of African and Caribbean Factory will play host to ‘Spanish Pavilion’, music and culture. Hear a new and exciting collaboration between some of the best music Fallout Factory and overseas Spanish galleries. the world has to offer in Liverpool’s Sefton Park. Finley Quaye headlines. 20 JUNE Ticketed

BARBARA DICKSON AND 22 JUNE Ticketed Floral Pavilion, New Brighton PIRASHANNA THEVARAJAH Both performers have won awards and praise for their solo work. They perform a wonderful Capstone Theatre blend of folk songs, classic pop and self- A chance to see the versatile written favourites. multi-percussionist Pirashanna Thevarajah, who 20 JUNE – 21 SEPTEMBER Free has performed with many of ROSSETTI’S OBSESSION: the world’s foremost Indian IMAGES OF JANE MORRIS musicians. 22 JUNE Ticketed Jane Burden Morris was SUNDAY SERENADE the favoured model of painter Dante Gabriel St. George’s Hall Concert Room Rossetti. This exhibition The extraordinary strings of the Royal brings together compelling Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra perform examples of this pictorial obsession. music including Stravinsky’s Concerto in D, and Dvořák’s Serenade for Strings. 21-22 JUNE Ticketed LIV-BCN The Kazimier and The Kazimier Garden A celebration of the rich artistic offerings from Liverpool and Barcelona, two metropolitan fountains of creativity that have a lot in common. ONGOING EVENTS For further details visit ifb2014.com/culture

UNTIL 21 JUNE 2014 Free UNTIL 1 JULY 2014 Free LIVERPOOL ART PRIZE 20TH CENTURY CHIC Edge Hill Station An exhibition for Charting 100 years of contemporary artists based women’s fashion, from the or born in Liverpool City corsets and petticoats of Region. The last chance to the Belle Epoque to the see the work of the 2014 designer-labelled spandex Liverpool Art Prize winner. of the 90s.

UNTIL 22 JUNE 2014 Free UNTIL 6 JULY 2014 Free EBB AND FLOW: ARTIST’S BOOK EXHIBITION A VISUAL CHRONICLE OF THE CHANGES Central Library WITHIN LIVERPOOL’S CHINATOWN This Exhibition of Artists’ Books brings together Open Eye Gallery rare books from the Library’s collection with the A photographic survey of the history and best of contemporary artists’ books. changes of the one the oldest Chinese communities in the UK. UNTIL 13 JULY 2014 Free

UNTIL 28 JUNE 2014 Free FROM THERE TO HERE TOY STORY Exploring the changing Bluecoat Display Centre familial, social and cultural This exhibition features the history of people who work of toy makers who have learning difficulties in employ traditional techniques Liverpool city region. to encourage children to use their imaginations.

UNTIL 19 JULY 2014 Ticketed LENNON – THE MUSICAL Royal Court Liverpool Following its incredible run last summer, the smash hit musical returns! John Power stars in this brilliant five-star production. ONGOING EVENTS For further details visit ifb2014.com/culture

UNTIL 26 JULY 2014 Free UNTIL 5 OCTOBER 2014 Ticketed WORKING LIVES: HERE AND THERE NASREEN MOHAMEDI Pop-up Gallery, 43 Castle Street Liverpool A photography exhibition from DaDaFest, Discover the intriguing work depicting disabled people at work in Liverpool of Indian artist Nasreen and overseas, with accompanying narrative and Mohamedi, considered online gallery. a particularly significant artist within the modernist UNTIL 10 AUGUST 2014 Free tradition.

GRAYSON PERRY: UNTIL 5 OCTOBER 2014 Ticketed THE VANITY OF SMALL DIFFERENCES MONDRIAN AND HIS STUDIOS: ABSTRACTION INTO THE WORLD A collection of six tapestries which explore taste, class, This new exhibition provides fresh insights aspiration and identity in a into Dutch painter Piet Mondrian’s practice British context. and explores his relationship with architecture and urbanism. UNTIL 1 SEPT 2014 Free BRUTAL EXPOSURE: THE CONGO International Slavery Museum Probably the first photographic campaign in support of human rights, documenting the exploitation experienced by Congolese people in 1900s Belgium.

UNTIL 1 SEPT 2014 Free THEIR SPIRITS BY LAURA FACEY International Slavery Museum Laura Facey explores not only the indescribable cruelty of slavery but also the transcendent nature of the human spirit through a number of artworks.

UNTIL 21 SEPT 2014 Free APRIL ASHLEY: PORTRAIT OF A LADY UNTIL DECEMBER 2014 Free Museum of Liverpool A WORLD A PARTICLE Explore April’s story through her previously Victoria Gallery and Museum unseen private archive. See the contribution Liverpool A collaborative project has made to Particle Physics. between National Museums See the spectacular machinery Liverpool and . used by scientists and enjoy interactive displays. ONGOING Free DAZZLE SHIP A dry dock near Albert Dock and Tate Liverpool have jointly commissioned Carlos Cruz- Diez to ‘dazzle’ a historic pilot ship as part of 2014’s WW1 commemorations.

MON, TUE, WED, FRI Ticketed (free) UNTIL DECEMBER 2017 Free WORLD DANCE, ZUMBA AND YOGA TITANIC AND LIVERPOOL: CLASSES AND EVENTS THE UNTOLD STORY The Black-E Merseyside Maritime Museum World dance, zumba and yoga classes and This compelling exhibition events, high-energy, fun dance classes and explores Liverpool’s central workouts taught by world dance specialists. role in the Titanic story, featuring previously unseen UNTIL 2015 Free collections of international OPERA FOR CHINATOWN significance. Duke Street Terraces ONGOING Free A vibrant installation by The Sound Agents transforms WALL WORK: the façade of Duke Street’s PAUL MORRISON NEW COMMISSION vacant properties, depicting Open Eye Gallery some of the people of Liverpool-born artist Paul Morrison transforms Liverpool’s Chinatown. the facade of the gallery and adjoining public space with a large monochromatic installation. UNTIL 1 JAN 2015 Free ST HELENA International Slavery Museum This exhibition will focus on one of the most important archaeological finds of recent times in one of the most remote places on earth.

UNTIL 1 JUNE 2015 Free SAIL AWAY: LIVERPOOL SHIPPING POSTERS Merseyside Maritime Museum This exhibition features 14 posters dating from 1888 to 1980, advertising Liverpool shipping companies. Some have never been displayed before. FORTHCOMING HIGHLIGHTS

5 JULY – 26 OCTOBER LIVERPOOL BIENNIAL 2014: THE UK BIENNIAL OF CONTEMPORARY ART Various locations Liverpool Biennial 2014 includes the curated exhibition A Needle Walks into a Haystack at the Bluecoat, FACT, Old School for the Blind and Tate Liverpool plus the John Moores Painting Prize, Bloomberg New Contemporaries and exhibitions at Open Eye Gallery and the Exhibition Research Centre. 23-27 JULY 11-19 JULY MEMORIES OF AUGUST 1914 BRAZILICA FESTIVAL Various locations Various locations The Giants return to provide the spectacular The UK’s largest samba carnival event, with a finale to the IFB 2014 cultural programme, spectacular procession weaving its way through a commemoration of 100 years since the the city centre on Saturday 19 July. The festival outbreak of the First World War. It features also showcases Brazilian music,exhibitions, the Little Girl Giant, her dog Xolo, and a new films and workshops. grandmother giant. A must-see.

11-18 JULY 15-31 AUGUST BROUHAHA LIVERPOOL INTERNATIONAL LIVERPOOL INTERNATIONAL CARNIVAL MUSIC FESTIVAL Various locations Sefton Park and other locations Music, dance, theatre and community and After the success of last year’s event, Liverpool carnival events throughout the city. On 12 July, International Music Festival will return in 1000 costumed participants take to the August 2014. With the major focus over the streets in a celebration of the city’s diversity and Bank Holiday weekend, the event will span creativity, and at Princes Park, visitors can enjoy several venues across the city for a fun-packed performances, global foods and arts workshops. summer of music.

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