Banjo and the Portal Adventures Visit Liverpool Biennial 2016 Exhibition Sites and Collect Your Stamps: Introduction

Banjo and the Portal Adventures Visit Liverpool Biennial 2016 exhibition sites and collect your stamps: Introduction Exhibitions open daily 10AM-6PM Banjo and the Portal Adventures is a short story Cains Brewery inspired by Liverpool Biennial 2016. Stanhope Street, L8 5XJ We invite you to join Banjo the cat on a journey across the city, collecting stamps to fill up this Tate Liverpool Albert Dock, book from Liverpool Biennial 2016 exhibition sites: Liverpool Waterfront, Cains Brewery, Tate Liverpool, ABC cinema, Open L3 4BB Eye Gallery, FACT and Hondo Supermarket. Open Eye Gallery 19 Mann Island, On this adventure, Banjo travels through space Liverpool Waterfront, and time, meeting artworks and characters from L3 1BP Liverpool Biennial’s exhibition: Marvin Gaye ABC Cinema Chetwynd’s animals, Oliver Laric’s sculptures, Lime Street and Elliot Street Koki Tanaka’s school children from 1985, Hato’s L1 1JN Space Bus, Lawrence Abu Hamdan’s Binoculars FACT and Ian Cheng’s dog. 88 Wood Street, L1 4DQ We hope you enjoy this adventure as much as Hondo Chinese Supermarket Banjo did! 3 Upper Duke Street L1 9DU Polly Brannan Education Curator Liverpool Biennial Story by Hato & Polly Brannan Illustrations by Charlotte Mei & Charlene Man Designed by Hato Special thanks to Year 7 pupils and Pete Ward from Childwall Sports and Science Academy. It all started with the animal parade. Dogs, giraffes, pigs and a hippo marched through Liverpool’s Chinatown. Banjo loved a good parade so off he went and joined them. One It’s not often that cats like Banjo two, one two, they marched up find themselves straying far from the street and around the corner, home. But one curious day, this through the Chinese arch and… curious cat came across quite a surprise. ins Brewer a y C fo m r o C r h f i l p d r m e a n t ’ s s t E c p e l i s l o o d C e ZAP! ‘This looks like Ancient Greece but it’s actually the Oratory in Anicent Liverpool... Banjo found himself in a place of tall Are you here to help me get this lot back to columns and marbled monuments. the museum?’ it asked. ‘This must be Ancient Greece!’ he mused. ‘But how did I get here?’ ‘Er... I don’t think so. I came with the parade, but it’s time I got home.’ ‘Aha!’ cried the statue. ‘Take my hand, kitty dear. I’ll show you the way.’ verpoo e Li l fo With a purr of relief Banjo at r A T n m c stuck out his paw… o ie r f n t p G m r a e t e s c t e c E e l p l i o s o C d ‘Pssst.’ Came a voice from the e corner of the room. ZAP! ‘Strike for our future, strike for our future!’ the crowd chanted as one. This was not what Banjo expected. The streets were filled with noise and clamour. Bright signs ‘Looks like the future is that way!’ he and bright little faces marched down the road. thought with delight. So up he leaped for a Here was a parade of a different kind. comfortable shoulder to rest on. ‘Are you heading to the future?’ But yet again… Banjo mewed above the din. Eye G pen alle O ry m fo o r r f F p la m s h a t b s a t c c k e l E l p o i s C o d e ZAP! New ferries flew through the water, the Hello Future Me bus ‘Oooh!’ Banjo wailed. If the future was what he wanted, zipped past like a train. Nothing stayed still. It all zoomed he was certain this was far too far. Everything moved at and whirred. warp speed. for M ema on in um C e C n B ts A f r m o o m r f t h p e m F a u t t s u t r c e e l l E o p C i s o d e No matter what he did, Banjo seemed to stray further and further. Here he was in a digi-world and right there in front of him was a digi-dog. Banjo was sorely in need of a friend. ‘But follow me. I can help you get home.’ ‘There are portals everywhere’ the digi-dog explained. ‘You can find them all over Liverpool, and behind each portal there’s a different story.’ from FAC mp T f a or st S t o c f t le w l o a r C e E p i s o d e ese Sup hin erm C a o rk nd e o t f H o r m C o r h Back home curled up on the counter with a belly f i n p a full of steamed fish, Banjo sighed as Lin tickled his t m o a w t s tired back. n t E c p e l i l s o o C ‘Funny animals and parades, statues and digital d dogs.’ Banjo chuckled sleepily. ‘Liverpool’s not got e all of that…or has it?’ Things to do in Liverpool Education and Family Programme recommended by children Saturday 9 July Every Saturday Minecraft Infinity Project Explore Best Library Most Fun Museum 11–12pm (presentation), 1–4pm, Bluecoat • Liverpool Library – • Museum of Natural History 12–5.30pm (drop-in), FACT Crime Section • World Museum Artist-led activities for families See what happens when art and to do together, inspired by the Best Swimming Place Free Things Minecraft collide! Presentation Biennial exhibitions. Drop in for a followed by open play session led short time or spend all afternoon • Garston and Europa Pools • Free food samples in by YouTube experts. making your own masterpiece. • Best Milkshakes supermarkets Suitable for all ages. • Archies at the top of • Lifestyles – free Zumba Hanover Street for kids Sunday 31 July, 28 August, • Sprinkles on lodge lane 25 September & 16 October 27–29 July or 3–5 August • Udderly Delicious – Fun Things Liverpool Biennial (Ages 8–11) / West Derby • Farmageddon (October) Sunday Comedy Club 10–12 August or 17–19 August • Velocity trampoline park (Ages 12–14) Best View 1–5pm, The Studio, Tate Liverpool • Spring City – trampolining Prototype A monthly workshop for families • Otterspool front front • Airbourne academy FACT, £60 for three days • Top of the cathedral • Area 51 – Belle Vale to create their own comedy • Pier head lazer quest shows inspired by Liverpool Designed to inspire confidence • Radio City tower • Jungle Fun – Children’s play Biennial 2016. Spend the day and creativity, Prototype is a • View at Everton brow centre with educators and comedians summer camp where tinkering • Forbidden Planet comic book to develop your acts, which can with tech allows young people to Best Skate Park shop on Bold Street include poetry, song and stand-up. build their own knowledge. Learn • Otterspool a range of digital skills from coding and circuitry to designing • Everton Every other Saturday and building in Minecraft. 16 July–8 October Best Bike Track Do Something! Saturdays • Huyton leisure centre 12–4pm, FACT BMX track Explore hands-on skills from Best Park designing with technology • Sefton Park and the role of art in gaming, to sculpting, filmmaking and animation techniques. Suitable for ages 7+. Principal funders International agencies Department of Culture and the Arts Founding Supporter James Moores Liverpool Biennial partners Corporate partners Commission and project partners Support for Arseny Zhilyaev’s work provided by Dilyara Allakhverdova and Elchin Safarov. Travel partner Hospitality partners Sponsors Corporate patrons Gallery circle Patrons Casey Kaplan Alex Wainwright (Chair) Chatterjee & Lal Leila Alexander David Kordansky Gallery Alice Anastasiou Galleria Franco Noero Jo and Tom Bloxham Galerie Lelong Simon Edwards Trusts and foundations Galerie Micheline Swajcer Jonathan Falkingham Gallery Isabelle van den Eynde Anna Fox and Peter Goodbody kurimanzutto Roland and Rosemary Hill MadeIn Gallery Daniel and Alison Rees Mai 36 Galerie Paula Ridley Pilar Corrias Peter Woods and Francis Ryan Sadie Coles HQ Wilfried Lentz Rotterdam www.biennial.com #Biennial2016.

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