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: - ... ' School Lane, Liverpool L1 3BX Train: (nearest stations) Central and Lime St. Information: 0151 709 5297 For full timetables contact National Rail Enquiries Box Office: 0151 707 9393 on 08457 48 49 50. Gallery: 0151 709 5689 Bus: (nearest stops) Lewis's Department Store or email: [email protected] Paradise St Bus Station. For full timetables www.bluecoatartscentre.com contact Merseytravel on 0151 236 7676. Secure Parking: Hanover St Car Park, St John's We are situated in the city centre off Shopper Car Park, Queen's Square Car Park Church Street behind Uttlewoods or the NCP Car Park on Paradise St. Disabled parking is available behind the Bluecoat on College Lane . s1uecoatArtsCentreS1Jpportedby: ... ,,_. w ~ ,, Visual arts Live art Music Dance a .JI P.H. Hott Charitable Trust Literature Education Shops ... c,,,.ru,ap,ol Esmee Fairbairn Foundation IJrii·. •· ..,...~~ 0• I Cafe Garden Front cover image: Shen Yuan, The Dinosaur's Egg, 2001 (detaiQ ·Introduction - ~ . - -

A word from Bryan Biggs Index Bluecoat Director 4-6 The recent news that the Bluecoat has been events, Bluecoat Verbals, featuring Doris Lessing Visual arts admitted to the Arts Council of England's Lottery and Alexei Sayle. Our music programme includes Art classes 7 , the Frakture Festival and a focus on Capital Programme 2, moves us a step closer to female vocalists. The gallery presents artists from Live art 8-9 realising our plans to transform the Arts Centre China and Germany, and a new series of 10-11 over the coming years. We will shortly be Education fortnightly live art event~ b~ins. Our participatory announcing the architect for a scheme that will Bluecoat Verbals 12&17 Connect Programme bnng1ng together artists see the construction of a new wing, and greatly and local communities continues, and there Pull out section 13-16 enhanced arts, education and heritage facilities are workshops, classes, a book launch and 18-23 throughout the building. Outline ?esigns will ~e Music much more. available early in 2002 and we will be consulting Dance 23 widely with artists, audiences and other Bluecoat And in December our retailers are extending their Christmas 24 users. Please contact our Deputy Director opening hours and there are special seasonal Room hire 25 Charlotte Myhrum for further news of the events including Liverpool City Council's 26-27 development. Christmas Grotto, so we look forward to seeing Bluecoat plus you then. This season offers a wide range of exhibitio~~· performances, workshops and ev~nts ffol:tv1s1tors 1 to the Bluecoat. There is a new series o I era ure r 104 05 1 Visual arts Visual arts

Image: Laura Quam,by, video discussK)n (work in progress), 2001

protoacademy There will be a series of events at Bluecoat and an Volker Eichelmann 22 September - 13 October event at Static Gallery. These events are a Haus Wohner collaboration between Bluecoat, FACT, . 20 October- 1 December Breakdown hierarchy. Build bridges. Meet others. protoacademy and Static. Further information about these events is available from the gallery Work together. The starting point of Eichelmann's work is popular friendships. Alongside the three video pieces and www.protoacademy.org culture: cinema, music, the Internet, fashion and The gallery is a space ta show, a point to meet, Eichelmann shows a series ~f wa~ercolo~rs, fiction. Through collaborative and individual a lace for exchange, and a generator o~ juxtaposing the questions raised in the videos. projects Eichelmann examines and challenges d1scuss10.P · n . protoacademy takes up residence at notions of how mainstream culture informs our Bluecoat. Be our guest. understanding of everyday life. ·s a network of artists and cultural protoacad e my l · Ed. b h Window Box Two novels, Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged and producers with members based in S in tg , Erskine Childers' The Riddle of the Sands provide .. F kf rt Cork Basel and eou · Stop and look at the smallest exhibition space the background for Eichelmann's exhibition. While Malm~~ ~~nde~ei'op w~ys in which institutional in Liverpool, located between our Bookshop the video Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged" reflects on They s can take advantage of and and Cafe Bar on the ground floor. art structure ealth of knowledge in a the depersonalised aspects of capitalist power th contribute ~o ewe as a meeting point for artists, October Tickylowe structures, The Riddle of the Sands focuses on the particul~r city, ft~I producers and citizens and November Rebecca Reid idea o.f friendship as portrayed in Childers' late academics, cu b tween art research and the December Vicky Godfrey V1ctonan spy novel. A third video, Rudolf Se/dis Co act as an interface e January Meg Ferguson KG GmbH, combines the manufacture of shipping wider public. equipment with the personal experiences of 106 07 1 Visual arts

Image: Shen Yuan. I I I The Dinosaur's Egg, 2001 (detaiQ Timetable

Monday Beglnneis Printmaking 10.00am 1.00pm Life Drawing 10.30am 1.30pm Beginneis Printmaking 6.00pm 9.00pm Tuesday intermediate Printmaking 10.00am 1.00pm l Intermediate Printmaking 6.00pm 9.00pm \Nednesday Advanced Printmaking 10.00am 1.00pm Advanced Printmaking 6.00pm 9.00pm Life Drawing 6.00pm 9.00pm Thur.aday Mixed Media Printmaking 6.00pm 9.00pm

Shen Yuan Adult art classes Life Drawing 14 December - 2 February Gallery Office: 0151 709 5689 Location: Neptune Room (entrance Main Door) (Gallery closed 23 December - 1 January) Email: [email protected] Course Fees: £48.00 (£33.00 cone) Using sculpture and installation, Shen Yuan's Shen Yuan migrated from China to Paris in 1990, Course materials not provided. Explore and discover a variety of skills and work ranges from monumental site-specific where she continues to live and work, and has Creative, enjoyable and affordable 1 Oweek interventions to intimate visceral objects. Her work exhibited internationally to critical acclaim. Last cou~ses in Life Drawing and Printmaking with a approaches to drawing from the life model. transforms everyday objects into poetic - but seen in the UK in Cities on the Move (Hayward choice of daytime and evening classes. All Relaxed and informal, with expert guidance. often disturbing - meditations, touching on Gallery, 1999), this is her first major solo exhibition. courses begin the week commencing Monday contemporary questions around migration, 24 September. Pnnt Studio Hire memory and language. Exhibition organiSed by inlVA and Arnolfini and Thursdays & Fridays 10.00am-5.00pm Printmaking supported by the Arts Council of England with Saturdays 11.00am - 5.00pm . The exhibition includes the work Perdre Sa Salive Nation~! Lottery funds and by the Association Location: Print Studio (entrance Door A) The print studio is available for hire to expenenced (Wasting One's Spittle), a set of tongues n:iade Franc;:aise d'Action Artistique. Course Fees: £48.00 (£33.00 cone) printmakers. Please book one week in advance from ice which gradually melt to reveal knives, and An additional £3. 00 for materials. and contact the Gallery Office if you are interested The Dinosaur's Egg, which includes an array of : ra~ge of classes designed for all abilities, from in using the studio for small groups. Chinese characters derived from the toys ~ inlVA t+iiUNIIHNI eginner~ to experienced printmakers. An ideal 0 All Day contained in Kinder Surprise Eggs. These figures p~ortunrty to both extend the range of individual Days PerHr 1Dam-2pm 11am-3pm march across a map of China, and surrounding st £20(7hm) t ,r anding of processes, and to explore new Thursday& £4 £12 countries, spread over the gallery floor. em ory through etching, collography, drypoint, Friday wood and hno cutting. £18(6hrs) Saturday £4 £12 - d r 108 09 1 Live art

Images from lett to right: Images from left to right: Paul Rooney, Choir Philip Jeck and Mary Prestidge Mike Carney l.aribot, from the book Exposures (see Lois Keidan and Daniel Brine below) Yellow House

The Wednesday Sessions Paul Rooney Beginning 3 October and then every alternate 3 October6.30pm Philip Jeck and Mary Prestidge Rebecca Reid What' ...' ..Things can Happen Wednesday in the Sandon Room. 28 November6.30pm Paul Rooney's ongoing project designed to give 31 October6.30pm Tickets: £1.00 In an elegant chamber music setting, recen~ vrnce to stories of everyday experience and Liverpool Art School graduate Rebecca Reid and Increasingly, artists are blurring the distinctions c~lebrating undocumented jobs, continues with "He looked at the little lady, she looked at him. between visual, performing and other art forms He could feel that he was melting but he still stood a group of performers present a musical box of this s~und installation and live performance st and real life, taking art out of a conventional gallery 1nvolv1ng a choir and recorded sound. aunchly with arms at the shoulder. Then a popular tunes. Through physical movement and or theatre context. The Bluecoat continues its draught caught the dancer and she flew like a perfect timing, melodies tangle and untangle from support for this area of experimental work with a Mike Carney sylph right into he stove to the tin soldier, flared up their crafted instruments as distinctions between th new series of live art events featuring artists from 17 October 6.30pm ,n e flame and was gone." (Hans Christian high and low brow evaporate. nd the region and elsewhere, taking in a range of A erson: The Steadfast Tin Soldier) performances, talks and provocation. There will be "As a gay man, a lapsed catholic and an artist Residency opportunities to discuss the work as well as the wh~se work explores concepts of gender, Lois Keidan and Daniel Brine The Yellow House 14 development of live art practice at the Bluecoat. patnarchy and iconography, I propose to examine November 6.30pm Saturday 26 January 8.00pm a load. of old cliches to come up with something Admission FREE beautiful, burlesque and melodramatic." Lois Keidan and Daniel Brine from the Live Art Development Agency have pioneered live art Continuing their series of international practice through the promotion of UK and collaborations and exchanges, The Yellow House international artists, and here they introduce their devises a new performance for young people work and discuss new developments in live art during a week's residency. and give a pre sen t at ion· on the recently published. ' 81 ack Dog book, Exposures. 11 1 110 Education Education

Images from left to right Images from left to right: Dance wor1

Connect Arts for Al/ Schools' Focus Group Whose Language Poets and writers collaborate with pupils from October- December 2001 Arts for All are a group of adults resident at LB :e are in .the process of developing a teachers Resource Centre interested in exploring visual nd learning mentors' focus group. This will meet West Derby Comprehensive, St Vincent's Hot on the heels of a successful two-year a~s. The~ are working with visual artist Leo once a term. . as a c reat· 1ve f arum offering. training School for the Blind and Partially Sighted, education outreach scheme, the Bluecoat is Fitzmaunce to explore the past, present and 0 pportunities and space for discussion about Roscoe and Maidford Primary Schools to delighted to announce its successor, Connect. future of the Bluecoat, including our capital ~pproaches to contemporary art. If you are explore the influences on language and dialect, This will provide a rolling programme of projects ?evelopment, to create a series of subtle interested please contact us. past, present and future. bringing together artists from the local to the installations in the building. international with communities around Liverpool. g allery Interpretation Scheme Work with Liverpool Schools Bupil~ from New Heys Comprehensive and Rice Lane City Farm residencies Dance and drum workshops Rice Lane City Farm play host to three artists' e:llfneve FJC are working with Becky Shaw to After a successful summer series of dance G:I ore contemporary art through the Bluecoat residencies, spanning nine months. Artists workshops for pupils on the learning mentor Connect is managed by specialising in installation, sculpture and new e~t· programme. Pupils will work with artists Sarah Haythomthwaite, Project Manager scheme in Liverpool, Connect offers a new art Cn 1cs and th ed' ' technologies will work with members from the brin · e m ,a to create interpretation Telephone: 0151 709 5297 pr?gramme for the Autumn term In addition to ging new perspectives to the gallery ' youth group and staff to explore the farm's rich th Email: sarah@bluecoatartscentre,com is a programme of percussion based workshops bogramme. This scheme will be launched in environment and create a body of work. Navjot is panned1 for Tuesday evenings. Schools wishing Altaf, a highly respected artist from Bombay will ecembe_r with the Shen Yuan exhibition (see ~ book should call the Bluecoat Box Office. Page 5)w1ththea · fd · start the residencies, working on the farm initiat· ,m o evelop1ng a year round upported by Mike Tracey. 1ve. throughout October. Bid! Supported by Esmee Fe)baim FoundBIIOn Supported by The Neighbourhood Support Fund. r I 112 Bluecoat Verbals

Images from left to right: Doris Lessing Alexei Sayle

Bluecoat Verbals Alexei Sayle This is a continuing and developing strand of the Saturday 27 October 8.00pm Bluecoat Ms Centre's programme and includes Tickets: £11 .00 (£9.00 cone) literature presented in a live context, talks, Diary Mailing List lnfonnation seminars and discussions. Following the success of his first volume of short Reservations stories Barcelona Plates, comedian, actor, presenter and writer Alexei Sayle visits the Bluecoat for the launch of his second volume, an A pull out section that gives you all Doris Lessing the infonnation you need about events, Friday 19 October 8. 00pm ev~n more hilarious and implausible collection Tickets: £5.00 (£4.00 cone) entitled The Dog Catcher. One of a limited number dates and times, Box Office and o~ rare personal appearances, Alexei will read from access. Considered among the most important writers of hrs new _volume and spend time taking questions the post-war era, Doris Lessing's radical work has and talking wrth the audience. spawned novels, short stories, reportage, poems and plays. Her latest publications_ include two . volumes of autobiography My Skm and Walking m Bluecoat Arts Centre the Shade and a novel, Mara and Dann. This School Lane Liverpool L 1 3BX Bluecoat co-promotion with The Reader Group Information: 0151 709 5297 will feature readings from the author, with Email: [email protected] opportunities for the audience to ask questions. Date EvenVExhibition Page Tyf)0 Time Price Room The Bluecoat is a charitable organisation, which depends upon you allowing us to send information 21/9 Horse 18 Music 8.00pm £12 (£10 cone) Concert Hall about forthcoming events, special offers and our 22/9 - 13/10 protoacademy 4 Exhibition 10.30am -5.00pm FREE Gallery 29/9 Jean Grunfeld 18 Music 8.00pm £5(£4conc) Concert Hall seasonal brochure. If you would like to join the mailing (.l list please fill in the form below and post it to: October TickyLowe .I 4 Installation Allday FREE Window Box Marf

(payable to Bluecoat Arts Centre Ltd). Ac t s of • • ~chlov Ont Presented as part of • Large • • ~ I Black History Month Print • • ~ Braille Those coming to see this performance are warmly welcomed to arrive earlier for our book launch (see opposite). 118 19 1 Music Music

Images from left to right Images from left to right: BillBruford Horse Martin Speake Quartet Jean Grunfeld Sense of Sound Niamh Parsons

Horse Jean Grunfeld Quintet Bill Bruford's Earthworks Martin Speake Quartet Friday21 SeptemberB.00pm Saturday 29 September 8.00pm Friday 2 November 8.00pm Thursday 6 December 8.00pm Tickets: £ 12. 00 (£ 10. 00 cone) Tickets: £5.00 (£4.00 cone) Tickets: £11.00 (£9.00 cone) Tickets: £9.00 (£7.00 cone)

Horse MacDonald first captured the public's Liverpool debut for sultry, soulful British jazz 'Rock fans will have plenty to marvel at, while jazz Martin Speake, a saxophonist distinctive not attention as the lead singer/ songwriter with the vocalist Jean Grunfeld, a singer 'with a smoky, fans can enjoy a solid, thoughtful jazz group with only as an improviser but as a striking composer, band Horse, making her television debut on The deep timbre somewhere between Sarah Vaughn more than a hint ofartful adventurousness.' is joined on tour by the great American drummer Tube and signing to Capitol. Since going solo in and Cleo Laine'. (Time Out) and a 'distinctive, (Billboard) , best known for his unique 1995 she has gone from strength to strength, promising new voice' (Jazz Review). contribution to the sound of the Bill Evans Trio in working alongside such artists as Robbie In 1986'. having already spent almost 20 years on the 1950s and 1960s. Acclaimed Swedish pianist Williams, Pet Shop Boys and Lesley Garrett. Niamh Parsons th~ cutting edge of modern rock touring w ith King Bobo Stenson and top UK bassist Mick Hutton Maintaining her reputation as 'the voice', her Saturday 3 November 8.00pm Cnmson and Yes, Bill Bruford formed Earthworks. complete the Quartet. songs are both devastating and uplifting. Tickets: £7.00 (£5.00 cone) This second edition of the band features some of th~ best British musical talent, Steve Hamilton Sense of Sound Niamh Parsons is one of the freshest and most (piano), Patrick Clahar (saxophone) and Mark Friday 14 - Saturday 15 DecemberB.00pm powerful singers out of Ireland today. 'A voice like H~dgso~ (acoustic bass). Once hailed as a Tickets: £7.00 (£5.00 cone) this comes along once or twice in a generation' gu1d1ng hght in the so-called British 'Art Rock' (Archie Fisher). Likened to such singers as the late movement, Earthworks marks Bruford's Sense of Sound's celebration of all things vocal Sandy Denny, June Tabor and Dolores Keane, deliberate return to his jazz roots. returns to the Bluecoat, featuring performances Niamh's silken vocals stand on their own. by members of the latest Introduction to Singing Course, special guests and the Sense of Sound quartet itself. 120 21 1 Music Music

Image : Images from left to right John Butcher Peter Fairclough Keith Tippett Hession/ Wilkinson/Fell

Frakture Festival Before Touch Inside Out Peter Fairclough and Keith Tippett Festival Card £20.00 (£17.00 cone) Thursday 4 October 8.00pm Saturday 6 October 8.00pm Thursday 11 October8.00pm Buy the Frakture Festival Card and you will be Tickets: £5.00 (£4.00 cone) Tickets: £5.00 (£4.00 cone) Tickets: £7.00 (£5.00 cone) admitted to all October events at the Bluecoat. Available from Bluecoat Box Office. May Molteno, a founder member of the former Inside Out features John Butcher (saxophone) A welcome return to the Bluecoat for legendary improvising music and dance group Grace & a~d Ian Birse (guitar/ electronics) using contact pianist Keith Tippett and to Liverpool's home­ Get an earful of this, The Fourth Frakture Festival Danger joins Listening Room resident Phil Morton p1ck~ps/ microphones and taped sounds in a grown drummer Peter Fairclough. of Improvised and Experimental Music, presented to combine the creative approach of instant multi-channel surrounded environment. by Frakture in association with the Bluecoat. The composition in movement and sound with the Hession/Wilkinson/Fell Festival demonstrates Frakture 's drive to present power to express the vitality and uncertainty of life. Elecktro Head Friday 12 October 8.00pm music that is uncompromising, yet an invitation to Tuesday 9 October 8.00pm Tickets: £5.00 (£4.00 cone) be enjoyed by all of the senses. Come and enjoy Loi Coxhill and Michael Kosmides Tickets: £5.00 (£4.00 cone) the electro acoustic brilliance oflive performance. Friday 5 October 8.00pm The long-standing trio (1989) that has re-emerged Tickets: £5. 00 (£4. 00 cone) Multi-media electro-scanning sound to rave reviews this year. performance: an ocean of bubbling televisions, The magnificent Loi Coxhill whose snakey, Bu_ddh1st chant, electro-optical sound, minimal Chwareteg slithering soprano saxophone has been stinging noise, plunderphonics and hair dryers. Saturday 13 October8.00pm us since the seventies, reappears within the mire Tickets: £5.00 (£4.00 cone) of the theramins of Michael Kosmides. Seize this . · and earful of electro and acoustic brilliance with the String music, generated from close I1stening festival spirit it deserves. swift but considered interactions. 122 23 1 Music Music/Dance

Images: Images from left to right Bonehouse Phil Hargreaves Dinesh Allirajah

Stairway to Memory: Listening Room Annual Soundwalk Space to Move Tribute to Kenley Close Takes you to undiscovered places Tuesday 18 December6.30pm Monday 26 - Friday 30 November Friday 16 November 8.00pm Admission FREE · 10.00am -5.00pm each day Tickets: £5.00 (£4.00 cone) ~oin artists from Frakture for their Annual Course Fees: £60.00 oundwalk through Church Street. (£45.00 Concession if based in the North West) The stairspace of the now demolished 22 storey John Oswald, Plunderphonics Kenley Close flats on Sheil Road provided and Before Matchless A five day professional development course for Bonehouse with a unique performance Friday 30 November 7.30pm Friday 18 January 7.30pm dancers interested in the art of improvisation. environment. Live mixes of those extraordinary Roger Parry will cover the current Plunderphonics recordings accompany the memorial ceremony. Mr Eddie Provost's label will be covered by Space to Move, now in its 8th year, continues to controversy and other Oswaldiana. RogerParry. offer the North West some of the most inspiring Ensemble8 and exciting teachers of dance. This year Dislocation Sermons Lisa Nelson from the USA will lead a group of Saturday B December 8.00pm Friday 7 December 7.30pm Tickets: £5.00 (£4.00) professional dancers through an intensive week Poetry and music by Dinesh Allirajah and Phil of improvisation, exploration and skill sharing. Ensemble 8 manages to blend experimental Hargreaves, plus excerpts from the Dislocation 'sound art' with words, sounds and texture from Sermon studio recording captured at th For further information and an application form different cultures and musical backgrounds. Their Bluecoat premiere in April this year. e contact MDI on 0151 708 8810. Deadline for music is created collectively, united by a desire to applications is Monday 29 October. experiment with live electronics, samplers, acoustic instruments, voice and live sound sources. - 25 1 Room hire

Images: Wrth thanks to George and Gosia for aJlowing us to use their wedding photographs 126 27 1 Bluecoat plus Bluecoat plus

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