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Aboard for a Grand Day out 14 February - 20 March ALL ABOARD FOR A GRAND DAY OUT 14 FEBRUARY - 20 MARCH TRAIL MAP Join in the fun with Wallace & Gromit at the latest Spaceport exhibition. Visit Wallace’s workshop. Check out their film sets. You can even design your own alien! Take the Mersey Ferry from Pier Head to Spaceport at Seacombe, Wirral. For more details visit www.spaceport.org.uk or call 0151 330 1566 © Aardman Animations Ltd. 2010 WWW.LIVERPOOLDISCOVERS.CO.UK Commissioned by Supported by Presenting Partners Produced by In Association with Spaceport and Mersey Ferries are owned and operated by Merseytravel Supported by CityCentral - the heartbeat of Liverpool www.citycentralbid.com WELCOME TO LIVERPOOL DISCOVERS! I’m delighted Liverpool is staging another huge public art programme across the city. It’s a wonderful opportunity for residents and visitors, young and old, to get involved and be inspired by the many fantastic pieces of work Liverpool has been home to many ‘great’ people - enough to adorn every which are on display. street lamp from Bootle to Birkenhead. The ‘Greats’ - designed and painted by local artists In previous years, the Superlambanana and Penguin trails really captured and lining two city centre streets - will give you a glimpse of some of these people past and the hearts and minds of the hundreds of thousands of visitors who came present and the diverse nature of their achievements. to the city and I’m positive Liverpool Discovers will do the same. MEL C The fun and informative installations will recreate some WHITECHAPEL WILLIAM BROWN ST of Liverpool’s greatest stories and I’m sure everyone will (1974- ) Musician, ex-Spice Girl GEORGE MELLY uncover some hidden gems about the city they never knew Liverpool Discovers is produced by & actress JEAN ALExANDER before. Wild in Art - world-leaders in public art (1926-2007) Jazz & Blues As voted for by Liverpool ECHO readers (1926- ) Actress & original ‘Curler musician & surrealist Artist: Sarah Ryan Queen’ Liverpool has always been a city of talented musicians, and education projects that promote Artist: Candida Boyes CILLA BLACK Artist: Nicola McGovern great sportsmen and women, world class artists and many creativity, citizenship and conservation; TOM BAKER BESSIE BRADDOCK others who have contributed to our rich heritage. Liverpool in association with Liverpool Lantern (1943- ) Chart topping singer & (1934- ) Actor & fourth Doctor Discovers opens the doors to all of this and gives people a Company - an artist-led organisation TV presenter (1899-1970) MP & social reformer Who from 1974-81 magical glimpse into the things that make this city so unique. specialising in thought-provoking, large- Artist: Sarah Jane Richards Artist: Becka Griffin scale, celebratory events. Artist: Jo Daly LIZZIE CHRISTIAN KITTY WILKINSON Lastly, a huge thank you to the artists, sponsors, landowners KEN DODD www.wildinart.co.uk (1898-1977) Local legend and (1785-1860) Wash house & public and others who have made this event happen. www.liverpoollanterncompany.co.uk (1927- ) Record breaking street flower seller for 60 years health pioneer comedian & singer Artist: Sarah Jane Richards Artist: Sarah Ryan Artist: Michael Haselden BILL SHANKLY ELEANOR RATHBONE Councillor Joe Anderson WILLY RUSSELL (1913-81) Legendary Liverpool (1872–1946) MP, human rights & Leader, Liverpool City Council (1947- ) Award winning FC manager from 1959-74 child welfare campaigner playwright & composer Artist: Gill Smith Artist: Linda Cattrall Artist: Sarah Broadfoot DIxIE DEAN GEORGE STUBBS JOHN LENNON (1907-1980) Everton FC’s (1724-1806) Celebrated equine (1940-80) Musician, Beatle & greatest goal scorer artist peace campaigner Artist: Mike Snowdon Artist: Laura Bolton As voted for by Liverpool ECHO readers JOHN CONTEH FRANK HORNBY Artist: Paul McKay (1951- ) World Light (1863-1936) Inventor of Meccano, Heavyweight Champion from Dinky Toys & model railways 1974-78 Artist: Christopher Murray Artist: Anna Ketskemety JOHN ARCHER BETH TWEDDLE (1863-1932) Britian’s first black (1985- ) Gymnastics Triple Mayor in 1913 World Champion Artist: Karl Eversley Artist: Anna Ketskemety ARTHUR DOOLEY (1929-1994) Ship welder turned acclaimed sculptor Artist: Trevor Skempton WILLIAM ROSCOE (1753-1831) MP, botanist, poet & anti-slavery campaigner Artist: Amanda Oliphant SETH DAVY & HIS In Association with DANCING DOLL (-1902) Celebrated West Indian sailor & street entertainer Artist: Gill Smith MUSIC OPEN SPACES & ARTS & ARCHITECTURE EChoEs & WhIspErs ENTERTAINMENT MythophonEs Artist: Andy McKeown sounDInG out Artists: Dave Young & Dan Music is the heart-beat of Liverpool, LIvErpooL Fox leading the world in having produced Artist: Matthew Sansom TRANSPORT Explore Liverpool’s ‘secret gardens’ and share more No 1 hit singles than any other city (source: Guinness Book of World Records). Giant ‘sound mirrors’ tempt stEphEnson’s their unknown secrets, fantastical facts, tall viewers to listen to the city through the Sing-along with the UK’s first ever musical lamp- DEstInAtor tales, myths and poems through a series of artwork, which amplifies the continual flowing posts as this interactive new media sound installation curious metallic ‘Mythophones’. Press a button soundscape of the city and its inhabitants. Artist: Aragorn Horner and listen as unknown stories and facts about transforms Thomas Steers Way into a whispering Making its inaugural journey each sculpture’s unique location are revealed. gallery of facts, words, places, stories, people, songs This artwork invites you to entertain and play, at the Rainhill Trials in 1829, and music that have come to define Liverpool. bounce your own stories, jokes or poems off Locations: Our Lady & St Nicholas the sound mirror, or recite extracts from the George Stephenson’s ‘Rocket’ was the world’s Visit www.echoesandwhispers.com to participate in Churchyard; St James’ Garden; St Luke’s films, books and entertainers of Liverpool, first modern passenger locomotive. It changed this dynamic installation. Garden; Bluecoat Gallery Garden, LJMU Art & whose words are etched on the surrounding the world forever, but this revolutionary invention Design Academy Garden Location: Thomas Steers Way, Liverpool ONE caused deep suspicion for many Victorians. ground. With over 160 shops, bars and restaurants, Liverpool ONE is a What fate might befall them when travelling in Location: St James’ Mount, Anglican SCIENCE & must-visit destination in the heart of the city. Liverpool ONE is this new way? Could Stephenson have put their proudly supporting Liverpool Discovers and is hosting the music- Cathedral minds at rest with this fantastical machine? TECHNOLOGY themed art installation, which is sure to be a talking point in a city with such a strong and proud musical heritage. Step inside, crank the handle and allow your hEAvEn & EArth destiny to be revealed! www.liverpool-one.com Artist: Andy Plant HEALTH: Location: Lime Street Station SPORT Gaze into the stars with this X rAy tED GoLF BuG Merseytravel is proudly supporting Liverpool Discovers. humorous interactive sculpture dedicated to the thE runnEr We have a great network of buses, trains and ferries to get city’s astrophysics genius Jeremiah Horrocks. Artist: Joe Rush you around the Trail. The CityLink network of buses around Artist: Faith Bebbington the City Centre will help you get to many of the artworks. Born in Toxteth in 1617 and living to just 22, Using found objects, For help in planning your journey by public transport, call Jeremiah was the first to record the Transit of Liverpool is renowned globally flash light and recycled Traveline on 0871 200 22 33 or visit Venus in 1639, pioneered astronomy in an age for its football prowess and materials, this artwork combines two of the www.merseytravel.gov.uk of ‘witchcraft and alchemy’ and was hailed as a glorious Grand National. But many medical discoveries of international ‘giant’ by Isaac Newton. Enjoy a short animation did you know that Liverpool held an annual Grand significance carried out in Liverpool. In 1896, through the giant telescope and learn about other Olympic Festival devised by John Hulley and Nobel Prize-winning Charles Barkla was the SOCIAL JUSTICE & facets of this incredible man’s achievements. Charles Melly between 1862 to 1867 on which the first to use x-ray photography to reveal a bullet RADICALS first modern Olympiad in Athens was based? This Location: Pier Head, the Waterfront in a young boy’s wrist. Another breakthrough precariously balanced sculptural sequence is a event was made in 1902 at Liverpool’s School MAry BAMBEr – A fitting celebration of the awesome achievements of rEvoLutIonAry of Tropical Medicine (the world’s first such TRADE & COMMERCE Liverpool’s past and present Olympiads and puts us school) by Nobel Prize winner Ronald Ross, WoMAn in fine form for more successes in 2012. suGAr & ChAIn who discovered that malaria is transmitted Artists: Carrie Reichardt & Nick Reynolds Location: King-Park, (car park) Kings Dock Street to humans by mosquitoes. Both of these An informative mosaic figure of suffragette Artist: Andy Hazell ground-breaking discoveries changed the and social revolutionary Mary Bamber - once This bitter-sweet artwork MARITIME methods of medical diagnosis forever. described by Sylvia Pankhurst as the ‘finest, references the historical links FIsh & shIps Location: Lyceum Place, Bold Street fighting platform speaker in the country’ - reclaims between the city’s sugar industry and its reliance Artist: David Kemp The Decade of Health and Wellbeing is delighted to be the original ‘Speakers’
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