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Book Launch: A Look At A New Perspective

23 November 2023

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Book Launch: ‘544m’ By Kevin Crooks

30 November 2023

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Community workshops @ Ellesmere Port Library

6 November - 5 February 2024

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Bernice Mulenga @ Open Eye Gallery Atrium Space

17 November - 17 December 2023

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Bernice Mulenga: Artist Talk

18 November 2023

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Community @ Ellesmere Port Library

26 October - 11 April 2024

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Local Roots @ The Atkinson

14 October 2023

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Critique Surgery for Socially Engaged Photographers

6 November 2023

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Deeds Not Words: panel discussion

12 October 2023

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Deeds Not Words @ Atrium Space

3 October - 22 October 2023

Ode To Our Space @ Digital Window Gallery

29 September - 23 December 2023

A Look At A New Perspective @ Digital Window Gallery

29 September - 23 December 2023

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Exhibition Launch: A Place of Our Own

28 September 2023

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Book Launch: Crow Dark Dawn

19 October 2023

Reflections

12 September - 22 December 2023

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Sandra Suubi ‘Samba Gown’ Procession

9 September 2023

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A Place of Our Own

29 September - 22 December 2023

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POETRY BOOK LAUNCH: JACK BENNETT – LUNETTE

7 September 2023

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A Portrait of the High Street @ Prescot

31 August 2023

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Our Home. Our Place. Our Space. @ Walton

16 August - 2 October 2023

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Poetry Reading: Coast to Coast to Coast’s sixth Birthday!

16 September 2023

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CHILDREN’S STORYTELLING: The Mermaid’s Revolt

9 September 2023

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Findings: an exhibition by service users of Age Concern

8 August - 10 September 2023

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Film screening: The Undesirables + When the Sea sends forth a Forest

24 August 2023

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Reclaim. Suzanne St Clare and residents of Chester @ Chester

5 August - 10 September 2023

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Picturing High Streets. Ciara Leeming and The Spider Project @ Chester

28 July - 10 September 2023

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Picturing High Streets. Suzanne St Clare and Chester Traders @ Chester

28 July - 10 September 2023

VR: Home. Perspectives

4 May - 21 May 2023

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Book Launch: Vestige

27 July 2023

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An Evening of Poetry: Launch of Life Stills and readings from Merseyside Stanza Poets

15 June 2023

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LCR Photo Award Winners @ Williamson Art Gallery and Museum

1 June - 1 July 2023

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Me, Myself, My SPACE @ The Atkinson

27 May - 9 July 2023

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as the glass clears

25 May - 29 May 2023

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Poets Hanan Issa and James Conor Patterson at Open Eye Gallery

21 May 2023

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PLATFORM: ISSUE 5

27 April 2023

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Solace in the City @ DWG

5 May - 21 May 2023

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Home. Making @ Kirkby Gallery

1 May - 15 June 2023

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Home. Settings @ The Atkinson

4 May - 15 June 2023

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Home. Perspectives @ Open Eye Gallery

4 May - 21 May 2023

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Home. Land @ Norton Priory Museum and Gardens

27 April - 11 June 2023

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HOME: Launch Event

4 May 2023

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HOME SCHOOLS ACTIVITY PACK

18 April - 21 July 2023

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Home. Liberty @ Unity Theatre Exhibition Space

1 May - 31 May 2023

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Home. Resistance @ Williamson Art Gallery and Museum (Wirral)

26 April - 27 May 2023

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People and Places: Whitby High School Student Exhibition Private View

28 April 2023

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The Liverpool Camarade – part of The European Poetry Festival 2023

11 May 2023

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People and Places @ Open Eye Gallery

26 April - 1 May 2023

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Liverpool Biennial 2023

10 June - 17 September 2023

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Zine Launch: PLATFORM Issue 5

20 April 2023

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EuroFestival: exhibitions and events @ Open Eye Gallery & Liverpool City Region

26 April 2023

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OUR NORTH

Andy Yates, Our North Project Assistant

 

In a world that is being shaped on a global scale, how do we still identify with where we’re from?  Are young people still shaped by the history and community they live in or are their lives shaped by their new access to a global world, interacted with through a screen? These questions are the foundation of our current Heritage Lottery Funded project with young people, Our North.

 

 

Our North is a new project giving the young people of Sefton and Runcorn an opportunity to explore northern identity through the themes of heritage, fashion and culture. Inspired by recent exhibition North: Identity, Photography and Fashion, the young people will work with artists, producers and curators to uncover what the north means to them today. It’s crucial that we overcome the habit of stereotyping young people today, particularly those from the North. Our North seeks to help young people use photography to communicate what their regional identity means to them today.

 

 

So far, they have undertaken a number of sessions – research into our photographic archive; interviews with industry professionals; photowalks documenting sites of cultural heritage in Liverpool, Sefton and Runcorn with photographer Stephanie Wynne – all exploring the way the North has been depicted, constructed and celebrated. The sessions have inspired the young people, and their next step is to create their very own fashion shoot.

 

 

The fashion shoot will be self-led, combining the interests of the young people with what they have learned during the recent sessions. Fashion is something that plays a role in our lives daily. Every morning we make a conscious decision to get dressed and think about what we are going to wear. During a session with North curator Adam Murray, he raised the question, ‘why did you decide to wear what you’re wearing today?’ This question has greatly influenced the direction of the project as it created a starting place for a discussion about fashion. Whether it’s because it is clean and comfy or because you belong to a certain subculture that dress a certain way, we actively choose what we wear.

 

 

Their work will form a new publication, an online showcase on PhotoStories and a digital display in the gallery.

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