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Mon 5 July to Tue 31 August - Body Landscapes - exhibition by Stephanie De Leng
The aim of Body Landscapes is to challenge the flawless, airbrushed images of perfection that are so overtly touted by the fashion industry and the media and bring to the forefront the reality of the potential harm they cause and in doing so confront the insecurities in us all.
Stephanie de Leng, a former international model turned photographer and writer; has created the work as a reaction to her modelling commissions were mostly body-related – swimwear, lingerie and once even a nude TV ad which won a fine art award; it is this experience she draws on to create Body Landscapes.
The aim of Body Landscapes is to challenge the flawless, airbrushed images of perfection that are so overtly touted by the fashion industry and the media and bring to the forefront the reality of the potential harm they cause and in so doing confront the insecurities in us all. Stephanie did not tamper with any of the images and used a high definition macro lens to capture her subjects’ dislikes in their truest form. In the interest of fairness, she has also included a body part of herself in the exhibition, which like all the other images, is anonymous.
Blackburne House will be hosting the second exhibition of Body Landscapes in the city, to be opened by BBC Radio Merseyside's Roger Phillips.
Free entry - for more info, call 0151 709 4356 or email paulinejenkins@blackburnehouse.co.uk
see website for details - Blackburne House, Blackburne Place, Hope Place, Liverpool - location map
Telephone: 0151 709 4356
Email: paulinejenkins@blackburnehouse.co.uk
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Sat 31 July - Saturday Vegan Cafe
Saturday afternoon drop-in at the Liverpool Social Centre.
Vegan food, tea & coffee, by donation.
Free use of computers & wifi internet access.
12pm to 5pm - Next to Nowhere (Liverpool Social Centre), 96 Bold Street, Liverpool city centre - location map
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Sat 31 July - Yoga and Meditation, A toolkit for modern living - Workshops by Yoga and Meditation Master Kumar
9.30am - 12pm - Yoga Demonstration and Practice
Learn and practice a simple set of yoga and breathing exercises which will promote health, flexibility and wellbeing. Kumar will guide and support participants, offering clear explanations of yoga postures and breathing exercises and the effect they have on the mind and body. Suitable for people at a beginner or more advanced level, participants can just watch or take part at a level they are comfortable with. There will be opportunities to ask questions.
12-1pm lunch (bring vegetarian lunch to share)
1-3pm Yoga and Meditation— a foundation for Modern Living
A talk and discussion in which Kumar shares his knowledge and experience of yoga and meditation. He will illustrate, with humour and wisdom, how we can integrate spiritual teachings and practices into our daily life. There will be an opportunity to ask questions. This workshop will be of interest to those new to meditation or experienced meditators who would like to know more.
3.30 - 5.30pm Advanced Yoga Demonstration and the Teaching of Yoga
Of interest to all people interested in yoga but particularly suitable for advanced practitioners and teachers of yoga.
Attend one, two or all workshops, discount available to attend all three
Kumar works as a scientist and lives with his wife, two children and extended family. He is highly respected in India as a Yoga practitioner and teacher, having practised yoga from the age of 12. He has studied in depth all the yoga traditions of India and taught Yoga to over 6000 people.In his teaching, Kumar combines a unique mixture of humour, compassion and concern for the individual combined with an encyclopaedic knowledge of how the human body functions. After long years of yogic practice, his vast theoretical knowledge is firmly grounded in experience. He explains the physical and mental benefits of ancient Indian systems in modern scientific terms and brings clarity to complex concepts. His teaching is invaluable to those interested in beginning or advanced Yoga.
9.30am - 5.30pm - Dingle Community Learning Programme (DCLP) Shelmore Drive, Liverpool - location map
Telephone: 01695720562
Email: tracey@pssuk.com
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Sat 31 July - Contemporary Art and Craft Fair
A fantastic opportunity to see, buy and commission work from selected local artists and makers, including the best of the region's up and coming creative talent!
Fairs held on the last Saturday of every month from March through to November.
More information can be found at: www.loacaart.co.uk
11am till 5pm - The courtyard of the Bluecoat, School Lane, Liverpool city centre
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Mon 2 August - Open Floor Poetry and Acoustic Music @ The Egg Cafe
Come Strut Your Stuff - open floor poetry and acoustic music on the first Monday of every month at the Egg Cafe!
All performers and listeners welcome. First time readers and performers encouraged. The Cafe normally gets very busy, so avoid disappointment by arriving early to claim a seat and a performance slot.
Hosted by Pat, Nick and Graham, and featuring Stan the Harper.
8pm - The Egg Cafe, 2nd Floor, 16-18 Newington, Liverpool City Centre - location map
Telephone: 0151 280 5453
Email: info@comestrutyourstuff.co.uk
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Tue 3 August - Liverpool Network Theatre Group - weekly workshop
Our ongoing weekly workshops are open to all. We share skills, try out new ideas, and most of all have fun!
Network workshops are held every week, including half term and summer breaks.
Please feel free to come along to any workshops, whatever amount of experience you have, from beginner to drama student to professional!
They are usually self contained in theme, so you don't need to wait until the end of a series to join. Also they continue alongside performance rehearsals, which occur on a different night.
Each workshop has a different theme, and are usually led by experienced workshop leaders or interested members of the group. Occasionally we have visiting workshop leaders to bring in different skills. Any member of Network is also welcome to lead workshops, following discussing their plans with the group and workshop organisers.
Members take it in turns to run workshops, on a range of practical skills, drama games and exercises, themes and plays. For information call 0151 733 9606.
We also have a play reading group who meet regularly to discuss ideas for new plays, on a separate evening to the workshops.
Workshops now take place at 13 A Hope Street. The entrance to the building is from the back, via Arrad Street at the back of Everyman Theatre. This is the road next to the Casa pub. Please ring the bell, there is a porter letting people in. It may get cold there, so bring a fleece!
The start time is 7pm, running until 9pm.
Since we will now need to pay venue hire, we have agreed to charge £1.00 per person per workshop. Those who can afford to pay more are invited to do so.We can make special arrangements for those who cannot afford this.
If you decide to join Network there is a yearly subscription fee of £5 waged, £3 unwaged.
Why not come along? Non members also welcome.
7 pm till 9pm - 13a Hope Street,Liverpool City Centre (the entrance is from the back, via Arrad St)
Telephone: 0151 733 9606
Email: liverpoolnetworktheatre@googlemail.com
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Tue 3 August - Meeting of Liverpool Holistic Circle
Liverpool Holistic Circle is a forum for sharing and increasing knowledge of all things holistic.
The group is almost unique: there is no membership, no enrolment and no commitments. Just turn up on any Tuesday evening and join in with the information, inspiration, fun, sharing, tea and biscuits.
There is no formal membership, but to cover costs we request a donation of £3.50 per meeting attended.
Our weekly Tuesday meetings cover a huge range of subjects relating to complementary therapies, holism and spirituality. All like-minded people are welcome to come to join us, either regularly or as a one-off.
See website for details of the weekly talks, events, and activities.
7.30pm - The Rosicrucian Chapter, 19, Dovedale Road, Liverpool - location map
Email: mail@liverpool-holistic-circle.org
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Wed 4 August - Liverpool Friends of Palestine Monthly Meeting
Monthly meeting of Liverpool Friends of Palestine. (Meetings are held on the first Wednesday of every month.)
All welcome.
7.30pm - 2nd Floor (Methodists) above News From Nowhere 96 Bold St Liverpool - location map
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Fri 6 August - Unity in Diversity - Spectrum of Spirituality - an Interfaith celebration for Liverpool Pride 2010
You are invited to an interfaith service of reflection and celebration, by and for LGBT people of faith and their allies.
Doors will open at 6.30pm, a service will take place at 7pm, followed by a vegetarian buffet at 8pm.
Hosted by Liverpool Spectrum of Spirituality, a new network for LGBT people of faith.
Find us at Stall 10c on Dale Street at Liverpool Pride on Saturday 7th August.
Doors open at 6.30pm - Quaker Meeting House, School Lane (next to Bluecoat Chambers), Liverpool - location map
Telephone: 07780 568 754
Email: liverpoolspectrum@yahoo.co.uk
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Sat 7 August to Sun 8 August - Liverpool Pride
SATURDAY 7TH AUGUST
The March: Forty years after the Gay Liberation Front first marched from Greenwich Village to Central Park, New York; the people of Liverpool will march through the heart of our city centre in a vibrant and visible celebration of pride in our community and to show our support for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people in the UK and overseas who still face their own daily struggle for acceptance.
We planned our march to be inclusive by ensuring it is free to take part in, accessible and safe. We are encouraging community groups and businesses to come up with ideas of how they can produce banners, flags and large objects to carry to show their support.
The march will start at 12.30pm on Saturday, 7th August from St. George’s Plateau, taking in Queens Square Bus Station (Roe and Hood St), Whitechapel, Lord St, Castle St before arriving for the start of the Rainbow Circus. If you would like to take part we ask that you arrive between 11.30 and 12.15pm outside St. George’s Hall.
Our March is zero-emissions which means no motorised floats. A number of community groups and businesses are working with Hallangen Art (Mankey Monkey) to produce unique large objects to carry with their procession.
You can also produce banners, flags or colourful costumes or come up with your own ideas to turn the first Liverpool Pride March into a vibrant celebration for LGB&T people and our friends and families.
If you would like to take part or find out more about the Liverpool Pride March then please register online:http://www.liverpoolpride.co.uk/march
Pride Remembers: At 6.30pm Dale Street will be filled with the sound of drums as the music of the Liverpool Carnival Company and Republic of Swing samba groups rings out from the Main Stage, heardling that the Rainbow Circus is coming into its final hour.
Liverpool poet Gerry Potter will perform his poem 'We Travel', as a rainbow sea of balloons are released into the sky in memory of lost friends.
There will be a minute silence to remember and celebrate the achievements, rights and freedom of our lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communities, before Liverpool Pride prepares to hand over to the gay quarter and the night time party.
The Rainbow Circus: 1.30pm - 8pm,
FREE.
Get ready to wave those rainbow flags and paint the town pink as Liverpool celebrates it's lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communities in the Rainbow Circus.
For one day only the Dale Street and surrounding area will transform into a glittering street party as we deliver 18 hours of music, dance, cabaret and performances across our Main, Acoustic and Cabaret stages, see below for information on our line up. Aside from all of the action on stage, a wide range of outrageous street performers is sure to entertain.
Liverpool Pride have arranged for each stage to be accompanied by a special licenced area complete with outdoor bar where you can buy greats drinks to enjoy whilst watching the action. All drinks will come in plastic containers for your safety.
As part of the 2010 Year of Health & Wellbeing Age Concern Liverpool and Liverpool Pride have organised a feast of activities in our Health & Wellbeing Area including alternative therapies and relaxation, food and drink with music and dancing.
Our Community Market brings together over thirty stalls including arts and crafts, pride goodies, LGBT organisations and public services.
The fun doesn’t stop at sunset... far from it! As day turns to night, Liverpool’s thriving gay scene gears into action with a large number of venues holding exciting pride events especially for the night.
The Rainbow Circus theme was chosen by the Liverpool gay community in a survey carried out in February 2010. The alternative choices were All At Sea, a nautical theme and Go West! for the wild west.
SUNDAY 8TH AUGUST
If you need to unwind from the day before or just want to take in a day of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender arts and culture then why not take part in our Chill Out Sunday.
On Sunday, 8th August 2010, galleries and museums across Liverpool city centre open their doors to the community with a programme that includes films, tours and exhibitions.
Please see www.liverpoolpride.co.uk for details of each event.
Liverpool Pride would like to thank all of the organisations who are supporting Chill Out Sunday including FACT, Picturehouse@FACT, Tate Liverpool, the Bluecoat, the Merseyside Maritime Museum and the Walker Art Gallery.
Note: There may be a small charge by some venues for Chill Out Sunday events.
Get ready to don that lycra leotard and ‘be active’ as Liverpool Pride takes over Lifestyles Wavertree Sports Park
from 12pm to 5pm (registration from 11am).
Hosted by Merseyside Marauders FC, this active afternoon will celebrate LGB&T community sports with participants able to take part in a number of sporting pursuits and tournaments including Water Polo, Rounders and Tug of War.
The highlight of the day will no doubt be the 5-A-Side football tournament. Why not get a team together or come along alone or with friends and meet new people? Those who enter will be in with a chance of winning the ultimate accolade- the first ever Liverpool Pride Sports 5-A-Side Champions!
It costs just £5 per person to take part, which is payable on the day. (Over 18s only).
Register your interest online now.
Mersey Marauders FC is a football team for gay and bisexual men from Liverpool and the surrounding area who take part in the Gay Supporters Football Network (GSFN).
For more information on all Liverpool Pride events, see www.liverpoolpride.co.uk
Various times and venues - see website for details
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Sat 7 August - Art, Craft & Design Fairs
Art, Craft & Design Fairs - the 1st Saturday of each month.
Talented Creatives selling a wide range of work including jewellery, photography, papercraft, wood, glass, ceramics, textiles, art(original and limited edition), fashion accessories and lots more! www.calidadevents.co.uk
11am to 4pm - Childwall School, Childwall Fiveways, Queens Drive, Liverpool - location map
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Sat 7 August - Liverpool Friends of Palestine Vigil
Liverpool Friends of Palestine will be holding their monthly vigil on the steps of St Luke's Church (the bombed -out church at the top of Bold Street). Vigils held on the first Saturday of every month.
12pm till 2pm - Steps of St Luke's Church, Hardman St, Liverpool - location map
Email: rosemary@lfop.fsnet.co.uk
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Sat 7 August - Three Streets Market (1st Saturday every month)
The residents of Cairns St, Beaconsfield and Jermyn St, L8, have joined forces to regenerate their area. They are holding a market on the first Saturday every month in Cairns St, one of the prettiest streets in Liverpool where residents have planted up the street like a garden. Come and sell, swop or barter anything you don't need. Free Dr Bike session 10.30am-12.30pm - if your bike isn't working we aim to fix it. Sit and have a coffee, listen to music, eat great food, find great bargains, meet great people.
10.30am-3pm - Cairns Street - location map
Telephone: 0151 727 0426
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Tue 10 August - Liverpool Social Forum Meeting
LSF is a regular meeting where people & groups in & around Liverpool can share ideas, skills, knowledge & resources, and organize events & actions. The agenda is compiled at the start of the meeting, and anyone can contribute to it. Meetings are the second Tuesday of every month - all welcome! (Entrance to the Liverpool Social Centre is next to News From Nowhere Bookshop, ring the bell labelled 'basement')
7.30pm - Liverpool Social Centre, basement of 96 Bold Street, Liverpool - location map
Email: mail@liverpoolsocialforum.org.uk
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Fri 13 August - Critical Mass cycle ride
A Critical Mass is a group of cyclists, wheelchair users, rollerskaters, skateboarders, in fact anyone on self-propelled transport is welcome to join. We travel around the city on a random route following whoever is in front with the purpose of celebrating non-polluting transport. Sometimes it's just for fun and sometimes it's to campaign for better transport facilities.
"We aren't blocking traffic - we ARE traffic!
Critical Mass takes place on the every 2nd friday of the month.
6 pm - Meeting point at Chinese Arch on Nelson Street, Liverpool city centre
Email: m.bradman@liv.ac.uk
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Sat 14 August - Petition against arming Israel. Vintage bike ride Southport-London to deliver it.
On behalf of the Southport and Formby branch of the Friends of Palestine, I'm assisting in organising a petition against arming Israel and a vintage motorbike ride Southport-London to deliver it.
At the moment the petition has close to 1,300 signatures and five riders have already agreed to take part. All the details, link to the petition etc are at:
Could I ask you to support the petition, perhaps by signing it and circulating the link above?
9.30 - SOUTHPORT PIER
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Wed 18 August - Liverpool Friends of the Earth meeting
Friendly, informal meeting of Liverpool's local Friends of the Earth group. Past campaigns have included local regeneration, climate change and transport. Open to all!
We meet on the third Wednesday of every month in the Green Fish Cafe.
6.30pm till 8pm - Green Fish Cafe, 11 Upper Newington, Liverpool City Centre - location map
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Tue 24 August - Liverpool Social Centre Collective Meeting
Monthly meeting organising development & use of the Liverpool Social Centre - anyone interested in being involved is welcome. The meeting is on the 4th Tuesday of every month. Entrance to the Liverpool Social Centre is next door to the bookshop, ring the bell labelled 'basement'.
7.30pm - Liverpool Social Centre, in the basement of 96 Bold Street, Liverpool city centre - location map
Email: info@liverpoolsocialcentre.org
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Sat 28 August - Art, Craft & Design Fairs
Art, Craft & Design Fairs - the 4th Saturday of each month.
Talented Creatives selling a wide range of work including jewellery, photography, papercraft, wood, glass, ceramics, textiles, art(original and limited edition), fashion accessories and lots more! www.calidadevents.co.uk
10am to 3pm - The Old Police Station, Lark Lane, (Entrance - Sefton Grve down the side of the bldg), Sefton Park - location map
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Tue 31 August - Liverpool Women's Book Group monthly meeting
Book group for LGBT women in Merseyside.
We are a group of lesbian and gay women who loving reading. We meet the last Tuesday of each month. Although we try to read books of lesbian interest, this isn't exclusive and suggestions for new reading are always welcome. Discussions are friendly and informal. We tend to choose two books per month so you can read both, just one or neither. If you like chatting about books and want to meet new people, come along and join us. Visit our website or facebook page for details of this month's books.
7.30pm - Doctor Duncan's pub, Liverpool city centre - location map
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Thu 2 September - Migrant Workers' Rights in the Global Economy seminar
This one-day seminar, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, is the second in the Middlesex University series examining emerging issues of global labour regulation.
The seminar will be held at the International Slavery Museum in Liverpool's dockside on Thursday September 2nd 2010 from 10am until 5.30pm.
Migration is an integral part of an increasingly internationalised economy. Around 3 per cent of the world's population, just less than 200 million people, now live and work outside of their own country. This number has been growing at just less than 3 per cent in each year. The increased tendency for people to migrate to work and live has been spurred by changes in the world economy and the effects of structural economic change, or through war and civil upheaval, or environmental damage. Trade liberalisation and market de-regulation has also increased the propensity to migrate, as new geographical patterns of production have emerged. Yet labour migration is not a central concern of international agencies such as the WTO, the IMF or the World Bank. Migrant workers and their families are vulnerable to exploitation and racism, and labour market imbalances can result from migration in both sending and receiving countries.
The purpose of this seminar is to examine migration from a rights-based perspective. We hope to explore aspects of civil, human and social rights of migrant workers as well as labour and economic rights. Migrant labour is thus viewed from within perspectives of forced, slave and child labour as well as economic labour. As such the seminar welcome the participation of those academics, practitioners and migrant worker activists who wish to develop new agendas for regulating migrant labour through a variety of agency and policy initiatives.
The seminar will be divided into two sessions. The first, thematic session, will examine alternative perspectives on migrant workers rights. The second session will present case studies from different world regions.
Speakers/Participants will include:
Aidan McQuade (Anti-Slavery International) - an overview of slavery, forced and child labour today
Professor Joshua Castellino (Law Department, Middlesex University) - A Rights Based Approach to Migration
Svetlana Boincean (International Union of Food, Farm and Hotel Workers ) - defending the rights of migrant workers in agriculture and allied sectors
Heather Connolly and Professor Miguel Martinez Lucio (Manchester University)- Welfare Systems, Social Inclusion and Migrant Worker-Union Relations in the EU
Steve Craig (UCATT building workers' union, UK) - Vulnerable Work and Migration in the UK construction industry
Nick McGeehan (director of Mafiwasta www.mafiwasta.com/)
and case study representations from migrant worker activists in Ireland, the Gulf Region, Italy, and India.
If you are interested in participating in the seminar please register your interest with Denise Arden at d.arden@mdx.ac.uk. Lunch and refreshments are provided and the seminar is free to attend, but registration in advance is necessary.
More information can be obtained from the seminar organisers, Professor Martin Upchurch (m.upchurch@mdx.ac.uk) and Professor Miguel Martinez Lucio (Miguel.MartinezLucio@mbs.ac.uk).
10am till 5.30pm - International Slavery Museum, Albert Dock, Liverpool
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Mon 6 September - Open drama class
The Suitcase Ensemble is a Liverpool-based theatre collective who create original and imaginative artistic experiences.
In September 2010 we are opening up our membership by starting a weekly drama group for adults living in Picton, Kensington and Fairfield, Central, Princes Park, Greenbank and Wavertree wards.
Free to take part. No experience necessary.
Just a willingness to get involved and a birth date before Sept 1992 (aged 18 and over).
The group's first project is called 'Sound Tracks' and will run for 12 weeks on Monday evenings from September - November at Metal's newly refurbished space for art at Edge Hill Station.
We are holding a taster workshop that is open to all on Monday 6 September 2010 7pm - 9pm at the station. Please come to the building on platform 1 where you will be met by one of the group leaders.
For more information:
call 07916 920415
email tessa@suitcase-ensemble.com
online www.suitcase-ensemble.com/page12.htm
7pm - platform 1, Edge Hill Station, Tunnel Road - location map
Telephone: 07916 920415
Email: tessa@suitcase-ensemble.com
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Fri 22 October - Nina Power - One Dimensional Woman - talk
Nina Power, author of "One Dimensional Woman" will talk and lead a discussion on the theme of her book.
That the height of supposed female emancipation coincides so perfectly with consumerism is a miserable index of a politically desolate time. This book is partly an attack on the apparent abdication of any systematic political thought on the part of today's positive, up-beat feminists. It suggests alternative ways of thinking about transformations in work, sexuality and culture that, while seemingly far-fetched in the current ideological climate, may provide more serious material for future feminism.
The event is being jointly organised by News from Nowhere, the University of Liverpool's Philosophy Festival, and (AWOL) Angry Women of Liverpool.
7.30pm - Next to Nowhere, Basement, 96 Bold St, Liverpool - location map
Telephone: 0151 708 7270
Email: nfn@newsfromnowhere.org.uk
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