Hub Life
Our Fringe Festival is now in it’s 2nd year!
Live, love and breathe HUB over an entire month in some of the funkiest venues across the city from 13th May – 12 June…
Stand Out Comedy Club
13 May
7pm
Kimo’s Restaurant (downstairs bar), Mount Pleasant, Liverpool, L3 5SD
£2.50
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The Stand Out Comedy Club is the UK’s only under 18’s comedy club, showcasing some of the best young comedians on Merseyside. This month, there will be approximately 30 performers from past and present all performing a short set each as part of the Liverpool Comedy Festival plus your professional headliner from the national circuit. The Stand Out Club is a great night of comedy for you and your mates – don’t miss it!
Liverpool Sound City
19 – 22 May
City Centre Venues, Liverpool
Festival wristband £45, Day Pass £17.50, £22.50
www.liverpoolsoundcity.co.uk
Draw the Line
20 May
3345/Parr St
8.30pm
FREE
www.drawtheonline.com
Draw the Line is a growing Liverpool art social event aimed at the artist and everyman alike to unite under one roof and enjoy a casual doodle together. The growing networking event is a chance to vent some artistic expression or a place to scribble your name over a drink with friends.
Global Studio
21 May – 6 June
10am-6pm
The Bluecoat, School Lane, L1 3BX
Free
www.thebluecoat.org.uk
Global Studio showcases the work of Liverpool artists who have forged international networks outside the city.
Explore in the Hub
22/23 May 5/6 June
12 Noon – 4pm
The Bluecoat, School Lane, L1 3BX
Free
www.thebluecoat.org.uk
Explore our current exhibitions and be inspired to make some of your own art.
Music Mecca
22 May
1-2pm
The Citadel Arts Centre, St Helens
Workshops in street dance, mc-ing, dj-ing, scrap band, 10-18 year olds
The Bluecoat, greenroom and hÅb present ’poolside emergency
22 May
12 Noon – 10pm
The Bluecoat, School Lane, L1 3BX
Free
www.thebluecoat.org.uk
For 10 years, emergency has been the must-see festival of new performance at Manchester’s greenroom. Now this trail-blazing platform takes over the Bluecoat.
New Tools for Young People
22 May
Media Lounge, 88 Wood Street, Liverpool, L14DQ
Free
Create a manga style comic with artist Mark Penman in response to the audio war stories collected in our interactive media lounge! Pre-booking essential. Maximum of 4 people per booking. email louise.latter@fact.co.uk or call 0151 707 4444 to reserve your place
NML Talk Show @ HUB Festival
29/30 May
11am – 6pm
HUB Festival, Otterspool Park
Free
Come along and be a special guest on the National Museums Liverpool talk show! You will have your chance to give your opinions, judgements and downright snarls on Liverpool celebrities and Liverpool creativity hoping to answer the golden question Is Liverpool creative, Myth or Magic? Also, take this chance to grab information on upcoming exhibitions and galleries and cast your vote for Liverpool’s favourite Scouser!
Explore in the Hub
29 May – 6 June
12 Noon – 4pm
The Bluecoat, School Lane, L1 3BX
Free
www.thebluecoat.org.uk
Come and create beautiful flags inspired by Arabic designs, colours and objects to decorate the Hub for the Liverpool Arabic Arts Festival using stencils, block printing and gold paint.
VCreative
5 June
10am – 5pm
St Helens Church Square
FREE
Vinvolved St Helens are hosting a mini culture event showcasing some of St Helens best talent that make a difference in the community.Dance Displays from UC Crew, Jem Xtreme and more, DJ’s, Ramp Riderz mobile skate park, stalls and live graffiti art. Free event all welcome to watch, take part and take some information.
Merseyside Youth Festival
5 June
1, Hope Place, Liverpool, L1 9BG
£5
www.unitytheatreliverpool.co.uk
The future of theatre is here for one day! Young people of Merseyside are presented an opportunity to display their creative talents and achievements through the Merseyside Youth Theatre Festival 2010. After the success of the inaugural festival Move Through will introduce participants giving them a platform in the industry and mainly having fun. Come along and see the fresh, future talents of Merseyside.
Physical Fest 6
5th to 12th of June 2010
13a Hope Street, L1 9BQ.
Classes £3.5/£5. Workshop prices vary- see website.
www.tmesistheatre.com
Physical Fest is an annual physical theatre workshop and performance festival run by Tmesis Theatre, the festival is a great opportunity to learn new skills and network with creative people from all over the world.This year’s festival has workshops from: Tmesis Theatre (physical theatre), black & blue (Aerial Circus/ Trapeze), Al Seed (creaturing- non-human movement), Airborne Entertainment (free-running), Javier Marzan (improvisation), Taciturn (contempory dance) and taster classes in capoeira, tai-chi and pilates. The performances event, ‘Fest Live’ is on at the Black-E on Sat 12th June.
Age limit- 16+.
Wishful Thinking
8/9 June
1, Hope Place, Liverpool, L1 9BG
£6.50
www.unitytheatreliverpool.co.uk
Seven best friends at Leeds festival having the time of there lives. Suddenly through a irrelevant moment of madness things change forever. Repercussions that will last a lifetime. Wishful Thinking is a story about contemporary youth. An honest insight into a group of students trying to understand life and each other. A journey with a group of friends and the people they meet along the way. A story about their fears, confusion, and secrets. And them trying to understand what happens next. Theatre group Madhatters make there unity debut with this performance piece about contemporary youth, life, fears and confusion.
Small Worlds
22-26 June
Williamson Square, Liverpool, Merseyside L1 1EL
£8
www.everymanplayhouse.com
Small Worlds is an interactive installation combining live performance, music and digital projection which takes you on your own personal journey through a series of rooms as you experience and uncover the mysteries surrounding coincidence, the Universe and worlds within worlds.
DaDa Youth
Ongoing
Various Venues
FREE
www.dadahello.com
Arts projects for Disabled/Deaf young people aged 13 – 19, Visual Arts, Dance, Film New Media, Theatre, Creative Writing, Music To get involved or for more information please contact shaun@dadahello.com / call 0151 707 1733
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