Culture Diary w/c 06-05-13
Tuesday – The Gatekeepers 6pm @ FACT
Nominated for a 2013 Best Documentary academy award, The Gatekeepers is a film taking 50 years of Israeli history as its subject matter. The source material is drawn from six former heads of Israel’s internal security service, the Shin Bet, whose motto roughly translates as ‘Defender that shall not be seen’. Needless to say, the result promises to be absorbing and insightful.
Wednesday – Future Station 6pm @ Metal FREE (book here)
Future Station at Metal is an opportunity for artists to get together, discuss ideas and learn some new skills. This week’s offering begins with a ‘How to write a good press release’ surgery, followed by half an hour’s worth of Pecha Kucha-style presentations from artists about new works. Up last is a talk from the award-winning Singh Twins.
Daniel Kitson: After The Beginning. Before The End. 7.30pm @ Liverpool Playhouse £10
“I’ve been waiting to have the idea for this show for weeks, for months … But the idea has not come and I have worried … Two hours ago I didn’t have the idea. Now I do. And it’s going to be good.” So reads the blurb for stand-up comedian Daniel Kitson’s forthcoming show at the Playhouse. What are we to expect? We’re not sure, but we’re intrigued.
Thursday – Argo 7.30pm @ the Liverpool Philharmonic £6/£7
Winner of 2013 academy awards for Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Film Editing, based on historical events, Argo is the incredible story of the plot to smuggle six diplomats from Tehran following the storming of the US embassy. We’ll hardly be the first to say so, but truth proves stranger than fiction here.
PICK OF THE WEEK: The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari with live score by Steven Severin 9pm @ the Bombed Out Church £5
Shot in 1920, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari remains one of the most influential of German Expressionist films ever produced, and continues to be considered one of the great horror films of the era. Accompanied by a live score from Siouxsie and the Banshee’s Steven Severin, director Robert Wiene’s tale of fear and obsession has surely found the perfect setting in St. Luke’s.
Friday – The Fall 7pm @ East Village Arts Club £17.50
Legendary. Infamous. Survivors. Hardly adequate, but these are three words one can throw at Mark E. Smith’s band of ever-changing line up, the Fall. Having seen them perform more than once, to say you never know what you’re going to get from them is an understatement of almost preposterous proportions. That you occasionally get a glimpse of near-coherent genius is enough.
Saturday – The Wild Writers’ Imaginarium 12pm @ Drop the Dumbells
The brainchild of The wild Writers group, the Imaginarium features 13 writers from different disciplines. The product of their ‘imaginations, inspirations and inventions with readings, poetry, music, art and short plays’ the exhibition takes over the Drop the Dumbells space with the hope of finding “more Wild Writers to join us and build up the fantastic literary scene that is present in Liverpool”.
Sunday – The Great Gatsby 6pm @ FACT
With Baz Luhrmann’s take on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s magnum opus due to arrive a little later this month, perhaps now is a good time to consider whether we wouldn’t all just be better off reading the greatest of great American novels instead. If the answer is no, and we’re simply being churlish, it’s good to know that FACT screen this Robert Redford and Mia Farrow-starring incarnation to whet appetites.
