Culture Diary w/c 14-07-2014
What’s hot this week? It’s a special all-Liverpool listings! Enjoy!
Monday – Ghostface Killah 7.30pm @ the Kazimier, Liverpool — £15
“At a moment when hip-hop’s lyrical and musical elements were diverging, Daytona 500 made hardcore, logocentric rap fill dance floors.” So says Pitchfork about Wu Tang Clan’s Dennis Coles, aka Ghostface Killah. Considered the leading force behind Wu, and returning to the Kaz after three years for what can be predicted as a storming set tonight, expect Ghostface to be banging out the hits from a long list of Wu and solo tracks. See here for more UK tour dates.
Tuesday – IFB 2014 Creative Kitchen (15-18 July) @ Oh Me Oh My Liverpool — FREE (drop in; events require online registration)
Artists! Designers! Fillmmakers! Musicians! Did you know that it’s the International Festival of Business (IFB) Knowledge, Creative & Digital Week? ACME, Kin2Kin, Studio Mashbo and friends have turned this Water Street cafe into a free hub for the duration, hosting talks, workshops, breakfasts and socials dedicated to helping freelancers meet, feel supported and maybe even start a conversation with future clients and collaborators. Bring a laptop, drop in, hang out, meet people, attend an event. We’ll be supporting all week. Read our guide to IFB (including all interesting events) here.
Victor Wooten 7.30pm @ the Kazimier, Liverpool — £18.50
We guarantee that you have never seen bass guitar played like this before… Wooten is a US composer, producer and bass virtuoso; a five-time Grammy Award winner; the only person to have won Bass Player Magazine’s Bassist Of The Year three times; and a founding member of banjo-driven jazz/blues/funk fusion Béla Fleck & The Flecktones. Expect rapid-fire, intricate and ridiculously entertaining bass playing.
Wednesday – City of God: 10 Years Later – Brazilica Film Festival 7.30pm @ FACT, Liverpool – £9.50/8.50
Remember the incredible City of God? Li’l Ze and Rocket’s interactions with gangs, drugs and violence, set against the backdrop of slum Cidade de Deus? It was nominated for four Oscars, won countless others and made a star out of singer Seu Jorge (now one of the most well-known musicians in Brazil) and actress Alice Braga (I Am Legend). Not much, however, has changed for the other actors who starred in the 2002 film, as this documentary discovers; one actor, Jefechander Suplino who played thief Clipper, is even feared dead.
PICK OF THE WEEK: Thursday – FLUX Liverpool (17 July-7 Aug) @ various venues — FREE
A massive arts festival curated by young people (and providing actual career skills in the process) sounds like a pretty good idea to us. Expect theatre, music, installations, workshops, panel discussions, games, exhibitions, parades and more over the coming weeks. Tonight’s launch sees Young DaDaFest take over the Everyman Theatre, plus Friday’s Blueprint Festival at Tate Liverpool (which we’re speaking at on Sunday!). Look out for #FluxCommissions too — Synaesthesia Lab (an ‘audio-visual sensory experience’), The World in One City (interactive mapping using electrically conductive paint), and silent disco Unsigned, Unheard.
Drinks With… Andrew Kötting 6.30pm @Liverpool Medical Institution — FREE, booking required
Described by the Guardian as “the heir to English dissidents such as Derek Jarman and Peter Greenaway” with his “visceral” and “beserk” films, tonight English filmmaker Andrew Kötting talks about his work with his daughter and collaborator Eden Kötting, who suffers from Joubert syndrome , an incurable condition that affects her speech and balance. Expect drinks, film and music.
Friday – IFB 2014 Business And Art With The Royal Standard 10am-5pm @ LEAF, Liverpool — FREE (booking required)
Art and business — they’re not easy bedfellows. As with Creative Kitchen, this day-long event aims to make the most of the IFB’s Knowledge, Creative & Digital Week by discussing key topics, including culture-led regeneration and its impact in the UK and abroad, and case studies from previous collaborations between artists and art organisations and private funding. Expect talks from Biennial Director Sally Tallant and Managing Consultant at Post-Creative City Silvie Jacobi, followed by a private view at The Royal Standard’s gallery.
Saturday – Biennial Group Show Tour 2pm @ the Old Blind School, Liverpool — FREE (booking required)
Your chance to walk around this year’s arts festival hub like a VIP, tour guide and Biennial director, Sally Tallant. Expect a mixed bag over of new and historic works from 17 international artists three floors of the beautifully derelict Old Blind School venue. Look out for Peter Wächtler’s deeply personal and melancholic video with the rat, as reviewed by our critic Richard Whitby.
Sunday – The Caledonia’s Americana Festival 2014 (20-27 July) @ The Caledonia, Liverpool — FREE
Kicking off tonight at 8.30pm with bluegrass, old time & western swing (and a few pop covers) from pub residents Loose Moose String Band, expect Americana in a wide range of forms every night for a week, spanning Irish folk, western string, Cajun, trad jazz and blues. There’s even ukulele and guitar classes (you’ll have to fork out £5-10 for these) plus a discussion on American beer from the Liverpool Craft Brewery.
Some Like it Hot (1959) 6pm @ FACT, Liverpool – £9.50/8.50
“It possesses a quality found in the best comedies”, said Bernard F. Dick on his book on director Billy Wilder (1980); “a sense of humanity and an attitude of compassion for the lunatics who play the fool for our sake.” And Some Like it Hot is completely carried by lunatics; Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon drag up as female musicians in order to hide from gangsters, befriending and falling for Marilyn Monroe in the process. A classic.
