Culture Diary w/c 25-07-2016
What’s hot this week? Our pick of the arts, design, film and music listings from around Liverpool and the rest of the UK…
Monday — National Theatre Live’s Encore Series: One Man, Two Guvnors @ Venues Nationally – Prices May Vary
Straight from hugely successful runs on the West End and Broadway, see the madcap comedy — about mistaken identity, East End criminals and a skiffle band — which won James Corden a Tony Award. Until 19 Oct.
Tuesday – Couple In A Hole (2015) 6pm @ FACT, Liverpool — £10.50//9.50/8.50
A trippy thriller from Tom Geens, about a Scottish middle-aged couple who choose to live an isolated life inside a cave in the woods of France, seemingly to forget the loss of their child. But happens when a mysterious farmer gets involved? Making its acclaimed premiere at the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival, expect a strange and gripping take on grief.
Wednesday – Platform Residency: Glen Stoker & Anna Chrystal Stephens 11am-5.30pm @ Site Gallery, Sheffield — FREE
Starting their residency at the gallery this week, and turning it into a public library, out-door training centre and studio artists, Stoker and Stephens (above) will be making work around ideas of sustainability: food, shelter, community and a reconnection with the land. Eager to connect with communities in the city with alternative approaches to living. Don’t miss their welcome found-food event at the gallery on Saturday, 30 July. Until 27 Aug.
Thursday – Exhibitions Opening: Jess Johnson: Eclectrc Panoptic/Alice Neel: The Subject And Me 6-8pm @ Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh — FREE
Expect VR and dystopian drawings to feature in Johnson’s (main image) wacky new installation at Talbot Rice: referencing science fiction novel Dune, alternative universes and psychomagic group rituals. Meanwhile, a very different exhibition of portraits from Neel’s life (below); expect to see reflections of personal relationships, sexuality, family, childhood, pain and poverty. Until 8 Oct.
PICK OF THE WEEK: Friday – Exhibition Opening: Gettin’ The Heart Ready 6-9pm @ The Royal Standard Gallery & Studios, Liverpool — FREE
Celebrate a decade of exciting and ambitious contemporary art at this independent gallery with a special anniversary exhibition. Called Gettin’ The Heart Ready, it’s a showcase of 23 superb — and now well-known — artists, nominated collectively by the organisation’s past and present directors. Expect to see work by Liliane Lijn, David Sherry, Oliver Braid, Pil and Galia Kollectiv and more. Until 11 Sept.
Witch Beach – QOTT Summer Party 10pm-4am @ 24 Kitchen Street, Liverpool — £3/5
Get your dancing shoes on — Queen of the Track zine’s femme, queer and trans welcoming club night/summer goth party is back, this time with Tash_LC from London’s BOKO! BOKO! Tropicana disco, plus Dazed’s upcoming DJs FAUX QUEENS. Dress code: DRESS THE FUCK UP.
Saturday — Civilized? An Artist’s Response 12-6pm @ Hoxton Arches, London — FREE
To mark their latest exhibition, Civilized? – which takes its cues from what makes an act ‘civilized’ in society, and how governments legitimize violence — expect a finissage performance and video screenings all day Saturday with exhibiting artists Amy Louise Wright, Emma Tod, Nicola Chamberlain, Chloe Rose Wiltshire and Alice Shanly-Bell.
Sunday – Flyover Takeover @ Churchill Way Flyover, Liverpool — FREE
What do you want the Flyover to be? Take the chance to explore this currently underused part of Liverpool city centre, which Friends Of The Flyover hope to re-design into an urban garden, walkway and events space. Expect MoveMe dance aerobics, a costumed Flight of the Bikes ride and Bicycle Ballet, and a dramatic performance of Frantic – described as “an intensely moving experience” By Richard Ings of Arts Council England — by dance company Acrojou.
Laura Robertson
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