Culture Diary w/c 19-08-2024
Our pick of this week’s arts, design, film and music events from across Liverpool and beyond…
Monday – Kneecap + Q&A 7pm @ FACT Liverpool – £12.90
“We’ve found our calling: giving the middle-finger to the Brits.” Collectively, DJ Próvaí, Mo Chara and Móglaí Bap are anarcho-rap trio, Kneecap. Join them tonight for a Q&A screening of their self-titled film exploring their politics and music.
Tuesday – Northern Exposure Short Film Night 6.30pm @ FACT Liverpool – £4
Film Hub North showcase the best short films from the region. Includes documentary, fiction, animation and live action.
Lone Star 7.30pm @ FACT Liverpool – £8
John Sayles’ Texas-set crime thriller is back in cinemas having been treated to a 4k restoration. With a cast including Frances McDormand, Matthew McConaughey, Kris Kristofferson, Chris Cooper, the film finds Cooper’s Sheriff Sam Deeds getting in too deep as he sets about unearthing the town’s skeletons – both real and metaphorical.
Wednesday – Exhibition Continues: Tabitha Jussa: Match Day @ Williamson Art Gallery and Museum – FREE
For many, not least in this part of the world, match day is a ritual; it is a break from the slog of the day-to-day, and an opportunity to dream of the perfect 90 minutes for your club, its players, and fans. For her ongoing series, photographer Tabitha Jussa has documented the home fixtures of Liverpool, Everton and Tranmere Rovers, capturing the otherwise ineffable meeting of people transported elsewhere by that most passionate of obsessions: football.
Thursday – Exhibition Opening: The Threads That Bind Us @ Met Quarter, Liverpool – FREE
The Threads That Bind Us, an exhibition from young people aged 13-18, marks the culmination of a months-long project between the Toxteth-based Tiber organisation and Tate Liverpool. See the results, in the form of style and fashion photography, from today.
Friday – Islet 7pm @ Quarry Liverpool – £10
Welsh quartet Islet brings their trademark near impossible-to-categorise, experimental layered sounds to town. They’re joined on the night by Manchester’s self-described ‘soundtrack to your favourite B movie’, Slow Knife.
Saturday & Sunday – Future Now Festival @ Future Yard, and other Birkenhead venues – £44.24/£78.40
Impressive weekender from Wirral’s Future Yard, five years on from the venue’s launch, featuring headliner Nadine Shah. Other names to look out for include: She Drew The Gun (whose latest, Mirrors, is currently getting deserved spins on 6music), Nubiyan Twist, Jane Weaver, bdrmm, Hamish Hawk, The Lovely Eggs, and Girl Ray.
Sunday – Closing Soon: National Treasures: Velázquez in Liverpool @ the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool – FREE
Featuring Diego Velázquez’s only surviving female nude, The Rokeby Venus, this display bringing together the ancient and contemporary (René Matic and Zanele Muholi’s work amongst the latter) to consider the 17th century painting and its themes afresh, closes Monday 26 August.
Pulp Fiction 7.30pm @ FACT Liverpool – £8
The first 18 certificate film I saw (underage) in a cinema, how does QT’s fast-talking, oft-quoted fragmented narrative drama of interweaving lives set amid LA’s seamy underbelly stand up 30 years since its 1994 release?
Mike Pinnington
Images/media, from top: Kneecap trailer; The THreads That Bind Us/Tiber; Islet: Soft Fascination
