Before 2008

Sep 27 2007 By Dave Higgerson

September 2007 – Spring 2009

The Twentieth Century: How it looked & how it felt

Tate Liverpool

A major new display of some of the best works from the Tate Collection.  Almost 200 key works will be displayed across three floors of the gallery, making it the largest single display of the Collection ever seen at Tate Liverpool. The displays will take visitors on a journey from the early 20th Century into the first years of the 21st Century, telling a rich, interweaving story of modern and contemporary art in two parallel displays that look at the histories of figurative and abstract art in the 20th Century. Works include Rodin’s The Kiss, Picasso’s Weeping Woman and Mondrian’s Composition with Yellow, Blue and Red.

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OCTOBER

18th October 

Tate Liverpool

The Turner Prize

The UK’s most prestigious annual art competition, the Turner Prize, will be held outside London for the first time since its launch in 1984. 19 October marks the opening of the Turner Prize exhibition, showing the work of shortlisted artists Zarina Bhimji, Nathan Coley, Mike Nelson and Mark Wallinger.

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October

Treasures (Various venues)

Inspired by a beautifully unique and personal treasure chest created by the late Bishop of Liverpool, David Sheppard, TREASURES is a mass participation project for 2008, Liverpool European Capital of Culture. Further details will be launched in October 2007.

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16th November 2007 to 13th January 2008  

FACT (at FACT)

Manchester-based artists Nick Crowe and Ian Rawlinson say goodbye to 2007 and welcome 2008 at FACT with a bang exploring faith and fireworks in four new video commissions.

November 2007 to January 2009

Public Art (Various venues and locations)
 
Various Commissioned from Liverpool Biennial by the Liverpool Culture Company for European Capital of Culture 2008. A year-long programme of public art interventions in city centre and neighbourhood locations, including winter lights, pavillions, iconic public art, and 'visible viruses' - creativity transmitted via the city’s transport systems, parks and urban spaces.

November

Winter Light series

Various Liverpool neighbourhoods

Animating the southern, northern and eastern gateways to the city, the winter light series began in winter 2006/2007 and started with a commission from Ron Haselden of three light works called ‘Animal’.
These art works will be re-installed in November 2007 together with a fourth new Animal to be installed in the Baltic area of the city.

New for 2007 and building on the success of Animal, French artist Franck Scurti has been appointed to create a new series of temporary light works for three neighbourhood locations.
At the end of 2008, these will be joined by the final winter light commission for 08/09 resulting in a minimum of 10 high quality artists’ light works around the city centre periphery.
(Part of public art programme, commissioned from Liverpool Biennial by the Liverpool Culture Company for European Capital of Culture 2008).

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December

3rd December 

Tate Liverpool

Turner Prize

Award Ceremony for the 2007 Turner Prize at Tate Liverpool.

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16th December

Various city centre locations

The ultimate nativity for Christmas 2007.

The story of the first Christmas told through the music of Liverpool; the People of Liverpool; the Spirit of Liverpool. Developed and commissioned by the team behind Manchester Passion. Transmitted live at 1900hrs on BBC3, repeated later on BBC1.

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31st December - 6th January

Opera

St George's Hall

British subjects provided inspiration for Donizetti at various points in his creative life and it is fortunate that Liverpool has inherited its own romantic invention set among the mountains and alpine valleys of the city – Emilia di Liverpool.
Donizetti wrote his opera semiseria for Naples in 1824.  The European Opera Centre has prepared an entirely new edition of the opera through original research into the manuscripts of this and Donizetti’s own revision of 1828. Two casts of talented young European singers and an orchestra drawn from Liverpool’s associate cities prepare the work at the Royal International Pavilion, Llangollen under the musical direction of Giovanni Pacor – of the Fondazione Arena di Verona - before bringing it to the Concert Room of St George’s Hall for six performances.
This new production – sung in Italian with English subtitles - is by the young Greek/German director Elena Tzavara with designs - to complement the handsomely restored Concert Room - by Elisabetta Pian. Performances will subsequently be given in a number of Liverpool’s Cities on the Edge network. The first opera to be performed in the Small Concert Room of St George's Hall.