MERSEYSIDERS will be given another chance to become part of the Daily Post Liverpool Map campaign on Friday.
The second Liverpool Map handwriting sessions will be held 10am – 5pm at BBC Radio Merseyside, where people will be able to play their part in creating a special work of art to celebrate the legacy of the city’s year as European Capital of Culture.
Highlighting Liverpool’s local, national and global significance, international glasswork artists Inge Panneels and Jeffrey Sarmiento have been commissioned to create the Liverpool Map, researched and developed in conjunction with the people of Merseyside to go on display in the new Museum of Liverpool when it opens in 2010.
The artists are including a community layer in their design, giving people the chance to add their own personal touch to the unique artwork which uses pioneering techniques to create a large multi-layered glass monolith.
They will be asked to write creatively about Merseyside places that mean something to them, and copy out extracts of the Liverpool Saga poem; an 800 line poem written by people from Merseyside to celebrate Liverpool’s 800th birthday in 2007.
Phil Redmond said: “Culture is not just about attending or creating events, it is also about artefacts and how those artefacts form part of our collective and inherited culture.”
The Liverpool Map project is supported by National Museums Liverpool, the Liverpool Daily Post, Open Culture, Phil and Alexis Redmond, Liverpool Culture Company and BBC Radio Mereseyside.
