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Cultural Capital of Europe Liverpool 2008 and U.K.
　

Performing Arts
Brouhaha International Festival: Double Dutch team CAPRIORE participates

CAPLIORE member
Date:
Parformance:
July 18 Festival Opening Ceremony
Venue: Contemporary Urban Centre
July 20 International Festival
Venue: Mab Lane(Dovestock)
July 21-24 Filpped rehearsals
Venue: Arch Bishop Blanch space 2
July 27 Southport International Carnival
Venue: Southport Art Center
August 2 Liverpool International Carnival
Venue: Community College, Princes park
Related programs: Workshop
July 24-25 Venue: Mab Lane CommunityTour
July 26 Venue: Hope University
July 28-31 Venue: Arch Bishop Blanch space 2
※For the CAPLIORE official website, click here
※For the Brouhaha International Festival website, click here
A style of rope jumping that employs two ropes, Double Dutch is street performance featuring competition in speed and technique between jumpers who vie with their chosen feats between a pair of rope turners. The professional rope jumping team Capliore has compiled a long record in meets both in Japan and overseas. Their energetic work rate extends to performances at numerous events and Double Dutch lessons at primary through high schools. Taking part in the Brouhaha International Festival in Liverpool, they will offer performances and workshops at a range of local venues. We hope much will come of their visit, not least an impact among local people and engagement with the many other performers.

Traditional Culture
Japan Day

"Japan Day" in Manchester in 2006
Date:
 July 19, 2008
Venue:
 Liverpool Guild of Students

Programs featuring Japanese culture offered by the Japan Society North West include exhibitions and performances ranging from interior design and craft works to cuisine, martial arts, calligraphy and bonsai cultivation.

Fine Arts
Jump Ship Rat: Liverpool Biennial, "Pop Up" exhibition Satoru Tamura participating

"Point of Contact" by Satoru Tamura
Duration：
 September 18 - October 30
Venue：
 Huskisson Monument, St James Gardens adjacent to the Anglican Cathedral, Liverpool
Project Name：
 Point of Contact
※For the Satoru Tamura's website, click here
※For the website of Jamp Ship Rat, click here
※For the explanation of this project in the Jamp Ship Rat website, click here

Jump Ship Rat is a Liverpool based international arts organisation and artist collective. This time, they subvert the everyday with POP-UP at the Liverpool Biennial 2008. POP-UP explores the city as playground and art as cultural hijack; urban interventions, architectural transformations and mobile art works will animate the streets and public spaces.
POP-UP is the strangest, smallest and most neglected listed buildings in Liverpool transformed into electric edifices, sacred places and sites of resurrection by leading Japanese artists.
"Point of Contact", Tamura Satoru's work consisting of a string of fifty beautifully glowing incandescent bulbs, is now on show inside the Huskisson Monument. The mechanism is installed on the pedestal on which the figure of William Huskisson is mounted and is arranged to flash randomly when a contact meets part of an old railway track. The torrential flashing of the bulbs, very much like insects clustering around a streetlamp on a summer night, brings out primitive feelings in us and may help to draw people to this forgotten structure.
* William Huskisson was a victim of the world's first railway accident.

Fine Arts
Jump Ship Rat: Liverpool Biennial, "Pop Up" exhibition Yoshiaki Kaihatsu participating

Kinkakuji - the most iconic temple in Japan
Duration：
 September 18 - October 30
Venue：
 K2 Telephone Kiosk, adjacent to Liverpool Town Hall.
Project Name：
 K2: Kinkakuji
※For the Yoshiaki Kaihatsu's website, click here
※For the website of Jamp Ship Rat, click here
※For the explanation of this project in the Jamp Ship Rat website, click here
Jump Ship Rat is a Liverpool based international arts organisation and artist collective. This time, they subvert the everyday with POP-UP at the Liverpool Biennial 2008. POP-UP explores the city as playground and art as cultural hijack; urban interventions, architectural transformations and mobile art works will animate the streets and public spaces.
POP-UP is the strangest, smallest and most neglected listed buildings in Liverpool transformed into electric edifices, sacred places and sites of resurrection by leading Japanese artists.


Yoshiaki Kaihatsu is to create the Kinkakuji 2 (Golden Pavilion temple), the most iconic temple in Japan within K2 telephone kiosk, designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, the architect who also designed the Liverpool Cathedral. The nation’s smallest listed building becomes the city’s first Japanese Temple.
Available within the kiosk will be a free map of the many churches and religious institutions across Liverpool.

Fine Arts
Jump Ship Rat: Liverpool Biennial, "Pop Up" exhibition Masato Nakamura participating

The exterior of the Florrie


The interior of the Florrie
Duration：
 September 19-20
Venue：
 Open space adjacent to the Florrie - derelict Florence Institute (Mill Street, The Dingle)
Project Name：
 ZProject Liverpool
※For the website of command N (artist initiative organization of Masato Nakamura), click here
※For the website of Jamp Ship Rat, click here
※For the explanation of this project in the Jamp Ship Rat website, click here
●Workshop Details
Date：
 September 20
Venue：
 As above
Contents：
1. A massive clean up of the space, working together with the local residents e.g. mowing grass and clearing rubbish.
2. Have a party after the clean up to celebrate.
3. During the party, to create an installation piece and show a performance.
4. After the performance, enjoy the installation piece together.
5. Speech by Tom Calderbank (the community activist and organiser behind Save the Florrie). The end of the event & tidy up.
＊ An installation and a performance piece will be decided through discussion among the participating artists.

Jump Ship Rat is a Liverpool based international arts organisation and artist collective. This time, they subvert the everyday with POP-UP at the Liverpool Biennial 2008. POP-UP explores the city as playground and art as cultural hijack; urban interventions, architectural transformations and mobile art works will animate the streets and public spaces.
POP-UP is the strangest, smallest and most neglected listed buildings in Liverpool transformed into electric edifices, sacred places and sites of resurrection by leading Japanese artists.
At the Florence Institute, or Florrie, a historical building erected in 1889 but currently derelict, Masato Nakamura offers art workshops and performances together with other artists and people from the local community. This project focuses on the restoration of industrial heritage abandoned in the course of modernization and urban economic development. Florrie was an educational facility for young people established by the mayor of the time in the Dingle district, which had turned into a lawless zone. Florrie graduates and local residents are currently working for Florrie's restoration.
The hope is that as well as communicating a message from the Florrie to society, this project will serve to form bonds between artists and local residents and the collaborations it brings will assist in the future development of the community.

Fine Arts
5th Liverpool Biennial International 08 exhibition “MADE UP”: Artist Yayoi Kusama participates

“Fireflies on the Water” by Yayoi Kusama
Date：
 September 20 - November 30
※For Liverpool Biennial website, click here
※For Yayoi Kusama’s website, click here
The Liverpool Biennial, Britain's largest festival of contemporary art now moving towards its fifth iteration, is to mark its tenth anniversary with "MADE UP", a major international show featuring contemporary artworks from artists from around the world. Working on the theme of further exploring the artistic imagination, artists will show new commissioned work in galleries and public spaces around the city. Yayoi Kusama is to show a reworked rendition of her "Fireflies on the Water", a fantastical piece in which paper appears to be enveloped by the light of a firefly dance, that makes an even stronger visual impact than the original. Visitors will have a fantastical whole-body experience within this box-shaped three-dimensional work floating on the Mersey River.

Fine Arts
5th Liverpool Biennial International 08 exhibition “MADE UP”: Atelier Bow Wow participates

rendering of the structure
(Click here for detail)
Date：
 September 20 - November 30
※For Liverpool Biennial website, click here
※For Atelier Bow Wow website, click here
The Liverpool Biennial, Britain's largest festival of contemporary art now moving towards its fifth iteration, is to mark its tenth anniversary with "MADE UP", a major international show featuring contemporary artworks from artists from around the world. Working on the theme of further exploring the artistic imagination, artists will show new commissioned work in galleries and public spaces around the city. Atelier Bow Wow is a group of architects and artists working in a wide range of projects in Japan and overseas. In Liverpool they will create an open-air music stadium on open land in the city center for all sorts of people to perform and enjoy music.

Youth & Music
International Youth in Concert (International Music Festival for Youth project)

Matsuyama Kids in Chorus

Concert flyer
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Date：
 November 9-13
＜Concert＞
Date/Venue：
 November 12 / Small concert hall of St. George’s Hall
Performers：
 Matsuyama Kids in Chorus (Kagoshima, Japan), Cork Children in Chorus (Cork, Ireland), Liverpool Youth Chorus, Liverpool School's Concert Band (Liverpool, U.K.)
*guest: Japanese drum team Taiko Meantime (U.K.)
Artistic Director：Sonya Keogh (ARTlifeCULTURE）
＜Exchange programs＞
●Visit & performance at the school
  Date/Place: November 10 / Broadgreen International School
●Visit & performance at the care house
  Date/Place: November 10 / Mersey Care NHS Trust Heys Court
●Joint reheardal & workshop by Sonya Keogh
  Date/Place: November 12 / St. George’s Hall
※For the profile of performers, click here
※Details on the International Music Festival for Youth are here.
Some 100 schoolchildren from Shibushi city, Kagoshima prefecture in Japan, the Irish city of Cork and the English city of Liverpool will come together to offer a joint performance as part of the International Music Festival of Youth project. The venue is the magnificent St. George's Hall, inscribed as a World Heritage site. In addition to performances by their individual choirs, the program includes a joint performers by all. Before their performance, the young people are to attend a combined practice and workshop led by Ms Sonya Keogh, the concert's artistic director.
Matsuyama Kids in Chorus from Shibushi city in Kagoshima prefecture is a local children's choir formed on the occasion of that city's hosting the 2nd International Music Festival of Youth in 2005. The Liverpool performance is comprised of selected members of the full group.
During their time in Liverpool, Matsuyama Kids in Chorus will visit local schools and senior citizens facilities for performances and have also scheduled a joint tour of the city with the Cork Children in Chorus.
We hope that this event will provide an opportunity for the young people of three countries to foster their mutual friendship and serve as a valuable learning experience in terms of the arts, society and culture.

Photography
Photograph exhibition “European Eyes on Japan / Japan Today vol.10”
Date： November 12, 2008- January 11, 2009
Venue： Novas Contemporary Urban Center John Humble Gallery
Photographers： John Davies (UK) / photographed in:Shizuoka prefecture
Mette Tronvoll (Norway) / photographed in:Nagasaki prefecture
Marco Bohr (Germany) / photographed in:Ibaraki prefecture
Cary Markerink (the Netherlands) / photographed in:Nagasaki prefecture
Artistic Director: Mikiko Kikuta
＜Gallery talk by photographers＞
Date/Venue: 16:00-, November 12 / Exhibition room
*For the details of photography project “European Eyes on Japan / Japan Today”, click here.
The tenth in the series of traveling exhibitions in the "European Eyes on Japan/Japan Today" project of the EU-Japan Fest Japan Committee opens at the Contemporary Urban Center (CUC). The exhibition presents this collection of richly individualistic photographs depicting contemporary Shizuoka, Nagasaki and Ibaraki prefectures through the eyes of four European photographers.

We hope that these works depicting regions and people of the same contemporary era will provide Liverpudlian and other European audiences an opportunity to acquaint themselves with Japan anew.


 
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