Liverpool Culture Newswire Archive

30-05-2006 09:56

City of Culture Clowns can't organise a piss up

This is a shame becasue the project sounds intresting - but those clowns in the city of culture team are going to ruin everything. Spend loads of council tax payers dosh and organise things crap and tell no-one about them. Read more >>

17-05-2006 03:02 | 1 comment

The Ethical Living Revolution Comes to Liverpool!

Post Plastic is a new arts group formed in Liverpool to promote sustainable lifestyle alternatives and particularly stylish yet conscious fashion in Merseyside. This is happening with the first large scale ethical fair and fashion show on the 27th of May 2006 at the Metropolitan Cathedral. Read more >>

02-05-2006 20:51 | 3 additions | 1 comment

Mersey May Day 2006

This year, Merseyside's May Day celebrations crossed the water to Liverpool. Read more >>

02-05-2006 19:12 | 1 comment

'Free Screen' hosted by Liverpool Social Forum

In what could be the first instance of a recurring pattern, Liverpool Social Forum (

http://www.libcom.org/hosted/lsf) held a 'Free Screen' night - showing radical films for absolutely zero pence - at the Casa, Hope Street on Sunday, 30th April. An audience of about thirty also enjoyed the radical discussion appropriate for such an occasion. Read more >>

29-04-2006 18:24

Dario Fo Theatre Workshop

Casa May 3rd 7.30pm Workshop on Political Theatre Practitioner Dario Fo. Read more >>

08-04-2006 13:49

latest edition of Liverpool’s ‘Nerve’ launched

On Friday 7th April, Catalyst Media launched the latest edition of ‘Nerve’ – their local arts and social issues magazine.

30-03-2006 14:01 | 5 comments

Protestors, performers & police get ready for Condi visit

26-03-2006 16:18 | 3 comments

Liverpool: The Yuppie Takeover

Lord, in a bourgeois town
It's a bourgeois town
I got the bourgeois blues
Gonna spread the news all around
- Leadbelly Read more >>

16-03-2006 15:52 | 13 comments

Dismay across Merseyside as Cheap CD’s Disappear and Police Waste Resources Prot

There was a worry amongst many in Liverpool that knocked off CD’s and DVD’s would no longer be available as police boasted of their crack down on pirates. Read more >>

27-02-2006 15:53

Austria, Hitler and Howard’s Australia

Pauline Hanson recently announced on news radio that her political views have been “vindicated”; she cited the overt racist attitudes of John Howard and Peter Costello as proof of her claim. Who could deny it? Hanson’s imprisonment on trumped-up charges was an act of political assassination instigated by Howard but executed by his then errand boy, Tony Abbott. Hanson’s trial and subsequent imprisonment effectively eliminated her and her party from the Australian political landscape; mainstream racist ideology was re-established in its rightful home, the white Australian conservative ultra-right Liberal Party of Howard! The world watches Australia take a giant leap backwards as Howard continues to divide the nation. Read more >>

21-02-2006 06:23

Mindwalk 31: Driving to Baghdad

Audio of convoys and patrols by US & UK soldiers. Sounds of beating victims from the recent whistleblower video from the UK set to Klaus Nomi. William S Burroughs, Raymond Lafferty & Jody Paulson chime in, including skits from Kanye West. Poetry by Lord Patch, Charles Bukowski and Vera Lynn with the curtain call "Iraqi Victims Reprise".
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02-02-2006 16:46

Act of Defiance at Community College

Liverpool Network Theatre Group’s latest production – Jean Anouilh’s Antigone – comes to the Community College on Myrtle Street. Read more >>

19-01-2006 18:06

Here’s to the people of Baqa’a...Here’s Tomorrow!

Please find a short article on the up-coming film Here's Tomorrow, which is on the issue of Baqa'a, a palestinian refugee camp which is host to over 120,000 refugees and is based in Jordan. Read more >>

16-01-2006 20:59

Film Premiere - Documentary of a Palestinian Refugee Camp.

“Here’s Tomorrow” - a documentary film project with the people of Baqa’a Refugee Camp.

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12-01-2006 15:25

Manchester Zinefest

ZINEFEST - a celebration of zines and DIY writing and artwork.
Saturday February 11, 2006
The Basement, 24 Lever St. off Piccadilly Gardens, Manchester
12 noon onwards
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29-11-2005 16:46

Manchester ZineFest Feb 8-12

ZineFest is a festival of zines, anti-corporate artwork, and diy publications which will take place on Feb 8-12 in Manchester at the Basement Bookshop, 24 Lever St. The purpose is to showcase some amazing zines,music and artwork, to promote DIY publishing, Read more >>

27-10-2005 09:39

Alternative Culture

Remember the last time Liverpool was city of culture? Read more >>

22-09-2005 12:18

Liverpool Social Forum Band Night

Friday 30th September, £3, The Casa, Hope Street

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25-07-2005 05:23 | 10 comments

Cuban Internationalism.

This excellent speech by an Australian economics lecturer is a must read for anyone interested in Cuba. Read more >>

21-07-2005 08:00

Politika greenpeace benefit night

chester greenpeace benefit gig Read more >>