LIVERPOOL VISION SEEKS ENTERPRISE FACILITATORS FOR NEW APPROACH

Liverpool Vision, on behalf of Liverpool City Council, is inviting nominations from private sector organisations, business support agencies and networks and individuals with knowledge and expertise to potentially join a new team of enterprise facilitators.

The new approach, called ‘Start to Grow Your Business’, focuses strongly on encouraging enterprise and entrepreneurial action in key sectors of the economy.

The first phase of this new approach will be the recruitment of agencies and individuals from across the economy who can act as enterprise facilitators, spotting businesses ready to grow and assembling a portfolio of support that they need. Liverpool Vision wants to assemble a team of enterprise facilitators and/or a group of enterprise facilitation organisations capable of working together to deliver its new approach to business start-up and early years growth.

For more information on this opportunity click here.

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Next SciBar - Mathematics of Juggling - 10th January 2011 @ 7:30pm

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At the next edition of SciBar in Liverpool, Dr Colin Wright will discuss the Mathematics of Juggling.

 

Colin will demonstrate a selection of the patterns and skills of juggling while at the same time developing a simple method of describing and annotating a class of juggling patterns. By using elementary mathematics these patterns can be classified, leading to a simple way to describe those patterns that are known already, and a technique for discovering new ones.


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Liverpool Art Prize 2012 - Shortlist Revealed

LIVERPOOL ART PRIZE RETURNS FOR 5TH TRIUMPHANT YEAR

Local artists Alan Dunn, James Thompson (Tomo), Robyn Woolston and The Drawing Paper’s Jon Barraclough and Mike Carney have been revealed as the shortlist for the 2012 Liverpool Art Prize, when it returns for its 5th successive year in 2012. 

All four will exhibit their work at Metal, based at Edge Hill Station, Liverpool, from Fri 27 April – Sat 9 June in the hope of winning the prestigious prize, which was established in Liverpool’s Capital of Culture year 2008. 

The shortlist was whittled down from the 48 entries received by the organisers following an open call for nominations.  The highly qualified panel of judges, which this year comprises of; Mike Stubbs, CEO and Director of FACT, Laura Davis, Arts Editor of the Liverpool Daily Post, Sook-Kyung Lee, Curator at Tate Liverpool, and last year’s winner artist Markus Soukup, with Ian Jackson of ArtinLiverpool.com  as chair.  The shortlisted artists will need to continue to impress the panel with the work they exhibit in order to win. The winner will be revealed at an awards ceremony on Wednesday 30 May at which the People’s Choice Award winner will also be revealed.   Further details on what the winners will receive will be released in the New Year.

The shortlist is;

Wallasey-based artist Alan Dunn compiles CDs of artists’ audio works on themes such as the Mersey Tunnels, revolution or numbers, with contributors including Pete Wylie, Yoko Ono, Andy Warhol, David Bowie and Carol Kaye.

Graffiti artist & painter James Thompson (Tomo)’s work can be seen as a kind of storytelling through the materials he uses. The work is informed by a strong DIY ethic and he strives to make the best he can with whatever is available, often working with discarded items.

Robyn Woolston’s practice involves installation, photography, moving image, print and on-line projects.  She is passionate about people, relationships and the way the world works.  This is reflected in her work, which raises questions concerning social, economic and ecological perspectives. 

Members of the Royal Standard studio, Jon Barraclough and Mike Carney curate, design and publish The Drawing Paper, a not-for-profit, independently published, newspaper-based gallery focussed on contemporary drawing practice. It is distributed freely around selected galleries and establishments in Liverpool, the UK and beyond.  They have published four issues since 2010 and continue to provide a platform for local, Liverpool based artists, exposing their work to a much wider audience, as well as linking other artists up with one another.

The Liverpool Art Prize is a competition of contemporary art, which was inspired by the Turner Prize and began in 2008. It is open to all professional artists based or born in the Liverpool City Region or in the surrounding boroughs of Liverpool, Wirral, St Helens, Knowsley, Halton and Sefton.

Previous Liverpool Art Prize winners are Imogen Stidworthy, AL and AL, David Jacques and Marcus Soukup, who will soon exhibit at the Walker Art Gallery as part of his prize in 2012, in addition to judging the 5th Liverpool Art Prize. The previous People’s Choice winners are James Quin, Brendan Lyons, The Singh Twins and Elizabeth Willow, who have also gone on to achieve great respect within the industry.  2011 People’s Choice winner James Quin has just finished exhibiting at Metal as part of the Edge Hill Archive project. More details about what each prize will entail will be released in the New Year.

More information can also be found at www.liverpoolartprize.com

See also http://www.metalculture.com

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Cafe Scientifique next meeting - Meditation in the lab: The mind from without and from within

Title:

Meditation in the lab: The mind from without and from within



Date and time:

Tuesday 13th December, 2011, 7.30pm

Place:

The Old Conference Room, Hope Street Hotel, Hope Street, L1



Speaker:

Dr Peter Malinowski


Senior Lecturer in Psychology
Founder and director of the meditation and mindfulness research group
School of Natural Sciences and Psychology, Liverpool John Moores University

 

 

The scientific investigation of meditation and mindfulness practices is currently exploding. A growing number of studies show beneficial effects of regularly engaging in mindfulness practices, evident in various measures of well being and psychological functioning. The talk will introduce some of the main research strands of current meditation research and discuss some of the latest findings. What do scientists discover when analysing meditators with their empirical, third person methods? And how does the process of meditation look from the perspective of the meditator?

In his talk Dr Malinowski builds on his own expertise in psychological and neuroscientific research combined with more than 20 years of first-hand meditation experience and many years as international meditation teacher.

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Merry Merry Christmas Vintage& Craft Fair

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A MERRY MERRY creative Christmas to you, from Renaissance Vintage and MELLO MELLO Cafe

Vintage & Arts and Crafts fair.

A traditional english y old fair, providing Vintage clothes and accessories, unique creative pieces, textiles, cushions, sewn handmade toys,cards, presents, accessories, sewn delights, knitted treats, printed artwork, cut out paperwork, handmade presents. so much christmas delight to mention.

In hard times we all need a different way to shop and why not try a new experience this christmas with live music, mulled wine and delicious eatables. 

inspiring gift wrapping available, so yule be ready to pop under your tree.

Try sending a new gift experience with sewing/ craft courses and workshops information on the day

http://www.facebook.com/RenaissanceVintage

http://www.facebook.com/mellomellocafe

http://www.mellomello.co.uk

Posterous theme by Cory Watilo