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Global Citizen
Global Citizen is an artist proposal for the Festival of Manchester to occur in Platt Fields worked on by Alison Little. Global Citizen Highly coloured shredded paper is to take over Platt Fields. Gigantic 2 meter tall spheres are to be created reflecting how Mancunians are Global citizen. Inviting interaction, visitors will be able to…
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Jehovah
Jehovah! Eventually you will value my work My processing skills Question my abilities no longer Not expect the impossible Ensure you listen well I am your well worked liver For you I process liquid On every level Rendering toxins redundant Crushing their harm potential Filtering fluids through U bends Passing them internally The bodies…
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360 Modigliani
Last night saw the private view of the Modigliani Opera on Bold St, the 360 Degree cinematic experience had finally arrived in Liverpool. Waiting with great anticipation on the purposefully darkened lower level of 25 Bold St, we look toward the technology. Laid out we had sets of boxed in eye units and industrial scale…
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Multitude of Colour: The Liverpool Plinth
Multitudes of colours rise up on the Liverpool plinth with Split Decision, the city’s latest public art sculpture. Split decision is the much-anticipated form to take its place on the Liverpool plinth. Just under five meters in height the multi coloured abstraction of the human form draws attention to the anguish those suffering from depression…
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Lady-Like
Lady-Like Childhoods spent of girls being told to be more lady-like. The need to wear petty coats decades after there use has dwindled. Showing your knickers during a fast-paced cartwheel, unthinkable. Denied the pleasures of tree climbing, void of the fun from play fighting in the name of being lady-like. Adulthood, Restrictiveness of ladylike rears…
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..to explain….
..to explain…. Ahead, we have a field, common ground, or well done up waste ground for those less gracious in terminology. Grass recently cut, some stripe like forms, but simply devised from the day-to-day routine of the Council cutter, not pitch perfect and suburban. Ahead, we have a field, common ground, or well done up…
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Women: Breasts + Feeling Uncomfortable
The top 5 reasons why women’s breasts make you wince, avert the eyes and wish you weren’t present. 5 They are just a bit too big and the top is just a bit too small. When you can see more of them than its comfortable looking towards. …
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I must be Miss Liverpool!
I must be Miss Liverpool! We are seated, lined up, eventually at the final of Miss Liverpool. The seats of the room arched around, judges desks empty for now. They have demobbed to a side room, making the final, ultimate, life-changing decision. I must be Miss Liverpool! It’s taken me four years to get here,…
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Rags, the Boutique does Southport
Last Saturday saw the fun of Rags Boutique at Southport Festival. For the magic-themed festival we created an array of high standing wizard hats, a collection of mushroom masks. Black cats masqueraded and a troop of unicorns topped everything off. Alison Little started Rags Boutique workshops over a decade ago as part of Bold Street…
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James Bongo: Conscious Poet, Humanitarian, and Voice of Liverpool’s Fringe Festival
https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-4000887400212447 James Bongo—known to many across Merseyside as Bongo Bongo—is far more than a poet. He is a humanitarian, spiritual thinker, filmmaker, mental-health advocate, and one of the driving forces behind Liverpool’s modern spoken-word movement. With a voice rooted in truth, resilience, and lived experience, Bongo continues to inspire communities through poetry, performance, activism, and…
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