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Eco Christmas Craft
A great Eco Christmas Crafting project with the kids. Cut out triangles to make a tree shape. Paint green, allow to dry.
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Liverpool’ Rustiest New Landmark
Liverpool’ Rustiest New Landmark What is this? We ask from a distance Is it a building in the process of being demolished? Some kind of rust ridden shipping structure? A foundation of beams constructed from rusted steel? But no! We get closer It is a solid form Not open edged Or girder exposed We think…
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Beautiful World, Where Are You
…Fantastic Sex Scenes Beautiful World Where Are You is Sally Rooney’ hot ticketed, successive, novel. After the grand-slam of Normal People, enacted into a BB3 series, then aired on BBC 1 amidst lockdown restrictions, her new novel was much anticipated. Book shops opened early for its UK release; September 7th, within five day it had…
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125: Everton Library
Last Saturday saw a flurry of events to mark the 125th birthday of Everton library. There were skechers, scribblers, cake, bird making and John Lennon made an appearance on what would have been his 81st Birthday. Gem of Everton Brow Everton library originally opened in 1886, one of the earliest public book hordes in Liverpool.…
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Flatland: Tate Liverpool
In 2018, Emily Speed flourished with her application for the pioneering North-West based artists award to mount a full scale exhibition based at Tate Liverpool. With the pandemic delayed manifestation she astounds us with Flatland. Speed, based in Liverpool, succeeding studying fine art in Edinburgh and the Capital: London, she resituated within the region. Over…
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Assemblage Art
Assemblage Art is the combination of images and discarded items to form new artwork. The art form dates back to the curiosity cabinets of the fifteen hundreds which became popular again during the Victorian era. Picasso brought the artform into the mainstream in the early twentieth century, developed further by the Italian Arte Povera (Pour…
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Kate Winslet: Feminist
10 reasons why we relish this leading feminist icon 1 Defeating the fat shaming bullies at school, being branded ‘Blubber’. Achieving great success at Stage School she was voted Head Girl. She continues to refuse to conform to Hollywood ideals of beauty and stands up to media intrusions over fluctuations of weight. 2 The stunning…
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Street Art: North Liverpool
The contemporary issues at the front of the nation’s young minds: their fears, their frustrations and the desire to demand the re-modelling of society. The anxieties of adolescence emulated through the spray can culture of the street. A smashed paving slab parading a ‘Thanks NHS’ rainbow suggesting an end of public spirited ‘Clap for Carers’?…
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Scatterings
Alison’ partner Dave was lost to the first wave of covid, due to restrictions there where delays to scattering of the ashes. This poem was read before the ashes where scattered at Hilbre Island, Wirral. Scatterings Last in the flesh Heart compress’ Life no longer bless’ My hand, impress Davy the bus has joined you…
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