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Birkenhead Composer wins NW Award
GEMMA Wild (24)
from Birkenhead has become the 3rd winner of an exciting annual
award which seeks to encourage young composers in the North West.
Gemma discovered she had been chosen from a large number of
applicants, as the composer with the most promise and potential, and
will be presented with her award this week.
The Christopher Brooks Memorial Prize, presented by the Lancashire
SInfonietta on behalf of Lancashire County Council, comprises a
substantial cash bursary to aid her musical studies, and an
invaluable residency with the Lancashire Sinfonietta as Young
Composer in Residence. Her residency with the orchestra starts
this week with the premiere of her new work "Butterfly Effect",
written especially for the Sinfonietta. Further commissions and
projects as part of the orchestra's vibrant Education Programme will
follow. Gemma will spend much of her time with the musicians,
soloists and directors who will give the blossoming young composer
the help, advice and encouragement that is so important at this
stage of her career.
Southport FC
Juniors
SOUTHPORT FC Juniors
are currently looking forward to the 2007/8 season by holding trials
throughout the different age groups.
The Juniors have
teams from Under 7 (aged 6 on 31st August 2007) up to Under 18
competing in the Craven Minor League (to age 16), the LEP League and
the Wigan League.
Ladies are welcome
ages Under 7 to Under 10 presently but if interest is sufficient it
is hoped to enter ladies teams at Under 12, 14, 16 and 18 in local
leagues.
Further details are
available from Chris Baumber, Club Secretary on 01704 220484 or
07977 987277. |
Film festival with a difference at Greenland Street
COME and enjoy a unique free film
festival from 4 – 22 July at Greenland Street, Liverpool’s major
modern arts centre. The Artprojx festival will be screening
movies by seven contemporary artists, many of them accompanied by
live orchestral music, singing and performances by the film makers
themselves.
Arts agency Artprojx has curated this summer programme of film
within Greenland Street’s purpose-built cinema to explore the
relationship between moving image and live art forms such as
performance and music. Artists will be present at each screening to
talk about their work. Artprojx is well known for showing
artists’ films in London's Leicester Square and the agency has
chosen Greenland Street for its first UK film season outside the
capital.
Liverpool-based improvised music group, Frakture will provide a
spontaneous soundtrack to THEDA, a silent movie by artist Georgina
Starr. Re-performing the work of the once hugely famous Theda Bara
and other, now neglected, silent film stars, Starr has reconstructed
key scenes from lost films to create her own unique silent movie.
Artist David Blandy will be screening a series of films including I
Am and What Is Soul, which search for self identity through popular
music, martial arts hero Bruce Lee and Star Wars! Blandy uses humour
to question how much individual characters are formed through the
mass media – records, film or TV. He will act out a live performance
to accompany his films.
Taking a piece of music by classical composer Monteverdi as a
starting point, the film Broken Voices by artist Terry Smith is a
collaboration between international vocalist Linda Hirst and
musician Ian Dearden that is part live performance, part sound and
video installation. Linda Hirst will be singing live at the
screening.
Other artists showcasing their work at the Artprojx festival include
filmmaker and photographer Ravi Deepres who will introduce four
films including Tremour, a choreographed dance sequence shot in a
wind tunnel. Alice Anderson’s films, often described as ‘Freudian
tales’, are fuelled by visions of childhood. Artists ZATORSKI +
ZATORSKI will introduce a selection of screen-based video works
including Kokoro, a surreal micro-drama played out by two
butterflies in the arena of a female belly button.
David Gryn, Director of Artprojx said:- “I visited Greenland
Street during last year’s programme and was immediately mesmerized
by one of the best venues I had seen in the UK, if not the world. So
when I was asked to curate and programme a month long season of
artists’ moving image it felt like an honour and a privilege. The
warmth and generosity of the space is immediate to anyone who walks
in.”
For details of Greenland Street’s Summer 2007 programme visit
www.afoundation.org.uk. |
