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    • Event Listings Website for Liverpool & Merseyside

    • Event Listings Website for Liverpool & Merseyside - 31/08/11

      Open Culture are working on an events listings website to cover all types of events happening in Merseyside, from major arena concerts to community street parties, exhibitions, workshops, gigs and beyond. Please register your interest

    • A Massive Honky-Tonk Thank You

    • A Massive Honky-Tonk Thank You - 29/08/11

      As always there are many very special and generous people that we’d like to thank for supporting culturepool over the last twelve months (indeed, last five years!). There are far too many to mention here but we beam our gratitude and love!  And to those who helped us celebrate our 5th birthday ...

      Thanks to all those who have generously donated a prize to the Honky in the Hay game which will contribute towards the running costs of the Above the Beaten Tracks festival: the crafty creative Clare @ Landbaby; dynamic Claire Rider @ National Museums Liverpool; lovies Max & Simon @ the Liverpool Shakespeare Festival; the deceptively laid-back Beaten Tracks DJs Richie Vegas & Jonnie O’Hare; detailed artist Laura Chapman; prolific doer and all-round great guy Dave McTague @ Mellowtone; Liverpool music champions Graham & Stuart from Liverpool Acoustic; the effervescent Dawn Williams @ the Liverpool Philharmonic; marketing guru Scott from the Everyman Playhouse; the very lovely Joan from FACT; the eternally enthusiastic Chris Carney & Martina Murphy from TeamCUC; creative workshop pixies Becky & Camilla from Craft Creative; passionate hum-u-ment artist Delia Brady-Jacobs; Barefoot Wine aficionado Hannah; human pencils Draw the Line; all the musicians who donated CDs; and the amazing musician and song-writer Alun Parry, another all-round great guy

      And of course the artists who have, just as generously, played our birthday stage for FREE! The one and only culturepool birthday troubadour Tom George with Felix Ngindu; Kaya, Greta Core & Ben Power who make up the quirky pop trio The Science of the Lamps; and un-restrained rock missionaries Alan O’Hare, Tom Carroll, Michael ‘Tet’ Tetlow &’Howie’ Northover of the The Trestles . And a BIG THANKS to Tom and his tech wizards from The Bluecoat for looking after the stage and rising to the wet challenge of moving the outside stage inside!

      And not forgetting the fabulous peeps and volunteers at Mellowtone, Liverpool Acoustic, Beaten Tracks, Draw The Line, See the Sound, Lazy Genius, TV Lux & The Bluecoat and our festival snapper, artist Nicola Hands.

       Big honky tonk love, y’all!!

    • What’s your honky-tonk handle?

    • What’s your honky-tonk handle? - 23/08/11

      Play the honky-tonk mon-iker game on Facebook and Twitter to help celebrate culturepool's 5th birthday at the Above The Beaten Track: Honky Tonk festival  on August 27th!

      1. Take the surname of your first music teacher  (eg  Murphy / Seymour)

      2. Add the name of a musical instrument  (eg "Guitar" / "Whistle")

      3. Finish with an American state/city/town starting with the 1st letter of your surname (eg Louisville / Louisianna)

      4. Copy and paste into your status & tag #cpool5 #ATBT2011 #honkytonk 

      Signed,

      Murphy “Guitar” Louisville (Vinny)

      Seymour "The Whistle" Louisianna (Luan)

    • 5th Birthday line-up - Tom George

    • 5th Birthday line-up - Tom George - 21/08/11

      We can’t quite recall how we linked up with Tom George, but you find that sometimes with good friendships.

      Tom’s been a regular feature of culturepool’s birthday celebrations since he played our very first birthday party at the Everyman Bistro when he was so popular that some of the audience asked if we could stop other people talking when he was playing!

      A singer song-writer, Tom also writes poetry (which he sometimes performs in bag) and runs the popular Culture Crawls around Liverpool. Tom’s played every stage we’ve ever hosted, including the infamous Threshold Festival gig with David Hoyle, and we’re made up he’s joining our 5th birthday bash as it just wouldn’t be the same without him.

      Come and join us at this FREE birthday gig on the 27th August as part of the Above The Beaten Track Festival.

      Twitter Tags: #ATBT2011, #cpool5

    • Aug-Oct Up-and-coming events

    • Aug-Oct Up-and-coming events - 18/08/11

      Were hoping you'll make room in your diaries for a busy few months of new and unique events, including exhibitions, music, performance, film and theatre. Check our events page for details and pencil in the dates (booking details to follow on one or two events).

    • 30th June vist to the Walker cancelled

    • 30th June vist to the Walker cancelled - 28/06/11

      Unfortunately due to strike action, the event scheduled for the 30th June which was listed on the last newsletter has been cancelled. Apologiess for any inconvenience, but we hope to re-schedule shortly.

    • culturepool’s 5th Birthday celebrations

    • culturepool’s 5th Birthday celebrations - 04/05/11

      One for the diary! culturepool would like to invite you all to our 5th birthday party this year on Saturday 27th August @ The Bluecoat, as part of the Above The Beaten Track festival.

      It's been an amazing journey for us and would love it if you could help us celebrate!!

    • culturepool volunteers

    • culturepool volunteers - 17/10/10

      culturepool's 2010 Year of Health Wellbeing project, Building On What We've Got is looking for volunteers.

      If you live or work in the Picton or the Kensington & Fairfield wards and are interested in volunteering please get in touch for more details.

      You can give as much time as you want rediscovering what’s already on your own doorstep.

    • Dream Machine

    • Dream Machine - 08/09/10

      culturepool's HQ at Edge Hill Train Station is opening it's doors to Dream Machine, an exhibition celebrating 180 years of rail travel on Wed 15th September @ 6pm.

      Opening on the 180th Anniversary of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, inside the buildings of the oldest existing passenger railway station still in use, this exhibition will celebrate the first journey taken between two cities through a series of large-scale works which reflect on time,routine, repetition, direction and discipline; qualities that all inform the artistic process.

      Metal would like to welcome you to the preview opening of the Dream Machine exhibition on Wednesday 15th September 6-9pm on Platform 1, Edge Hill Train Station, L7 6ND. Exhibition continues until 23rd October. Tues-Fri 2-6pm and Sat 12-4pm. Free Entry. Email edgehill@metalculture.com or call 0151 707 2277 for more info.

    • Edge Hill on the BBC

    • Edge Hill on the BBC - 11/08/10

      It was great to see culturepool's home at Edge Hill Station featured on BBC's Breakfast show on Wednesday 11th June. 

      Click on the BBC Website link to see the news feature.

    • Building on What We’ve Got

    • Building on What We’ve Got - 23/06/10

      culturepool are very pleased to announce that they have been awarded funding under the 2010 Year of Health and Wellbeing, Grassroots Innovators, to deliver our project, Building on What We've Got. 

      More details about the project will be available at the culturepool birthday party on August 4th at The Bluecoat, when the project will be launched.

    • Summer break

    • Summer break - 31/05/10

      culturepool will be taking a summer break during July and early August but will be back with a bang for our 4th birthday party on Saturday August 14th: so save that date!

      We'll again be joining the lovely guys at Above the Beaten Track to showcase some local musical talent, and there might even be some birthday treats too!

    • Liam Frost gig review

    • Liam Frost gig review - 21/04/10

      culturepool member Mandy Williams came along to the Liam Frost gig at Leaf Tea Shop & Bar and has written a great review for on-line music mag Subba Cultcha. Click on Liam Frost review link for full review.

    • culturepool chooses: Write Now Festival

    • culturepool chooses: Write Now Festival - 23/02/10

      Book a place for the press night for the Write Now Festival on March 4th and get the chance to help choose which play culturepool will see at the end of the month. More details about the Write Now Festival press night.

    • Raise Funds for culturepool when You Shop and Search Online

    • Raise Funds for culturepool when You Shop and Search Online - 16/02/10

      culturepool has signed up with a great new website from easyfundraising and it’s the easiest way to help raise money for culturepool. If you already shop online with retailers such as Next, Argos, John Lewis, Comet, iTunes, eBay or HMV, then we need you to sign up to http://www.easyfundraising.org.uk/culturepool for FREE to raise money while you shop!

      As well as saving money through the hundreds of exclusive discounts & voucher codes, you can raise money for culturepool by signing up to http://www.easyfundraising.org.uk/culturepool for FREE and using the links on the easyfundraising site to take you to hundreds of retailer, then a percentage of whatever you spend comes directly to us at no extra cost to yourself. So if you spend £100 with M&S online, we get £5 cashback from your purchase. £100 spent with Amazon raises £2.50 for us, £100 with WH Smith puts £2.00 in our pocket, and so on. easyfundraising features over 2,000 retailers, and some of the donations can be as much as 15% of the cost of your purchase.

      And that’s not the only way to raise money. Are you one of the 6.4m people that use a search engine every day? If so then why not raise money for culturepool while you search?

      http://culturepool.easysearch.org.uk combines the results of several search engines such as Yahoo!, Bing and Ask to ensure you can always find what you’re looking for. But the fantastic thing is that EVERY TIME you search, half a penny is raised for culturepool. That’s right – you don’t even have to buy anything! Almost 17 million searches have been made using easysearch and each one has raised money for good causes.

      Sign up to http://www.easyfundraising.org.uk/culturepool today and start raising money for culturepool simply by shopping and searching online….

    • culturepool & Manchester Uni

    • culturepool & Manchester Uni - 10/02/10

      We met a lovely bunch of students on Wednesday who are studying a joint MA in European Urban Cultures at Manchester Metropolitan University (other universities are in Tallinn, Tilburg and Brussels).

      The students are looking at culture-led urban development (renewal and regeneration) as the main topic of their course and wanted to hear culturepool's views on 08 and more about Liverpool's cultural scene right now.

    • Liverpool and the Black Atlantic

    • Liverpool and the Black Atlantic - 09/02/10

      Save the date! We're planning a FREE art event for Saturday 27th February. We're still sorting out all the details but will let you know more soon.... "pencil it in!"

    • 2010 event planning

    • 2010 event planning - 11/01/10

      We're busy planning events for the year. If you're an artist / performer / production company / venue working on something that you think we might be interested in, get in touch. We're limited to the number of events we can organise each month and the calendar's booking up!

      Email luan@culturepool.org.uk or call 07764 169 088.

    • Happy 2010!

    • Happy 2010! - 01/01/10

      culturepool wishes everyone a happy 2010 filled with exciting new cultural experiences!

      It's been a great year for us: we've attended 21 events at 17 venues supporting 60+ artists; celebrated our 3rd birthday; been on the telly; runner up 'Best Independent Cultural Organisation' in Liverpool.com's January edition; facilitated cultural discussions with the TUC; moved into offices at METAL and undertaken targeted engagement for organisations, including the PCT.

      We'd like to thank all our members, board and supporters for helping to make the last twelve months so successful and, in particular, our funders Awards for All. 

      Sign up to our mailing list to keep up-to-date on the latest news and events.

    • culturepool name-check

    • culturepool name-check - 07/12/09

      Thanks to David Lloyd for the (unsolicited!) name-check on his blog, Skrift: Holding Out For A Hero.

    • culturepool success with Scouse Soul Stew project

    • culturepool success with Scouse Soul Stew project - 19/11/09

      culturepool 's project Scouse Soul Stew, working with METAL and United Holding Company (UHC), features in the Living Sketchbook exhibition at The Bluecoat. See more at www.scousesoulstew.org

    • culturepool supports the Write Now Theatre Festival

    • culturepool supports the Write Now Theatre Festival - 05/01/10

      culturepool is pleased to support Write Now, Liverpool's newest international one act writing festival, which is take place at Pauline Daniel's Actors Studio, Seel Street from March 28th to April 4th 2010. Find out more information at www.writenowfestival.co.uk