Our youth strand launches with bands, music and mayhem
The Big Gay Prom will feature up & coming band Kenelis
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Tmesis Theatre present
Physical Fest 2010
Liverpool based Tmesis Theatre return this June with their sixth annual festival of physical workshops and performances, ‘Physical Fest’, the only festival of its kind in Europe.
Physical Fest brings the world’s best local, national and international movement and physical theatre artists to Liverpool in an exciting 8 day programme of events, workshops, taster classes and performances. It aims to bring new movement techniques to the city and hosts northwest premiers. The festival is fast becoming one of the international key events in Liverpool’s cultural programme with participants flocking from the national and international community.
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Deaf Awareness Week 2010 – 28th June to 4th July 2010
Over one hundred deaf charities are uniting beneath the umbrella organisation The UK Council on Deafness for “Look at Me”, the banner adopted by Deaf Awareness Week from 28th June to 4th July 2010.
The theme aims to highlight the different types of deafness and explain the many different methods of communication used by deaf people.
The word deaf is used to describe a whole range of conditions relating to deafness: according to figures from the World Health Organisation, there are currently 278 million deaf people across the world, 80 per cent of which live in developing countries; of these, 25% became deaf as children.
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Europe Day – 9th May 2010
The name of Europe has its origins in Greek mythology and the seduction of the beautiful Phoenician, Europa, on the isle of Crete by the god Zeus who disguised himself as a white bull.
Centuries of bitter wars and conflicts later, Europe Day was founded to commemorate the continent’s unification and is celebrated enthusiastically by most of the member states that make up the European Union. Possibly the only country where the Day is not embraced with gusto is in Britain, where signs emblazoned with the words ‘To Europe’, point across the channel in the continent’s general direction as though it’s a separate entity and nothing to do with the UK at all!
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Liverpool Summer Pops Festival, in association with CMP Entertainment since 2001, enters its 10th year this summer. The majority of events take place at the ten thousand seater Liverpool Echo Arena with fringe events at a variety of close-by venues.