Hope Street @ The Bluecoat Liverpool 25/10/08

If you are in town tomorrow then why not drop by and meet us at The Bluecoat!

Hope Street Project @ The Bluecoat 25/10/08
Voices Travel As Light Down Hope Street
The Bluecoat, School Lane, Liverpool, L1

Please turn up anytime between 11.00am and 4.00pm and add your voice to our project.

Record your words and phrases of hope. Recordings will take place in the Hub

Hope Street @ The Long Night Of The Biennial 30/10/08

The Hope Street Project is participating in the Long Night Of The Biennial which is being held in Liverpool on 30/10/08 as follows:

Hope Street Project @ Long Night Of The Biennial 30/10/08
Voices Travel As Light Down Hope Street
Lecture Theatre, John Moores University, 68 Hope Street, Liverpool L1 9HW

Turn up anytime between 7.00 and 9.00pm and add your voice to our project. Record your words and phrases during the Long Night of the Biennial. Recordings will take place in the historic lecture theatre where John Lennon studied art in Liverpool.

Check out the Long Night Of The Biennial website for full details of the action packed evening for art in Liverpool.

Hope Street Project @ 68 Hope Street 23/10/08

Voices Travel As Light Down Hope Street Thursday 23rd October 2008

Lecture Theatre, John Moores University, 68 Hope Street, Liverpool L1 9HW

Turn up anytime between 7.00 and 9.00pm

Add your voice to our project. Record your words and phrases on the night. Recordings will take place in the historic lecture theatre where John Lennon studied art in Liverpool.

Cheers and look forward to meeting you on the night.

Colin
Hope Street Project

Festival of light to shine on River Mersey

30/9/08 Liza Williams Daily Post

EIGHT of the most innovative lighting designers in the world are coming to Liverpool this October to create a month-long festival of light spanning the River Mersey.

The Pool of Light is the most ambitious project of its type undertaken by the Professional Lighting Designers’ Association (PLDA) and has been organised by Liverpool Vision.

The designers will lead teams of volunteers from all over the world – including people from Liverpool – and within workshops they will design and create lighting ideas concentrating on seven real locations in the city centre and Wirral.

The temporary lighting installations are delivered from scratch in just one week, and will be linked by a specially illuminated Mersey ferry.

The lighting designers, from countries including the US, Germany and Sweden have already visited the city touring the locations to ensure their talent and experience can create the greatest visual impact.

Ian McCarthy, programme director at Liverpool Vision, said: “The Pool of Light is about Liverpool having the confidence to show itself off. Lighting is now recognised as important in making towns and cities better places and Liverpool has done much in recent times to make the city attractive at night.

“The extension of the working day, the blurring of the distinction between work and leisure time and the gradual shift towards the 24-hour city mean that lighting towns and cities is increasingly important.

“This festival will emphasise the benefits of lighting in making the most of our architectural heritage and how we are blending the old with the new in Liverpool.”

Five of the lighting schemes will be in and around Liverpool’s Baltic Triangle and the other two will be at Hamilton Square, Birkenhead, and at the ventilation shaft at Seacombe.

In addition, lighting events in this year’s Liverpool Biennial will play a part in adding to the night-time colour of the city, including the Hope Street Project, an art installation linking Liverpool's two cathedrals with lasers.

The switch-on on October 31 coincides with the Pool of Light – Light and Scale Conference which will examine the importance of good architectural lighting and describe the workshop schemes and involve high-profile keynote speakers.

Guided walking tours will be available to the public from November 1. Cllr Jean Stapleton, Wirral’s cabinet member for regeneration and planning strategy, said: “We have been working closely with colleagues in Liverpool on this project.

“Wirral and Liverpool will be linked at night by a specially lit ferry creating a beautiful spectacle on one of the greatest cultural attractions across the River Mersey, which is our most famous gateway.”

Cllr Warren Bradley, leader of Liverpool City Council, added: “The Pool of Light should bring the wow factor again towards the end of our successful year as European Capital of Culture.

“This festival will also enhance our growing international reputation for imaginative lighting of our landmark buildings, but importantly this is also an inclusive project and our residents will also see the benefits imaginative lighting can bring.”

FOR further information on the Pool of Light, or to get involved,

visit www.pool-of-light.co.uk

lizawilliams@dailypost.co.uk

Liverpool Cathedrals’ laser link-up conveys hopes for future

Vicky Anderson Daily Post 1/1/08

THERE’S much more to the striking ray of green light that has appeared in Liverpool’s night sky than meets the eye – or even ear.

Hundreds of people have already become involved in the Hope Street Project, of which the laser beaming between the city’s two cathedrals is the most visual part.

Alongside it is an invisible beam that will transmit sound between the two cathedrals for visitors in each to hear, specifically, the voices of the people of Liverpool.

Peter Appleton and Colin Dilnot, the team behind the installation, are currently recording people of all ages and back- grounds speaking a word, phrase or poem in response to the question "what do you hope for in life?"

They have held open days in arts venues including the Fact centre and invited primary schools, faith groups and community groups in the area to take part.

Following on from the collection of voices, the resulting recorded sounds travelling along the invisible beam will vibrate the strings of a guitar, creating a harmonic backdrop to the soft tapestry of voices which will be heard in both cathedrals at designated times, with the aim of creating a contemplative atmosphere.

The finished aural project will be launched for the public to hear on October 29 between 2pm and 3pm and on several other days for an hour at a time before the end of the project.

The project will climax with a concert on November 27 that will be heard in both cathedrals, using the voices and a special choral work being composed by musician Simon Thorn.

The laser was launched to tie in with the Biennial and has so far been the focal point – and it is just the beginning.

There will still be opportunities to add a voice at occasions including the special Long Night of the Biennial on October 30 at 68 Hope Street (John Moores University).

"It seems to have captured people’s imaginations, as it is a work of art that people can actually get involved in and play a major part in it by leaving their voices, said Mr Dilnot.

"We wanted to try and approach as many different people as possible."

vickyanderson@dailypost.co.uk

Ray Of Hope

Catherine Jones 19/9/08 Ray Of Hope Liverpool Echo

A LASER beam of light is linking the towers of Liverpool's two cathedrals.

Final tests were carried out this week and the laser was officially turned on for the first time last night.

It can be seen at night, with the green beam particularly clear on misty or rainy evenings, until the end of November as part of the Independents section of the Liverpool Biennial.

One of the best vantage points will be on the steps of the Metropolitan cathedral.

Artists behind the Hope Street Project say they hope it will "be perceived as a valuable contribution to the social and spiritual resonance of Liverpool 2008."

The project uses two lasers – one visible during hours of darkness and the second an invisible beam carrying voices and sounds along Hope Street.

And organisers are looking for Liverpudlians to take part in the installation.

The project manager, Wirral artist and writer Colin Dilnot, said: "We're in the process of collecting voices which will be carried along the second laser and we're looking for people to take part.

"We also want to encourage schools and community groups to get involved.

"There will be times during the week and weekend when if you go into either cathedral you'll be able to hear the sounds we've collected.

"We're going to put the voices through the strings of a guitar and because everyone is different, it will create a harmonic sound."

The Hope Street Project is the third phase of a series of installations by artist and musician Peter Appleton and composer Simon Thorne.

The others were at Cardiff's Old Library and at Manchester Futuresonic.

The project will culminate with a simultaneous concert in the cathedrals involving local choirs on November 27.

catherinejones@liverpoolecho.co.uk

Laser Switch On

We switched the visible laser on during the evening of the 19/9/08 to coincide with the opening of the Liverpool Biennial 2008.

We have had lots of positive feedback since we went live with project and the laser has become a regular spectacle for visitors to the Hope Street area.

The laser is currently visible every night from 7.30pm until Midnight.