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LIVERPOOL ART
PRIZE EXHIBITION OPENS THIS WEEK, KICKING OFF MONTH LONG FEAST OF
ART ACROSS CITY
  
FOLLOWING the success of
the inaugural Liverpool Art Month in 2012, this celebration of
emerging artistic talent returns this May to showcase the city's
artists. Liverpool Art Month runs alongside the Liverpool Art Prize
exhibition period, with a new Art Month Hub Space opening at the
Albert Dock at the Grand Hall which also the new home for the
Liverpool Art Prize exhibition.
Liverpool Art Prize exhibition, managed by Metal, opens in its new
home of the Grand Hall, Albert Dock this Friday, 26 April 2013 with
Liverpool Art Month kicking off on 1 May. Both will then run until 8
June 2013.
Liverpool Art Month provides a programme of events and exhibitions,
spread across a number of exciting and undiscovered locations in
association with the city's leading independent arts organisations,
studio groups and artists networks including Arena Studios and
Gallery, Bridewell Studios and Gallery, Dot-Art, Redwire Studios,
The Royal Standard, Wolstenholme Creative Space, Matt Ford Studio,
Mello Mello and POST Female Artists Network.
The network of artists and gallery spaces is hoping to attract the
country's art lovers to Liverpool city centre to see the Liverpool
Art Prize alongside the creative emerging talent found in the
independent Liverpool Art Month venues. The Art Month Hub Space at
the Albert Dock will provide information about the Art Month
programme of events and exhibitions at participating venues and
display artwork for sale through an online auction in an exciting
new crowd funding initiative. Artists in association with the Art
Month have made original artworks based on the Art Month logo, with
the exhibition itself titled:- 'Making Shapes’. More
information about the online auction can be found on the Liverpool
Art Month
website.
Visitors will also be able to pick up a copy of edition No.4 of
Trading Station, 'Outcome Consequence/Effect' or a Limited
Edition series of all the Trading Station Newspapers by the POST
artists group.
The 2013 Art Month kicks off with previews of the exhibitions
Landscape 2013 at the Corke Gallery on Wednesday, 1 May 2013, The Drifters
Escape at Bridewell Studios and Gallery on Thursday, 2 May 2013, and Living
Artefacts at Mello Mello on Friday, 3 May. Visitors will be invited
to discover these independent venues and the local talent showcased
in these exhibitions. The Walker Art Gallery will be showing
Strangers in a Strange Land by last year's Liverpool Art Prize
winner, Robyn Woolston, which has been on show since 23 March and
will continue throughout May until 23 June 2013. There will be a talk by
the Artist at the Walker Gallery on Saturday, 11 May 2013, at 1pm.
Arena Studios and Gallery will host its 11th Annual Auction with
established and newly emerging artists from a diverse range of
disciplines submitting work to be sold at auction in Elevator Café
Bar, Parliament Street, on Friday, 3 May 2013. Arena promises an exciting
auction night with an electric atmosphere, as the bids rise higher
and higher. The artwork up for Auction will be on show in the
Elevator Café from Monday, 29 April 2013. On Auction night, registration
starts from 5pm with the Auction kicking off at 7pm. The programme
at Arena Studios and Gallery continues with Something to do with
Death, a congregation of dark drawings by Paul Bywater, at Arena
Studios and Gallery, which can be previewed on 9 May and continues
until Sunday, 9 June 2013.
Further exhibitions in the Art Month programme will open on 17 May
2013,
in association with Light Night Liverpool. For one night only on
Light Night visitors to the Matt Ford Studio can enjoy the Lowe
Photo Booth Project, providing the opportunity to visit the studio
and be part of a live interactive photography event. An exhibition
at Matt Ford Studio, of work by photographer/artists Matt Ford and
Lu Lowe will continue throughout Art Month. Also on 17 May 2013, Bridewell Studios and Gallery opens with Possible Impossibilities, a
selection of drawings and drawing practices by Liverpool artists
from an open submission opportunity. The exhibition will include
performance, workshops and interventions, continuing until Friday, 31
May 2013. The Royal Standard previews the exhibition Black Sun Horizon, a
group show exploring the roots of contemporary boredom curated by
Dave Evans, which will be open until Sunday, 2 June 2013. Wolstenholme
Creative Space presents Liverpool, Unfinished; an evocative
photography series of colour portraits and landscapes of Merseyside
during the 1980's by Rob Bremner in conjunction with Look 13
(Liverpool International Photography Festival) on show at Drop the
Dumbells until Sunday, 2 June 2013. Arena Studios and Gallery will be
providing Open Studios with a twist and Breeze Studios will also be
hosting an Open Studios event including performance and exhibition
Breeze Bonanza. Mello Mello will be open for Of Time and Place -
Futures Lost and Found, a 3D Video Projection Mapping Installation.
The Art Month continues with Red Wire Studio group presenting Open
Studios on Tuesday, 21 May, to Wednesday, 29 May 2013, with an open evening on Friday,
24 May 2013, with food, drinks and live local bands. On Thursday, 23 May
2013,
there will also be the opportunity to see the LJMU School of Art and
Design final degree show at the Art and Design Academy (ADA), on
Duckinfield Street (next to the Catholic Cathedral). The Degree show
is then open from Friday, 24 May to Saturday, 1 June 2013, for further
viewing.
The final weekend in May will feature the inaugural Liverpool Art
Fair (liverpoolartfair.com),
organised by Dot-Art, an exciting open submission selling event over
five days, connecting local artists with new art buyers on a large
scale and making affordable art accessible to all. It will take
place across two large exhibition spaces in the popular venue, Camp
and Furnace in Liverpool's Baltic Triangle; launching on the evening
of Thursday, 23 May 2013, and open to the public from 11am to 6pm, from
Friday, 24 May to Monday, 27 May 2013.
During Liverpool Art Month visitors are welcome to discover the
participating venues in a guided Bus Tour around the city every
Saturday. Bus Tours run from the Liverpool Art Month Hub Space,
leaving at 1pm. Tickets are £4 and it is recommended that you book
in advance through
Eventbrite.
The Art Month is also offering a free informal discussion and tour
of the Liverpool Art Prize Exhibition at the Albert Dock, every
Wednesday throughout May 2013, from 1pm to 2pm. |
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CLEANERS ON THE
FRONT LINE IN WORLD WITHOUT ANTIBIOTICS
"NHS Hospital cleaning
will become our main defence against potentially lethal infections
such as MRSA, E. coli, Clostridium difficile (C. diff) and Norovirus
in a world without antibiotics" is the stark warning from
Christina McAnea, UNISON Head of Health. Antibiotics that are
effective against these are likely to run out in the next 20 years,
as infections become increasingly resistant to the drugs available.
In a survey of more than 2,000 health workers, 25% revealed that
operations had been cancelled in their hospital in the past year,
due to outbreaks of infection. And 40% said that their hospitals had
been forced to close wards because of infection.
Managerial concern over infection control has encouraged expensive
cleaning systems such as robots that use hydrogen peroxide and UVC.
Companies that sell these are subjecting some hospitals to high
pressure selling tactics, and wasting precious NHS resources, said
the union.
Christina McAnea, UNISON Head of Health, went on to say:-
"Hospitals are turning to these costly systems because they are
desperate to find solutions to a world without antibiotics; a world
we will all have to face in the next 20 years. These are expensive
gimmicks that do not do the job as well as good old fashioned soap,
water and elbow grease. There is no room for complacency; people
will be dying of untreatable infections in only a short time frame.
But, instead of spending taxpayers' money on expensive kit, that
money would be better spent on increasing the hours spent cleaning.
Cleaning staff should be given the training to tackle routine
cleaning of high risk, near touch sites, besides the patient's bed,
the bedside locker, bed frame, buzzer, overbed table, etc. That is
the way to cut down the spread of these potentially lethal
infections."
One well-known 'superbug' is MRSA and the union is
highlighting flaws in the way that Government is currently gathering
statistics on the number of cases in hospitals, which mask a very
real threat to patients.
Dr Stephanie Dancer, Consultant microbiologist, said:-
"National figures show the number of MRSA infections as falling, but
these are misleading because they only reflect the cases where MRSA
has gained entry into a patient's bloodstream. MRSA can still be
acquired in hospitals on patient's skin, in a wound, or cause chest
and other infections. Some of these superficial infections require
powerful and toxic antibiotic therapy as well as increasing the
amount of time patients need to stay in hospital. Hand-hygiene has
been rigorously implemented in hospitals but this only represents
one way to control the spread of infections. Screening patients for MRSA has allowed more cases to be picked up prior to hospital
admission. However, hospitals have to cope with accident and
emergencies that don't allow for early screening, so other measures
need to be implemented. Targeted cleaning of hand-touch sites near
the patient remains an inexpensive method for reducing the risk of MRSA and other hospital infections for patients."
UNISON is calling for stricter accounting of MRSA cases amid fears
that the number of patients picking up MRSA continues, without
knowing the full extent of the problem.
What are your views on UNISON request for stricter accounting? Do
you think that they are correct in what they are asking for? Email
us your views to:-
news24@southportreporter.com.
MAN WANTED BY CLEVELAND POLICE
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CLEVELAND Police have
released this photograph above, of a man wanted in connection with
drugs offences and money laundering offences. Officers from the
force have made a number of attempts to locate him without success
and it is believed that he is aware that he is wanted by Police.
Ricky Beresford, 23, is from the Stockton area, but has recently
been living in Bishop Auckland in Co Durham. He has numerous
connections across the Cleveland area but he also has associates
throughout the UK. He is known locally as "Beevis" and
is described as around 5ft 8" tall and of heavy build. He is of
Asian appearance with receding black hair and facial hair. It is not
believed that he poses any direct risk to the public. Anyone with
information regarding the whereabouts of this man is asked to
contact Cleveland Police on the non-emergency:- 101 number or
Crimestoppers anonymously on:- 0800 555 111.
Wanted for recall to prison - Paul
Corrigan
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DEVON and Cornwall Police,
in the Torbay area, are seeking a 29 year old man who is wanted for
recall to prison following a conviction for drugs offences in 2010.
the force is proactively following up on a number of lines of
enquiry to ascertain the location of Paul Corrigan. However Police
are appealing for any further information on his whereabouts.
Following a breach of his probation, Police intend to arrest
Corrigan once he has been located. He is described as a white male,
5'6", of slim build with black, close cropped balding hair. He has
links to Torquay and Liverpool. Corrigan can be violent and should
not be approached by members of the public. Police are appealing for
anyone who has had recent contact with him to come forward and
assist by calling Crimestoppers, anonymously, on:- 0800 555 111. |
