Metal

Following a successful and inspirational two weeks during last year’s Liverpool Biennial, Metal’s Future Station group will once again take over the spaces at Edge Hill Station for a creative festival that showcases the group’s own talent, interests and ideas.

Kicking off on the same weekend as Liverpool’s Pride Festival, the two week Future Station Festival will explore the theme of Equality under the title of YOUR STATION.

Is everybody born equal? Do we have equality? Is full equality possible? Is it desired? How equal are we? What about difference?

Through visual art, poetry, performance, writing and film the festival offers a broad range of responses to this universal theme.

Highlights include; a performance and workshop with one of India’s leading alternative theatre directors Parnab Mukherjee, a screening of ‘Arise, You Gallant Sweeneys!’ a documentary following a number of Irish males who migrated to Britain during the building boom of the 50s and 60s, and a series of evening discussion events with Philosophy in Pubs.

There will also be an exhibition throughout the festival featuring work made by members of the group and an open studio showing the final stage of Adrian Jeans’ ‘Craft of Art’ project (www.thecraftofart.co.uk), a process which began during last year’s festival.

Events:
Fri 5^th Aug – 6.30pm Film Station film screening ‘Victim‘ (1961)
A prominent lawyer goes after a blackmailer who threatens gay men with exposure (homosexual acts still being illegal). But he's gay himself.
Sat 6^th Aug – 12pm Liverpool Pride March
Meet at St. George’s Plateau at 11.00am
For more information about the Liverpool Pride Festival download the programme.
Mon 8^th Aug – 6-8.30pm Philosophy in Pubs discussion part 1
‘Is everybody born equal? Do we have equality? Is full equality possible? Is it desired? How equal are we? What about difference?’
Through organised but spontaneous style discussions, these questions will be explored at two special open community forums hosted by Philosoph In Pubs - join in & have your say, or just listen. Refreshments included.
Tues 9^th Aug – 12-4pm workshop with Parnab Mukherjee
Wed 10^th Aug – 2-6pm - Exhibition open
7pm Parnab Mukherjee, Ruth Dillon, Jonathan Tooze ‘This Room Is Not my Room’
Multimedia performance
Thu 11^th Aug – 2-6pm Exhibition open
Fri 12^th Aug –  2-6pm Exhibition open
6pm ‘Arise, You Gallant Sweeneys!’ screening
A documentary film that tells the story of a number of Irish males who migrated to Britain for economic reasons in the building boom of the 1950s and ‘60s and who, for one reason or another, had never returned to Ireland until recently. Their lives in exile and subsequent homecomings are documented in the film.
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Sat 13^th Aug – 12-4pm Exhibition open
Mon 15^th Aug – 6-8.30pm Philosophy in Pubs discussion part 2
Tues 16^th Aug – 2-6pm Exhibition open
Wed 17^th Aug – 2-6pm Exhibition open
6-9pm Suitcase Ensemble Workshop
Drama activities for 14 – 25 year olds including prop making and music.
Thu 18^th Aug – 11-4pm Edge Hill Archive open day
Former railway employees or people who remember growing up in Edge Hill are invited to the station to take part in the growing Edge Hill Archive.
2-6pm Exhibition open
Fri 19^th Aug –  2-6pm Exhibition open
6.30pm Film Station ‘Animal Farm’ (1954)
A successful farmyard revolution by the resident animals vs. the farmer goes horribly wrong when corrupt pigs hijack it for their personal gain.
Sat 20^th Aug – 12-4pm Exhibition open

All events are free.  For film screenings, discussions or workshops we do ask that participants book by email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or by phone on [0151] 7072277.

Download a pdf of the full programme HERE.

Images below by Luan Lawrenson-Woods, Jonathan Tooze and Tony Garner.