Here’s the latest roadworks updates for around Liverpool.

Baltic Triangle
The CCMS scheme to improve the pavements and highways in the Baltic Triangle area is due to start on site on Monday, 15th March.

Sections of Jamaica Street will be closed to traffic to allow the works to be completed safely and efficiently. The first phase will be from Parliament Street to Jordan Street with a full closure of this section of Jamaica Street from March 15th to the end of May. The works will then move along Jamaica Street with a further section closure.

From March 15th there will also be a Phase 1b on site outside the bicycle shop Giant on Parliament Street for the installation of parking bays and repaving. This will be weekend working only and will require lane closures on Parliament Street.

Knowledge Quarter/Mount Pleasant
Work is due to begin on the CCMS scheme in the Knowledge Quarter on Monday, 15th March.

The upper part of Mount Pleasant from the junction with Oxford Street to Brownlow Hill will be closed to traffic for at least 42 weeks to allow the works to be completed safely.

Access to the University car parks, Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King, Cathedral House and the Catholic Chaplaincy to the University will be maintained at all times from the Brownlow Hill junction.

Work will also begin to repave Clarence Street, starting at the Brownlow Hill end of the road.

Commercial District
Work will begin on Dale Street on Monday 22nd March and Old Hall Street on Monday 29th March as part of the City Centre Movement Strategy highway improvement scheme.

On Dale Street the work will begin at the Town Hall end of the street, on that side of the road, and will be in the pavement area only. There will be lane closures, temporary bus stops and suspension of some parking and loading to allow the work to be carried out safely. The work area will move in sections towards Hatton Garden before moving back along the opposite side of the road over a 12 month period.

On Old Hall Street the work will begin at the Leeds Street end, on the SAS Radisson Hotel side of the road up to the Passport Office. The improvements will then move to the opposite side of the road moving away from Leeds Street in sections.

The whole scheme will take 12 months to be completed.

Hall Lane Strategic Gateway
Hall Lane Strategic Gateway, now under construction, will provide a much improved traffic route for vehicles entering Liverpool from the east and will take traffic out of the residential areas.

Work is now on site and on programme. All demolition works are now complete and excavation is underway. Preparation of the road formation is being carried out in various locations. The Presbytery rebuild is continuing and this should be completed in early May.

Several utility companies are working in the area to divert services which will affect the roads in the area over the next few months.

Work is continuing to build the new retaining wall along Mount Vernon Street and the new section of the road, which will be called Low Hill. This wall will ultimately be cladded in sandstone.

There are no major works on the highway or traffic diversions at this time however there will be major diversions from mid March as statutory diversion works begin on Low Hill and Irvine Street. 

West Derby Street will close on May 3rd with all necessary diversion signs and signal in place before then.

The Minshull Street outbound bus stop is to be suspended for the duration of the closure and replaced with a temporary stop outside the computer laboratory on Brownlow Hill.

The inbound stop on West Derby Street for the number 79 bus will be suspended and passengers for the hospital will use the existing stop on Brownlow Hill.

A59/Rice Lane
Work to improve road safety began on January 18th and will take 20 weeks to complete. All businesses remain open for the duration of the works.

While the works are on site, Rice Lane between Hornby Road and Cavendish Drive will be one way coming into the city centre only. Traffic travelling outbound follows a diversion route via Breeze Hill, Southport Road, onto Hornby Road and back onto Rice Lane. Traffic will still be able to access Cavendish Drive from the south but for access only.

Kerbing and footpath work is complete on the west side of Rice Lane from Queens Drive all along to Hornby Road.

Kerbing and footpath work is underway on the east side of Rice Lane from Queens Drive working towards Cavendish Drive and also from Hornby Road, citybound, to the Sefton Road junction.

The carriageway resurfacing works has now started between Queens Drive and Cavendish Drive. This will continue over the next few days into the closed off section of Rice Lane after Cavendish Drive.

 The contractor is also working with utility companies to carry out maintenance work as the scheme progresses.

Liverpool Half Marathon
Sunday, 28th March - Waterfront and Sefton Park Areas

The race begins at 9.30am and will finish around 11.30am. The road closures will begin around 8am and will be lifted where possible as the race progresses.
The route is:

Queens Wharf, Wapping (junction with Queens Wharf to junction with Liver Street), Liver Street junction with Wapping to junction with Park Lane), Park Lane, St James Street, Great George Street (junction with St James Street to junction with Upper Parliament Street), Upper Parliament Street (junction with Great George Street to junction with Princes Road), Princes Road, Devonshire Road, Belvidere Road, Ullet Road (junction with Belvidere Road to junction with Sefton Park Road, Windermere Terrace, Princes Park circulatory road, Aigburth Drive (junction with Ullet Road to junction Croxteth Drive), Croxteth Drive, Greenbank Drive (junction with Croxteth Drive to junction with Mossley Hill Drive), into Sefton Park, Mossley Hill Drive (junction with Ibbotsons Lane to junction with Elmswood Road, Sefton Park inner pathways, Aigburth Drive (junction with Croxteth Drive to junction with Aigburth Road slip-road), Aigburth Road slip-road (junction with Aigburth Road to junction with Ashfield Road), Aigburth Road sub-way/underpass, Jericho Lane (junction with Aigburth Road to junction with Jericho Close), Otterspool Park inner pathways, Otterspool Promenade (from Mersey Road to Atlantic Way, Atlantic Way, Kings Parade. 

Whilst the runners proceed from Queens Wharf into Liver Street, traffic will be temporarily held at Chaloner Street (northbound) / Queens Wharf junction and Strand Street (southbound) / Liver Street junction.

Artinliverpool.com, the top British art blog and founder and organiser of the annual Liverpool Art Prize, are delighted to make some exciting announcements concerning this year’s events.

The Shortlisted Artists
• Gina Czarnecki
• David Jacques
• James Quin
• Paul Rooney
• Emily Speed

The Judging Panel
In this, the 3rd year of the prize, we have another knowledgeable, experienced group of judges:
• Juan Cruz (Head of Arts Dept. JMU Art & Design Academy)
• Laura Davis (Arts Editor, Liverpool Daily Post)
• Reyahn King (Director of Art Galleries, National Museums Liverpool)
• Nicki McCubbing (Artist, shortlisted for 2009 Liverpool Art Prize)
• Jay Mitton (Business Manager, Arthur Diamond Design)
• Sara-Jayne Parsons (Exhibitions Curator, the Bluecoat)

New Venue
This year Artinliverpool are working in partnership with Metal. The exhibition will be taking place at the exciting new space for art, Metal at Edge Hill Station (the World’s oldest passenger railway station still in use).

The Exhibition
The 2010 exhibition opens on Friday 4 June (Viewing on 3 June) and ends on Saturday 10 July with the Awards Ceremony taking place on Wednesday 30 June.

The exhibition will be curated by Jenny Porter, the Project Manager at Metal.

The Prizes
The overall winner will be awarded £2000 plus (new from this year) the opportunity to exhibit their work at the Walker Art Gallery at a later date.
There will also be the £1000 People’s Choice Award (Sponsored by Arthur Diamond Design) chosen by the public voting at the gallery.

Ian Jackson, Director of Artinliverpool said “It’s another great shortlist of 5 Liverpool artists. We are really delighted with the year-on-year progress and excited about the move to Metal at Edge Hill. We had 2 excellent years at Novas Contemporary Urban Centre and are grateful for all the support they gave us. We know we will also have great support from Ian Brownbill, Jenny Porter and the rest of the team at Metal.

“It is also fantastic news that the Walker Art Gallery are offering a space for the Art Prize winner to show their work at some point later in the year. We are also working closely with the Bluecoat as their ‘Global Studios’ exhibition features many locally-based artists and the other major venues and artist studios are all keen to be involved in some way.”

About the Shortlisted Artists

Gina Czarnecki
Gina Czarnecki is a British artist whose work crosses multiple genres and platforms. Developed in collaboration with biotechnologists, computer programmers, dancers and sound artists, Czarnecki’s films and installations are informed by human relationships to image, disease, evolution, medical research, and by advanced technologies of image production. Through editing sound and image at a micro–level, using bespoke effects and processes, the artist constructs vivid, highly aesthetic spaces. Her work engages the viewer through its scale, beauty and occasionally through interactive technologies.

“Czarnecki’s craft is as intense as tapestry. Each phase and frame is carefully polished, reframed, filtered, flared, and each element of installation worked on in hands and mind… Few artists have made projection truly their medium, interrogated its possibilities, tuned image to canvas as Czarnecki has. The space of projection is a zone of sculptural, architectural, public space in which we confront images of power, grace and terror – images that speak of the necessity of being bodies, of the loneliness of existing inside an epidermis, of the ecstasy of pores and exhalations, the agonies of escape.” – Sean Cubitt (catalogue essay)

She won the prestigious Creative Scotland Award in 2002 for work on her interactive installation Silvers Alter, a Fleck Fellowship with the Banff Centre, Canada in 2004, and a Wellcome Trust Sci–Art Award in 2005 for production of Contagion. Her film, Nascent, has been screened extensively across the world, winning several awards and prizes. Czarnecki was recently awarded two research and development  grants by the Wellcome Trust , one for a three-year research residency at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and the other for developing a body of works entitled ‘wasted’ with DR Sara Rankin, a stem cell researcher, from the Imperial College London

She is represented by Forma Arts and media www.forma.org.uk
http://www.ginaczarnecki.com/

David Jacques
Studied at Chelsea School of Art and Duncan of Jordanstone.
David Jacques works in a variety of media including painting, film and text.
He has produced studio based work as well as collaborative projects in the Public Realm.

Recent exhibitions include:
Contemporary Art Norwich EAST International 09
Northern Print Biennale, Newcastle
Trafo Gallery, Budapest, Hungary ‘EASTgoesEAST’
Royal College of Art, London ‘Por Convencion Ferrer’

http://davidjacques.co.uk/

James Quin
James Quin is based in the studios at Liverpool’s Bluecoat.
‘Looking at these paintings I feel I have the same relationship to them as I might to the first-person narration of a novel or short story. I feel as though I am seeing these images through another’s eyes and understand something of the “narrator” by the way he describes his world. In this sense part of the subject of the painting curiously exists out of the picture frame.

A further analogy is that of film - these paintings have characters, artificial stage sets, locations, vantage points, camera angles, close-ups and dissolves, long shots, implied narratives, and they play with the viewers gaze’. (From essay by Christopher Jones)

In James Quin’s most recent work for the Bluecoat’s Global Studio exhibition he takes some of the interests described here into new territory but his intentions remain resolutely consistent.  Quin is showing a group of 500 drawings on the inside covers of first edition readers digest condensed novels found in charity shops across Merseyside. Quin has attempted to make each drawing identical to the first of the series. The image is a disarmingly understated one, the back of a woman’s head. However, the nature of Quin’s examination of it, lend the images he creates a psychological distance that is familiar from the earlier paintings.

Paul Rooney
Artist Paul Rooney was born in Liverpool in 1967, and trained at Edinburgh College of Art. Paul’s practice focused from 1997 to 2000 on the music of the ‘Rooney’ CD’s and performances, with ‘Rooney’ achieving an appearance in John Peel’s Festive Fifty in 1998, and a ‘Peel session’ in 1999. Paul now primarily works with text, sound and video, often focusing on the presence of the historical past within the ‘voices’ of real and fictional individuals. He uses or references narrative forms such as short stories, songs, audio guides and lectures.

Paul has had residencies at Dundee Contemporary Arts/University of Dundee VRC; Proyecto Batiscafo, Cuba; Tate Liverpool (MOMART Fellowship) and was the ACE Oxford-Melbourne Artist Fellow for 2004. He has shown recently in group projects at Tate Britain, London; Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid; Kunst-Werke, Berlin; the Shanghai Biennial; and Tate Liverpool. Paul was included in British Art Show 6 which toured around the UK in 2005-2006, and had solo shows at Matt’s Gallery, London, and Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, in 2008. Text artworks by Paul were published recently by Serpent’s Tail and Whitechapel Gallery/MIT Press.

Paul was the winner of the second Northern Art Prize in 2009.

Emily Speed
Emily Speed is based at The Royal Standard studios in Liverpool. Her work is an ongoing exploration into the relationships between architecture and human anatomy: the body as a building that houses the mind. Particularly drawn to the more uninhabited spaces of buildings; corners, recesses, passageways, stairways, entrances and exits, Speed constructs models of sorts; a kind of immaterial architecture that plots out her personal space. Her work is also concerned with the enduring sense of memory and/or personal identity that is often embedded into built space.

Emily is currently the Feiweles Trust bursary holder at Yorkshire Sculpture Park, where she will exhibit her work in 2011 for her first solo exhibition, she will also exhibit this autumn at Showreel Project in Milan. Emily will be taking part in the A Curriculum residency at A Foundation in Liverpool this spring and has previously completed residencies at Salzamt Atelierhaus, Linz with Liverpool Biennial, Women’s Studio Workshop, New York State and Hospitalfield Trust, Arbroath.
www.emilyspeed.co.uk

Confirmed Sponsors (as at 8 March)

Arthur Diamond Design, signs, designs and printing based in Liverpool, sponsors of the £1000 people’s choice prize and printing of leaflets and banners.

Alexander McGregor, design and marketing based in Liverpool, in-kind sponsorship design and production of the exhibition catalogue and branding.

We are delighted that Liverpool-based ABW architects have now pledged sponsorship for 2010.

Another new sponsor for 2010 is The Gallery Liverpool

Photography for the Catalogue and other Media by McCoy Wynne

Contact
www.liverpoolartprize.com has full details about the artists and exhibition.
See also http://www.metalculture.com

Liverpool Cathedral’s tower is to re-open for late night viewings, once again giving visitors the chance to experience breathtaking views of the city. 

The tower will open on Thursday evenings until 8pm from March 18th until the end of October – an extended season in response to the huge visitor demand during last autumn’s pilot scheme. 

The tower was able to begin late night openings last year with help from the Heritage Tourism Improvement Scheme, which is funded by the Northwest Regional Development Agency (NWDA) and English Heritage. The scheme has enabled the Cathedral to put lighting through the bell chamber and the top of the tower.  

To celebrate the new season, on opening night only (March 18th) visitors will have the chance to get up close to the highest and heaviest peal of bells in the world. On the same night, visitors will also be able to enter the main cathedral building after normal hours for refreshments.

The Cathedral Tower has become one of the main attractions for visitors to the Cathedral, and there has been a 72% increase in tower visitors since 2006.

Justin Welby, Dean of Liverpool Cathedral added, “We had extremely positive feedback regarding the tower opening last year. People who may not normally have had a chance to engage with the Cathedral during the day commented that it was a fantastic way to experience what the Cathedral has to offer, and in a most spectacular way. Many said that being above the city at night is a wonderful way to take time out from everyday life and just relax. By extending the length of the opening season, we hope that it will make the Cathedral even more accessible to the public as a place of peace and calm.”  

 These openings provide a great opportunity to catch a sunset across the River with the Welsh hills as a backdrop, or experience the lights beginning to come on around the city.  

Pre-booking is not normally required, but if you plan to come as part of a large party (especially on opening night), please first notify the Cathedral shop (0151 702 7255  shop@liverpoolcathedral.org.uk) to ensure that arrangements can be made for your group.

Please see the website www.liverpoolcathedral.org.uk for  more information.

Here’s the latest updates on some major roadworks taking place in the city.

Hall Lane Strategic Gateway
Hall Lane Strategic Gateway, now under construction, will provide a much improved traffic route for vehicles entering Liverpool from the east and will take traffic out of the residential areas.

Work is now on site and on programme. The whole site has been fenced off and all tree clearance works are complete. Properties fronting Mount Vernon will be demolished w/c February 8th after services are disconnected. There are some works on site to move services for Transco and the access road to the hospital staff car park has been widened to cater for two-way traffic.

There are no major works on the highway or traffic diversions at this time however there will be major diversions from mid March affecting the highway at Low Hill Junction.

Temporary signals will be installed at the Crown Street/Brownlow Hill junction prior to the West Derby Street closure in mid-May. Further consultation will take place before the closure begins.

A59/Rice Lane
Work to improve road safety began on January 18th and will take 20 weeks to complete. All businesses remain open for the duration of the works.

While the works are on site, Rice Lane between Hornby Road and Cavendish Drive will be one way coming into the city centre only. Traffic travelling outbound follows a diversion route via Breeze Hill, Southport Road, onto Hornby Road and back onto Rice Lane. Traffic will still be able to access Cavendish Drive from the south but for access only.

Kerbing and footpath works are underway on the west side of Rice Lane from the roundabout at Queens Drive to just past Walton Hospital. Work has also started on the on the west side at Hornby Road working in a southerly direction.

‘Tell us what you love about your City’ – Liverpool Shanghai Photo Mission

If you had a chance to show millions of people ‘your city of Liverpool’ what would you show them?

English Heritage are inviting people living in or around Liverpool to enter a photo competition where the winning images and ideas will be shown at the World Expo 2010 in Shanghai. You don’t have to be a fantastic photographer or have any experience at all! You don’t even have to have a camera! It’s for anyone with an idea of what represents their city. This is for anyone over the age of 8 – right up to 108!

You can enter in a number of ways; you can send us one digital image of something that for you represents the city, you can e-mail us up to 100 words telling us what is most important to you about the city or you can write a letter to us telling us what you think is most important about your city.

A specially formed group of people from local creative organisations will choose 10 people’s ideas from the entries. Those 10 people will be invited to work with professional digital storytellers to create short digital pieces including images and voice recordings to represent ‘their city of Liverpool’.

The finished 10 pieces will be shown in the Liverpool pavilion at the World Expo 2010 in Shanghai. Liverpool is the only city in the UK to be represented at the World Expo 2010 later this year and many millions of people – mostly families – will attend the show during the 6 months that it is being held.

What do you do next if you would like to enter the competition?

Think about how you would represent Liverpool in photos.

Either; choose one image which for you represents ‘your Liverpool’ or write down not more than 100 words about what is most important to you about the city.

E-mail your digital photo or your 100 words to; liverpoolshanghaicompetition@english-heritage.org.uk  

If you would prefer to write your 100 words in a letter, please send it to:

Louise O’Brien
Historic Environment of Liverpool Programme Manager
Planning and Building Control
Liverpool City Council
Millennium House
Victoria Street
Liverpool
L1 6JF

This competition is open to anyone over the age of 8. If you are under 18 and you win one of the places in the workshops you will need the permission of your parent or carer to take part and you will also need to be accompanied by an adult at the workshop sessions.  

The closing date for this competition is Monday 22nd February 2010. The 10 winners will be chosen by the 26th February 2010. The workshop sessions for the winners will take place in the first week of March 2010.

The decisions of the panel as to who will win the 10 places at the workshop will be final and no correspondence will be entered into.

The first ever Liverpool Boat Show is due to take place on Liverpool’s Waterfront in May 2011.

Organisers believe the 10 day event will become one of the most important and spectacular shows of its kind in Europe. It’s hoped the festival will attract 400,000 visitors to the city and inject millions into the city’s economy.

Now, Liverpool businesses and organisations are invited to learn more about this spectacular event and its many opportunities.

Chairman of the organising committee, Sir Robin Knox-Johnston will be hosting an Evening Drinks and Presentation to be held at the Merseyside Maritime Museum on Tuesday February 9th at 6.30pm-8.30pm.

Guest speakers Sir Robin and Cllr Warren Bradley will present the plans for the Liverpool Boat Show and detail the ways in which companies can become actively involved as Founder Partners. The active participation of businesses in the region will be a key factor in ensuring the long-term success of this event for the City.

If you would like to reserve your free place at this event, you can book online here or alternatively email events@merseyside.org.uk<mailto:events@merseyside.org.uk or call 0151 237 3963 by Tuesday 2nd February.

Go Penguins Charity Auction, St George’s Hall, Liverpool, 4 February 2010

After the huge success of Go Penguins, Merseyside’s newest and most-loved art sensations will take a starring role at a charity auction at St George’s Hall on Thursday, 4 February.

It will be an unmissable opportunity for devoted penguin fans to pick up their very own beautiful piece of penguin art created by many of the North West’s leading artists.

Approximately 67 Penguins will go under the hammer, with money raised giving the Liverpool Lord Mayor’s Charity Appeal (including Cash For Kids and Alder Hey Imagine Appeal) WWF, Liverpool Unites and ME Research UK a significant boost to help them continue their invaluable work.

Councillor Mike Storey, Liverpool’s Lord Mayor, said: ‘’Go Penguins has spread an immense amount of joy across the region over Christmas and New Year and although it’s sad to see them finally leave our streets, they’re not leaving forever. We will have our memories, photographs and stories and in February they’ll be returning to raise money for some extremely worthwhile charities which will spread even more joy to countless people. For me I’m hugely indebted to Wild In Art for their generosity and hope Liverpool people display their legendary generosity at the auction and make it a night to remember.’’

Sally-Ann Wilkinson of Wild in Art added: “It’s been a fantastic seven weeks, but now the penguins have to find new homes – they’re truly beautiful works of art and I know anyone lucky enough to pick one up at the auction will enjoy them for many years to come.”

The auction will take place in the auspicious surrounding of St George’s Hall with tickets priced at £20, including drinks reception.  There will also be an opportunity to enter a raffle draw with prizes including a £500 M&S voucher and  a coveted mini penguin.

Property auctioneers Sutton Kersh are taking up the gavel to make sure events run smoothly. James Kersh, Director at Sutton Kersh comments: “We are delighted at being given the opportunity to auction off the Penguins. I am sure the auction room will be buzzing and provide a fantastic finale to the event that we hope will hugely benefit the worthy charities involved.”

But for those who can’t make the auction on the night, bids can be accepted via phone and absentee bidding to make sure no one has to miss out on their perfect penguin.

The Go Penguins event has been a huge success, with thousands of people braving the wintry weather to visit the trail which wound its way all over Liverpool City Centre, as well as the smaller colonies on the Wirral and St Helens.

Go Penguins was commissioned by Liverpool City Council as a finale to their Year of the Environment.

TICKETS ARE SELLING FAST! – anyone wanting to pick up their own piece of cool penguin art should visit www.gopenguins.co.uk for the full list of penguins going under the hammer, details of how to bid and to secure their ticket to the social fundraiser of the year.

For more information on Go Penguins, contact Chantal Barton on 0781 455 7487 or email Chantal@signaturecollective.com or Mike Doran on 0151 225 2227 or email mike.doran@liverpool.gov.uk

Up For Arts is a unique legacy project and is a collaboration between BBC Radio Merseyside and Voluntary Arts England.

This fantastic project will encourage, support and profile grassroots participation in the arts.

We want to attract new participants to try a variety of arts and crafts for the first time and offer people exciting new experiences.

We aim to raise the profile of voluntary arts and crafts on air and off and turn passive consumers into active ‘doers’. 

We want to hear from you if you are a voluntary art or craft group, if you host art or craft courses or you have an event that you would like us to promote.

What we can do for you: 

• On air radio programming
• Showcases utilising the BBC Radio Merseyside space & other venues
• Up for Arts Helpline Support – with Up for Arts A team (based at BBC Radio Merseyside)
• Online information and guidance
• Outreach events – held in local community venues

These events will be supported by BBC Radio Merseyside on-air and online and by a telephone advice line with BBC Radio Merseyside’s Up for Arts ‘A’ Team.
UP FOR ARTS is a collaboration between Voluntary Arts England (the national development agency for the voluntary and amateur arts participation), the Media Trust and BBC Radio Merseyside.

Lead Organisations:

• BBC Radio Merseyside
• Media Trust
• Voluntary Arts England

The team working on the project is:

Laura Naylor- Events Development Officer (0151 794 0993
laura.naylor@bbc.co.uk)

Helen Jones- the Broadcast and Helpline Manager (0151 794 0924 helen.jones@bbc.co.uk).

Both based at BBC Radio Merseyside.

We are building a contacts list of local arts and craft groups/ individuals/activities which we will use on our database for listener information and as a source of generating events and awareness of what is out there.

Chamber member Zeligs of Little Italy has a great offer for your New Year’s Eve celebration:

Thursday 31 December 2009

Wine Dine Casino Cabaret DJ Party

The evening includes:

• Prosecco & canapes reception
• Three course sumptuous meal
• Bottle of red or white wine or four beers
• Full NYE entertainment package: casino, magic, live music, ‘Talk of the Town’ cabaret, DJs and finally a Hogmany shot to toast the beginning of 2010

Free entry to the bar all night allows access to all night DJ fuelled party.

Tickets £99

To book a table call 0151 709 7097

In honour of the Special Citizen’s Award to be given to Bill Shankly by the City of Liverpool (see coming press for details)

The Shankly Show
by Andrew Sherlock

Thursday 17-Friday 18 December 2009 @ 8pm

Special Offer:
£10 off all tickets for Members of Liverpool Chamber of Commerce*

To take advantage of this offer, book online at www.echoarena.com and enter ‘CITIZEN’ in the promotional code box, or call the box office on 0844 8000 400 and quote ‘citizen offer’.

For his 50th Anniversary of Bill Shankly’s first game with LFC,  The Shankly Show is offering a massive £10 discount off all tickets for the performance on Thursday 17 December @ 8pm if booked before 14th December.  Quote ref: ‘CITIZEN’ in Promo Code Box

Following its sell-out success at The Olympia and Royal Court theatres in 2008, the epic show about the life of Liverpool Football Club’s most famous manager is back by popular demand. With 45 minutes each way, The Shankly Show combines an intimate theatrical performance with big screen action featuring original footage, photos and graphics displayed on huge video screens. Shankly is played by critically acclaimed Scottish actor Alexander ‘Sandy’ West, who produces an extraordinary interpretation of the late, great Reds boss.

The Shankly Show is an iconic play about an iconic Liverpool manager and takes place in the state-of-the-art Auditorium at the BT Convention Centre at the Echo Arena.  It will show for two special performances only on Thursday December 17 and Friday 18 at 8pm.

With special guests each night this is described as ‘a must-see special event for all true Liverpool, football and live theatre fans’, The Shankly Show will make a unique and fitting tribute about the life of a true Liverpool legend

 Auditorium at BT Convention Centre

Dates: Thursday 17-Friday 18 December 2009 @ 8pm

Tickets: £25.00 and £35.00

Groups 10+: 1 in 10 goes free

VIP dinner and drinks package available

Liverpool Echo Arena Box Office:  0844 8000 400, in person at the Liverpool Echo Arena or online at

 www.echoarena.com/whats_on/shankly_show.asp

*Offer not available on tickets already booked.  Booking and handling fees apply.