‘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 renew, reuse and recycle message has been adopted by Liverpool’s artistic community for Liverpool Chamber’s environmental art competition.

Following the launch, the Chamber’s judges have been impressed with the standard of the work submitted. The competition was created to encourage professional artists and designers from across the region to create art from recycled materials. The theme of the competition is Reduce Reuse, Recycle, the three key processes for creating a more sustainable environment.

One of the items entered has been created by local designer Ilsa Parry, currently featuring on Design for Life on BBC2. The funky light fitting is made up of aluminium swarth produced when engineers machine items on a lathe. Ilsa explained: “The swarth product represents how one man’s junk can be another man’s treasure, simply by changing its context.”

Maresa Molloy, Head of Policy and Information at Liverpool Chamber said:

“We have already seen some through provoking and stunning designs, however there is still time to create something amazing and enter the competition. The closing date for entries is 31 October.”

Selected entries will be exhibited at the Chamber’s Annual Dinner on 26th November. The winning entry will receive £500, there will be a £250 prize for the runner up.

The competition is free to enter. Professional artists, living or working in the Merseyside area wishing to enter can download an application form from the Chamber’s website www.liverpoolchamber.org.uk/art-award.html

Liverpool Chamber of Commerce is launching an environmentally focused art competition, as part of Liverpool’s Year of the Environment 2009.

The Green Art competition is designed to encourage professional artists from across the region to create art from recycled materials. The theme of the competition is Reduce Reuse Recycle, the three key processes for creating a more sustainable environment.

Maresa Molloy, Head of Policy and Information at Liverpool Chamber will be judging the competition along with Cllr Berni Turner and a member of Liverpool’s art community. Maresa commented: “Liverpool Chamber is keen to see the support for the arts that brought the city capital of culture and made the year such a success carried on through the year of the environment.

“We hope to see some thought provoking pieces that will inspire individuals or businesses to examine their impact on the environment and perhaps change their behaviour.”

Selected entries will be exhibited at the Chamber’s Annual Dinner on 26th November. The winning entry will receive £500, presented by Marks & Spencer chief executive Sir Stuart Rose, guest speaker at the Annual Dinner.

There will be a £250 prize for the runner up.

The competition is free to enter, professional artists, living or working in the Merseyside area wishing to enter can download an application form from the Chamber’s website.