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Today's date - Friday 3 July 2009

Sat 4 July - Shamanic Circle

Weekly Saturday afternoon gatherings to initiate you into the ways of the shaman. The purpose of these gatherings is to lift your awareness by awakening your own inner rainbow serpent so that you can communicate freely with universal energies. You will learn about and participate in the following: soul travel, ritual, ceremony, chanting, sacred sound, awakening of the kundalini, shape shifting, power animals, etheric crystals, sacred geometry, communication with the stones, flowers, plants, trees and constellations and the honouring of the cycles and the wheel of the year. You will journey through the gateways of the earth and the stars to bring back ancient knowledge to further your personal healing and spiritual ascension.

1.30p.m. - 4.00p.m. - The Green Community Shop, 49-51 Christchurch Road, Oxton, Birkenhead, Wirral - location map

Telephone: 0151 678 1487
Email: margaret@waterlilytemple.co.uk
Website: http://www.waterlilytemple.co.uk

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Sat 4 July - Faith, Sexuality & Equality: An Inclusive Church Roadshow

A one day conference exploring how Christian churches can be inclusive of all people, especially those among us who are lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender, with examples from communities of faith in Liverpool & beyond. All welcome, regardless of sexual orientation or belief. Suggested donation £3.00 to help cover costs. Please register in advance via the contact information below; if possible, by 1st July

10am-4pm - Quaker Meeting House, 22 School Lane, Liverpool - location map

Telephone: 07780 568754
Email: icliverpool2009@yahoo.co.uk

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Sat 4 July - Liverpool Friends of Palestine Vigil

Liverpool Friends of Palestine will be holding their monthly vigil on the steps of St Luke's Church (the bombed -out church at the top of Bold Street). Vigils held on the first Saturday of every month.

12pm till 2pm - Steps of St Luke - location map

Email: rosemary@lfop.fsnet.co.uk

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Mon 6 July - Open Floor Poetry and Acoustic Music @ The Egg Cafe

Come Strut Your Stuff - open floor poetry and acoustic music on the first Monday of every month at the Egg Cafe!
 
All performers and listeners welcome. First time readers and performers encouraged. The Cafe normally gets very busy, so avoid disappointment by arriving early to claim a seat and a performance slot.
 
Hosted by Pat, Nick and Graham, and featuring Stan the Harper.

8pm - The Egg Cafe, 2nd Floor, 16-18 Newington, Liverpool City Centre - location map

Telephone: 0151 280 5453
Email: info@comestrutyourstuff.co.uk
Website: www.comestrutyourstuff.co.uk

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Tue 7 July - Meeting of Liverpool Holistic Circle

Liverpool Holistic Circle is a forum for sharing and increasing knowledge of all things holistic.

The group is almost unique: there is no membership, no enrolment and no commitments. Just turn up on any Tuesday evening and join in with the information, inspiration, fun, sharing, tea and biscuits.

There is no formal membership, but to cover costs we request a donation of £3.50 per meeting attended.

Our weekly Tuesday meetings cover a huge range of subjects relating to complementary therapies, holism and spirituality. All like-minded people are welcome to come to join us, either regularly or as a one-off.

See website for details of the weekly talks, events, and activities.

7.30pm - The Rosicrucian Chapter, 19, Dovedale Road, Liverpool - location map

Email: mail@liverpool-holistic-circle.org
Website: www.liverpool-holistic-circle.org

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Tue 7 July - Liverpool Network Theatre Group - weekly workshop

Our ongoing weekly workshops are open to all. We share skills, try out new ideas, and most of all have fun!
 
Network workshops are held every week, including half term and summer breaks.
 
Please feel free to come along to any workshops, whatever amount of experience you have, from beginner to drama student to professional!
 
They are usually self contained in theme, so you don't need to wait until the end of a series to join. Also they continue alongside performance rehearsals, which occur on a different night.
 
Each workshop has a different theme, and are usually led by experienced workshop leaders or interested members of the group. Occasionally we have visiting workshop leaders to bring in different skills. Any member of Network is also welcome to lead workshops, following discussing their plans with the group and workshop organisers.

Members take it in turns to run workshops, on a range of practical skills, drama games and exercises, themes and plays. For information call 0151 733 9606.

We also have a play reading group who meet regularly to discuss ideas for new plays, on a separate evening to the workshops.

Workshops now take place at 13 A Hope Street. The entrance to the building is from the back, via Arrad Street at the back of Everyman Theatre. This is the road next to the Casa pub. Please ring the bell, there is a porter letting people in. It may get cold there, so bring a fleece!

The start time is 7pm, running until 9pm.

Since we will now need to pay venue hire, we have agreed to charge £1.00 per person per workshop. Those who can afford to pay more are invited to do so.We can make special arrangements for those who cannot afford this.

If you decide to join Network there is a yearly subscription fee of £5 waged, £3 unwaged.

Why not come along? Non members also welcome.

7 pm till 9pm - 13a Hope Street,Liverpool City Centre (the entrance is from the back, via Arrad St)
Telephone: 0151 733 9606
Website: www.liverpoolnetworktheatre.org.uk

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Tue 7 July - Merseyside Animal Rights meeting

We are the campaigning body for animal rights in Liverpool. We campaign on a number of issues that involve the abuse and exploitation of animals. We hold regular fundraising stalls in the region and organise transport to national demonstrations.

Come along to a meeting and find out what's happening locally and nationally. We hold friendly informal meetings on the first Tuesday of every month.

7.30pm - Next to Nowhere, 96 Bold St, Liverpool City Centre.
Telephone: 0151 293 2009
Email: kj001f8644@blueyonder.co.uk
Website: www.merseysideanimalrights.org

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Wed 8 July - Liverpool Humanist Group

The work of the Samaritans Albert Camus said: “There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy." Samaritans provides confidential non-judgmental emotional support, 24 hours a day for people who are experiencing feelings of distress or despair, including those which could lead to suicide. Come and learn more about this wonderful organization, and explore the existential issues of suicide and self-determination. Richard Jacques, co-chair of Liverpool Humanist Group, and himself a Samaritans Listening Volunteer, will present a talk and discussion.

7.30 pm - The Vines (aka The Big House) - location map

Website: www.liverpoolhumanists.co.uk

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Wed 8 July - Amnesty International Liverpool Branch Meeting

Monthly meeting - every second Wednesday of each month. All welcome.

7.30pm - Room AJB022, Alexander Jones Bldg, Liverpool Hope University, Woolton Road
Telephone: 02070 331 675
Email: amnesty@merseymail.com
Website: www.amnesty.org.uk

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Thu 9 July - Liverpool Defy ID Meeting

Organising against the introduction of compulsory identity cards and the national identity register - the Liverpool Defy ID group meets informally on the second Thursday of every month. (Sign up to our mailing list for news, info & meeting reminders). We plan actions and discuss ID cards and related issues. All welcome! (Entrance to the Liverpool Social Centre is next door to News From Nowhere Bookshop, ring the bell labelled 'basement' & someone will come & let you in)

7pm - Liverpool Social Centre, basement of 96 Bold Street, Liverpool City Centre - location map

Email: mail@liverpool-defy-id.org.uk
Website: www.liverpool-defy-id.org.uk

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Fri 10 July - Critical Mass cycle ride

A Critical Mass is a group of cyclists, wheelchair users, rollerskaters, skateboarders, in fact anyone on self-propelled transport is welcome to join. We travel around the city on a random route following whoever is in front with the purpose of celebrating non-polluting transport. Sometimes it's just for fun and sometimes it's to campaign for better transport facilities.

"We aren't blocking traffic - we ARE traffic!

Critical Mass takes place on the every 2nd friday of the month.

6 pm - Meeting point at Chinese Arch on Nelson Street, Liverpool city centre
Email: m.bradman@liv.ac.uk

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Sun 12 July - New Writing Group for Teenagers

Young science fiction and fantasy writers are invited to join a new group called Fantasci at Liverpool's Central Library in William Brown Street.

The monthly meetings offer 13 to 19-year-olds the chance to develope their writing skills and share ideas with like-minded souls.

Meetings are held on the 2nd Sunday of each month. For more info, please e-mail fantasci@hotmail.co.uk

12pm - 3pm - Conference Room 2, Second Floor, Central Library, William Brown St, Liverpool City Centre
Email: fantasci@hotmail.co.uk

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Sun 12 July - Reiki Share

All are welcome to this monthly Reiki share day which takes place on the second Sunday of each month. Those who are reiki-attuned may join in giving healing - just bring your certificate and lineage - those who are not may receive healing. A donation of £3 per person is requested.

10.00 - 4.00 - The Rosicrucian Chapter, 19 Dovedale Road, Mossley Hill - location map

Telephone: 07962455949
Email: hucrystal53@yahoo.co.uk

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Tue 14 July - Liverpool Social Forum Meeting

LSF is a regular meeting where people & groups in & around Liverpool can share ideas, skills, knowledge & resources, and organize events & actions. The agenda is compiled at the start of the meeting, and anyone can contribute to it. Meetings are the second Tuesday of every month - all welcome! (Entrance to the Liverpool Social Centre is next to News From Nowhere Bookshop, ring the bell labelled 'basement')

7.30pm - Liverpool Social Centre, basement of 96 Bold Street, Liverpool - location map

Email: mail@liverpoolsocialforum.org.uk
Website: www.liverpoolsocialforum.org.uk

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Wed 15 July - Liverpool Friends of the Earth meeting

Friendly, informal meeting of Liverpool's local Friends of the Earth group. Past campaigns have included local regeneration, climate change and transport. Open to all!

6.30pm till 8pm - Green Fish Cafe, 11 Upper Newington, Liverpool City Centre - location map

Website: www.foe.co.uk/groups/liverpool

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Sun 19 July - Belonging - The Gathering 2009 - An invitation to a Big, Big, L8 Lunch

Arts in Regeneration (AiR) in partnership with South Central Neighbourhood Management team, Culture Liverpool and The Eden Project and various other local community partners would like to extend an open invitation to collaborate with us on this years programme of events. We will be closing Princes Road / Selbourne / Upper Hill Street. Princes Boulevard will become a large open air gallery “promenade” with blessings, healing, tai chi, massage, mixed media art, animation, performance art, public art works, tree dressings, storytelling, poetry, pavement art, dance, football, choirs and musicians, buskers and stalls selling locally made arts and crafts and cultural food, antiques, flea / re-cycle marker. Photographers will be on hand throughout the day, to create a series of community portraits so if you would like your street, your community to be involved, please do get in touch.

Toxteth Tales – AiR have been awarded funding from North West Vision and Media to develop a series of film shorts, based on the stories of local people. We have tales to tell. If you have any stories, film footage, photographs, super 8 movies or other archive materials you would like to share, please do get in touch with us. AiR is working in partnership with Pidgin Productions and Toxteth Library, where we wish to begin to create a photographic / film web based archive of L8 for future generations to enjoy.

In the lead up to the event, AiR will be running workshops in Textiles, Visual Arts and Crafts, and with our partners The Eden Project we will be growing food, and with local co-operative United Heritage we will be running food workshops / surgeries creating local dishes. The aim being to create unique L8 “delicacies” from seed to table. AiR is working in partnership with The Eden Project to host “The Big Lunch” - a nationwide call to communities to come together, share food, stories and celebrate on the 19th July. We are hoping to organize the biggest tea party the city has ever seen.

To celebrate the Year of the Environment “Our City, Our Planet” AiR will be hosting a “re-cycle” market, so if you have outgrown those clothes, have items you would like to get rid of, clear our your attic, beat the recession and book a stall and help us make a real difference. We are hoping to make this a regular monthly event in the cities cultural calendar, so all budding entrepreneurs, contact us and help us to create a lasting legacy for us all to enjoy.

If you have an idea you would like to explore, develop, please do get in touch with us. Maybe you would like to host a “Gathering” event in your community. We will be holding public “Gathering” events on 28th May 2009 at Berkley Square, 10am till 4pm and on the 4th June 10am till 4pm at the Afro Caribbean Centre, so come along, meet the team, and see how you can get involved.

If you would like to help us organize a project, get involved, volunteer your time, grow some food, or have a stall, please contact Denise or Nikki on 0151 287 2901 or email denise@artsinregeneration.co.uk or nikki@artsinregeneration.co.uk and we will send you further information on booking a stall or info on how you can get involved.

Four Corners is a city-wise creative neighbourhood regeneration programme working with residents, cultural organization and neighbourhood services. It seeks to examine the life of Liverpool’s communities by reflecting significant changes – capturing memories, aspirations and supporting community cohesion through positive messages. In 2009 the programme will be themed around Liverpool’s Year of the Environment. Through the creative process Four Corners seeks to address “What makes a neighbourhood?”

12 noon to 5pm - Princes Boulevard, Liverpool, L8
Telephone: 0151 287 2901
Email: denise@artsinregeneration.co.uk

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Sun 26 July - Out2Play - new Cheshire based social group for children and their gay parent

Out2Play is a new social group for younger children and their gay and lesbian parents.

Cost will be £4 per child.

Meetings held on the last Sunday of every month. Contact via email for further details. Organised by a lesbian couple with two children based in Cheshire.

10am - Exact location on contact
Email: out2play@live.co.uk

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Tue 28 July - Liverpool Social Centre Collective Meeting

Monthly meeting organising development & use of the Liverpool Social Centre - anyone interested in being involved is welcome. The meeting is on the 4th Tuesday of every month. Entrance to the Liverpool Social Centre is next door to the bookshop, ring the bell labelled 'basement'.

7.30pm - Liverpool Social Centre, in the basement of 96 Bold Street, Liverpool city centre - location map

Email: info@liverpoolsocialcentre.org
Website: www.liverpoolsocialcentre.org

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Wed 29 July to Sat 1 August - Open air performances of An Ideal Husband, by Oscar Wilde

Sir Robert Chiltern is placed on such a high pedestal of integrity and moral standing by his wife Gertrude that he is unable to confess that a reckless act made in his youth has come back to threaten him with dishonour, blackmail and disgrace...

Supported by a cast of delectable belles and beaux of high society, featuring perhaps the most cunning of all femmes fatales, and sparkling with Wilde’s timeless wit, this theatrical event will supply some of the most glamorous evenings of the summer!

The Network returns with their ever more popular summer production, this time in the Victorian splendour of Sefton Park Palm House, as well as the Edwardian elegance of Reynolds Park.

Evening performances:
Wednesday 29th July 2009, 7.00 pm, Palm House, Sefton Park, Liverpool, 17. (Tickets £8)

Thursday 30th July 2009, 7.00 pm, Palm House, Sefton Park, Liverpool, 17. (Tickets £8)

Friday, 31st July 2009, 7.00 pm, Reynolds Park, Church Road, Woolton, Liverpool, L25. (Adults: £6/Concessions: £4)

Afternoon performance:
Saturday 1st August 2009, 2.00pm,Reynolds Park, Church Road, Woolton, Liverpool, L25. (Adults: £6/Concessions: £4)

Tickets can be purchased at the door.

7pm, and a 2pm matinee - The Palm House, Sefton Park, Liverpool and Reynolds Park, Church Road, Woolton, Liverpool
Website: www.liverpoolnetworktheatre.org.uk

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Wed 5 August - Liverpool Friends of Palestine Monthly Meeting

Monthly meeting of Liverpool Friends of Palestine. (Meetings are held on the first Wednesday of every month.) All welcome.

7.30pm - 2nd Floor (Methodists) above News From Nowhere 96 Bold St Liverpool - location map

Website: http://liverpoolfriendsofpalestine.co.uk/

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Thu 13 August to Sun 13 September - The Liverpool Shakespeare Festival 2009

Lodestar Theatre Company and The Liverpool Shakespeare Festival presents Hamlet 13th-23rd August and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead 1st-13th September. On 12th-13th September, they will perform both plays 'back-to-back' using the same cast for both shows.

Several - Hamlet - St George's Hall Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead - Novas Contemporary Urban Centre
Telephone: 0151 324 4780
Email: info@theliverpoolshakespearefestival.co.uk
Website: www.theliverpoolshakespearefestival.co.uk

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Sun 20 September - Hope Street Feast 2009, incorporating The Big Nosh

Hope Street Feast 2009 is the 4th blissful family-friendly Sunday street party in Liverpool's Hope Street Quarter with music, theatre, dance, great food, drink and produce. Rumours of a revival of the ancient tradition of Hardman Street Cheeserolling are in the air ...

Vasily Petrenko will be conducting the RLPO in 3 free concerts, with other performances as part of the Liverpool Philharmonic open day including Seth Paris's "West African music meets Lancashire Brass Band" extravaganza, and the West Everton Children’s Orchestra ... The Myrtle Street stage returns, and Liverpool Irish Festival are planning a huge open-air ceili alongside the vast food and farmers' market which runs the length of Hope Street from LIPA to the Everyman, and expect some spectacular gastronomic delights from the finest eateries on the street ~ No 60, The Quarter, Host, Everyman Bistro, Rubato and the Side Door, to name a few.

With open air dining areas and bars, free open days at the Unity and Everyman Theatres, Merseyside Dance Initiative and activities at both cathedrals and many other places in the quarter, the whole event is brilliantly animated by Hope Street Ltd’s theatrical antics: following on from last year's "Market of Optimism," this year’s theme is "The Big Nosh ..."

Everything is free to enter, you just pay for what you choose to eat and drink...

11am - 5.30pm - Hope Street Quarter, Liverpool - location map

Email: info@hopestreetfeast.com
Website: www.hopestreetfeast.com

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