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Feature: Homotopia: Our not-to-miss highlights

Liverpool’s fortunate to have a calendar crammed with red-circle events but, for our shilling, none matches Homotopia for its eye-popping blend of high art and high camp, world premiers and deeply personal stories. From the….

Review: David Hockney, Early Reflections

Pert peaches, plump melons, curvaceous cantaloupes, however you take your bottoms you’ll get your five a day in one sitting at Walker/Homotopia’s David Hockney exhibition. The man, it has to be said, knows his way….

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Radar. Get Hockneyed Up: a David Hockney Night School

As part of Homotopia, Britain’s greatest living painter (in our humble opinion) is given the flashback treatment: Hockey’s scratchy, urgent and deeply personal early works show an artist grappling with demons and desires (11 October….

Radar: John Waters at Homotopia

Legendary film director heads to Liverpool to celebrate queer arts and culture festival’s tenth birthday.

The Weekly Seven: 19th November 2012

Patrick Wolf - The Gallery, 21st November GIG A musical treat as part of this year’s strong Homotopia programme, the charismatic Wolf visits the tiny confines of Stanhope Street’s The Gallery this week. It’s difficult….

Review: Archetype, Homotopia

Archetype is an annual feature of Homotopia, described as a romp around the Walker Art Gallery with your host, the performance artist David Hoyle. It is, needless to say, not your usual guided tour… This….

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Feature: Welcome To Our World: Homotopia

Way back in 2003 Gary Everett had a different pride in mind. A festival of queer culture for a heteronormative world. One that would nurture and support the LGBT community, and its friends, and present….

Biennial Review: Open Eye

If, as George Michael slyly infers, you’re looking for fast love, can SevenStreets make a suggestion? Don’t look for it in Japan. If Open Eye’s Biennial strand shows anything (and it shows more than most)….

The Weekly Seven: 13th August

Dame Evelyn Glennie at Liverpool Philharmonic Hall, August 18th. Part of DaDaFest. EVENT For many, the Olympic Opening Ceremony will have been the first time they’ve witnessed Dame Evelyn Glennie in action. The legendary percussionist….

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Learning to love dance

Like a little kiddywink, I was practically counting the sleeps until a certain show rolled into town this week. Which is kind of fitting, as it was choreographer Matthew Bourne’s take on old family favourite….

The out side: Homotopia 2011

Rock Hudson, Lily Savage and a hotel filled with transgender artists? It could only be the city’s acclaimed LGBT arts festival, back for another year.

Open Season at Crosby Plaza

A free season of films examines LGBT culture at Crosby’s Plaza cinema, as part of Homotopia this week.

Feature: Ladies With An Attitude

Spreading a little glee to the sombre backdrop of Nation, the Vogue Ball ‘houses’ let their bodies go with the flow, and danced like it was 1984…