Gallery Events
In Conversation: New Ends, Old Beginnings
Saturday 12 July, 12pm
Artists Lara Baladi and Randa Mirza discuss their work and the exhibition’s wider themes with curator November Paynter (Curator at Platform Garanti Contemporary Arts Centre, Istanbul, since 2004). An informal gallery talk with opportunities for questions and debate.
Free event, all welcome
Archive talk: Bert Hardy's Chinatown
Sunday 20 July, 2pm
Writer and broadcaster Gregory Lee introduces photographs of Liverpool's Chinatown taken in 1942 by legendary photojournalist Bert Hardy. Hardy was chief photographer at Picture Post magazine, which commissioned but never published the work. The photographs appeared in the exhibition Chinese Whispers at Open Eye Gallery (2001) and have recently been donated by Getty Images to the gallery's archive. Gregory Lee (Professor of Transcultural Studies at Liverpool Hope University) will also talk about the Museum of Chinatown History Project, of which he is director.
Free event, all welcome
Still Cinema 5
Heysha!
Wednesday 6 August, 6.30pm
Curated by Bidoun, the magazine of arts and culture from the Middle East, this programme highlights the current vibrancy of the region's video art. Heysha is Egyptian slang for joyful chaos, or a jumbled-up non-homogenous mixture of formats. Artists: Akram Zaatari, Ziad Antar, Hossam El Sawah, Rosalind Nashashibi, Iman Issa, Nadine Khan, Shahryar Nashat and Yasmeen Al Awadi.
Duration 55 mins.
Free event, all welcome
Redeye Network Meetings
Tuesday 2 September, 7.30pm
Redeye's popular free public meetings, organised in collaboration with Open Eye Gallery, are held every couple of months. They offer photographers of all kinds the chance to meet, catch up on news and gossip, and see short talks and presentations of work.
Free event, all welcome
