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FACT co-commission wins major award
A Letter to Uncle Boonmee wins at Oberhausen We are delighted to report that Apichatpong Weerasethkul's A Letter to Uncle Boonmee has been awarded the Grand Prize at the 55th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, "For creating a cinematographic idiom that transcends conventional documentary realism or its representation. For evolving a temporality that is unhurried and reflexi… Read on >
News 20/05/09 CommentsAwaydays writer Kevin Sampson at FACT
Awaydays author Kevin Sampson to visit FACT for a post-screening Q&A FACT is delighted to announce that the writer behind the seminal novel Awaydays and its new film adaptation, Kevin Sampson, will be joining us for a post-screening Q&A session on Thursday 28 May. "Awaydays has been described as unflinchingly savage, but I think it's poetic and transcendental, too," says Sampson. "It… Read on >
News 19/05/09 CommentsFACT TV nominated for Mersey Partnership Annual Tourism Award
FACT TV has been shortlisted in the Tourism Marketing Project category at this year's Mersey Partnership's Annual Tourism Awards The winner will be announced at the awards ceremony on Thursday, 18th June at the BT Convention Centre. FACT TV is our innovative online arts channel. It was invented and built, completely in house, and launched in October 2008 as a platform to deliver audiences… Read on >
News 05/05/09 CommentsFACT staffer wins place on Cultural leadership Programme
Nick Lawrenson has secured a place on LARC's Successor Leadership Programme FACT's Head of Programme Delivery, Nick Lawrenson has secured a place on LARC's (Liverpool Arts Regeneration Consortium) Successor Leadership Programme. The programme offers emerging leaders in the cultural sector in the Liverpool City Region to participate in a special programme devised by Common Purpose. This w… Read on >
News 17/04/09 CommentsBernie Lubell comes to FACT
Bernie Lubell will exhibit at FACT with a new commission As part of its UNsustainable year, FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology) will present the first UK exhibition by award-winning San Francisco-based artist Bernie Lubell. FACT will unveil a major new commission by Lubell and bring together a series of his low-tech, lo-fi sculptures, powered entirely by th… Read on >
News 15/04/09 CommentsA museum in your pocket
FACT partners with the Streaming Museum FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology) is pleased to announce a new partnership with the Streaming Museum (New York). A hybrid museum for the 21st Century that presents real-time exhibitions in cyberspace, as well as public spaces on seven continents, the Streaming Museum was launched on 29 January 2008. Its ongoing programme of multi-medi… Read on >
News 09/04/09 CommentsHelp create the ultimate Liverpool resource
FACT and Eyebeam launch the Liverpool Wiki After a series of workshops led by Steve Lambert from our current artists in residence Eyebeam from New York, a Liverpool 'Wiki' has been started. A Wiki is an interlinked set of Web pages written by the people who use it. The beauty of a Wiki is that anyone can easily edit and contribute. The Liverpool Wiki will be a comprehensive guide for res… Read on >
News 16/03/09 CommentsNew Northwest arts partnership awarded major funding for new cross-regional festival, March 2009
A new partnership formed of FACT (Liverpool), Cornerhouse (Manchester) and folly (Lancaster) has been awarded major funding from the Legacy Trust UK to deliver a major new festival Abandon Normal Devices (AND) is a new cross-regional festival of New Cinema and Digital Culture for WE PLAY - the Northwest's cultural legacy programme for the London 2012 Olympic Games and Paralympic Games. T… Read on >
News 01/03/09 CommentsFACT rolls out the green carpet for The Age of Stupid
FACT will play host to the People's Premiere of 'The Age Of Stupid' Coinciding with the very first week of FACT's new people-powered exhibition, Climate for Change, this enormously ambitious drama-documentary-animation hybrid stars Oscar-nominated Pete Postlethwaite as an old man living in the devastated world of 2055, watching archive footage from 2008 and asking: why didn't we stop … Read on >
News 26/02/09 Comments