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Current location:19.2.08 - ongoing Granby
The project OUT-POST celebrates the diverse cultures of Toxteth and creates a public platform for local communities during the Capital of Culture year. Suggestive of the cities industrial past a shipping container is being transformed into an art space and placed on vacant sites in the Dingle, along Granby Street and Lodge Lane. This new platform provides space for the expression and exposure of local cultures and becomes the hub for a programme of activities and events during 2008.

WOULD YOU LIKE TO USE THIS SPACE FOR:
MEETINGS
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GATHERINGS OF ALL KIND
>FREE OF CHARGE FOR L8 RESIDENTS<

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NEWS:

COULD GRANBY PLAIN BECOME A PUBLIC VEGETABLE GARDEN?
Ideas by Gael Wittorski can be seen on the OUT-POST.




6.09.08 PONSONBY STREET PARTY REINACTMENT
In 1980 Dr. Vanley Burke pictured a street party on Ponsbonby Street in Granby (see images below). In September 2008 tables will be set up along the same street to celebrate the Capital of Culture. Special guests: h2dance
(Image: Tea time, installation in Granby by Jessica Bernardo, University of East London)




..1. Ponsonby Street 1980, Dr. Vanley Burke
2. Ponsonby Street, Feb. 2008, What if

DR. VANLEY BURKE IN GRANBY:
start: 19.02.08 - ongoing

This is the site of the Ponsonby Street Party pictured in 1980 by Dr. Vanley Burke.
Birmingham-based photographer Vanley Burke regularly visited the black community in Liverpool. The images he produced show a city that had not changed significantly since the war, in much need of investment, and in many ways ostracised from the wider country as well as being divided within itself, problems that culminated in the media-dubbed ‘Toxteth Riots’ of 1981. Burke captures a city of grafitti, one where jumble sales take place on old bomb sites and a dog chews on a brick, yet also a city where the spirit of community shines through in street festivals.
Text: Tate Liverpool
Image (b+w): Dr. Vanley Burke

‘THAT BLOOMIN CAIRNS STREET’
Exhibition of images from Cairn Street, Granby
start: 19.02.08 - ongoing

The 15 last households on Cairns Street paint the boarded up houses, plant and illuminate the empty street with fairy light.

We aim to create a clean, green, great looking street, that is full of plants, open, sociable, a safe friendly, welcoming and creative place to live, work and play. For the past eights years or so, we’ve brushed up rubbish endlessly, cleared the fronts of empty houses, shinned up ladders, painted voids, cleared fly-tipping and started the greening of Cairns Street. We’ve now taken stock and want to carry out an ambitious one-year plan, split into three seasonal phases. These are: Winter Lights in Cairns Street; Spring Flowers; Summer Herbs and Vegetables.

Where: Cairns Street is in Liverpool 8, near Princes Park Gates and just behind Princes Avenue. It is one of the ‘Four Streets’ in the Granby Renewal Area, and as such, has been a designated renewal area for the past 12 years. As a result, what is a really pretty Victorian terraced street is filled with empty, boarded up houses that have been allowed to rot for over a decade. (Still a great place to live though.

Images and text by ‘That Bloomin Cairns Street’ residents group.

CAIRN STREET BLOG

SUMMER 2008
Noel Street party REINACTMENT

Lodge Lane: Street party photographed taken by a local resident Eric Stewart documenting the VE day celebrations of 1945 on Noel Street. (image: www.toxteth.net)

Collecting Stories
2007- 2008
OUTPOST: Dingle, Granby, Lodge Lane

During the Capital of Culture year in 2008 unheard voices are given their say through an exhibition of stories on show on the OUT-POST as well as the surrounding streets.The process of collecting personal stories from within Toxteth aims to give expression to the different cultures and identities within three marginalised neighbourhoods. In areas that lack ameneties and meeting places the container provides a central public space for the local population who are invited to fill it with their experiences memories, fears and aspirations.Send us your story!