#LIF2024 announces its official programme, themed on 'departures', providing a wide-range of events, exhibits and activities.
Category: Film, Art & Animation
Four Creatives / Artists wanted
Four Citizen Research Group leads sought for creative community activities, linked with the Liverpool Irish Famine Trail.
Boundless: Transitions – exhibition and online talk series
A year on from Fion Gunn's Arrival/Departures exhibit, we check in to see what she's working on, this time with A-Maze Artists Collective.
Why do artists give away their work for free?
Liverpool artist Pam Sullivan reflects on her art's social conscience and what leaving a mark means to her.
More than time in The Space Between: Jean Maskell
Jean Maskell's The Space Between is a book to browse, including paintings and poems, stories and yarns that speak of diaspora experiences.
Reflections: Sweeney’s Unquiet Islands one year on
Northern Irish printmaker and painter -Martin McCoy- looks back on his #LIF2022 exhibition, Sweeney's Unquiet Islands, one year on.
Reroot’s route to market
Director Connor Richmond talks about winning a Festival commission to make his short film, Reroot; plus the journey it has been on in a year.
Brave Maeve – a children’s book
Writer and illustrator Stu Harrison talks about his children's book, Brave Maeve, commissioned by Gael Linn, An tUltach and LivIrishFest.
Introducing artist jeweller Níamh Grimes
#LIF203 In the Window artist, Níamh Grimes, revels her innermost connections with Irish folklore and how it inspires her jewellery.
Brigid
Maria Crean -artist and storyteller- gives us her 'hot takes' on Brigid, celebrated Goddess and Saint, in time for St Brigid's Day (1 Feb).
Call for Irish work
Paid creative call for work relating to Irish folklore and langauge. £1,000 fund available for suitable project.
Arrivals/Departures: Fion Gunn
Fion Gunn's Irishness is a mainstay of her work, being an Irish diaspora artist working internationally, often reflectign on home.