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I am flying. I swoop over the rooftops of Liverpool, over the waterfront and out to sea, following a trawler as it drags its nets through the wild sea. I am a sixteen-year-old bird boy, addicted to seagull blood, flying through sea-storms, up to the moon . . . On the run from tragedy, Lucas escaped Liverpool - then a city cast aside, a city crumbling. Now he's back, the old gang don't rush to welcome him home and ghosts haunt the ruins of their childhood playgrounds. The city chases renaissance: could his love affair with childhood sweetheart Lizzie blossom again too? Bright Phoenix is a wild, dream-like play about the carnival of the city at night; about a gang of rebel kids who still don't quite fit in as grown-ups; and about their love for a dying cinema and their mad plan to bring it back to life like a phoenix. Featuring live music, Jeff Young's epic and poetic play reveals the magic of forgotten places and dreaming beneath the stars. The play received its world premiere at the Liverpool Everyman on 3 October 2014.
Text by Grayson Perry, Blake Morrison.
A fiercely funny look at the rocky relations between our press and politicians in a world of spin-doctors and Leveson Inquiries, from the award-winning writer of Damages, Whipping It Up, Roaring Trade and the highly-acclaimed BBC programmes Sherlock and Doctor Who.
An illuminating account of the importance of public investment in arts and culture
The aim of the Arts Council England is to promote art across the country. The government and the National Lottery provides the money to fulfil this objective. The Arts Council has set out a number of priorities for the period 2006 to 2008, including: taking part in the arts through festival promotions; involving children and young people through the theatre and at schools; promoting the creative economy with art partnerships, along with the vibrant communities project by the development of urban art programmes and further promotion of the internationalism of the arts through events such as the World Music Expo. A list of grants provided by the Council for the 2005/06 period is available from the Arts Council England website: (http://www.artscouncil.org.uk/funding/gfta2006_grants0506.php).
It's hard being a little monkey in a big troop, in an even bigger jungle - and this little monkey has had enough of always missing out! She's off to climb to the top of the tallest tree in the jungle and she's going to do it all on her own. Except that there's someone following close behind. Someone with claws and stripes and rather sharp teeth . . . Little Monkey is a beautiful, funny and empowering picture book from renowned author/illustrator, Marta Altés. Little Monkey shows us that the world is a big, wild and wonderful place where anything is possible.
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