Andrew Beattie reviews Terry Pratchett’s Nation, which was shown at Fact earlier this month. I am well aware of Sir Terry Pratchett’s Work. At any given moment my Dad is likely to recite lines of conversation from some of Discworld’s finest and not so fine characters chuckling to himself and leaving me with a brief
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Art in Liverpool,
Capital of Culture,
Food and Drink,
Footy,
Life in Liverpool,
Live in Liverpool,
Liverpool media,
Liverpool Music,
Liverpool Universities,
Photography in Liverpool,
Theatre
alma de cuba,
conservation centre,
FACT,
kazimier,
liverpool arena,
liverpool everyman,
liverpool maritime museum,
Liverpool One,
liverpool philharmonic,
liverpool playhouse,
tate liverpool,
world museum liverpool
I’ve asked a group of people well placed in media, music, arts and other general culture vultures to venture their high- and lowlights of Liverpool in 2009.
I eventually managed to see The Thing at Picturehouse at FACT last week, despite a crowded social calendar last weekend that involved three consecutive boozy dos.
I was grateful for the opportunity, and it goes to show the value of having FACT in Liverpool. The last four times I’ve been to the flicks there I’ve seen Antichrist, Moon, District 9 and The Thing – and I doubt Liverpool One would have given me the opportunity.
I really love the semi-regular night in Liverpool when the city’s artistic buildings throw open their doors into the night. There’s a real festival atmosphere in town on these night, a little like the frisson on excitement on Halloween and bonfire night.