Music and Drama at The Cornerstone Festival

cornerstone fest 09 Last weekend saw a host of musical and theatrical events taking place as part of Liverpool Hope's Cornerstone Festival. On Saturday the Contemporary Music Making for Amateurs weekend gave local musicians an opportunity to participate in a concert of new work. Two performances of David Lloyd's challenging play 'The Press' also took place on Saturday.

On Sunday 22nd November, the University's chamber choir came together with musicians from Hope partner organisation the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra to perform a St Cecilia's Day concert.

This year is the 350th anniversary of the birth of Henry Purcell, one of England’s finest composers, and the concert will also mark the anniversary of Purcell’s death in 1695 on 22nd November, fittingly upon the eve of the feast day of St Cecilia, patron saint of music and musicians. Her feast day was marked with great aplomb in 17th & 18th century England; many poets wrote odes in her honour, and they were set to music by such composers as William Boyce, Henry Purcell (four times) and George Frederick Handel.

See http://www.hope.ac.uk/cornerstone/festival for full Cornerstone Festival details.

Last Updated ( Friday, 04 December 2009 )

Cornerstone Festival Gets Underway with World Premiere

Liverpool Hope's 2009 Cornerstone Festival got underway on Wednesday 18th November, with Ensemble 10/10’s world premiere of Mieczyslaw Weinberg’s one act opera Lady Magnesia. The concert also featured a performance of Hope Professor Stephen Pratt's Lovebytes.

Ensemble 10/10 (pictured, left) is the award-winning contemporary music ensemble of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and is based at The Cornerstone.

The theme for this year’s Cornerstone Festival is ‘Telling Stories’, told through drama, music, dance, comedy, film, poetry and the visual arts. As always, the focus is on the presentation of newly-created work, some of which is created during the festival itself.

Click HERE for the full festival programme.

Last Updated ( Thursday, 19 November 2009 )

Psychology Research Seminar: Winston Churchill's brain

Professor Frank Wood, renowned neuroscientist and Hope Director of The Desmond Tutu War & Peace Centre, will give a talk entitled 'Winston Churchill's brain: How Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder is sometimes advantageous to society' on Wednesday 18th November at 4 pm in Room HCA105, Hope Park Campus.
Last Updated ( Wednesday, 18 November 2009 )

Beyond Borders: Art, Narrative and Culture in Picturebooks

Janet Evans, Senior Lecturer in Education from the Faculty of Education presented a paper at the 2nd International Symposium on New Impulses in Picturebook Research which took place at the University of Glasgow, Scotland from 18th - 20th September 2009

What better place to hold this symposium entitled Beyond Borders: Art, Narrative and Culture in Picturebooks than the glorious city of Glasgow, well known for its architecture and for the work of Charles Rennie Mackintosh, the architect who, along with his wife Margaret Donaldson, was famous for his avant-garde art and controversial buildings at the end of the 19th century. The symposium, reflecting the growing interest in academic research in the field of picturebooks, welcomed international academics from many different countries, some as far afield as Northern Canada, Venezuela, Australia, USA and Sweden.

Janet’s paper, Reading the Visual: Creative responses to picturebooks and fine art reflected her interest in reader response theory in relation to the book as art. It was linked to the work she has done in her latest book, Talking Beyond the Page: Reading and Responding to Picturebooks (Routledge, 2009).

Presentations titles ranged from, “The exploration of multimodality in picturebook readings” and “Hybrid anatomy - Cadavre Exquis as surrealist practice in Nordic picturebooks” to “Pop Art: Transgressing the boundaries of the “good” picturebook”. The symposium was a huge success, there were many genuinely thought provoking papers and much discussion and debate followed the majority of them. The next international symposium will be at the University of Cologne, Germany in two years time.

Last Updated ( Wednesday, 25 November 2009 )

Hope Professor's Centre Receives Top Rating

professor chester Hope Professor of Rehabilitation and Preventive Health Education, Mike Chester, is Director of the National Refractory Angina Centre (NRAC), which has received a maximum five star rating from the UK Customer Experience panel.

The Centre has become the only UK business to receive the maximum five stars for delivering excellent patient experience from the panel, who said, ‘NRAC is the NHS experience that the patient has been waiting for. The Secretary of State for Health recently said, “We must step back from measuring everything that moves to measuring less but with a relentless focus on what matters: clinical quality, patient safety and, particularly, patient satisfaction with services”. There can be no better example than NRAC for realising that ambition’.

Reacting to the news, Professor Chester said , “We wanted to be the best angina service in Liverpool. Thanks to our partnership with our patients and colleagues at Liverpool Hope University, we have succeeded in being the best angina service in the in the country.”

Last Updated ( Monday, 16 November 2009 )

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