tenantspin welcomed onto the couch Dr. John Hunt from UK BioTech Liverpool University, Anthony Mark Cutter, Senior Lecturer and Director of LLM, Medical Law and Bio Ethics, and Sharon Waldron from Transform Medical Group to discuss advances in medical technology, the effects on the body and the ethical implications of such works. This discussion was filmed as part of FACT’s Human Future’s Programme.
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tenantspin were recently visited by journalist Torcuil Crichton from the Sunday Herald, who has written a lengthly piece about Liverpool.
Torcuil met with tenantspin’s Margo, John, Dolly, Kath, Mark, Steve and Jay… and you can read the finished article here.
talking about Regeneration….
We will be in the audience for a public seminar:
‘Regenerating Anfield’ featuring Udi Engelsman, Project Manager for Arena Housing and LFC veteran Phil Thompson.
The seminar takes place on Thursday February 21st at 4pm in the Budden Lecture Theatre, School of Architecture, University ofLiverpool.
The focus for this seminar will be the debate around the new stadium for Liverpool FC and the significance of such buildings for local communities as well as professional interest groups associated with football.
tenantspin join forces with Huey Jones and Billy Yates for an afternoon of songs, stories, tea, coffee and chat all centred around Liverpool and her vast musical heritage. Compared by Margo Hogg (tenantspin participant and professional performer) there were renditions of the Spinners hits ‘The Leaving of Liverpool’ as well as some well known songs often performed in and around Liverpool during the 1950’s courtesy of Billy Yates.
The event kicked off what we hope will be a year long spectacle of song and dance broadcast from our Sefton Park studio….watch this space for information on up and coming events!
As part of our Healthy Futures webcast series, we have invited celebrity hypnotist Alan Bates (www.hypnotistalanbates.com) to come to our Community Centre in Sefton Park next Wednesday, 21st November between 2 - 3pm to talk with us about the art of hypnotism and its role within modern life as well as hypnotising a few members of the audience. Willing participants are welcome, so please get in touch.
Welcome to tenantspin’s new website. We thought it was time we had a slight facelift so we have created a new website that we’ll be using regularly to update you about our broadcasts, events and news.
We are also changing how we broadcast our shows online. tenantspin has enjoyed working with superchannel for years and regular tenantspin viewers will be familiar with the superchannel site and concept. However the popularity of services like YouTube has meant that people are now watching video online in new ways.
We’re going to be uploading all our shows to Google Video and of course we’ll be displaying them here on this site. Eventually we will create a new web archive of all tenantspin broadcasts, however as we have over 600 hours of video, this is not a small job. Some of our content may be offline for a while, but all new shows will appear here.
Check out our new Photo Galleries powered by Flickr.com. You can see all our albums and leave us comments. Enjoy!
Artist Andrew Holmes has been commissioned to produce a series of light installations around Sefton Park, and you’ve been voting here to influence it…
About Light Signatures
During its period of operation Liverpool HAT (Housing Action Trust) developed an arts programme which included major commissions linked to their regeneration projects in Woolton and Sefton Park.
Andrew Holmes’ Light Signatures artwork for Sefton Park was selected through a competitive design process, and the decision to support it was informed by comments from the public exhibition of the shortlisted designs in 2003. The artwork projects onto the park signatures of people who have been chosen for their relevance to the park and Liverpool.
Light Signatures consists of three phases. The work is inspired by eight Victorian statues arranged around the Palm House - John Parkinson, Christopher Columbus, Charles Darwin, Andre Le Notre, Linnaeus, Captain James Cook, Gerardus Mercator and Henry the Navigator – all explorers and pioneers noted for their discovery and classification of the natural world.
From November 2005 to October 2006 these signatures are being projected around the perimeter of Sefton Park at four locations (the end of the road by the Iron Bridge, from Brompton House, the car park by Livingstone Drive and beside the lake). Each projection is approximately 30m wide.
The subjects of the second and third sets of signatures (for 2006/07 and 2007/08) are being selected by local people in discussion with the artist - and your view has also been asked for.
The Results
42 visitors to tenantspin.org voted for John Peel, giving him 38% of the vote. In second place was Steven Gerrard with 20% (22 votes) followed by The Beatles with 13% (14 votes). Next were Bill Shankly and Adrian Henri (6 votes), Glenda Jackson (5 votes), Paul O’Grady (4 votes), Bessie Braddock and Father Nugent (3 votes), Wayne Rooney and William Abdullah Quilliam (2 votes), Harold Wilson, Wally Brown and Dixie Dean (1 vote), and Sir John Moores, Lord Chan and Cherie Blair (0 votes).
The final decision on which of our top-rated nominees would be chosen for projection was taken at a public meeting at Sefton Park Community Centre on August 9th, which is available to view in our 2006 archive. At the meeting, residents eventually opted for Bill Shankly and Sir John Moores to have their signatures projected onto Sefton Park this winter.
Credits
The Light Signatures project is now managed by Arena Housing in conjunction with Sefton Park Palm House Preservation Trust. Other partners in the project who are involved with the selection of new signatures are Bellerive FCJ School working with artist Faith Bebbington and Shorefields Secondary School working with artist Andrew Small.
Related link: Sefton Park’s Palm House
Elvis is Alive! We are currently working on re-archiving here at tenantspin towers, and we have a treat for you in the form of an old broadcast from the Cunard Building, Liverpool. This broadcast is from February 2002 and has been a favourite on the website for some years. Jackie Freelander meets “The King”. Enjoy.
the tenantspin archive will be back to full strength very soon, so stayed tuned.
