WHAT'S ON

Open Day at the Phil

10am – 5.15pm

A chance to see an insider’s view of the Phil as it celebrates the opening of its season of music, film, comedy and events. Packed with music for all ages, drop in throughout the day and enjoy free music, films and tours that demonstrate the range of activity and give a behind-the-scenes look at how one of the UK’s premier arts and entertainment venues work. Guided tours start in the Grand Foyer bar at 11am, 12.30pm, 2pm and 3.30pm

Philharmonic Hall Main Stage:

10.30am Cartoon Matinees

Watch the cinema screen rise from the stage and settle down at 10.45am to see Wallace and Gromit in The Wrong Trousers and A Close Shave. (Both films are “U” Certificate)

12.15pm – 12.45pm The Light Fantastic String Quartet

12.50pm – 12.55pm All Stars

Children from Hope Street’s All Stars youth academy with a medley of show songs

1pm – 1.25pm Jonathan Aasgaard Cello Quartet

1.30pm – 2.45pm Open Rehearsal: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Choir

The Phil’s Principal Conductor Vasily Petrenko puts the 150 year-old Chorus through its paces in preparation for next weekend’s performance of Verdi’s Requiem

3pm – 3.15pm “My Baby Just Cares” – 50 Moves

‘50 Moves’ are Merseyside Dance Initiative’s dance group for the ‘over 50s’ who incorporate everything from Salsa, African, Folk and Contemporary dance into their sessions and regularly take part in events such as the Lord Mayors Parade and the Brouhaha Carnival. This piece was created earlier in 2008.

3.20pm – 3.45pm Liverpool Philharmonic Community Choir

Made up of people from all over Merseyside who just love singing for you, from pop to rock to folk to classical and jazz. Infectious enthusiasm.

4.15 – 5.15 Ian Prowse

By popular demand, the Amsterdam frontman returns following the success of latest album “Arm in Arm”

Philharmonic Hall Rodewald Suite:

Entrance on Sugnall Street, lift access via Stage Door, Caledonia Street

At the Phil’s jazz and roots café your host for the day is singer, songwriter, award-winning playwright and all-round superstar Lizzie Nunnery who will be performing at 11.45am, 12.45pm, and an extended set at 3.45pm.

12.00 – 12.40 Benjamin Wetherill

Describing himself as ‘the Cliff Richard of folk’ this alternative singer sounds “like a nervous dandy being chased by a brass band" according to Timeout.

1pm – 1.40pm Essie Jain

London-born, New York-based Essie’s gentle, warm, open and intimate music sounds very British.

2pm – 3pm Jon Thorne Trio

Outstanding jazz trio led by former Lamb double bass-player

3.15pm – 3.45pm Liz Green

This Manchester-based singer-songwriter won Glastonbury Festival’s Emerging Talent Competition last year.


Philharmonic Hall’s Grand Foyer Bar and Rubato Café bar are open from 11am – 5pm.

UNITY THEATRE

1 Hope Place

Emperor Bling's To Do Market

The To Do Market is a big jumble sale of fun, a magical fair where you can make and do and share in the treasured wares of our creative stallholders. There will be craft activities, storytellers, cake decoration & face painting as well as lots of other activities for the whole family to get involved with.

Children under 5 years must be accompanied by an adult Children over 5 years can attend the market unaccompanied; however parents of all children taking part must stay in the Unity building for the duration.

Unity coffee bar, with Sunday papers, will be open for your convenience. 1.00 p.m. - 4.00 p.m. FREE

ON THE STREET Wicked & Wicked – Tailors’ to the Optimistic

The latest modes and fashions conjured up, and ready to wear, before your very eyes!!!

EVERYMAN BISTRO

5-9 Hope Street

12.00 noon – 6.00 p.m.

Everyman Bistro is providing food and live music throughout the day. Enjoy regional dishes and products, choose from a range of Merseyside beers and taste a great variety of farm-made Lancashire cheese. Complement all this with a selection of the Bistro’s renowned salads and savouries or simply pop in for tea, coffee and a scone.

Live music at the Everyman Bistro:

12pm – 12.45pm Stoked

Blues from the Trent Delta and Smithdown bayous

1pm – 1.45pm Helen Maher

Accordionist extraordinaire

2pm – 2.45pm Terry Coyne and Friends

Liverpool’s finest Irish instrumentalist and accomplices

3pm – 3.45pm Oompah Band

The Phil’s brass section in steamy bierkeller action


4pm – 5pm Barry Sutton

Ex-La and current Mirrorball frontman and songwriter

LIVERPOOL EVERYMAN & PLAYHOUSE

Visit the Everyman Theatre for a sneaky back stage tour, let the children create and decorate in our creative corner, be enthralled with our magical and horrible stories or test your brain power in our Liverpool music quiz. Alternatively, just sit and enjoy some refreshment and watch the world go by…

Open 10.00 a.m. to 4.00 p.m.
Tours: 10.00 a.m. 10.30 a.m. 11.00 a.m. 11.30 a.m. 2.00 p.m. 2.30 p.m.
Storytelling: 1.30 p.m.
Music Quiz: 3.00 p.m.

For more information call 0151 709 4776

HOPE STREET LTD presents ‘The Market of Optimism’

Spattered throughout the length of Hope Street are 25 Magical Market Stalls designed to inspire optimism, nonsense and poetic delight. Get your ‘100 Neuros’ from the Living Cashpoint and spend like there’s no tomorrow!

Stalls run from 1.00 p.m. – 4.00 p.m.

Created by The Hope Street Ltd Apprentice Team, with support from RAW, Ullaloom, Fools Proof, USL, Caustic Widows, Big Wow, and over 50 local residents willing to transform themselves into beacons of optimism for a day.

Directed by Ian Smith in collaboration with Kal Ross, Andy Frizell and Ewan Hunter.
Commissioned by Liverpool Culture Company

FARMERS’ MARKET

Hope Street’s regular Farmer’s Market happens on the 3rd Sunday of every month, and has over 30 stalls with a wide range of produce, providing fresh and healthy food and drink as well as crucial income for local farmers, growers, bakers and brewers. Today we are augmented with many guests, hot food and craft stalls.

MYRTLE STREET STAGE AREA

Myrtle Street hosts an open air stage and a seating area where you can enjoy the food you’ve bought from the markets along with a drink from the bar provided by the Phil. Surprises in this area include ‘Hopeful Spivs’, ‘Magic Tailors’ and ‘Living Cash Machines’, as well as a marauding gang of benevolent ‘Packpockets’! Live music includes ~

11.30am Ceili Dance Workshop

Hone your skills and then take part in the ceili

12pm – 1pm Liverpool Irish Festival present a CEILI

Terry Coyne and friends play the tunes and call the dances to help you work up an appetite

1.30pm – 2.15pm Xander and the Peace Pirates

XATPP have a bluesy and soulful sound. This Liverpool band play a thought-provoking, happy and inspiring mix of sixties and seventies influenced music.

2.20pm – 2.30pm MDI African Dance workshop performance

2.30pm – 3.15pm Gypsy Brothers: The Kensingston Czech Slovak Roma Band

After their brilliant Hope Street debut, opening for the packed Gypsy Queens and Kings gig at the Phil earlier this year, Liverpool’s very own Gypsy masters make a welcome return.

3.20pm – 3.30pm MDI African Dance workshop performance

3.30pm – 4.45pm T & Latouche

Featuring T Carthy and Glen Latouche of the original reggae folk fusion band Edward II, T&Latouche combine pumping basslines and driving rhythms with strong melody, sweet harmony, bubbling guitars and blistering brass hooks.

MERSEYSIDE DANCE INITIATIVE

24 Hope Street

‘We’ll be Dancin’ in the Street’

Come and join us in the MDI studio for a one-hour African dance class, where you will be warmed up, shaken down, and taught some traditional moves from West Africa. Filled with confidence and camaraderie you may choose to show Hope Street all you've learned in a short celebratory dance the Myrtle Street stage. Give it a go - show the world you can dance!

Under 16’s session at 1.30 p.m. - Over 16’s session at 2.30 p.m.

EL MACHO

23 Hope St

We will be serving Rosti chicken wraps and Chilli Dogs fresh from BBQ, while smiling beneath the most optimistic moustache on Hope Street.

(Victor- Winner of ‘The Most Optimistic Face Award’ 2008)

60 HOPE STREET

The ‘Taste of 60’ Stall will include the ever so popular pea whack soup.

Yes, we take peas and whack them. (Ever so gently!)

THE SIDE DOOR RESTAURANT

29a Hope Street

The Side Door Roadside Stall will be open for lunch – featuring dishes made from local ingredients and special spices from around the world brought to Liverpool by the magical traders of The Market of Optimism!’

CAMRA

Real Ale is cool, not cold. Come and try it! CAMRA Liverpool and Districts will be offering free tastings of locally brewed real ales. If you haven’t yet discovered the fresh natural flavours of real beer, then why not come along to our stall? It may surprise you, and encourage you to explore further, including our 60-pub Liverpool Real Ale Pubs Festival. Find the Beer Tasting Stall alongside The Market of Optimism on Hope Street.

LIVERPOOL WELLBEING CENTRE

37 Hope Street

Hope Street Treat! Liverpool Wellbeing Centre will be handing out luxury massage vouchers with a huge Hope Street discount, so you or a loved one can sample a 'Touch of Hope' therapeutic massage! All profits from the 'Touch of Hope' campaign go to local hardworking Cancer Support organizations ~ The Lily Centre,The Sunflowers Centre and The Linda McCartney Centre. www.liverpoolwellbeing.com

BLACKBURNE HOUSE

Come along and join in the 25th Birthday Party celebrations!

An exciting range of activities including therapies and massages, children’s activities, a craft fair and Party market, plus the award winning cafe bar serving a delicious range of international meals.

FALKNER STREET

Falkner Street hosts a seating area where you can enjoy the food you’ve bought from the markets along with a drink from the bar provided by The Quarter.

THE DOJO

Falkner Street hosts a seating area where you can enjoy the food you’ve bought from the markets along with a drink from the bar provided by The Quarter.

THE DOJO

13 Hope Street

10.00 a.m. until 2.00 p.m. Sports Massage and Shiatsu Taster Sessions

With Nicky Patterson

11.00 a.m. until 2.00 p.m. Simply Shiatsu

Demonstration and taster sessions of shiatsu massage, relaxing acupressure therapy done fully clothed, seated or on a comfortable floormat.

ALLSTARS YOUTH ACADEMY

All Stars Youth Academy optimistically present songs from ‘Oliver!’ and ‘Our Day Out’ and will also be appearing as a marauding gang of benevolent ‘Packpockets’ in The Market of Optimism! Directed by Sylvie Gatrill, Allstars Casting is situated at the heart of the Hope Street Quarter and is proud to represent some of Liverpool’s most talented teenagers.

PERFORMERS THEATRE SCHOOL

Performers Theatre School will be presenting ‘A Musical Theatre Demonstration’ - a selection of songs from the shows performed live in The Market of Optimism.

HOPE STREET HOTEL

40 Hope Street

Hope Street Hotel Extension - the largest canvas in Liverpool!

James Munro is resident illustrator for Hope Street Hotel and The London Carriage Works and will be painting his next instalment live! With an optimistic eye on the rain clouds his new illustration for the extension hoardings will draw back the curtain on our artisans at work.

MOUNT STREET PICNIC AREA

Surprises in this area include ‘Hopeful Spivs’, ‘Magic Tailors’ and ‘Living Cash Machines’, as well as a marauding gang of benevolent ‘Packpockets’! Live music includes ~

1.30pm Stoked

2.30pm Helen Maher

4.30pm All Stars Youth Academy

Please note: it is against the law to drink alcohol at the Mount Street Picnic Area.

HARDMAN STREET – THE HOPE STREET WAITERS’ RACE

Madcap races in which waiters from several of Hope Street’s eateries compete to run uphill without spilling a drop, whilst encountering a number of obstacles. Competing for a trophy sponsored by 60 Hope Street, the fun starts at 2pm

LIVERPOOL METROPOLITAN CATHEDRAL

In most of the European Cities you visit these days, there are “open air markets”.
In its European Capital of Culture year, Liverpool presents its very own on the Piazza of the Metropolitan Cathedral – 12.00 noon to 4.00 p.m.

The Cathedral’s bells will ring before and following the 11.00 a.m. service

Hope Street Feast goers are invited to Liverpool’s spectacular Metropolitan Cathedral to marvel at the modern architecture, magnificent coloured glass and art works or to attend one of the services held during the day.

The Cathedral is open 8.00 a.m. to 6.00 p.m
Visitor Centre 11.00 a.m. to 4.00 p.m.

Services:
8.30 a.m. Mass
10.00 a.m. Family Mass
11.00 a.m. Solemn Mass
1.00 p.m. Polish Mass
7.00 p.m. Mass

LIVERPOOL ANGLICAN CATHEDRAL

As part of Liverpool Biennial 2008 the Cathedral hosts Art Events from 20th September – 30th November. Artists include:
Tracy Emin / Elaine Brown / Terry Duffy / Lin Holland & Jane Poulter Details: www.liverpoolcathedral.org.uk

8:00 am – 6:00 pm Cathedral Open
11:45* am - 2:30 pm Great Space Film & Audio Tour
11:45* am – 3:30 pm Tower experience
11:45* am – 4:30 pm Cathedral Shop
11:45* am – 4:00 pm Mezzanine Café Bar
11:45* am – 5:00 pm Refectory

* These times may vary slightly according to the finishing time of the main Sunday Morning Eucharist Service.