COoL Collective

28/02/2024

First Take is looking for a Production Assistant for a 5-week paid work placement to assist on a series of short films working with people from the LGBTQIA+ community on the Reel Q***r project.If you are from the LGBTQIA+ community and are keen to work in film then please fill out our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion form here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf0tCUrqF9gRRrnOHVMaCbTKJuvR9jjXU_hyxqx7FiA_Ilcdg/viewform?usp=sf_link
And APPLY NOW via https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1IaOSN0LDmhDe8ppOUh0Ni_HIL7LzFZAAzsQAtyYZ29s/edit

08/02/2024

| 📣 Creatives, here's your chance to elevate practice, create new work, impact communities and be part of Leap Dance Festival or another 2024 Liverpool Cultural event! 🎉

We're calling for applications for a one-off Dance Creative Commission Grant and seeking proposals from creatives (as individuals or organisations). Closes tomorrow! 👉 http://bit.ly/3SQgKvQ
24 Hope Street | COoL Collective | Leap Dance Festival | Afro dance academy | Cody Urban Dance | Movema | Sole Rebel C.I.C

14/12/2023

| 📽️ Interested in filmmaking?

First Take are looking for a diverse range of LGBTQi+ people to join their Reel Q***r project. ✨

Together you will produce high end drama, documentary and art films for screening, socials, streaming, exhibitions, festivals + broadcast; giving a voice to the community and championing q***r film. 👏 🎬

Find out more ➡️ https://bit.ly/3SQgKvQ

Liverpool City Council | COoL Collective | The National Lottery Community Fund

03/06/2023

History, travel and creativity all combine in this article, which shares a recent research trip to Strokestown Park, Cherry Smyth’s poetry and our work, all topped off with an exceptional film: https://www.liverpoolirishfestival.com/strokestown-cherry-smyth/

Strokestown National Famine Way Strokestown Park House and Famine Museum Irish Embassy London Irish in Britain COoL Collective Culture Liverpool Liverpool City Region Combined Authority Irish Community Care National Lottery Heritage Fund Epoque Press ArtsGroupie CIC ArtsGroupie CIC John Maguire

01/03/2023

Well done Open Eye Gallery, First Take, Homotopia, Open Culture. Looking forward to it

| We are so excited to announce the first details of a two-week cultural festival – EuroFest – which will take over Liverpool in the lead up to Eurovision Song Contest

Running from 1 - 14 May, the festival will present 24 brand new commissions! 🎉💙💛 https://bit.ly/NEWSxEUROFEST
BBC Eurovision | National Lottery Heritage Fund |

04/02/2022

Pagoda Arts present a series of workshops and modern music with band made of up and coming young East/Southeast Asian musicians this Chinese New Year.

19/11/2021

As the city’s two major arts consortia, COoL and LARC, our thoughts and solidarity are with all those who have been affected and impacted by the shocking incident at Liverpool Women’s Hospital recently. We are appalled at the reported increase in hate crime against our Muslim and newly arrived communities and we stand in strength with our friends and neighbours who have been receiving abuse. Our sector prides itself on inclusivity and togetherness and we celebrate all communities for the contribution they make to Liverpool. Ours is a city formed by successive waves of immigration and enriched by cultural and religious diversity. Our strong community spirit will always overcome the hate that tries to divide us.
COoL - Creative Organisations of Liverpool
LARC - Liverpool Arts & Regeneration Consortium

LARC and COoL represent over 30 cultural organisations and are committed to racial justice and making meaningful change within their member organisations and in the work they do.

16/07/2021

13/07/2021

Today we echo the statement issued by the United We Stand - Solidarity Network in response to the EuroFinal.
If you are struggling with any of the conversations being had around racism or football, you can contact organisations such as The Anthony Walker Foundation, Kickitout and YoungMinds who are there to help.
THANK YOU!

27/05/2021

Kim Johnson (MP) meeting Children of the deported Chinese Seafarers
Date: 3rd June 2021
Time: 2.30pm(GMT)
Place: Pagoda Arts Centre, Henry Street, L1 5BU

On 25th May, The Guardian newspaper has published “The Secret deportations: how Britain betrayed the Chinese men who served the country in the war” link：https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/may/25/chinese-merchant-seamen-liverpool-deportations

During the second World War as many as 20,000 chinese seaman worked in the shipping industry out of Liverpool. They kept the British merchant navy afloat, and thus kept the people of Britain fueled and fed whilst the N***s attempted to choke the countries supply line. Yet their contributions have never been recognized.

After the second World War (1946) many of the seamen were rounded up and deported to the quickest and most convenient ports around Asia, the families and children they left behind were unaware of what happened to their dads, not knowing if they had simply ran away, didn’t want them or passed away, many of the children and wives lived their lives feeling deceived. In 2002 the truth began to surface, now many of those effected by this dark period of British history have passed away or are in old age. Those remaining just want justice from the British government and an apology to them and the deceased family members who never managed to find out the truth.

This year marks the 75th anniversary of the deportations, and new MP of Liverpool Riverside Kim Johnson, is calling on home office to apologize to the families, the forced repatriation scheme was, she said, “one of the most nakedly racist incidents ever, taken by the British government”. It was a shameful stan of our history, yet barely remembered.

Next Thursday 3rd June 2021, Kim Johnson will come to the Liverpool Pagoda Arts Centre to meet the children of the deported chinese seafarers. We also welcome media to attend and interview those willing to. The event will be livestreamed on ZOOM for people outside of Liverpool to join. Half siblings in Singapore can also join.

This video is about Left Behind Children