Our City

Discussion 2 posts |  Only members can post. Join?

About Our City

Our City is a project that celebrates special and little-known places on Merseyside.

We are inviting members of the public to submit a piece of artwork or a photograph that illustrates and tells us something about a place in Merseyside that is important to them. We want you to showcase special places across the region in a creative and dynamic light, using a variety of mediums, such as drawing, painting, photography and digital art.

The place you choose should be somewhere of significance for you – for example a place that you know from childhood, or go to relax, explore or think, or somewhere that you want to tell other people about. You can write about what you see, describe textures, smells, and colours, and tell us how it makes you feel .

Taking part is simple: Create a representation of your chosen place, using the medium of your choice. Upload your work to Flickr, including in the description field a short piece of writing about why you chose the place. Make sure you geotag your work by adding it to the map on flickr

The project will run from October 2008 until 2011, when the work will be shown on a digital map in the History Detectives gallery of the new Museum of Liverpool.

The Museum of Liverpool is the largest newly built national museum in Britain for almost a century. Opening in 2011 it will be a fantastic family day out and an exceptional learning and community resource. The museum is the major physical and cultural legacy of 2008, Liverpool's year as European Capital of Culture.

History Detectives, the museum's hands-on gallery, is aimed at helping local people understand their place and its past. The focal point of this area will be an interactive map which will include artwork produced by local people as part of the Our City project.

http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/mol/galleries/our_city.aspx