Liverpool Capital of Culture - Opening Events January 11 and 12!
January 2, 2008 12:00 AM
The People's Opening
Venue: St George's Plateau, Lime Street.
At 20:08 Friday 11 January, the artists and people of the city are set to gather together on St George's Plateau.
The People's Opening will include an extraordinary performance from the rooftops surrounding the cultural heart of the city.
This spectacular event involves massed community choirs and aerialists, performers ranging from Ringo Starr to The Wombats and an epic aerial ballet of dancing cranes, containers and scissor lifts, as Liverpool celebrates the transformation of the 'Big Dig' into the 'Big Gig'
Liverpool - The Musical
Venue: ECHO Arena Liverpool, Kings Dock.
Created specially to open Liverpool's new 10,600 seat arena, on 12 January 2008, Liverpool - The Musical, celebrates both the past and the future of the city.
Integrating live performances and film in a radical and new way, vertically stacking performers seven stories into the air, the show features a once-in-a-lifetime cast including: Vasily Petrenko and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra in collaboration with No Fakin DJs, Ringo Starr, Echo and The Bunnymen, Ian Broudie, The Farm, Riuven, The Wombats, Pete Wylie, Dave Stewart and the people of the city.
More information about either event is available from the Liverpool Culture Company -www.liverpool08.com. The event on the 12th is sold out.
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