15 THE ART OBSERVER May 2008 Exhibitions WENDY J LEVY GALLERY, DIDSBURY Paul Critchley 17th May to 7th June Ian Jarman 13th June to 5th July Mixed Summer Show 17th July to 30th August Steve Capper, Lynton Hemsley and Alan Knight 4th September to 27th September Richard Clare 2nd October to 25th October Sheila Meeks 30th October to 22nd November CORNERHOUSE What do you want? Sat 5 April to Sun 1 June Blank Noise Fri 4 April to Sun 1 June Broadcast Yourself Fri 13 June to Sun 10 August MANCHESTER ART GALLERY Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba Saturday 23 February 2008 - Sunday 1 June 2008 Family Art Club Date: 5th Apr 08 - 6th Dec 08 On this day every month Time: 13:00 - 15:00 Manchester Attitude: Remembering Slavery Until 14th October 2009 URBIS How Manga took over the world Thursday 13 Mar 08 to Saturday 27 Sep 08 Matthew Williamson 10 years in fashion 27 March - 21 Sept Futuresonic 2008 Urban Festival of Art, Music and Ideas Date: 1st May 08 - 5th May 08 Every day Location: Various venues Five days and nights of live music, exhibitions, club nights and events featuring a world-class programme of over 300 artists in 30 venues and spaces across Manchester city centre. THE MANCHESTER MUSEUM Alchemy Until June 2008 After Life Until to April 2009 Big Saturdays Once a month the Museum bursts into life for a Big Saturday with themed art activities, object handling, storytelling, talks and tours. THE LOWRY Lowry Favourites Tue 1 Jan 2008 - Wed 31 Dec 2008 Laura Knight at the Theatre Fri 21 Mar 2008 - Sun 6 Jul 2008 Inspired By Lowry: something and something and something else Sat 26 Apr 2008 - Sun 21 Sep 2008 Transformations 1: Giant Psychic Avatars of Salford Sat 3 May 2008 - Sun 29 Jun 2008 Gina Yashere Sun 1 Jun 2008 So You Want To Be An Artist? Sat 26 Jul 2008 - Sun 2 Nov 2008 Photographic Portrait Prize 2007 Sat 5 Jul 2008 - Sun 12 Oct 2008 WHITWORTH ART GALLERY Neverland: Rediscovering Child Art 24 May - August 2008 Flights of Fancy: select decorative schemes of the 1920s and 30s 27 October 2007 to 12 October 2008 STOCKPORT ART GALLERY New Photographic Competition - A Room with a View Entry forms accepted between: 29th March - 2nd June Closing date: Monday 2nd June Exhibition at the Town Hall: 1st - 3rd July 2008 Stockport’s Permanent Collection 12th January 2008 - 19th July 2008 A Brush With Wings - Exhibition by Manchester Aviation Society 26th April 2008 - 27th May 2008 Townscapes - exhibition by Helen Clapcott 3rd May 2008 - 28th June 2008 Stockport Art Guild Annual Exhibition 7th June 2008 - 19th July 2008 Hot Spot 5th July 2008 - 30th August 2008 CUBE Student Exhibitions Until 8 July 2008 Retromorphosis 17 October to 20 December 2008 Yellowspace 17 October to 20 December 2008 MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY BODY WORLDS 4 until 29th June CHINESE ARTS CENTRE Contemporaneous Chen Shaoxiong & Qiu Anxiong 5 April - 15 June 2008 TATE LIVERPOOL DLA Piper Series - The Twentieth Century - How it looked & How it felt Running until April 2009 Gustav Klimt: Painting, Design and Modern Life in Vienna 1900 30 May – 31 August 2008 Liverpool Biennial: International Festival: MADE UP 20 September – 30 November 2008 LIVERPOOL CITY OF CULTURE EVENTS Richard Wilson - Turning the Place Over runs until 1/1/09 Liverpool’s People and Places: The Photography of E.Chambre Hardman 1/3/2008 - 31/12/2008 SK-Interface: sci-art commissions 1/3/2008 - 31/5/2008 FACT Now Then 15/3/2008 - 4/5/2008 THE BLUECOAT One Step Forward One Step Back 7/4/2008 - 10/5/2008 WALKER ART GALLERY Art in the Age of Steam 18/4/2008 - 10/8/2008 Music OPERA HOUSE, MANCHESTER Evita 23 July to 5 July 2008 Witches of Eastwick 13 to 18 October 2008 Tosca - Ellen Kent International 26 November 2008 La Boheme - Ellen Kent International 27 - 28 November 2008 Carmen - Ellen Kent International 29 November 2008 Stage THE LOWRY Chinese Acrobatic Swan Lake Wed 30 Jul 2008 - Sat 2 Aug 2008 ROYAL EXCHANGE THEATRE The Revenger’s Tragedy Until 28 June 2008 Dr Korczak’s Example 4 to 21 June 2008 You Are Here 27 to 28 June 2008 Hay Fever 1 July to 9 August 2008 Lost Letters 22 to 23 July 2008 PALACE THEATRE Sinatra 3 to 8 June 2008 Beauty and the Beast on Ice 18 to 21 June 2008 High School Musical 23 June to 5 July 2008 Oliver 14 to 16 August 2008 Flashdance: the Musical 8 to 13 September 2008 Can’t Smile Without You 29 September to 4 October 2008 Cabaret 6 to 11 October All the Fun of the Fair 27 October to 1 November 2008 Manon (English National Ballet) 11 to 16 November 2008 Mary Poppins 10 December  2008 to 7 March 2009 USEFUL TELEPHONE NUMBERS Central Library Theatre 0161 234 1900 Chinese Arts Centre 0161 832 7271 Cornerhouse 0161 200 1500 Cube 0161 237 5525 FACT 0151 707 4444 Family Art Club   0161 235 8869 Liverpool Tate 0151 702 7400 Liverpool Cathedral Performance 0844 8000 410 Lowry 0870 787 5780 Manchester Art Gallery 0161 235 8888 Manchester Museum 0161 275 2634 Museum of Science and Industry 0161 832 2244 Opera House 0870 145 1163 Palace Theatre 0870 145 1163 Royal Exchange Theatre 0161 833 9833 Stockport Art Gallery 0161 474 4453 The Bluecoat 0151 702 5324 Urbis 0161 605 8200 Walker Art Gallery 0151 478 4199 Wendy J Levy Gallery 0161 446 4880 Whitworth Art Gallery 0161 275 7450 WHATS ON Currently on show, amongst the paintings on the ground floor at the Manchester Art Gallery is a series of paintings by Stacey Manton depicting the ‘street people’ of Manchester. This small selection of paintings covers a big range in size; the smallest ones are only small in dimension but are as monumental in content as the enormous pieces alongside. Here are portraits of otherwise ‘forgotten’ people painted in their own environ- ment; people we walk past in the street and barely afford a glance, perhaps through embarrassment we choose not to acknowledge the difference between the ‘haves’ and the ‘have nots’. Through the brush strokes of Stacey Manton they are recognised and hang in full glory. Don’t miss the opportunity to see these wonderful paintings.   Stacey Manton’s Street People Barefoot