IN BRIEF
DRIVE IN HOME FOR CHRISTMAS
GERMAN REVOLUTION EXPRESSIONIST PRINTS AT LADY LEVER ART GALLERY
The Clatterbridge Cancer Charity ’ s Drive-In Cinema experience returns to this festive season , with Drive-In Home for Christmas !
Following the outstanding success of Movies at the Manor , The Clatterbridge Cancer Charity is bringing the big screen back to the Wirral to show some of the best Christmas Movies ever !
Movie fans and supporters of the charity , can enjoy this socially distanced festive drive-in from the comfort and safety of their own cars at Prenton Park , home of Tranmere Rovers Football Club .
The full line-up includes :
Fri 11 December
• How the Grinch Stole Christmas
• National Lampoon ’ s Christmas Vacation
Sat 12 December
• Frozen
• Elf
• The Holiday
Sun 13 December
• The Polar Express
• Home Alone
• Love Actually
Drive-In Home for Christmas is the perfect festive experience for 2020 ; to get cosy in your car , cuddle with your bubble and watch classic Christmas movies . All while supporting local people with cancer .
Head of Charity , Katrina Bury said “ At a time when our fundraising has been heavily impacted by the pandemic and following the wonderful success of our Movies at the Manor event in August ; we wanted to bring something special to our supporters during Christmas time . Not only will this event raise vital funds to support the work of The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre , but it will provide a fantastic Christmas experience against the backdrop of Prenton Park Stadium . We want to thank our event sponsors Tranmere Rovers FC , Smylies , Westminster Associates , The Clatterbridge Private Clinic and Mitchell Mazda for making Drive-in Home for Christmas possible .”
Tickets are strictly limited , and are on sale now at : www . clatterbridgecc . org . uk
German Revolution : Expressionist Prints is a powerful exhibition at the Lady Lever Art Gallery until 28 February 2021 portraying a chaotic post-First World War Germany , featuring artworks from some of the 20th century ’ s most renowned artists including Picasso , Munch , Schiele and Beckmann .
This exhibition presents the very different responses artists had to the turmoil of Germany ’ s revolution in the period 1900 to 1925 .
Ann Bukantas , Head of Fine Art for National Museums Liverpool , said : “ This exhibition looks deep into the heart of a very dark time in Germany ’ s history when artists were rejecting French Impressionism as superficial and bourgeois . They were witnessing terrible suffering among the poor and vulnerable in their country and sought a way to represent this .”
“ They created radical and diverse works – some were a bid to escape the turmoil of the German revolution while others were a desperate cry for change . Even today , these visceral images still possess a universal power to stir the emotions .”
Kokoschka , Schiele , Pechstein and Felixmuller all made prints exploring human stories as an antidote to the disaster of war . Others , including Kollwitz , with her raw works , encapsulated the terror , hunger and sheer misery that enveloped Berlin , which had been the Germany ’ s centre for art . Works by Munch , Picasso and Goya are included in the exhibition to demonstrate the influence of European artists on those working in Germany at the time . The exhibition also looks at the range of printmaking methods .
Must-see items include two works by Käthe Kollwitz , La Carmagnole of 1901 and Helft Russland (‘ Help Russia ’) of 1921 ; In the Man ’ s Brain by Edvard Munch of 1897 ; Max Beckmann ’ s Adam and Eve of 1917 and Pablo Picasso ’ s The Frugal Meal of 1904 .
The exhibition is organised by The Hunterian , University of Glasgow .
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