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Threshold Festival Liverpool February 2012
Friday 10 – Sunday 12 February 2012 (Previews Thursday 9 February)
Grass Roots Manoeuvres
Threshold Festival returns to the Liverpool Baltic Triangle in the New Year. Following the success of its maiden voyage in February 2011, the underdog aficionados behind Under the Influence are set on two things – Bigger and Better. Starting life as a collaboration between CUC Liverpool and Under the Influence, the CUC’s huge labyrinthine warehouse enabled the inaugural multi art-form, multi venueThreshold to become a sprawling indoor festival. Music, theatre, visual art and live art performances flowed from one room to the next.
So where to next for Europe’s Largest Festival Under One Roof? The sad and rather sudden closureof the CUC building could have easily meant nowhere… But the team wasn’t prepared to let this bean end to it. They just had to think outside the box, and find themselves a different box in time for February. The big news is that Threshold Festival 2012 will no longer be under one roof. It will beunder several roofs. With the incredible support of a community of creatives willing it to happen,practically the entire Liverpool Baltic Triangle has come to the rescue and got behind Threshold. Thefestival will be putting on a long weekend of events in Elevator Café, Camp and Furnace (formerly AFoundation), the New Picket and the Scandinavian Church, with more venues to be announced.
Right from the start, the first Threshold festival endeavoured to engage with arts, music and
performance promoters, providing them with a platform to create and explore. This time that same ethos applies more than ever, with over 20 promoters already on board from Liverpool such as Mellowtone, Rebel Soul, Newpath, Headspace, Antipop, Kin2Kin, CALM, and further afield including Glastonbury favourites Chai Wallah, Scottish blues label Guardian Angels Records,Salford-based innovators Un-convention, Manchester contemporary art and creative writing champions Blank Media Collective and alt-folk wunderkinds Imploding Inevitable Festival.
Stealing Sheep have already herded into their line-up, and other confirmed performances includeThe Thespians and Man Get Out. A great programme of events that began life at CUC Liverpool will also be spilling out into the new venues, such as geek heaven Super Effective Sunday, RonanBoyle & Lucy Styles, Before Dark Acoustic Sessions and the ever popular Prime Cuts openscreen for short film makers. Under The Influence will take all of these events and more, and reach awhole new Threshold encompassing the Liverpool Baltic Triangle.
Here’s what they said about Threshold 2011:
Apart from the fact that it's a mighty fine and incredibly audacious and ambitious event that's worthy of our support and which we'd be plugging anyway, there's also a heap load of acoustic music taking place. We'd expect nothing less from the Under the Influence. - Liverpool Acoustic
Kudos all round to the excellent team behind last weekend’s riotous Threshold Festival. The city categorically set out its manifesto for our creative, inventive and collaborative future. And being at the CUC this weekend felt like you were in the eye of the storm.
In years to come, those who attended can look back, misty eyed, and say, yeah, I was there at the very first one. It was that kind of event; the buzz was tangible. It would be unfair to single out any specific bands, performance companies or other creatives. But let’s just say there were a few SevenStreets spied who we’re very keen to bring to your
attention over the coming weeks.
Watch this space.
And if you missed it all, like, where were you? - Seven Streets
Watch this space.
And if you missed it all, like, where were you? - Seven Streets
Bringing together some of the North West’s hardest working and innovative artists and promoters.- Object of dreams
Last year’s festival highlights:
Notable & memorable Threshold 2011 features included, Field of Dreams the ambitious and beautiful installation by artist Robyn Woolston, Living With Macbeth written directed and performed by Storm Theatre, Reflections of Projections by award
winning company 2Toned Theatre, the Twinned exhibition by Headspace, music by Delta Maid, Punning Clan, MinionTv, The Elementals, Kof, Lovecraft, Fonetics, Dave O’Grady, Loose Moose String Band to name but a handful of amazing talent, plus film screenings by Serious Feather and Vincent Moon, and dance performances by MDI.
Even though there is talk of juicy headliners this year, the focus will again be stoically grass roots. Last year’s event prided itself on being the platform for those without one, and this is as important as ever. Thanks must also go to local and regional education institutions for their involvement and support.
A few words from the Threshold Festival Directors:
We were under no illusions about Threshold Festival 2011, it was new territory & it was a
monumental (with the emphasis on the latter two syllables of that word) undertaking. We did it and people loved it, from punters to artists, to volunteers to CUC staff, and now we’re back to do it all again in 2012. Get ready for some amazing antics. - Chris Carney, Festival Director
We've been astonished by the reaction and support for the festival after the news of CUC Liverpool closing. Now more than ever it feels like an event truly rooted in the multi-arts community.
- Kaya Herstad Carney, Festival Director
Tickets:
Friday £8 / Saturday £10 / Sunday £10 / Weekend £20
All tickets are available from Skiddle.com
Or you can go through the Threshold Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/undertheinfluencenight
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