STOK Paints The Nerve Centre.

Liverpool Artist STOK appeared from the ether and painted the front of The Nerve Centre a few days ago. It's still here, right next to the front door of The Nerve Centre and here I present a few images of STOK's mural for your attention. Street art can be like the proverbial Vegemite for a lot of people, which means you either love it or hate it. But instead of casting opinions about, we'll invite you to judge for yourself...

The Nerve Centre thinks this won't be here long, so enjoy it while it's outside our gallery!

The Nerve Centre.

Photos by Ritchie Hunter (Top) and Sebastian Gahan (Rest).

Open Mic Night Pictures.

OK, so you may noticed one or two people toting cameras like trained soul stealer's during the excellent Open Mic Night at The Nerve Centre on Friday evening. Well, the good news is that one of them was me! So, there are memories of a good night below. The small crowd at the start of the night gradually turned a mini party as friends, regulars and some new persons turned up and made the night an undoubted success. As the night got later and the lights got dimmer, my camera worked it's little self into a state and got some increasingly good shots of one of the best nights thus far at The Nerve Centre. I think we need to dim the lights more often!

A guitar in waiting for performance.

Rich Mans Ruin open up the night.

A choice cut of wit from Nerve Ends.

Shot from an angle, Lotzie Weaver in performance.

A chat by the Centurion.

Eddie Roberts ignores my flashing.

Kevin - Not Keith! - Paton.

The ever more expansive crowd assembles.

Beautiful, non?

A dance to the music of Mojo Storm.

Our Carl cracks a smile for my camera!

Mojo Rising in Black and white during the closing set.

Nucleus of Wine.

See more shots of an artistic variety here.

The Nerve Centre.

Working Class Organization: What is the Way Forward?

 From here:

Since 14th August, and until 11th September, the old Rapid Hardware Paint shop on Renshaw Street is playing host to “The Nerve Centre.”

Nerve magazine in collaboration with Philosophy in Pubs, the Windows Project, Next To Nowhere Social Centre, How, Why, DIY and many other organizations and individuals, are organizing 4 weeks of city based art and culture, in the heart of the city.

The aim of the event is to bring the people of Liverpool together to share ideas on art, culture and ways of improving our city and surroundings.

As part of this, on Sunday 5th September, the Liverpool Solidarity Federation will be hosting a discussion and debate titled “working class organization: what is the way forward?”

With the new Con-Dem government’s austerity measures starting to bite, it’s more important than ever that workers organize and fight back against the attacks on their jobs and services. But how do we do that?

The trade unions seem to be moving at a halt, and recent compromises and sell outs have disillusioned members with the bureaucratic leadership. But how do we overcome this?

How do we build a workers’ movement that is democratic, grassroots, and free from the impediments of a crippling bureaucracy?

To take part, and add your voice to the debate, come to the Nerve Centre on Sunday 5th September. The discussion will run from 3pm to 5pm. All welcome. 

The Nerve Centre.

Some Random Photo's from The Nerve Centre.

Art in our windows for the world to see.

Various publications on our table.

A captive audience for our movie show.

The not inconsiderable work of Carl Fletcher.

Saying it in black and white.

The guardians of the bathroom.

Get past the posse to the bathroom?

An origami butterfly by Shinobu Gahan.

Drawbots face off with the gallery.

Art and Rathole Radio collide.

Our ever useful microphone and friend to our artists.

Visitors make The Nerve Centre shine!

Today at The Nerve Centre.

Well, today was busy and a lot happened even though it seemed like just an ordinary Tuesday. For a start, our film season continued with a diligent audience enjoying the informative movie We Feed The World. 

We Feed The World is shown at Nerve Centre.

This was followed by a much debated and well attended presentation from Marina Gruiec on the benefits of Veganism, with much head nodding, follow up questions and debate afterwards. 

There was also the usual guests popping in for a chat, new visitors a plenty and the start of an ongoing retrospective of The Nerve Centre that was baptised with glue and collage by myself.

Marina fields questions from the audience.

It will go on display soon and if anybody from the Nerve Centre wants to contribute to it, they are more than welcome! 

Swing on by tomorrow, technically the 25th August as tomorrow never comes according to someone, to meet Marina again for a display of her hand drawn children's books at 2pm and from 3pm a discussion with Philosophy in Pubs on Scouse humour. 

It promises to be a good day!

Artist Profile: Kaety Moore (Visual Artist.)

The Nerve Centre is proud to be presenting the work of many artists and one of those artists is Kaety Moore, whose work "Swimming with Aditi" is currently showing. 

Kaety Moore - Visual Artist

Katy Moore has worked in Liverpool as an artist for over ten years with an interest in performance art and action. She also makes posters for the Merseyside Women's movement and also the peace movement. 

Katy is currently working in Soft Sculpture, which depicts the female body and explores political questions about caring for a family and making art. She uses mythology and folklore as a starting point for her work.

For more info check her website, kaetymoore.com.

You can view Swimming with Aditi all day during The Nerve Centre's four week run.

The Nerve Centre.

Events: Sarah Nicholson - MAW.

Not much is known about MAW yet, but artist Sarah Nicholson reveals this tantalizing verbal image of what may be when it hits The Nerve Centre!

"Ravenous and consuming, voracious and insatiable, the teeth threaten to drag you in and devour you triggering a primal fear of sharp, tearing teeth.

Inspired by my fascination with the extreme “Otherness” of creatures of the deep and a comment by Colin Serjent about funding cuts; Maw is a studio work construction of wire armature and heat-shrunk recycled plastic bags."

No images yet, but you will not be disappointed when MAW descends on The Nerve Centre!

Please check the schedule for further details. 

The Nerve Centre.