Bluecoat Book Panel Discussion - A Dissident View
In this online event we explored the evolution of Bluecoat from charity school to arts institution, a story that is charted in a new book, Bluecoat, Liverpool: The UK’s first arts centre.
Editors of the book Bryan Biggs, Bluecoat’s Artistic Director and John Belchem, Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Liverpool, were joined in conversation with one of the contributing writers, art historian Dr Anjalie Dalal-Clayton, along with writer Laura Brown.
The panel discussed how the book came about and explored subjects including: Bluecoat’s early eighteenth-century origins as a school, the building’s architecture, how it developed as an arts space where ‘village hall meets the avant-garde’, and its exhibitions history and impact, in Liverpool and beyond.
Pick up a copy of Bluecoat, Liverpool: The UK's first arts centre here -
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