TUESDAY 07 MARCH 06 open keyboard PIANO NIGHT new art on the far wall DAVID SINCLAIR Babies Graves Photos from Everton Cemetery, Liverpool 1995 - 2000. During the 1990's Liverpool went through a number of social and political events that affected the consciousness of the city. The 90's started off badly on the back of the Hillsborough disaster when nearly 100 Liverpool football supporters died, that was followed by the murder of Jamie Bulger which was followed by the Dockers dispute when 500 men were sacked for not crossing a picket line, Liverpool became a 'Scab Port'. While this was going on Hospitals in Liverpool had been doing 'unofficial' post mortems on many of the babies that had died in the cities hospitals, keeping stockpiles of organs for experimentation. My wife Liz and I had a stillborn baby in 1990, we were asked by the hospital if they could do a post mortem and we said what for? We don't know if they did or not but we decided not to find out - to let it go? The Hospital and the Co-op funeral service took over and arranged a burial for us in Everton Cemetery where most of Liverpool's babies were buried, a number of them affected by the 'autopsy scandal'. The cemetery was a very peaceful place on the outskirts of the city it smelled sweet of biscuits from Jacobs and jam from Nelsons. About 1995 I started to notice trees decorated with baby's cuddly toys, poems, ornaments and oddments. The building of what to me looked like Pagan shrines. This sort of thing had happened before but this was on a much larger scale. The display of public grief had become common since Hillsborough causing the city to be called 'self pity city' by cynical journalists. Some cemeteries had a policy of not allowing this to go on and would take down what they called 'furniture' but staff at Everton cemetery would leave the toys on the trees and just clear away stuff blown down in storms. The toys would start rotting and quite quickly lose their colour, then start to turn the colour of the trees. In a city that was once quite religious, people were finding ways other than the church to work out their grief. Most parents (mainly mothers) would go regular for the first year or so and add more toys. Then as time went on they'd go less and less until they'd leave it alone and just go on anniversaries. Eventually they'd forget anniversaries because they had other children and other birthdays to remember. Although it still goes on to a lesser extent this festival of cuddly toy's peaked about 1999 and for whatever reason was on the wane by the next millennium. 2000 years after Jesus people where nailing Postman Pat and Po to trees. I thought it was a lovely civilised way of dealing with grief, private and personal but also public. Dave Sinclair 2005 more photos... new art in the vaults holes drawings by gabriella svenningsen 7-19 march 2006 gabo@spray.se new art in the library ELIZIA VOLKMANN

SUNDAY 12 MARCH 06 8-10 WELCOME TO WORMWORLD open mic poetry hosted today by VIZ the SPOON

MONDAY 13 MARCH 06 - CLOSED 06

TUESDAY 14 MARCH 06 open keyboard PIANO NIGHT new art on the stairwell MAGGIE new art on the far wall ELOISE MY PHOTOS. MY STORY. 14th-26th March 2006 An exhibition of photographs taken by three women who have fled domestic violence. She came back with so many used up films. All full of images of Eros, of Piccadilly Circus. "It was such a public place, sat on the steps. It was a safe haven. The only place he couldn't beat me up" A chance to tell their own story, with their own pictures. The exhibition has been produced as part of a community arts project, empowering women living in a Women's Aid refuge. Cameras are provided and training in photographic skills given. The names of the women exhibiting have been withheld, for their protection. British Crime Survey figures of 2005 showed: On average two men a week kill their female partners. 50% of women have experienced domestic violence, sexual assault or stalking. Only 5.3% of rape cases that go to court a lead to a conviction. new art in the big room JIM SANDERS

THURSDAY 16 MARCH 06 &gy;> FRAN PEREZ an incidental performance for JIMS basement opening

SUNDAY 19 MARCH 06 3.30-6.30 LoAd a visual / sound collage http://www.axart.net 8-10 WELCOME TO WORMWORLD open mic poetry

MONDAY 20 MARCH 06 - CLOSED

TUESDAY 21 MARCH 06 open keyboard PIANO NIGHT new art in the library SHPETIM BERISHA new art on the bar wall NICOLA and SASHA new art in the vaults JEFFREY KAMADA

SUNDAY 26 MARCH 06 8-10 WELCOME TO WORMWORLD open mic poetry

TUESDAY 28 MARCH 06 open keyboard PIANO NIGHT new art in the stair well MATTHEW BARTON new art on the far wall PAUL ORCHARD new art in the basement MARK MILLER

WEDNESDAY 29 MARCH >> basement Openned http://www.openned.com Featured poets Sean Bonney James Byrne Welcome, We are pleased to announce the immanent arrival of the first of a series of poetry readings under the name of Openned. The night will be divided into two halves. The focus or remit of the first half, starting at 7:00 p.m, will be to provide a space for new, promising, exciting, but for the most part, unpublished poets practicing in London. On the 29th, Frances Kruk, Sophie Robinson, Christian Anthony and Alex MacDonald (all featured on www.Openned.com) along with an open mic floor spot, and a short reading from one of the Openned editors, will fulfill the remit of this first half. Each poet will read for no longer than five minutes. The second half, preceded by an interval, will be given over to the featured and published poets, James Byrne and Sean Bonney, who will conclude the evening by reading for fifteen or twenty minutes each. Openned Visual, a magazine of visual/concrete poetry, ed. Sophie Robinson, Stephen Willey, will also be available on the night. The reading will be followed by live painting by Ennalisa Colombara, with music by Evrah, Steve Moyes, and Mic Rodwell. We look forward to seeing you. Stephen Willey: Swilley17@aol.com AlexDavies:alessandrocalamari@hotmail.com

THURSDAY 30 MARCH 06 LAURA NORDER PRESENTS SAVAGE MESSIAH 4 ZINE LAUNCH SAVAGE MESSIAH the work of artist and writer Laura Oldfield Ford and is a psychogeographic journal with a strong DIY punk aesthetic. Issue 4 is a derive from Lea Bridge Roundabout in Clapton to the Green Man Interchange in Leytonstone. It traverses leprous wasteground, No M11 link road protests, Nietzschean death cults, gated communities, pylon sex magick rituals, psychogeography at the bakers Arms, Whipps Cross organ scandals, skinheads on fly agaricks, temple ov psychick youth in Chobham road, demented encounters with ketamine casualties and lots,lots more! "I give you the end of the golden string Only wind it into a ball It will lead you in at Heaven's gate Built in Jerusalems wall." William Blake Come down to the launch and we might be showing some super 8 London stuff and daft videos of our mates lost in Bethnal Green road. There will also be some people playing Sheffield industrial noise, punk 7's and god knows what else. hope to see you there for signed copy of zine. Laura

SUNDAY 02 APRIL 06 8.00-8.30 ANDREW BAILEY STAND UP "an endearing yet deeply disconcerting performance artist whose dislocated sense of fun seems to come from a different planet" -william cook gaurdian guide last saturday 8-10 WELCOME TO WORMWORLD open mic poetry

TUESDAY 04 APRIL 06 open keyboard PIANO NIGHT new art in the basement MARIANA new art in the library BECKI JOHNSON new art on the bar wall EMMA SMITH in MEIN LIEBES WALDKRANKENHAUS new art in the vaults BEN GUIVER A SENSE OF SCALE

SUNDAY 09 APRIL 06 8-10 WELCOME TO WORMWORLD open mic poetry

TUESDAY 11 APRIL 06 open keyboard PIANO NIGHT

SUNDAY 16 APRIL 06 8-10 WELCOME TO WORMWORLD open mic poetry

TUESDAY 18 APRIL 06 open keyboard PIANO NIGHT

SUNDAY 23 APRIL 06 8-10 WELCOME TO WORMWORLD open mic poetry

TUESDAY 25 APRIL 06 open keyboard PIANO NIGHT

SUNDAY 30 APRIL 06 8-10 WELCOME TO WORMWORLD open mic poetry

TUESDAY 02 MAY 06 8.00-8.30 ANDREW BAILEY STAND UP "an endearing yet deeply disconcerting performance artist whose dislocated sense of fun seems to come from a different planet" -william cook gaurdian guide open keyboard PIANO NIGHT

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