Post by Kev on Apr 5, 2004 6:34:41 GMT -5
A SLICE of Liverpool life is to be transported to the US this week.
Mike McCartney will be selling the city to the Americans in a one-off lecture at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington DC.
He hopes the talk, which coincides with his photography exhibition currently on show at the museum, will paint a vivid picture of his home and inspire the audience members to pay the area a visit.
He said: "It's a great honour, little old Mike McCartney being asked to do this. "I'll be talking about the influences on me when I was growing up and what a great place the Capital of Culture is.
"I want to inspire them all to come over and see what Liverpool has to offer.
"There is so much going on at the moment and I want to sell it to them really and make them want to come and see it for themselves." The MMLL exhibition, which incorporates around 70 black and white photographs, documents his life since early teens.
It won rave reviews when it was shown at the Museum of Alberta in Canada last year and in Liverpool.
The pictures capture everything from his family at home in Forthlin Road, Allerton, long-changed cityscapes and musicians he has come in to contact with over the years, such as Jerry Lee Lewis and Gene Vincent.
But both the collection and the lecture, which he will give over the Easter weekend, consciously avoids the subject of the Beatles.
And, embracing his new role as Wirral's cultural ambassador, he will also be promoting the other side of the Mersey as a tourist must-see during the talk.
Mr McCartney, 60, of Heswall, was chosen to champion the borough because of his long-standing career in the arts.
Mike McCartney will be selling the city to the Americans in a one-off lecture at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington DC.
He hopes the talk, which coincides with his photography exhibition currently on show at the museum, will paint a vivid picture of his home and inspire the audience members to pay the area a visit.
He said: "It's a great honour, little old Mike McCartney being asked to do this. "I'll be talking about the influences on me when I was growing up and what a great place the Capital of Culture is.
"I want to inspire them all to come over and see what Liverpool has to offer.
"There is so much going on at the moment and I want to sell it to them really and make them want to come and see it for themselves." The MMLL exhibition, which incorporates around 70 black and white photographs, documents his life since early teens.
It won rave reviews when it was shown at the Museum of Alberta in Canada last year and in Liverpool.
The pictures capture everything from his family at home in Forthlin Road, Allerton, long-changed cityscapes and musicians he has come in to contact with over the years, such as Jerry Lee Lewis and Gene Vincent.
But both the collection and the lecture, which he will give over the Easter weekend, consciously avoids the subject of the Beatles.
And, embracing his new role as Wirral's cultural ambassador, he will also be promoting the other side of the Mersey as a tourist must-see during the talk.
Mr McCartney, 60, of Heswall, was chosen to champion the borough because of his long-standing career in the arts.
