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A fashion show featuring footballers' wives is to be one of the highlights of Liverpool's Capital of Culture year. | |
The festival line up includes high-brow art exhibitions and popular culture events celebrating music and fashion. | The festival line up includes high-brow art exhibitions and popular culture events celebrating music and fashion. |
Culture bosses in the city revealed details of about 70 events already set up as part of the 2008 programme. | Culture bosses in the city revealed details of about 70 events already set up as part of the 2008 programme. |
An exhibition of the work of Austrian painter Gustav Klimt will be held at the Tate Liverpool gallery, and work by Van Gogh will go on show at the Walker. | An exhibition of the work of Austrian painter Gustav Klimt will be held at the Tate Liverpool gallery, and work by Van Gogh will go on show at the Walker. |
The year will kick off with a nativity play performed live on the streets of Liverpool for BBC Three, the force behind this year's Manchester Passion. | |
The nativity production will open with the image of a star shining above Liverpool's Liver Birds, while a torchlit procession will wind towards the River Mersey. | |
Klimt's work will be exhibited at the Tate Liverpool | Klimt's work will be exhibited at the Tate Liverpool |
Adam Kemp, the BBC Commissioning Editor for Arts, Music and Religion, said: "After the wonderful response to Manchester Passion, we're excited to bring such an ambitious live event to the streets of Liverpool. | |
"People should expect a magnificent spectacle, a sing-along and a genuinely moving experience." | |
The fashion show featuring so-called Wags (wives and girlfriends) will see them dressed by famous Liverpool boutique Cricket. | |
Their names have not yet been confirmed but Coleen McLoughlin and Alex Curran - the partners of Wayne Rooney and Steven Gerrard - are long-standing patrons of the shop. | Their names have not yet been confirmed but Coleen McLoughlin and Alex Curran - the partners of Wayne Rooney and Steven Gerrard - are long-standing patrons of the shop. |
The Cricket fashion show will be part of The People's Festival, to be held in May. | The Cricket fashion show will be part of The People's Festival, to be held in May. |
'Vienna-themed' | |
The festival will be a celebration of football, fashion and music, featuring images of the greatest moments in European football. | |
Inspired by the Klimt exhibition, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra will perform a series of Vienna-themed concerts and at two Viennese balls. | |
Liverpool-born conductor Sir Simon Rattle will also return to perform. | |
And Oscar winner Pete Postlethwaite, from Warrington, may star in a production of King Lear at the Everyman. | |
Sir Paul McCartney is part of Liverpool pop heritage | |
The city's pop music heritage will be celebrated in a riverside concert, where the acts will perform on a floating stage on the Mersey. | |
Names of the acts are yet to be confirmed but many people believe Sir Paul McCartney is likely to play. | |
Liverpool was crowned European Capital of Culture on 4 June 2003, beating a host of other major cities. | |
The city also saw off UK competition from Bristol, Birmingham, Cardiff, Newcastle-Gateshead and Oxford. | |
Patras in Greece is the current European Capital of Culture. |
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