The tickets for this Friday’s Liverpool Acoustic View Two Songwriting Challenge Showcase Event are now SOLD OUT.

If you want to get in you have to either be taking part as a songwriter or musician, or have bought your tickets online in advance. Doors open at 6.45pm and the event starts at 7.15pm. Please be prompt.

We cannot allow entry to anyone who turns up without a ticket and who wants to pay on the door.

If you haven’t got a tickets, click below to see if there are any returns before 6pm on the night of the event.

Details of the event can be found by clicking here.

All the money raised from the Songwriting Challenge will be split between two charities, Marie Curie Cancer Care and Garston Animal Rescue, in memory of Liverpool Acoustic team member Sharon Jones who died in May 2011. In this post we’re focussing on Marie Curie Hospice, Woolton, Liverpool.

Marie Curie Hospice, Woolton

Located in the peaceful Woolton Village conservation area, the purpose-built Marie Curie Hospice Liverpool offers a modern approach to care with a friendly and welcoming atmosphere. They offer specialist care for people with cancer and other life-limiting illnesses and support for families completely free. Their in-patient unit has 30 beds. They have a fully-equipped day service department and some services are offered in patients’ homes.

Statement of purpose

• They aim to promote the best quality of life and death according to the wishes of the individual person
• They aim to meet the overall needs of the individual person
• Their services include physical, emotional and spiritual care for patients together with support for the people who are close to them
• They aim to meet the needs of people from all cultures and communities
• Each hospice employs a team of health and social care professionals, including medical and nursing staff; specially trained in pain and symptom control; occupational therapists, chaplains, physiotherapists and social workers.

All the money raised from the Songwriting Challenge will be split between two charities, Marie Curie Cancer Care and Garston Animal Rescue, in memory of Liverpool Acoustic team member Sharon Jones who died in May 2011. On this website we’re going to focus on each of the two charities, starting with Garston Animal Rescue.

Garston Animal Rescue started in 1984 with the rescue of a very exhausted and hungry mother cat and her five new-born kittens from a bin near the docks in Liverpool city centre.

Garston Animal Rescue registered as a charity in 1988 with the simple aim:-

“to rescue sick, stray, abandoned and unwanted animals, to give them essential veterinary treatment and, where possible, to re-home them.”

The charity is run by volunteers and has a policy that no healthy animal will be destroyed.

In addition to needing funds for vets fees and animal food, they welcome volunteers to help with the rescue work, dog walking, cleaning, comforting distressed animals and anything else that keeps the rescue going.

Organiser Nancy says

“What we need most of all are loving homes with kind people who could take an unwanted and unloved animal.”

HOW YOU CAN HELP

You can help in any number of ways.

• Make a cash donation (any size) to help the rescue’s ongoing work
• Donate animal food to help feed the 70+ un-homed animals
• Donate items to sell in the charity shop in Garston
• Volunteer time at the rescue centre
• Volunteer time in the charity shop
• GIVE A GOOD HOME to an unwanted and unloved animal

Thank you to everyone who came along to the View Two Gallery on Saturday 8th October and entered the Songwriting Challenge.

All the places at the Showcase Event have been taken, and we have a reserve list too.

Given the incredible demand for places, next year we’ll be changing the format to enable as many songwriters as possible to take part.

The Entry Event for the Liverpool Acoustic View Two Songwriting Challenge is taking place this coming Saturday 8th October.

The View Two Gallery will be open to the public as normal between 12.00pm and 5.00pm. During this time songwriters can come along and look at the art on display, then pick one that inspires them to write a songs. They will then register it with one of the Liverpool Acoustic team, and will have just over a month to write the song. They will then return for the Showcase Event on the evening of Friday 11th November to perform the song.

Places for challenge entries to the Showcase Event will be limited, and will be allocated at the Entry Event on 8th October on a first come, first served basis.

The facebook event for this can be found here.

Taking place in the View Two Gallery at the same time as the Entry Event will be the Liverpool Acoustic Afternoon in the performance space on the top floor. It’s running from 1.00pm to 4.00pm, and open mic slots are available on a first come, first served basis. The facebook event for this is here.

There’s a preview of the Liverpool Acoustic Afternoon on Show 54 of the Liverpool Acoustic Spotlight, available to listen to for free at spotlight.liverpoolacoustic.co.uk