A CULTURAL extravaganza is being planned for the night Liverpool bids farewell to its showcase 2008 year.
It will start with a free waterfront party at the Pier Head featuring spectacular lighting, big-screen productions, and fireworks from a barge on the Mersey.
The city’s cultural institutions have joined together to hold a series of late-night openings as part of the Transition Light Night.
The special evening will be on Saturday, January 10, a year to the day the city officially launched its showcase year, and will mark the transition to 09 – Liverpool’s Year of the Environment.
Last night, Liverpool Council leader Cllr Warren Bradley said: “What better way to celebrate the city’s transition from 08 than to begin with a party at the waterfront where so much of this city’s story began.”
An hour-long “People’s Celebration” at the Pier Head will start at 6pm and use the £100m of regeneration projects at the waterfront location as a theme.
The gigantic waterfront window of the new Museum of Liverpool, currently under construction, will be used as a 27ft by 80ft cinema screen.
A film review of Capital of Culture year will be shown, with smaller screens also being placed on the new Mersey Ferry terminal, also under construction, and the Echo Arena.
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