Volunteers present Liverpool's watery past!

Between 19 September 2008 and 20 September 2008, in Liverpool

Volunteers spent two sessions creating an underwater world to educate and celebrate in equal measure Liverpool's history as as coastal inlet.

Sunday 21st September saw Liverpool City Centre play host to a rather strange collection of sea creatures and nautical figures in celebration of the Seventh Annual Seacycles Parade.  The volunteers assisted in directing the march, and educating the public as to its origins, through contact and flyering.

On Saturday, volunteers spent a creative evening designing and building a collection of underwater costumes for those parading on Sunday to wear.

Schools of fish, gangs of pirates, Noah and his ark, an octopus postman, a smack of jellyfish and even King Neptune himself all made appearances as over one hundred people gathered outside the Wold Museum for the beginning of the procession.

Celebrating Liverpool

The annual Seacycles parade commemorates Liverpool's namesake tidal pool by walking the route of the city's original watercourse. Seacycles sets off from William Brown Street where fishermen and merchants originally tied their boats up hundreds of years ago and makes it way to the Albert Dock where the water would have flowed out to the Mersey. The tidal pool still flows in and out of the city twice a day under our feet, meaning people in Liverpool really do walk on water.

Celebrating Community

This year's Seacycles saw community groups from Granby Adult Learning Centre, Clubmoor Children's Centre, Marybone Community Association and the Bluecoat arts centre, supported by the Agents4Change volunteers, all taking part in workshops to create a range of nautical puppets, banners and costumes to celebrate the city's forgotten history.

Posted on 22 September 2008 14:49:19 by Jon Dean