Hilary Burrage

Short Bike Rides every Wednesday, 10 a.m.
Free

Walton Hall Park
Meet at the green container in the Sports Centre Car Park
0151-234 5074

Subject: ARMISTEAD MAUPIN at HOMOTOPIA JULY 4th
Homotopia event on 4th July in Liverpool, featuring the one and only Armistead Maupin.

On Independence Day 2007, Armistead Maupin, one of America’s greatest living gay writers will be appearing at a special event this coming summer. As a tribute to Armistead we will be hosting this very special event at the recently restored Small Concert Room in St Georges Hall.

Armistead Maupin will be reading from his new novel ‘Michael Tolliver Lives’ and will talking about his life and work. This event promises to be one of the cultural highlights of 2007.

For al those die hard ‘Tales Of The City’ fans this will be a trip down Barbary Lane. It is hard to believe that it’s over 20 years since the series ended. According to Armistead the novel is not strictly speaking a ‘Tales’ book but the insider news is that a ‘reassuring’ number of familiar faces will be appearing…..

July 4th at 7pm

Small Concert Room – St Georges Hall

Tickets £6 On Sale At Unity Theatre or News From Nowhere: 0151 709 4988 or 0151 708 7270

The event will also launch our new literature strand delivered in partnership with Liverpool libraries and Time To Read as part of the forthcoming festival in November. Gary Everett, Homotopia Festival Director commented ‘I am thrilled that such a high profile author has agreed to attend this special one off event and give a reading at the festival. Armistead Maupin has also kindly agreed to attend several community events in the day followed by a glittering occasion in the grand surroundings of the Small Concert Room on Independence Day’.

More about ‘Michael Tolliver Lives’

Michael Tolliver, the sweet-spirited Southerner in Armistead Maupin’s classic Tales of the City series, is arguably the most beloved gay character in fiction. Now, almost twenty years after ending his groundbreaking saga of San Francisco life, Maupin revisits his all-too-human hero, letting the 55-year-old gardener tell his story in his own voice. Having survived the plague that took so many of his friends and lovers, Michael has learned to embrace the random pleasures of life, the tender alliances that sustain him in the hardest of times, Michael Tolliver Lives follows its protagonist as he finds love with a younger man, attends to his dying fundamentalist mother in Florida, and finally reaffirms his allegiance to a wise octogenarian who was once his landlady.

As usual, the author’s mordant wit and ear for pitch-perfect dialogue serve every aspect of the story-- from the bawdy to the bittersweet. Michael Tolliver Lives is a novel about the act of growing older joyfully and the everyday miracles that somehow make that possible.

'I love Maupin's books for very much the same qualities that make me love the novels of Dickens'
Christopher Isherwood

Janette Stowell

WoW Administrator

0151 707 4313

Michael Pace-Sigge

Exhibition 32 of The University Arts Group.

Wed. 27th of June until Fri. 13th of July.

Please do come!
Dept. of Civic Design Exhib. Room.
Abercromby Sq. No. 67 on this map:
http://www.liv.ac.uk/maps/precinctplan.htm