Saturday Supplement: The 1960s?
| Dates: | 27 June 2015 |
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| Times: | 10:00 - 15:00 |
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| What is it: | Multi-event |
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| Organiser: | The Whitworth |
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| How much: | Free |
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Saturday Supplement: The 1960s?
27 June 11am – 4pm
A whole day exploring the 1960's through guided walks, tours, discussions and screenings co-curated with The Manchester Modernist Society.?The 1960's were a time for new ideas. Many people threw off the austere and dour shackles of the immediate postwar era and began thinking in a new and often radical way. These new ideas were to manifest themselves in exciting new movements in art, sculpture, photography, music and architecture.
This Saturday Supplement will celebrate this exciting era, the wearing of flowers in ones hair is optional but free-thinking is obligatory.?
Walking Tour?:
10am.
Manchester Modernist lead an exploration of the public art that adorns many of Manchester's educational 1960's buildings. From the former UMIST campus, down Oxford Road, to The Whitworth itself.
Meeting at The Vimto sculpture at the rear of UMIST on Granby Row - at 10am.
Spaces are limited, to book a free place please click here?:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/manchester-modernist-walking-tour-1960s-tickets-17187890443
Inside View:
?11am?.
Study Centre?Curator Frances Pritchard showcases some of our best works within our 1960s textiles collection.? ?
Film screening and discussion?:
1pm-3pm.
?Grand Hall?Writers, thinkers, artists and architects discuss all things 1960s followed special screenings of films exploring the work of Richard Hamilton and Bridget Riley.
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