Manchester Modernist Walking Tour: 1960s

Saturday Supplement: The 1960s

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.

PLEASE NOTE: This walking tour will be meeting at The Vimto sculpture at the rear of UMIST on Granby Row, not the Whitworth. The rest of the Saturday Supplement will continue at the Whitworth as below,

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.