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1960s
Weekend Events Timetable
Create your own timetable for the weekend, going from
keynote talks to intimate discussions and film screenings
Saturday 26 October
TIME EVENT CONTENT
Throughout the day Film Screenings Heimat 2 and much more besides.
11am – 12 noon Tariq Ali In this keynote talk the author and activist
discusses a radical decade and key figures
such as Henry Kissinger and Malcolm X.
12.30pm – 1.30pm Stephen Montague: Get to know the music of the 1960s.
Listen to This
The Real Mad Men
Noise Bites
Pop Art
Andrew Cracknell gives an illustrated talk on
ad men and the rise of the consumer society.
The need-to-know topics of the era.
An overview of the transatlantic movement
which dominated the 1960s art world.
2.30pm – 3.30pm Maggie Aderin-Pocock: A talk on the science behind the ultimate
the Space Race
Cold War rivalry.
Marina Frolova-Walker
noise Bites
Director of Studies in Music, Cambridge,
discusses Shostakovich in the 1960s.
The need-to-know topics of the era.
Brutalism and
Love it or hate it, Brutalist architecture
southbank Centre dominated the 1960s.
4pm – 5pm American Foreign Policy We put the decade of the Cuban missile crisis
and Vietnam War under the microscope.
Mods
May ’68
Richard Weight, author of Mod: A Very British
Style, celebrates a defining style movement.
The student protests that turned into one of
the most powerful moments of the 1960s.
5.30pm – 7pm Where Dreams Lead A musical collaboration between
NuCivilisation Jazz Orchestra and
Chicago’s Live The Spirit.
7.30pm – 10pm Denys Baptiste* Now is the Time... Let Freedom Ring!
Shostakovich Symphony
No.13*
London Philharmonic Orchestra,
Yannick Nézet-Séguin.
Sunday 27 October
TIME EVENT CONTENT
Throughout the day Film Screenings Heimat 2 and much more besides.
10am – 11am Breakfast with Berio Grab a coffee and delve into Berio’s Sinfonia.
11.30am – 12.30pm The Beat Generation
Explore the words and music of the 1960s
underground.
Richard Davenport-Hines: A rip-roaring account of Britain at the time
scandal in the ’60s of the Profumo scandal.
Dominic Murcott
Noise Bites
Piano Phase / Purple Haze: classical music
meets popular culture in the 1960s.
The need-to-know topics of the era.
1.30pm – 2.30pm Zappa on Zappa Gail Zappa speaks about her husband Frank.
Rick Stroud
The Beatles
The author of The Book of the Moon
discusses the memorable year of 1969.
Discussion on the early years of the legendary
band, based on new biographical material.
3pm – 4pm Joe Boyd The producer and writer in conversation
about the 1960s.
Ravi Shankar
Noise Bites
A talk exploring the Indian music guru
whose influence resonates to this day.
The need-to-know topics of the era.
4.30pm – 5.30pm Stockhausen A performance of Stockhausen’s Stimmung
for six musicians and six microphones.
Roger McGough & The legendary Mersey poets read poems
Brian Patten and celebrate Liverpool in the 1960s.
Who Were The
Andrew Hussey explores the intellectual
Situationists? movement behind the uprisings of Paris ’68.
Noise Bites
DAY PASs £15
WEEKEND pASS £25
Full, extended details of talks, topics, speakers and
timings plus additional events will be available online.
* Not included in the Day or Weekend Pass
The need-to-know topics of the era.
6.30pm – 7.30pm Angela Davis Legendary civil rights activist looks back on
a decade of revolution.
8pm – 9.30pm Yellow Submarine The classic 1968 Beatles feature film.
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