Saturday, 17 June 2017 at 12:00 pm – Saturday, 17 June 2017 at 6:00 pm
Shelagh Delaney's Places: Double Bill Screening
Date: Saturday 17th June 2017
Time: 12 noon - 6pm
Location: Number 70 Oxford St, Manchester, M1 5NH
Tickets: Free, available at: https://delaney-double-bill.eventbrite.com
This special one off double bill screening is part of the 2016/17 Humanities in Public Festival on the theme of 'Greater Manchester and Northern Identity'
The event will present films of two screenplays by Salford-born Shelagh Delaney: 'The White Bus' (Dir. Lindsay Anderson, 1967) and 'Charlie Bubbles' (Dir. Albert Finney, 1967).
The films will be preceded with an introductory talk by Manchester Modernist Stephen Marland, and will be followed by a specially convened panel of Delaney enthusiasts.
The panel will discuss sense of place, mythology and fantasy, Delaney's links to Manchester music and aesthetics and to queer culture.
Seeing these films on the big screen is an experience not to be missed, and we highly recommend you attend the whole event! The event is free and open to all. We are hoping to open the cafe however please feel free to bring your own refreshments.
Panel members:
- Stephen Marland is a photographer, researcher, writer, blogger, Manchester Modernist and explorer. He is widely exhibited and published.
- David Wilkinson is Lecturer in English at Manchester Metropolitan University. He is the author of Post-Punk, Politics and Pleasure in Britain (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016).
- Hayley Flynn is a writer, curator and tour guide. Winner of Best Arts and Culture Blog in the UK (2014) and formerly the UK's only City Curator (National Trust). She specialises is cities and has written for The Guardian.
- Zorian Clayton is from Manchester via the south coast. He works as an assistant curator at the Victoria & Albert Museum and his research specialises in 19th and 20th century paper ephemera, printmaking, and queer history.
Running Order:
- 12 noon Introduction to the day from Dr Andrew Moor
- 12.05 Talk by Stephen Marland
- 12.30 The White Bus
- 1.15pm Break
- 1.45pm Charlie Bubbles
- 3.15pm Break
- 3.30pm Panel discussion and Q&A
- Chaired by Dr Andrew Moor
- Dr Andrew Moor is Reader in Cinema History at Manchester Met. His primary research areas are British Cinema history and LGBT/Queer cinema.
- 4.30pm close
This event is part of Humanities in Public 2016-17 festival exploring Greater Manchester and Northern Identity. For details of the full schedule of event, please visit: http://www2.mmu.ac.uk/hip/
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