Tony Hawkins Piccadilly Radio Tapes (1/4 Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead)
Tony Hawkins used to work as producer and presenter on Piccadilly Radio. Recently he deposited some 40-year-old tapes with us. Here's Tony meeting Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead. Sound on! (1/4)
Read the replies to this post for the other videos featuring Roy Harper and Frank Zappa.
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Read more here: https://northwestsoundheritage.org/2020/10/26/piccadilly-radio-the-stories-behind-the-sounds/
TOUR VIDEO ON BASEMENT TAPES DAY
Our final creative work from Manchester Youth Council members - a message of Love and Peace.
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Photo - Peace statue "Struggle for Freedom and Peace" 2002 @mycthehive
Second creative piece from Manchester Youth Council members @mycthehive
Peace statue SHEEP by Ted Roocroft, 1986. Manchester was the first city in the world to declare itself a nuclear free city in 1980.
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Our first creative piece is from @mycthehive members Alex & Noor (origami doves made by Noor's younger brother)
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And here’s Roving Robots demo part 2, thanks Sam and Louis.
Sam & Louis demonstrate Dash & Dot at our family coding session this afternoon. If you missed it, Roving Robots coding session will be on again next Friday, 2-4pm in the Media Lounge.
Here is Beverley, an apprentice at Central Library telling us her story. We love archives! Manchester Libraries
And here is their explanation! International Mother Language Day at Central Library Manchester Libraries
Students from the Ukrainian Saturday School speaking in their Mother Language at Central Library Manchester Libraries
The Minibus Choir from Cheetham Hill rocking the house with their performance for International Mother Language Day at Central Library Manchester Libraries
The Ukrainian Saturday School performing a traditional folk dance for International Mother Language Day at Central Library Manchester Libraries
Well done to the new students who attended the African drumming workshop with Leman Mirazi - International Mother Language Day at Central Library Manchester Libraries
Perkunas Lithuanian Folk Group performing the legend of Jurate and Kastytis - International Mother Language Day at Central Library Manchester Libraries
Brilliant performance from the students at The Damascene Arabic School - International Mother Language Day Central Library Manchester Libraries
Anti-suffrage poem
100 years ago today some women were given the right to vote. Let's remind ourselves what they were up against back then! Isabelle, a young student on placement in Archives+ last week, recorded this video clip of an anti-suffrage poem found in our suffrage archive collection.
Some wonderful collaboration went into this short vintage lego movie! Well done Jack, Rodrigo & Joshua!
We had a fantastic 2 days at Wythenshawe Games in the under 5's zone. Thank you to everyone who joined us for Manchester Bee themed activities: badges, coasters, scratchy bees, bee handling box, umbrella doodles and bee sticker drawings. Here's a short video of what you enjoyed at Wythenshawe Games 2017.
She Choir open rehearsal is sounding awesome! #musicday2017