Wednesday, April 26, 2017

reminder - !! GLAM !! symposium / film mini-festival this Saturday in New York City (with revised line-up + schedule)



This Saturday April 29th there's a day-long celebration of glam, glitter and 70s art pop taking place in downtown NYC. It features talks and discussion involving Mark DeryDan FoxVivien GoldmanSukhdev Sandhu and me, plus the screening of rarely-seen films from or about the early Seventies.

Curated by Sandhu and myself, this event is free and open to the public.

Please note the revised schedule and line-up.


THE COLLOQUIUM FOR UNPOPULAR CULTURE

presents


GLAM!! - A CELEBRATION OF GLITTER ROCK AND ART POP


Date: Saturday, April 29, 2017
Time: 2:00pm - 9:30pm
Location: 721 Broadway (at Waverly Place), New York. Room: 674
Cost: Free

                                          


SCHEDULE

2:00 –  introduction 

2:15 - So Many Ways To Hurt You (Jeremy Deller's film about glam wrestler Adrian Street, 2010)

3:10 - "Everybody’s In Showbiz: Glam and AntiGlam" - a talk by Simon Reynolds

4 - Roxette (John McManus's film about Roxy Music fans, 1977) +  film of the Moodies

4:55 - “I Felt Like An Actor”: Glam and the Authentically Inauthentic - conversation between Dan Fox and Mark Dery.

5:45 -  "Don't Leave Me This Way" (film about Brian Connolly and The Sweet by James Marsh)  
+  Gary Glitter: Did You Miss Me…? (directed by Nigel Finch, 1981)

6:45 - ‘Shock and Awe: Glam Rock and Its Legacies from the 70s to the 21st century’ – conversation between Vivien Goldman, Sukhdev Sandhu and Simon Reynolds

7:45 - Slade In Flame (directed by Richard Loncraine, 1975).