Now until Sunday 30th June

Mods: Shaping A Generation Exhibition
This critically acclaimed major exhibition includes includes scooters, ephemera, and original 1960s clothing provided by designer Roger K Burton as seen in the film Quadrophenia. The audio-visual experience includes eyewitness accounts and photographs from Leicester and Nottingham Mods, which have never been seen or heard before. The exhibition is curated and designed by social history author Shaun Knapp based around his latest book, Mods: Two City Connection, Joe Nixon, co-founder of Arch Creative, and Soft Touch Arts.

Shaping A Generation

Modified Exhibition

Soft Touch Arts has involved up to 100 young people from disadvantaged backgrounds, giving them the opportunity to meet older generation Mods and participate in creating Modified, an ‘inspired by’ Mod culture exhibition at their city centre gallery.

Four groups have each worked around a theme – music, fashion, design and film – to create artefacts for the exhibition. Each group has learnt about original 60’s Mod Culture and looked at and listened to the music, fashion, design and film of the time.

Quotes from interviews with original Mods have also given them a flavour of the time and been used as inspiration for their own pieces. The exhibition is themed to reflect a 1960’s coffee bar and there will be sixties inspired drinks and cakes available at certain points during the exhibition to encourage visitors to sit down, reflect and talk.

Friday 14th June-Sunday 30th June

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Photographs and anecdotes of the original Leicester & Nottingham Mods, recreating scenes of the 1960s in iconic locations across both cities.