Stockport Town of Culture

Head over to the Market Place tomorrow for Good Friday Foodie Friday! Start your Easter Bank Holiday weekend off right with a variety of street food to enjoy!🤩

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Litfest Stockport is happening this weekend and for the first time, the borough will bring authors and creatives together for a full day of FREE interactive cultural talks and workshops.!

10:00 - 17:00 pm at Stockport Central Library this Saturday!

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What a day!🤩

As we continued to celebrate and enjoy our Stockport Town of Culture Weekender we saw movement💃, art🎨 and heritage epitomised throughout our town centre with music continuing through the evening via a programme of laidback music curated by Leaf Promotions 🎶

We are hosting a special Stockport Town of Culture Weekender Walking Tour tomorrow meeting at 1pm in Stockport Museums. It is a ticketed event but if anyone would like to join us who hasn't got a ticket, you'd be very welcome.

We'll be spending time in the Strawberry Recording Studios exhibition where Dr Peter Wadsworth will be revealing some fascinating artefacts from the Strawberry archive.

Then we will be taking a walk around the Market Place to see the newly installed plaque for Hologram Studios then walking down to Great Underbank to watch Otto Schade put the finishing touches to the Joy Division Unknown Pleasures street art on the Syndikat building.

We will be heading up Little Underbank to see the plaque for The Sinking Ship in Royal Oak Yard and joined by special guest Dee Christopholus, the lead singer from Wimple Winch, who were the resident band for the club and supported The Jimi Hendrix Experience when they played on 12th February 1967.

After the walking tour, we are holding a social gathering and exhibition in Thread Bar Stockport who are very kindly providing some refreshments for anyone who would like to join us. This is an opportunity to talk to Dee and to listen to a great 1960's playlist of tracks played at The Sinking Ship and The Tabernacle.

Also the weather is looking great so we look forward to seeing you!