The Museum Of Youth Culture and Fred Perry announce Bristol Show & Tell event

The Museum Of Youth Culture and Fred Perry announce Bristol Show & Tell event

Posted on: 06 Mar 2024

Join the Museum of Youth Culture on tour at Fred Perry’s flagship Bristol store as the pair join forces to Collect Memories Of Your Youth with FREE events.

 

A ‘Show and Tell’ event will take place at Fred Perry Bristol between 10 AM and 4 PM this Saturday 9 March 2024.

 

This unique event encourages Bristolians to bring along photos and objects that represent their youth for scanning into the museum’s archive. Become part of MOYC’s ‘Grown Up in Britain’ national archive documenting the stories of growing up in Britain.

 

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The Museum of Youth Culture has announced a yearlong collaboration with Fred Perry, collecting youth culture memories from across the UK through a series of ‘Show & Tell’ events at regional Fred Perry stores.

 

Photographs and ephemera brought along will be scanned for MOYC’s archives to preserve the history of young people and will be part of an exhibition at Fred Perry’s Camden store later this year.

 

So, whether it’s getting ready in your teenage bedroom, bundling in the car with your mates for your first festival or documenting your journey into town with a full Facebook photo album, it’s time to get digging!

Bring along any items or pictures to Fred Perry Bristol this Saturday for a FREE ‘Show & Tell’ event (including a talk from a museum expert) to celebrate youth and subcultures. The ‘Grown up in Britain’ campaign invites the public to help build the MOYC through submitted photographs objects and memories.

 

Since 2019, the museum has received thousands of submissions from the Roaring 20s to modern Drill culture. These shoebox archives feature everything from photos and home footage to oral accounts, flyers and ticket stubs to band t-shirts.

 

If you head to Facebook and like and comment on our post of this article, you’ll be in with a chance of winning Fred Perry’s ‘Subculture Diary 2024’. This pocket-sized youth culture bible is illustrated with iconic subculture photography featuring key dates from the decades that influenced youth culture as well as listings for the year ahead!

A ‘Show and Tell’ event will take place at Fred Perry Bristol on Park Street between 10 AM and 4 PM this Saturday 9 March 2024.

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Stanley Gray

Stan is a born and bred Bristolian, recently graduated from studying English Literature in Sheffield. His passions are music and literature and he spends the majority of his time in venues all over the city, immersing himself in Bristol’s alternative music scene. A lifelong Bristol City fan, Stan’s Saturdays are spent watching his team both home and away.