The Age of Decadence

RECALL (OR DISCOVER) A DECADE OF DECADENCE

Memories of the Sixties, perhaps even personal secrets, may be revealed (or buried deeper) by Audlem Probus Club members following this week’s presentation.

We’ll re-visit the age of teenage rebellion, cultural, fashion and music changes following the hardships of World War 2 and beyond.

Will the audience of retired business and professional men and women be prompted to disclose their own memories? Will they even remember the Sixties, given the hackneyed phrase “If you remember the sixties, you weren't there?"

Frank Vigon’s talk addresses “A Decade of Dcadence – Youth in Revolt”. He says: “After the second world war, young people seize the day and make the world their own. The sixties mark a social, political, and cultural change that was seismic in its impact.”

For those who can recall those days, think back, perhaps, to:

• waking up to ice on the inside of bedroom windows;
• Mary Quant and the arrival of the miniskirt;
• playing with GI Joe or Barbie;
• the end of military service conscription;
• the Beatles and the Rolling Stones.

All in all, a somewhat chaotic era not without a significant element of drugs.

Frank Vigon is a former headteacher of an inner-city school and a highly successful and highly popular Media Arts High School. He summarises the Sixties as a period of “. . . social, political, and cultural change that was seismic in its impact." Things were never going to be quite the same again. How did this happen and how did it happen so quickly: the open and permissive society; the Revolution of fashionable youth; Sex, Drugs and Rock and Roll; the end of deference?

Come and relive, or discover, the Swingin’ Sixties with us at Audlem Public Hall, Thursday 9th April, from 10am.
Visitors and guests welcome.

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