The Brent Museum in North-West London will be holding an exhibition about the The Ace Cafe & Youth Culture. The Wild Ones exhibition will look at youth culture 1950-1960s , using the Ace Cafe as the central hub between the different themes and exploring the cultural changes that occurred, and in particular, how young people broke away from their parents' lifestyle, which they felt was conservative and restrictive, to a new fast-moving age, including fashion, music movies, and motorbikes, at the Ace's own significance as a focal point. The exhibition will be open to the public from Friday 6th April 2007 and will finish on Sunday 9th September 2007.
There will be three principle areas, with the main focus on young Rockers, and the influences on teenagers, especially rock n' roll, the 'devils' music, fashion and popular cinema, through to the importance of the motorcycle and road safety.
Complementing the exhibition will be a programme of events and activities, such as creating your own logo and printing it onto a T-shirt, 1950-60s cuisine tasters, an opportunity to Meet Elvis, a motorbike safety course and much more. Event and activities time and dates will be confirmed later, so please check the
www.brent.gov.uk/heritage website for regular updates.
There is also a Ace Memories weblog site, which you can get to on this link Ace Memories. Here you can read other people's stories and memories of their time at the Ace and other bike stories. You can also email in your own stories to be posted on the website. Please send your stories to
ace.memories@brent.gov.uk and include your name if you dare!
The Ace Cafe will be doing a ride-out from the Ace for the opening of the exhibition to the Brent Museum on Saturday 7th April. If you are interested in joining in, everyone will be meeting at 10.00am for a Ride-Out departing at Noon. If you can't make the ride-out and would still like to go and see the exhibition the address and the opening times for the museum are below.
Brent Museum,
Willesden Green Library Centre,
95 High Road,
Willesden Green,
London,
NW10 2SU.
Tel: 020 8937 3600
T el 020 8937 3602
Fax: 020 8937 3601
Email:
museum@brent.gov.ukOpening times:Mondays: 11am - 8pm
Tuesdays: 9am - 8pm
Wednesdays: 9am - 6pm
Thursdays: 9am - 8pm
Fridays: 9am - 6pm
Saturdays: 9am - 6pm
Sundays: 11am - 6pm
Related Linkswww.ace-cafe-london.com
