Sat 27 Oct 2018
Firstly, at the Williamson Art Gallery, there was a talk introducing Lowry's Wirral and an installation by Alan Dunn. The Birkenhead gallery opened at the end of 1928, the year after a young Malcolm made his maiden voyage sailing as a deckhand from the town's docks to the Far East. The Lounge continued at the Bluecoat with a musical focus: a film and talk about the previous year's performance commission, The Lighthouse Invites the Storm, a talk by Mark Goodall on Lowry and jazz, and an 'open Malc' session with musical, poetic and other contributions from the floor, the day finishing with a Lowry-themed disco and a toast to the writer.
