Take a Walk on the Wild Side

30th June 2011

Categories: Modern History News

International artist, Dan Dubrowitz, and guest guides will lead a series of free walks around Ancoats to discover the new award winning spaces The Peeps & Cutting Room Square explore how artworks have been part of transforming the area. The 25 guest guides include the archaeologist, architects, artists, developers, directors of regeneration, engineers, journalists, masterplanners, poet and professor of artificial intelligence who have contributed to remaking Ancoats over the last decade.

The walks leave from the city centre, through Manchester’s Northern Quarter into the heart of Ancoats, around The Peeps and the Cutting Room Square before finishing up at the ‘Wastelands’ exhibition at the Ice Plant on Blossom Street for an opportunity to chat with the artist and guides.

Walks starting from Piccadilly Gardens last one hour, (approx. 1.5 miles)

Friday 1 July at 10.00, 13.00, 16.00 & 19.00

Saturday 2 July at 10.00, 13.00, 16.00 & 19.00

Sunday 3 July at 10.00, 13.00 & 16.00

No booking necessary.

Just turn up at Piccadilly Gardens at the Queen Victoria sculpture.

Or go directly to The Cutting Room Square in front of the Ice Plant exhibition 20 minutes after the tour begins in the city centre and join the tour from there.