SUPERFAN: Stirling’s Story of the Beatles - Music, People & Place. Launching June 27th.
Creative Stirling are collaborating with Stirling’s Iconic Record Store – Europa Music, to bring together a unique exhibition for Summer 2022, commemorating an event that shaped the Forth Valley music industry landscape for generations. The exhibition has been designed and curated around a collection of The Beatles and other sixties music print ephemera, obsessively collected and carefully archived over the years by SUPERFAN Douglas Montgomery.
Ewen Duncan, Founder of Europa Music, came into possession of the collection and approached Creative Stirling to see how we could make the most of this momentous opportunity to celebrate the iconic Beatles gig and its impact on local music fans and the team jumped at the opportunity to create a project around it – with plans to employ their signature fresh creative approach to co-design and support the community that both Made in Stirling Store and our Creative Stirling Hub space at 44 King Street have become recognised for.
Stirling’s Story of the Beatles Exhibition has been made possible through funding for Year of Storytelling 2022 from Museums and Galleries Scotland and Event Scotland.
Marie Christie, Head of Development at VisitScotland said: "We are delighted to be supporting Creative Stirling through the Year of Stories 2022 Community Stories Fund. Events play an important role in our communities as they sustain livelihoods and help to celebrate and promote our unique places, spaces and stories. Themed Years are all about collaboration and Museums Galleries Scotland, National Lottery Heritage Fund and VisitScotland are pleased to work in partnership to create this fund to showcase community stories. By supporting events taking place within our communities, including SUPERFAN: Stirling’s Story of The Beatles, new opportunities will be provided for locals and visitors to come together and find out more about the diverse stories, past and present, that our communities have to share.”
The funding will enable several exciting new creative commissions that will make for an outstanding program of events to accompany the exhibition; opportunities created for young local artists and designers around the installation turning the first floor into a vision of the 1960’s. Opportunity for young actors and crew to work with local writer & producer Kate Donne on a performance piece based around first accounts from those who attended the Beatles gig and to support musicians from across the generations to play at special opening and closing events.’
There will also be a special preview event on the 26th June featuring live music from a local Beatles tribute act. Tickets and more info on this can be found here.