[online] C20 Open Mic Volume 3
[online] C20 Open Mic Volume 3
Thursday 2 April 2026 at 6.30pm
C20 Open Mic is back for 2026! Join us for an evening of short talks by early-career researchers, spotlighting the latest research and activity of upcoming specialists in twentieth-centruy heritage. Exciting new territory will be explored, from Disney's Community of Tomorrow to the former mining district where Billy Elliot was filmed. The evening ends at the pub.
Presentations and speakers include:
Qing Tang, interdisciplinary architectural historian and writer
Making sense of Walt's Wonderland: fragments, visions, and images of Disney's EPCOT, Florida
Eve Blain, Assistant Conservation Officer at SAVE Britain's Heritage
Farewell Squalor - deindustrialisation, demolition and rebuild in the Easington District
Joe Williamson, MA Architectural History graduate from UCL Bartlett
The Power & The Glory; Telecommunications and the Protestant Ethic at the BT Tower
Tom Goodwin, PhD student at University of Warwick and C20 Society Casework Secretary
Arthur Quarmby, an architectural outsider
This evening event is a social occasion and an opportunity for attendees and speakers to get to know each other.
Hosted again by Carlos Finlay.
Online tickets are £4 for everyone.
You can book for the in-person event here.
Click here for our cancellation policy.
Note: This event is hybrid and is being run both in-person at Cowcross Street Gallery and online via Zoom. The event will be recorded and offered as a catch-up lecture for those who have booked and will be available for two weeks.
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The Twentieth Century Society is an IHBC (Institute of Historic Building conservation) recognised CPD provider and a registered charity, no 1110244.
Above: BT Tower by Eric Bedford & G R Yeats, Ministry of Public Building and Works (1964). Photo by Sarah Duncan.
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