In Search of Space was a series of talks and events exploring the ethos and legacy of the 60s counterculture, its various social and cultural experiments and their legacy. It was programmed to coincide with the exhibition ‘Taking Liberties’ by John ‘Hoppy’ Hopkins.

PANEL DISCUSSION
Jim Haynes, Barry Miles and Jenny Fabian
Took place on Saturday 17th October 2009
Three legends of the 1960s came together to discuss the time and their place in it. Writer Jim Haynes launched Britain’s first paperback bookshop in Edinburgh in 1959, co-founded the Traverse Theatre, before moving to London to establish the Arts Lab which exploded on London and became overnight the heart of the city’s underground movement.

Barry Miles is an author and luminary of the 60s who will talk about his life and work which includes establishing Indica Bookshop (‘the command centre for the London underground scene), International Times, various projects with John ‘Hoppy’ Hopkins, his association with Paul McCartney, plus a multitude of other endeavors and encounters. His book ‘In the Sixties’ is a fascinating and revealing memoir of 1960s counterculture, told from the inside.

Freedom was a keynote of the Sixties, and liberation for women became an important issue. Jenny Fabian shall examine the background to the kind of sensibility that evolved through the rock’n’roll counter-culture of the 60s as represented in her book ‘Groupie’, by Katie - the protagonist and her own involvement in the whole scene.

Left to right: Barry Miles, Jim Haynes, John Cavanagh, Jenny Fabian.