Sat 20 Jul 1.30pm – Book Now 3pm – Book Now Tickets: £5 Written by Rob Johnston. On August 12th 1842, just 23 years after The Peterloo Massacre, Lancashire cotton-workers again marched in protest at appalling pay and conditions. Reaching Preston’s Lune Street the protesters were confronted by the authorities and read The Riot Act. … Continued
Wed 8 – Thu 9 May, 7pm Booking recommended Let’s occupy the schools Let’s occupy the streets Let’s occupy the theatres Let’s occupy everything Their lives were changed forever by the high school occupations of 2015 and 2016 in Brazil. Using dance, live music and performance they tell their extraordinary story. Get up close to … Continued
Fri 3 & Sat 4 May, 7.30pm Sat 4 May 1.30pm Booking recommended In the first of two exciting co-productions, Contact Young Company will work with young creatives from Battersea Arts Centre’s Homegrown Company. This cross-city cohort will collaborate with David Cumming (Kill the Beast) and Jess Thom (Touretteshero) to explore issues around accessibility in … Continued
Wed 12 June, 7pm Thurs 13 June, 7pm Friday 14 June, 3pm & 7pm Sunday 16 June, 3pm & 7pm Booking recommended. Venue to be announced. Contact Young Company and Young Identity join forces. Directed by Tunde Adefioye (dramaturg at KVS, the Royal Flemish Theatre in Brussels), this mouthy Mancunian mix-up will use both poetry … Continued
Thu 23 May – Sat 7 Sep 2019 Free, no booking required. Misshaping Peterloo focuses on the idea of commemorative souvenirs. Peterloo was one of the first major political events to be commemorated on transfer printed pottery, and key examples of these pieces are kept in museums and galleries in the city including Manchester Art … Continued
Fri 7 June, 7pm (Doors & bar open from 6pm) Pay what you can – £5, £10, £15 Booking recommended. Manchester Histories are delighted to welcome Billy Bragg to open the commemorations of Peterloo 2019. Join Songwriter, musician and activist Billy Bragg and writer and broadcaster Dave Haslam, with an introduction from Young Identity, Manchester’s young spoken word collective. At a … Continued
Wed 17 July, 2pm Free, no booking required. Not just Peterloo – a series of talks on state violence Joanna Gilmore Lessons from Orgreave: policing, protest and resistance In this talk Joanna – drawing on research into the policing of anti-war, anti-fascist and anti-fracking protests – will challenge claims of a progressive shift in the state’s … Continued
Wed 10 July, 7pm Free, no booking required Not just Peterloo – a series of talks on state violence Jennifer Luff State surveillance of the 20th century left From the early 1920s through the late 1940s, the British government operated a very large programme to identify, blacklist and dismiss suspected Communists working in government munitions factories, shipyards … Continued
Wed 3 July, 7pm Free, no booking required. Not just Peterloo – a series of talks on state violence Michael Sanders “How many shots were fired?”: the ‘Plug Plot Insurrection’ and Peterloo In the late summer of 1842, Lancashire teetered on the brink of insurrection. Textile workers angry at the rejection of the second Chartist petition … Continued
Wed 26 June, 7pm Free, no booking required. Not just Peterloo – a series of talks on state violence Katrina Navickas: Protest and the politics of space in Manchester and Salford in the 19th century This talk reflects on the history of suppression of political meetings in Manchester and Salford during the 1900s. It examines the role … Continued
