UPCOMING VOTE100 EVENTS
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March 2018
Ruth Barker & Hannah Leighton-Boyce – exhibition tour and discussion at Castlefield Gallery
Ruth Barker & Hannah Leighton-Boyce – exhibition tour and discussion (over tea & cake) at Castlefield Gallery, Castlefield, 10 March 2018, from £00.00 - Find Out More Take part in a guided tour of the Ruth Barker & Hannah Leighton-Boyce exhibition at Castlefield Gallery, followed by a discussion of the exhibition’s themes over tea and cake with artist Hannah Leighton-Boyce, Dr Adele Patrick from Glasgow Women’s Library, Castlefield Gallery Director Helen Wewiora and Curator Matthew Pendergast and University of Salford Art…
Find out more »May 2018
‘Deeds Not Words’ Manchester School of Art Exhibition
The launch of an exhibition curated by students from Manchester School of Art in response to the 1913 Suffragette attack on Manchester Art Gallery.
Find out more »June 2018
Pankhurst in the Park – Women Hold up Half the Sky
On June ninth, 2018, to celebrate the close of Ekua Bayunu’s 8-week AIR project, “Women Hold up Half the Sky”, you are invited to participate in a day of events presenting and reflecting on the work. Bayunu’s work will expand beyond local concerns to build on the themes of global women’s leadership and consider culture, the arts and creativity as tools for active citizenship of central significance. The 8-week project incorporates elements of sculpture and film, and will include the…
Find out more »October 2018
Votes for women . . . or votes for ladies?
An exhibition at the Working Class Movement Library to celebrate women achieving the first step toward equal voting rights with men after decades of struggle. The exhibition is part of our project Voting for change and will feature various items acquired as part of this project For accompanying talk on art and suffrage by Elizabeth Crawford, click here. Exhibitions are open Wednesdays to Fridays 1-5pm, and the first Saturday of most months 10am-4pm.
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Still I Rise – Trail around Manchester Art Gallery
As Manchester marks the centenary of women’s suffrage, The Travelling Heritage Bureau, a powerful collective of international women artists based in the North West, are coming together to create a pop-up, interactive trail around Manchester Art Gallery. With film, sculpture, textiles, painting, music and poetry with cultural influences from Africa, Asia, Latin America and beyond, the women will lead you on a joyful journey of resistance, creativity and hope with echoes of women’s struggles across the world to be represented,…
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‘Spirited’ Exhibition at Portico Library
To mark 100 years of female suffrage, the Spirit of 2012 are staging a centenary exhibition at the Portico Library in October 2018. Spirited tells the story of the young women who fought for the vote....In Manchester, the birthplace of the suffrage movement...incredible acts of courage, creativity and cunning... a positive, youth-focused celebration of gender equality. 19th October - 2nd November 2018 Monday/ Friday, 9.30-4.30pm Tuesday - Thursday, 9.20am-5.30pm Saturday 11am - 3pm
Find out more »November 2018
Centenary City – Exhibition at Pankhurst Centre
As part of our programme of activity to mark 100 years since some women first gained the right to vote, the Pankhurst Centre in Manchester is holding an exhibition of the city's response #Vote100. The exhibition features a selection of objects from some of the city's key #Vote100 moments, including banners, artworks, leaflets, badges and other items. Many of these have been collected through a series of Centenary City open Days that have taken place at the Pankhurst Centre, inviting…
Find out more »Forward, sister women!
In this centenary year, voices of the past, present and future collide as young women share creative reflections on the women’s suffrage movement in relation to contemporary female activism. Join the WCML for tea and cake at 6pm, with the performance starting at 6.30pm. WCML are delighted to be working with community arts organisation enJOY arts in developing this event. More details to follow...
Find out more »December 2018
Emmeline Pankhurst Statue Celebration Event – Central Library
Manchester Central Library, performance space Friday 14 December 13:00-16:00 This event in Central Library will showcase the amazing archives we have which illustrate the effort made to win the vote for women. Make a handcrafted rosette with your own suffragette message of hope and equality 100 years on! Let's celebrate together, December 14th 1918, which is 100 years since women over 30 were able to vote in this country. “BORN A REBEL" free film screening 2pm and 3pm Showing women’s…
Find out more »March 2019
Launch – Radical Locks banner
Join artist Lynn Setterington and help celebrate International Women's Day with the launch of a community focused banner. Radical Locks is a stitch-based initiative celebrating the women of Tameside. This diaphanous hand-sewn textile is a visual and tactile marker of identity, one that is both inclusive and unexpected. By entrapping wisps of hair within the cloth, the project pays homage to diversity of women in the borough today who are literally and metaphorically intertwined within the tactile outcome. The exquisite…
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