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January 2018
Sylvia Pankhurst: Working Women Exhibition
In the centenary year for Women’s Suffrage in Britain – when women over 30 got the right to vote for the first time, Manchester Art Gallery are showing a selection of paintings and pastels by Sylvia Pankhurst (1882-1960). The daughter of Emmeline Pankhurst, the leader of the Women’s Social and Political Union, Sylvia was a prominent Suffragette, and later an anti-fascist campaigner, as well as being an artist. She trained at Manchester School of Art, winning the prize for best female student…
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Annie Swynnerton: Painting Light and Hope – Exhibition
Painting Light and Hope at Manchester Art Gallery features 36 paintings from across Swynnerton’s career, including 13 from Manchester Art Gallery’s collection with further loans from public galleries including the Royal Academy Collection, Tate and the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool. The exhibition also features a number of rarely seen paintings on loan from private collections. Portraits showing the artist’s Manchester connections open the exhibition including Susan Dacre, with whom she co-founded the Manchester Society of Women Painters, and the Reverend…
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Women’s Words on Manchester (Exhibition)
Women’s Words gives voice to untold stories from women in Manchester in 2018
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Feminist Takeover and Wonder Women 2018 Festival Launch at Manchester Art Gallery
Feminist takeover and festival launch at Manchester Art Gallery, Chinatown, 1 March 2018, free entry - Visit now Celebrate the launch of Wonder Women 2018 with a feminist takeover at Manchester Art Gallery, featuring artist interventions, performances and activities designed to destabilise the status quo. Led by Instigate Arts, the event is inspired by the work of the radical, Manchester-born artist and feminist campaigner Annie Swynnerton (1844–1933), whose first retrospective in over a century is on display nearby. Swynnerton had a…
Find out more »March 2018
Lost Voices Exhibition Quarry Bank Mill – Launch
Lost Voices Launch Event at Quarry Bank, Cheshire, 3 March 2018, from £0.00 (Free event - admission charges apply) - Find Out More 1918 is widely celebrated as an important milestone in the battle for democracy and gender equality in Britain, this being the year that women first gained the right to vote under the Representation of the People Act (thanks largely to the passionate campaigning of the Suffragettes). Yet the new law only extended suffrage to women over the…
Find out more »Wonder Women Tour at People’s History Museum
Wonder Women Tour at People’s History Museum, City Centre, 8 March 2018 - Find Out More As the national museum of democracy, the People’s History Museum has always been a place about championing ‘ideas worth fighting for’ – both past and present. As part of Wonder Women 2018, take a guided tour of the museum, and learn about the lives of the many amazing women who campaigned for better working conditions and fought on the frontlines for gender equality over…
Find out more »Ruth Barker & Hannah Leighton-Boyce at Castlefield Gallery
Ruth Barker & Hannah Leighton-Boyce at Castlefield Gallery, Castlefield, 9 March–29 April 2018, free entry - Find Out More Launching on International Women’s Day and as part of Wonder Women 2018, Castlefield Gallery presents two newly commissioned bodies of work by Glasgow-based artist Ruth Barker and Manchester-based artist Hannah Leighton-Boyce, centring around varying aspects of womanhood. The launch will include a unique performance by Barker. Following Ruth Baker’s residency at the University of Salford and University of Salford Art Collection,…
Find out more »The Drama of the Suffrage Movement at People’s History Museum
The Drama of the Suffrage Movement at People’s History Museum, City Centre, 10 March 2018, from £5.00 - 10.00 - Find Out More The suffrage movement of the early twentieth century was always theatrical. Women took over public spaces to deliver speeches, take part in processions and pageants, wave banners and perform from the new suffrage plays. Public performances were essential to the campaign, and after years of protest and parliamentary lobbying, women over the age of 30 eventually won…
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