Manchester Peace Festival 2012 will include walks, exhibitions, story telling, debate and concerts. The festival is a broad, non-partisan celebration of peace and justice and awareness-raising about threats to peace locally and globally.
The festival Box Office is open now for bookings: 0161 273 8283 or
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Friday 21st September – Friday 5th October
Get it Off Your Chest: T-Shirt Exhibition
Bridge 5 Mill, 22a Beswick St, Ancoats, Manchester M5 7HR
Campaigning T-shirts we have known and loved over the years. The exhibition launches at 12 noon on Friday 21st September. Come along and make your own T-shirt.
Free entry, fully accessible. Supervised children welcome.
Open 10am -4pm Monday-Friday.
Friday 21st September
Manchester Peace Festival launch
in partnership with the Manchester Food & Drink Festival Albert Square, Manchester with one minute silence from 12 noon. Hosted by Musicians Without Borders and Mayors for Peace.
Followed by: Classical Revolution performing Barber Adagio for String.
Poetry by torture survivors from Musicians Without Borders Stone Flowers project. In partnership with Freedom from Torture.
Performance by the Beating Wing Orchestra. Very special guests to be announced
Friday 21st September
Manchester’s International Peace Day Event 2012
Albert Square, Manchester
11.45am – 12.30pm
11.45am Assemble at the main stage, Albert Square (in front of the Town Hall). 11.50am Address by Councillor Mark Hackett, Manchester City Council’s Mayors for Peace representative.
12.00pm ‘Minute of Silence, Moment for Peace’ led by the Lord Mayor of Manchester.
12.02pm Classical Revolution performs ‘Adagio for Strings’ by Samuel Barber.
12.10pm Lord Mayor formally opens the Manchester Peace Festival and the Manchester Food and Drink Festival 2012.
12.15pm Classical Revolution perform Tchaikovsky’s ‘Serenade for Strings’ followed by Poetry by torture survivors from ‘Stone Flowers’
12.30pm Ethiopian Coffee Ceremony by Women of the World
1pm Event concludes. (Community groups perform and live music from Beating Wing Orchestra, Satellite State Disko and Rioghnach Connolly continues until 11pm)
This event has been organised by Musicians Without Borders in association with Manchester City Council, Mayors for Peace, Manchester Food & Drink Festival 2012 and Manchester Peace Festival 2012.
Saturday 22nd September
Carry Greenham Home
The People’s History Museum, Left Bank, Spinningfields, Manchester.
2pm – 5pm. Free but booking essential via the Peace Festival box office.
Maxine Peake (Silk) will be joining us (tbc) for an afternoon of dramatisation, readings poetry and song marking the 30th anniversary of ‘Embrace the Base’, when 35,000 women linked arms around the Cruise missile base at Greenham Common. The afternoon will be rounded off by a showing of the film ‘Carry Greenham Home’ by Beeban Kidron (Bridget Jones’s Diary)
Saturday 22nd September
Jess Gold and the Animated Earth Concert
Hulme Hall, Claremont Resource Centre, Rolls Crescent, Hulme M15 5FS
7pm
Tickets £8 (waged) £6 (conc). Family friendly and fully accessible.
Big Green Machine presents Jess Gold’s Animated Earth Concert. Jess and her band will launch her album ‘Project Earth Rock’ by playing the first ever UK concert tour of unashamedly eco-focused songs performed with the intention of making people feel good.
During the show Danny Fenster will bring to life audience offerings with the creation of a unique satirical cartoon.
Sunday 23rd September
International Day of Prayer for Peace
Cross St Chapel, Cross St, Manchester. 12.30pm to 4pm.
An inter faith event with debates between different faith leaders. Free and fully accessible.
Sunday 23rd September
Sponsored Walk for Peace
Walking The beautiful Cown Edge Way. 10am start.
Led by Ursula Harries this is a 17 mile walk from Hazel Grove to Gee Cross, taking in views of the magnificent Peak District (with pub stops on the way). There are shorter options too. Registration packs from the Box Office
Friday 28th September
Eisler in Exile – Hanns Eisler Anniversary Concert
Created and performed by Our Liberated Winter
7.30pm, Cross Street Chapel, Cross St, Manchester
Hanns Eisler was one of a number of composers banned by the Nazi government as he believed that art had to be engaged with social and political struggles. His music is a window to a particular time and space. He died 50 years ago.
All proceeds from this event will benefit Oldham Unity working with refugees and asylum seekers.
Tickets: £7 and £5 (free to people seeking asylum)
Saturday 29th September
Concert for Peace
Manchester Cathedral. 7.30pm.
The Cheshire Sinfonia and Chorale performs Dona Nobis Pacem (Grant us Peace) by Ralph Vaughan Williams and the Peterloo Overture by Sir Malcolm Arnold. Director, Nick Wilding, will introduce his film ‘John Bright and the Angel of Death’. Tickets £10 from Box Office.
Saturday 29th September
Campaign fundraiser for Lydia & Bernard
Birch Community Centre, Brighton Grove, Manchester M13 5JT.
Featuring:
Live music from Bourbon Street Preacher
Matt Panesh aka The Monkey Poet
WAST Nightingales Choir
Delicious soul food – Raffle – Bar
Sunday 30th September
Sun Scorched Sands: Tales from the Middle East
with Jennie Bailey & friends
with Jennie Bailey
Nexus Cafe, 2 Dale Street, Manchester M1 1JW
7.30pm
Tuesday 2nd October
Peace & Politics: Welfare not Warfare
Methodist Central Hall, Oldham St, Manchester. 5.15pm to 7.30pm
Conversation and debate with Tony Benn and Jeremy Corbyn. Suggested donation £4 waged, £2 unwaged.
Thursday 4th October
Stone Flowers
Albert Square Pavilion, Albert Square, Manchester. 6pm onwards.
In partnership with the Manchester Food & Drink Festival, Musicians Without Borders present their Stone Flowers project. A moving and truthful journey with expressions of protest, peace, love and hope. Free and open to all.
Following a campaign by the Musicians Union highlighting the use of music a torture, musician Aidan Jolly approached Freedom from Torture North-West with an idea to create music with torture survivors, the outcome was the Stone Flowers project. The group comprises of Congolese, Iranian, Lebanese and Kurdish women and men bringing their own music and words into creative sessions.
Friday 5th October
CADU presents a night of Blues and Funk
(Venue tbc)
Manchester’s very own Bexley Square Blues Band plus supporting acts alongside Funk DJ, Frith (Kro Bar)
Doors open at 7.30pm until midnight
Music to make you feel good. Come down and shake what your mama gave ya’
Tickets £5 in adv £7 on the door. Tickets will be available on Skiddle too.
Saturday 6th October
Finale concert with Sarah Gillespie
the Night & Day Cafe, Oldham St, Manchester.
Described as “brilliant, the bees knees” by Robert Wyatt, Sarah Gillespie’s eclectic mix of Beat poetry with jazz, folk and Middle Eastern elements is a sonic reflection of the London street.
Book early to avoid disappointment. Tickets £8 early bird (book before 31st August), after that £10 and £5 concessions.
Wonderful mixture of events. Can I got to them all???
Please check the Jess Gold venue – think it’s at Bridge 5 Mill.
A really exciting array of events – it will be great!
How much is this event costing and is it the hard-pressed council taxpayers of Manchester who will pick up the huge bill?
We don’t feed trolls Don
This morning I saw a magnificent rainbow , stayed up there in the sky for ages !
Precursor for the Peace Festival this year ?
No hard pressed council taxpayer has had to fork out for any of this Don. This is an event put together through the voluntary efforts of hard working peace activists. Believe it or not, in this cynical world there are still people prepared to work long hours for free for things they believe in. Ticket price and donations cover hire costs for venues and artists have also given their time freely so costs are very modest. Why don’t you come and find out what it is all about?
hey, are there any tickets left for the finale concert and what time does this start,please?
More information for manchester peace festival and wordpress.
Sarah Gillespie is awesome