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The Shrieking Violet: 'Doing the Longsight dash': Manchester Left Writers 'Precarious Passages' collaboration on cycling the A6
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Monday, 6 April 2015. Doing the Longsight dash': Manchester Left Writers 'Precarious Passages' collaboration on cycling the A6. There are also paper copies available, which will eventually be distributed at various points along the A6. Competition is at the bottom.). What's certain is that he was drawn back later, to skate at the Arcadia. The site of the suburb current baths sits opposite Levenshulme Library, incubator for one of Levenshulme’s more famous sons, architect Sir Norman Foster who, ...I’...
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The Shrieking Violet: June 2014
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Monday, 2 June 2014. Woman's Outlook talk, Cafe Kino, Bristol, Tuesday June 17, free. I've been invited by the lovely Roxy Brennan ( Shrieking Violet issue 21. Contributor and Two White Cranes. Singer), who programmes events at Cafe Kino. In Bristol, to do my talk. About the co-operative women's magazine Woman's Outlook. At Cafe Kino on Tuesday June 17, 7pm, free. 8211; a surprisingly modern magazine? For nearly five decades, Woman’s Outlook. Was the voice of the Co-operative Women’s Guild. Such as femal...
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The Shrieking Violet: May 2014
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Tuesday, 6 May 2014. Introducing the Exhibition Centre for the Life and Use of Books, Salford, opening Thursday May 8. Based at Islington Mill. Salford, in May and June, before it moves on to other venues around Manchester and Salford for the duration of a six-month pilot programme, The Exhibition Centre for the Life and Use of Books. A co-founder and director of the project. “Publishing takes in everything from the Sun. Newspaper to academic articles, so it's the perfect tool.”. Which brings together pe...
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The Shrieking Violet: Three years of Bolton’s international neo:artprize: “Why leave it to the Royal Academy or the National Portrait Gallery?”
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Tuesday, 7 April 2015. Three years of Bolton’s international neo:artprize: “Why leave it to the Royal Academy or the National Portrait Gallery? I was recently asked to write a promotional feature about the annual neo:artprize, highlighting the artist-led ethos behind it. I visited neo:studios in Bolton, where I was given a tour and talked to neo:artprize co-founder Jason Simpson about the growth of the group and the way in which they have built up an alternative art scene in the town. 8217; The most comm...
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The Shrieking Violet: Manchester Histories Festival talk: Woman's Outlook – a surprisingly modern magazine?
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Tuesday, 11 March 2014. Manchester Histories Festival talk: Woman's Outlook – a surprisingly modern magazine? I've been invited to repeat my talk. About the co-operative women's magazine Woman's Outlook. Which was published from Manchester between 1919 and 1967, at the People's History Museum on Saturday March 29 at 1pm. The talk takes place during this year's Manchester Histories Festival. The talk is free but should be booked here. 8211; a surprisingly modern magazine? 8216; Woman’s Outlook. Such as fe...
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The Shrieking Violet: The Star and Garter: secret history of a nightclub
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Sunday, 13 April 2014. The Star and Garter: secret history of a nightclub. In the bleak and unprepossessing red light district behind Piccadilly Station. I spent the rest of the evening talking to strangers, engaging in what I probably thought at the time were deep conversations about things like the influence of Albert Camus' The Outsider. On 'Killing an Arab' by the Cure. At the Star and Garter's flagship night Smile. A poster paying tribute to Presley, who died prematurely in 2005, now hangs on the wa...
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The Shrieking Violet: August 2015
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Friday, 7 August 2015. Free Precarious Passages readings at Central Library for Manchester Literature Festival, Tuesday 20 October. I will be reading from my piece of writing about cycling the A6. Tickets are free and can be booked at www.manchesterliteraturefestival.co.uk/events/precarious-passages-36850. North West Film Archive. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). He’s Leaving Home: The Shrieking Violet Guide to Hearty Vegetarian Cooking On A Budget. If you like this, you might also like these. East of the M60.
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The LCC and the Arts I: The Open-Air Sculpture Exhibitions | Municipal Dreams
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The Spirit of ’45. Social Housing as Heritage. The map of the blog. The LCC and the Arts I: The Open-Air Sculpture Exhibitions. Posted by Municipal Dreams. Parks and open space. Asymp; 13 Comments. But beyond this as if those values were not sufficiently remarkable by contemporary standards there was a belief in a democratic and shared civic culture. The arts were understood as an integral part of this. At a national level, the Council for Encouragement of Music and the Arts founded in 1940 was replaced,...
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The Shrieking Violet: Woman's Outlook talk, Cafe Kino, Bristol, Tuesday June 17, free
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Monday, 2 June 2014. Woman's Outlook talk, Cafe Kino, Bristol, Tuesday June 17, free. I've been invited by the lovely Roxy Brennan ( Shrieking Violet issue 21. Contributor and Two White Cranes. Singer), who programmes events at Cafe Kino. In Bristol, to do my talk. About the co-operative women's magazine Woman's Outlook. At Cafe Kino on Tuesday June 17, 7pm, free. 8211; a surprisingly modern magazine? For nearly five decades, Woman’s Outlook. Was the voice of the Co-operative Women’s Guild. Such as femal...
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The LCC and the Arts II: the ‘Patronage of the Arts’ Scheme | Municipal Dreams
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The Spirit of ’45. Social Housing as Heritage. The map of the blog. The LCC and the Arts II: the ‘Patronage of the Arts’ Scheme. Posted by Municipal Dreams. Parks and open space. Asymp; 5 Comments. Last week’s post looked at the LCC’s open-air sculpture exhibitions. Henry Moore, Two-Piece Reclining Figure No. 3, the Brandon Estate, Lambeth Steve Cadman and made available through a Creative Commons licence. The origins of the scheme are marked by their time and place. Although a Conservative governmen...