When : 4th October 2012 - 6:00pm
Where : Various Venues
Price : Free
Music & Liberation, an exhibition about Women’s Liberation Music Making in the UK (1970-1989), is visiting Manchester.
Music & Liberation: Women’s Liberation Music Making in the UK, 1970-1989 shows how feminists used music as an activist tool to entertain and empower women during the 1970s and 1980s.
1-14 October, Bureau ‘off-site’, Three Piccadilly Place, Manchester. M1 3BN
Featuring the work of Jam Today, the Northern Women’s Liberation Rock Band, Feminist Improvising Group, Ova, the Fabulous Dirt Sisters, Abandon Your Tutu, the Mistakes and many others, the exhibition brings together a diverse collection of women’s cultural heritage.
The exhibition will be touring to the following venues:
9-25 September, Butetown History & Arts Centre, 4 Dock Chambers, Cardiff, CF10 5AG
1-14 October, Bureau ‘off-site’, Three Piccadilly Place, Manchester. M1 3BN
29 October–24 November, Glasgow Women’s Library, 15 Berkeley Street, Glasgow G3 7BW
30 November-13 January 2013, Space Station Sixty Five, Building One, 373 Kennington Road, London SE11 4PS
The exhibition showcases rare ephemera and artefacts such as posters, songbooks, t-shirts, instruments and fliers. Visitors will be able to watch films, interact with installations, look at photos and, of course, listen to music. This is a unique opportunity to listen to unreleased recordings of practices, live performances and studio tracks from women musicians yet to be discovered by contemporary audiences.
Ten oral histories, which have been collected especially for the project, will also be available to listen to and watch.
Music & Liberation: A Compilation of Music from the Women’s Liberation Movement will be sold at the exhibition.
Music & Liberation is funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund. It is based on theWomen’s Liberation Music Archive, an online blog archive launched in May 2011 by Frankie Green and Dr Deborah Withers.
For details visit http://womensliberationmusicarchive.wordpress.com/2012/08/31/music-liberation-autumn-uk-tour-opens-9-september/
