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CREATE • EDUCATE • LIBERATETHEATRE • POETRY • COMEDY • ART • BOOKS • GRAPHICS • MUSIC • FILM
• 3rd - 5th November 2017 •Roborough Studios, University of ExeterPrince of Wales Road, Exeter, EX4 4SB
A MAJOR NEW INITIATIVE FROM THE GFTU CONNECTINGTRADE UNIONISTS WITH CREATIVE ACTIVISTS
Recruitment • Campaigning • Training • Political EducationTHE ARTS ARE CRUCIAL TOOLS FOR TRADE UNIONS
This unique conference and festival allows trade unionists to talk directly to some of the UK's most successful creative activists and explore more effective ways to bring campaigns to life with great design, moving words, punchy headlines, hard-hitting jokes, inspiring images and powerful songs.
Attention • Inspiration • Motivation • Action
By expressing political ideas with beauty and emotion the arts can be the most profoundly transformative campaigning tools available to trade unionists and political campaigners.Find out how you can best use the arts in your campaigning at this creative, stimulating and provocative conference and festival that aims to throw flames into the belly of the UK's movement for social and political change.Building on the highly successful 2016 Art Of The Trade Unions day, the GFTU Liberating Arts festival will feature a three-day programme of performances, cultural discussions, and workshops that will allow trade unionists, theatre companies, cultural workers and creative activists from the UK and beyond, to share insights about the central role of culture in our collective struggle for a more equal and just world.
Advanced tickets only. Box office and further details at:www.gftu-liberatingarts.org.uk
Artists & Activists taking part include:
MUSIC:Captain SkaItch from the King BluesBoff Whalley from CumbawumbaCommoners ChoirRobb Johnson
COMEDY:Francesca MartinezChris Coltrane
THEATRETownsend ProductionsBanner TheatreRed LadderCardboard CitizensBelarus Free TheatreBrandalismTheatre UncutJude Hutchen
AUTHORS/PUBLISHINGRaoul MartinezPeta SteeleLindsey GermanJohn ReesPluto PressRichard BradburyThe Left Book Club
MEDIA:Reel NewsTony GarnettCampaign for Press & Broadcasting FreedomWorldbytesCeri Dingle
POETRYAttila The StockbrokerAnthony AnaxagarouRosy Carrick
GRAPHICSKate Evans
CULTURE & HISTORYCulture MattersUnfinished HistoriesThe Orgreave Truth & Justice CampaignWorkers Educational AssociationBristol Radical History Group