Still I Rise at Manchester Art Gallery

Creative Tourist
Jean Marie Simpson

Still I Rise Journeys Festival Inetrnational Manchester at Manchester Art Gallery, City Centre 7 October 2018 Entrance is free

A powerful collective of international women artists have created a pop-up, interactive trail at Manchester Art Gallery especially for Journeys Festival International Manchester. With film, sculpture, textiles, painting, music and poetry with cultural influences from Africa, Asia, Latin America and beyond, the women will lead you on a journey of resistance, creativity and hope with echoes of women’s struggles across the world, struggles to be represented, respected and to be free.

Still I Rise Journeys Festival Inetrnational Manchester at Manchester Art Gallery, City Centre 7 October 2018 Entrance is free

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