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CANCELLED – The People’s City at The Refuge, Manchester

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The People's City

The Refuge, City Centre
30 January-31 May 2020

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THE PEOPLE’S CITY EXHIBITION at The Refuge – Photo © Rob Bremner
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To kickstart its 2020 cultural programme, The Refuge in Manchester will present an exhibition by British Culture Archive. The People’s City will launch with a special event on 30 Jan, and will continue to be open to the public into the spring of 2020.

Founded in 2017, the British Culture Archive is a registered non-profit resource set up to document, highlight and preserve the changes in British society and culture through social and documentary photography. The exhibition will include a remarkable selection of images from featured photographers that capture the very essence of what made Britain one of the world’s most culturally diverse countries from the 1960s onwards.

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