Help bring Janette Parris to the People’s History Museum
There have always been ideas worth voting for.
THE People’s History Museum is very excited to learn that we have been shortlisted to win a visit from artist Janette Parris in Culture24's Connect10 Museums at Night competition.
Members of the public are invited to vote for us against three other venues, The New Art Gallery in Walsall, The Cardiff Story and Weston Park Museum in Sheffield, to win a visit from Janette Parris during Museums at Night Weekend, Thursday 15 – Saturday 17 May 2014.
Janette Parris is well known for her series of work for Art on the Underground and has exhibited at Tate Britain. Her work uses narrative, humour and a range of popular formats from soap opera, stand up and musical theatre, to live music, cartoons and drawing. Parris often focuses on the ‘everyday’ and the common experience – an excellent fit for PHM as the home of ‘ideas worth fighting for’ and our focus on the struggle of ordinary people.
Our event will take place in our object-rich galleries, which are full of intriguing twists and turns and hidden corners, where actors, tour guides, comedians and puppeteers will be placed to retell the history of two centuries of politics and campaigning:
What would have happened if the Cato Street Conspirators had succeeded in their plot? What if the Chartist petition had been successful?
What if the suffragettes had failed to get votes for women?
What if Thatcher had lost the 1979 election?
You will be taken on a journey through this alternative history and encouraged to debate other possibilities through interaction with the performers.
Voting opens at 11.00am on Tuesday 14 January and runs until 5.00pm on Tuesday 28 January 2014. The winner of the public vote will be announced on Thursday 30 January by Culture24.
Please support the museum and vote for PHM by following this link: http://www.culture24.org.uk/places-to-go/museums-at-night/art462290-Connect10-Vote-Janette-Parris
The People’s History Museum is a national museum telling the story of the development of democracy in Britain - ‘there have always been ideas worth fighting for’. The museum is based in Spinningfields in Manchester city centre. The Association of Greater Manchester Authorities (AGMA) is one of the museum’s main funders. Admission is free to all and the museum is open every day from 10.00am to 5.00pm.
People's History Museum, Left Bank, Spinningfields, Manchester M3 3ER
Tel/fax 0161 838 9190 Web www.phm.org.uk Twitter @PHMMcr Facebook PHMMcr Blog PHMMcr
Registered as National Museum of Labour History, Charity no. 295260
Daisy Nicholson
Marketing & Development Officer
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Come and visit our latest changing exhibition The People’s Business – 150 Years of The Co-operative. On show from Saturday 12 October 2013 to Sunday 11 May 2014.
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