LIBERTY80:
THE ANNIVERSARY EXHIBITION
The Mezzanine Gallery – Royal Exchange Theatre
St Anne’s Square
Manchester
Tuesday 21 October 2014 - Saturday 17 January 2015
ADMISSION FREE
Manchester’s Royal
Exchange Theatre is set to stage a free exhibition which marks the 80th
anniversary of Liberty, the
campaigning organisation for human rights.
Liberty80 – The
Anniversary Exhibition – which runs at the Exchange’s Mezzanine Gallery from Tuesday 21 October to Saturday 17 January 2015 - celebrates
eight decades of Liberty holding the
powerful to account, showing battles fought and won for freedom, fairness,
justice and equality – with some striking parallels between 1934 and the
present day.
Historic items on display range from a copy of the original
Manchester Guardian letter announcing NCCL’s formation in 1934 to a whiteboard
depicting Labour’s backbench rebellion on 42-day pre-charge detention during
Liberty’s victorious Charge or Release campaign in 2008. There are also pieces
from Turner Prize-winning artist Gillian Wearing OBE, Dame Vivienne Westwood
DBE and photographer Mary McCartney.
Admission is free to the exhibition and the Mezzanine
Gallery is open on Monday to Friday, from 10am to 7.30pm; on Saturday from 10am
to 8pm and on Sunday from 11am to 5.00pm.
For further
information please contact JOHN GOODFELLOW (Press & Communications Manager)
on 0161 615 6783 / john.goodfellow@royalexchange.co.uk
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