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Step into the national museum of democracy after hours for a bold live music experience.

Wander around the galleries as RNCM musicians perform powerful new works inspired by the museum’s collection, created in collaboration with Mancunian poet and playwright Louise Wallwein. These next-gen artists, studying in the city of Peterloo and the Pankhursts, continue the spirit of those who made their voices heard when it mattered most.

United through camaraderie and creativity, they add the living soundtrack to the stories of resistance, reform, and rebellion that are shared by People’s History Museum.

Content warning: references to discrimination, grief, violence, suicide and mild offensive language in the context of social justice and protest. Under 14s must be accompanied by an adult.

Photo credit: James Mulholland

Gallery One
Duets written by RNCM Composers, inspired by exhibits in the gallery:
Annah George With You I Live
Ella Laughton Newport Rising
Kexin Chen The Shape of a Public Voice
Rafik Harrington black eggs
Joaquin Garces Caamano Nanas de la Cebolla (‘Lullaby of the Onion’)

Gallery Two
Two repeating 15-minute sound installations by RNCM Composers, inspired by Re/Assemble, a temporary exhibition on the 1988 Section 28 protest in Manchester:
Leonard Nucinkis And we did not speak out enough
Thomasine O’Sullivan and Luca Mellor Girl

Engine Hall
New songs by RNCM pop students, spoken word from Louise Wallwein, and a performance of Patti Smith’s People Have the Power:
Théo DG behind their eyes
Tessa Pike Strike
Lucy Ellen Desirous Despair
Lucy Ellen Timekeeper
New work by Louise Wallwein
Patti Smith People Have the Power

Tickets

Full Price £13

Promoted by RNCM and People’s History Museum.

Performances will last around 90 minutes, taking place across various spaces within the museum.