- Published: 12 July 2018
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FOLLOWING THE HUGELY SUCCESSFUL ELDERS EXCHANGE DAY 2017, THE ROYAL EXCHANGE THEATRE WILL ONCE AGAIN HOST A CELEBRATION OF OLDER PEOPLE AS MAKERS AND ARTISTS.
Elders Exchange Day 2018 is part of National Older People’s Day and the Age of Creativity Festival (1-14 October 2018) - England’s second nationwide festival celebrating older people.
- Published: 11 July 2018
On Sunday 8 July, around 70 people gathered in The Rivals Café at the Royal Exchange Theatre to listen to a group of older budding writers share their poems. The event, My Voice in the City, was part of Manchester’s first Festival of Ageing.
The poems had been created by two writing groups specially created for My Voice in the City and led by writer Sarah Butler as part of our Elders programme.
- Published: 4 July 2018
Children and young people of Manchester get creative for public art trail.
Up to 30,000 children and young people are unleashing their creativity for Bee in the City, a mass participation public art trail taking place across Manchester from July until September this year.
- Published: 27 June 2018
In 2016, Maxine Peake interviewed Elaine Evans, Betty Cook, Anne Scargill, Lesley Lomas and Dot Kelly as research for her radio play, QUEENS OF THE COAL AGE.
- Published: 25 June 2018
Heather Carroll - Observer Mondays Director - gives us an insight into the second week of rehearsals for Queens of the Coal Age, directed by Bryony Shanahan
- Published: 19 June 2018
