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Venue

Arts
6:00 p.m. Thu 09
TWT25 Opening Ceremony
With Breaking Barz, BMG, Yemi Bolatiwa
The Niamos (Chichester Road, Manchester, M15 5EU)
Exhibition
10:00 a.m. Fri 10
760 Days of Sanctuary exhibition (Friday)
Ascension Church Foyer (282 Stretford Rd, Manchester, M15 5TQ)
Workshop
10:00 a.m. Fri 10
Childhood Transformed: Free Play and Transformation Stations
Garden Centre - Peach Tunnel (28 Old Birley Street, Manchester, M15 5RG)
Panel
10:00 a.m. Fri 10
Fascism, Patriarchy & Reactionary Masculinities: Women’s Revolution against the Far-Right
With Tara Alami, Laya Hooshyari, Young Strugle Manchester, Feminist Assembly of Latin Americans, Elif Sarican
Space for Change (a.k.a. The Yard) (41 Old Birley St, Hulme, Manchester, M15 5RF)
Exhibition
10:00 a.m. Fri 10
Kath Locke Heritage exhibition (Friday)
Kath Locke - Café (Kath Locke Centre, 123 Moss Lane East, Hulme, Manchester, M15 5DD)
Exhibition
10:00 a.m. Fri 10
Legacy of Colonialism exhibition (Friday)
Windrush Foyer (Windrush Millenium Centre, 70 Alexandra Rd, Manchester, M16 7WD)
Arts
10:00 a.m. Fri 10
Qu Alternative Art School Presents: Pocket Altruism (Friday)
With Tvguy, Qu Alternative Art School
Garden Centre - Shed (28 Old Birley Street, Manchester, M15 5RG)
Panel
10:00 a.m. Fri 10
Students Transformed: What Came Before Us? Successes and Failures of Radical Student Organisations
SU Theatre (Manchester Students Union, Oxford Rd, Manchester M13 9PR)
Panel
10:00 a.m. Fri 10
Tenants' organising today: how do we scale, what are our horizons?
With Eilidh Keay, London Renters Union, Sindicat de Llogateres, Sindicato de Inquilinas e Inquilinos de Madrid, TACU Lancaster and Morecambe, Sheffield Tenants Union, York South-Weston Tenant Union, Los Angeles Tenants Union, The All-Chicago Tenants Alliance, Greater Manchester Tenants Union, CATU Ireland
MAV Hulme Hall (not the student accomodation!) (4 Jarvis Road, Hulme, Manchester M15 5FS)
Panel
10:00 a.m. Fri 10
Trans Feminism Now!
With Queers for Palestine, Manchester Trans Liberation Assembly, rs21, Feminist Fightback
Kath Locke - Valerie (Kath Locke Centre, 123 Moss Lane East, Hulme, Manchester, M15 5DD)
Panel
10:00 a.m. Fri 10
Understanding Imperialism Today
With Helen Yaffe, Ashraf Nabil, Jack Noel, Norwyn Crame, Juan Lovera
Ascension Church Main Space (282 Stretford Rd, Manchester M15 5TQ)
Workshop
11:00 a.m. Fri 10
Childhood Transformed: Make Your Own Book
Garden Centre - Peach Tunnel (28 Old Birley Street, Manchester, M15 5RG)
Discussion
11:00 a.m. Fri 10
Students Transformed: Students, Rats and Rent Hikes
SU 2.2 (Manchester Students Union, Oxford Rd, Manchester M13 9PR)
Screening
11:00 a.m. Fri 10
Students Transformed: The Encampments Screening + Post Screening Discussion
SU Theatre (Manchester Students Union, Oxford Rd, Manchester M13 9PR)
Workshop
11:00 a.m. Fri 10
Students Transformed: What Happened to the Climate Justice Movement?
SU B1 (Manchester Students Union, Oxford Rd, Manchester M13 9PR)
11:00 a.m. Fri 10
Walking Tours of Financialised Manchester
With Jonathan Silver, Thomas Gillespie
Garden Centre - Bandstand (28 Old Birley Street, Manchester, M15 5RG)
Entertainment
11:30 a.m. Fri 10
Chanukah Lewinksy's Liberation Sukkah
Garden Centre - Bandstand (28 Old Birley Street, Manchester, M15 5RG)
Workshop
12:00 p.m. Fri 10
Class composition in Britain
MAV Hulme Hall (not the student accomodation!) (4 Jarvis Road, Hulme, Manchester M15 5FS)
Workshop
12:00 p.m. Fri 10
Community Organising for Apartheid-Free Zones
With Bristol Apartheid-Free Zone, Palestine Solidarity Zone West London, Sheffield Apartheid Free Zone
Kath Locke - Birley (Kath Locke Centre, 123 Moss Lane East, Hulme, Manchester, M15 5DD)
Training
12:00 p.m. Fri 10
Educate, Agitate, Organise - transform your union branch with political education!
With Joe Beswick, Callum Sunderland, Emma Williams
Space for Change (a.k.a. The Yard) (41 Old Birley St, Hulme, Manchester, M15 5RF)
Panel
12:00 p.m. Fri 10
How can we strengthen Britain's social movements?
With Alessio Lunghi, Jeanine Hourani, Baptiste David, Giovani Palestinesi Italia (GPI)
Windrush Conference (Windrush Millenium Centre, 70 Alexandra Rd, Manchester, M16 7WD)
Panel
12:00 p.m. Fri 10
Sheikh Mansour my lord?: Capital, Football, Real Estate, and the growing role of Abu Dhabi in Britain
With Jonathan Silver, Mo Taha, Alex Timperley
Windrush Lounge (Windrush Millenium Centre, 70 Alexandra Rd, Manchester, M16 7WD)
Panel
12:00 p.m. Fri 10
The Fight for the City!
With Raquel Rolnik, Isaac Rose, Owen Hatherley, Catalina Ortiz, Ben Beach
Kath Locke - Valerie (Kath Locke Centre, 123 Moss Lane East, Hulme, Manchester, M15 5DD)
Panel
12:00 p.m. Fri 10
We Refuse: where next for artists & cultural workers opposing genocide
With Rida Hamidou, Culture Workers Against Genocide, Hussein Mitha, Art Workers for Palestine Scotland, Balraj Samrai, Maddy Pledge, Artists and Culture Workers LDN
The Niamos (Chichester Road, Manchester, M15 5EU)
Panel
12:30 p.m. Fri 10
Students Transformed: Militancy not Machismo: Undoing Patriarchy in Organising Spaces
SU 2.2 (Manchester Students Union, Oxford Rd, Manchester M13 9PR)
Discussion
12:30 p.m. Fri 10
Students Transformed: WTF is a Trade Union?
SU B1 (Manchester Students Union, Oxford Rd, Manchester M13 9PR)
Arts
1:30 p.m. Fri 10
Play Reading: The Trial of Dedan Kimathi
With Elmi Ali, Njuki Githethwa, Nigel de Noronha
Kath Locke - Birley (Kath Locke Centre, 123 Moss Lane East, Hulme, Manchester, M15 5DD)
Discussion
1:30 p.m. Fri 10
Students Transformed: Demilitarise Education
SU B1 (Manchester Students Union, Oxford Rd, Manchester M13 9PR)
Workshop
1:30 p.m. Fri 10
Students Transformed: Our Hostile Borders: International Students and Migrant
SU 2.2 (Manchester Students Union, Oxford Rd, Manchester M13 9PR)
Workshop
1:30 p.m. Fri 10
Students Transformed: Pirate Media
SU The Hive (Manchester Students Union, Oxford Rd, Manchester M13 9PR)
Panel
2:30 p.m. Fri 10
A World to Win: What is a Party For?
With Zarah Sultana MP, Jeremy Corbyn MP, Peter Mertens, Janis Ehling, Nathalie Oziol, Leanne Mohamad (Chair)
The Niamos (Chichester Road, Manchester, M15 5EU)
Panel
2:30 p.m. Fri 10
BLM 5 Years on: Assess, Analyse, Organise
With Penny Wangari-Jones, Kojo Kyerewaa, Fiona Lali
Ascension Church Main Space (282 Stretford Rd, Manchester M15 5TQ)
Arts
2:30 p.m. Fri 10
Block the Block (Matinée)
With Nathaniel McBride, Debbie Beeks, Joe Gilmour
Theatre 53Two (Arch 19 Watson St, Manchester M3 4LP)
Workshop
2:30 p.m. Fri 10
No one way works
With Carina (PYM), Masa (Energy Embargo for Palestine), Jordi Lopez, Amardeep Singh Dhillon, Angus (Plan C)
Windrush Lounge (Windrush Millenium Centre, 70 Alexandra Rd, Manchester, M16 7WD)
Panel
2:30 p.m. Fri 10
Politics, the Party and the social base w/ Tribune
With Grace Blakeley, Dan Evans, Max Shanly, Brian Leishman MP
Kath Locke - Valerie (Kath Locke Centre, 123 Moss Lane East, Hulme, Manchester, M15 5DD)
Panel
2:30 p.m. Fri 10
Priorities of the Scottish Left
With Matt Kerr, Sophie Johnson, Yana Petticrew, Coll McCail
Space for Change (a.k.a. The Yard) (41 Old Birley St, Hulme, Manchester, M15 5RF)
Panel
2:30 p.m. Fri 10
South-South Solidarity in an Emerging Multipolar World
With Rula Shadid, Jack Johnson, Tings Chak, Ethan, Nirad, James Schneider
Windrush Conference (Windrush Millenium Centre, 70 Alexandra Rd, Manchester, M16 7WD)
Discussion
2:30 p.m. Fri 10
Students Transformed: Land Justice
SU Theatre (Manchester Students Union, Oxford Rd, Manchester M13 9PR)
Assembly
4:30 p.m. Fri 10
Assembly 1: The Conjuncture & Analysis
With Ash Sarkar, Jeanine Hourani
Ascension Church Main Space (282 Stretford Rd, Manchester M15 5TQ)
Panel
4:30 p.m. Fri 10
Evictions, Raids and Racist Attacks: Resisting Alongside Migrant Communities
With Osama Zumam (CATU), Boucka Stephane Koffi, Rosie (GMLC), Magadaline Moyo
Kath Locke - Valerie (Kath Locke Centre, 123 Moss Lane East, Hulme, Manchester, M15 5DD)
Panel
4:30 p.m. Fri 10
Food Justice and Sovereignty in Crisis Times
With Catherine McAndrew, Sabrina Espeleta, Mikee Whitson, Mike Hodson
Space for Change (a.k.a. The Yard) (41 Old Birley St, Hulme, Manchester, M15 5RF)
Workshop
4:30 p.m. Fri 10
Madness Under Capitalism
With Micha Frazer-Caroll, Nazanin Rassa, Ian Parker, Gigi El-Halaby
MAV Hulme Hall (not the student accomodation!) (4 Jarvis Road, Hulme, Manchester M15 5FS)
Workshop
4:30 p.m. Fri 10
New Protest Music: Radical Singing Workshop
With Bekah Hesse, Rory Scott
Aquarius Community Centre (21 Eden Cl, Manchester, M15 6AX)
4:30 p.m. Fri 10
Pan Africanism and Nkrumahism : a history of resistance and its legacy in 21st century socialist organising
With Morenga Bambata, Ekua Bayunu, Kofi Jerry Genya, Amma Fosuah Poku
Windrush Lounge (Windrush Millenium Centre, 70 Alexandra Rd, Manchester, M16 7WD)
Panel
4:30 p.m. Fri 10
Trade as a weapon of empire: Big tech, tariffs and neoliberal trade deals
With Seema Syeda, Shobhit S, Cecilia Rikap, Cleodie Rickard
Windrush Conference (Windrush Millenium Centre, 70 Alexandra Rd, Manchester, M16 7WD)
Workshop
6:30 p.m. Fri 10
Building coalitions that last
With Energy Embargo for Palestine, Muslim Association of Britain, rs21, Palestinian Youth Movement
Windrush Conference (Windrush Millenium Centre, 70 Alexandra Rd, Manchester, M16 7WD)
Panel
6:30 p.m. Fri 10
Connect, Support, Educate - Trades Councils and Workers Power
With Ian Allinson, Catherine Porritt
Aquarius Community Centre (21 Eden Cl, Manchester, M15 6AX)
Screening
6:30 p.m. Fri 10
From Ground Zero: Stories from Gaza
Space for Change (a.k.a. The Yard) (41 Old Birley St, Hulme, Manchester, M15 5RF)
Panel
6:30 p.m. Fri 10
Sahel: Struggle for Pan-African Self-Determination
With Kobina (PARISC), Jean de Dieu Zabre, Housseini Amadou
Kath Locke - Valerie (Kath Locke Centre, 123 Moss Lane East, Hulme, Manchester, M15 5DD)
6:30 p.m. Fri 10
The Intersection between Housing Crisis and Language Crisis and the Fight Back
With Gormfhlaith Ní Shíocháin Ní Bheoláin, Cáit Ní Ghliasáin
Kath Locke - Birley (Kath Locke Centre, 123 Moss Lane East, Hulme, Manchester, M15 5DD)
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