From Turin to Rochdale, nearly a half-century of work by game-changing, female artists – drawn from the collection of world-renowned collector and philanthropist Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo – will...
Read MoreSeparated by two centuries yet connected by events pulsing from the same vein of civil disobedience, a food riot in 18th century Manchester and the student uprisings in Paris in 1968 are drawn together in new work...
Read More“I don’t think you should be snobby about reading,” says Punam Ramchurn, director of Rochdale Literature and Ideas Festival which is returning for the fifth time this month.“It’s good that people read.” For a festival still in...
Read MoreAuthor Phillip Pullman said that “after nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world”. I’ve always loved this quote and I’m a firm believer that storytelling is both an empowering tool...
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If I said the words ‘municipal catering’, you would probably recoil in horror. So what I am about...
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