Friday 16 August; Peterloo Picnic and Soapbox, First Street courtyard, 2 Tony Wilson Place, Manchester M15 4FN

Soapbox; 2:30pm-5:30pm will explore the festival’s core themes of democracy, protest and freedom of speech through spoken word and performance.

Speakers will be given a platform from which to voice their creative responses to the events of Peterloo, and what it has come to represent for them now.

The event will run alongside our Peterloo Picnic, where we’re inviting the public from 12:00 to the First Street green for garden games and spoken word. Don’t miss it!