Tag: Manchester

  • Thirty years after it closed, Manchester nightclub the Reno has been excavated by playwright Linda Brogan and a team of volunteers — now they’re taking over Whitworth Art Gallery to continue telling its story.

  • Mixed Race in Manchester – Intersections of Class and Mixed Race Identity Musings of a Mixed Race Feminist: Random diatribes from a mixed race feminist scholar. Tuesday, 2015-03-03 Donna J. Nicol, Associate Professor Women & Gender Studies California State University, Fullerton I spent the last three months of 2014 living in Manchester, England helping my…

  • We Need to Talk about Race Sociology Volume 48, Number 6 (December 2014) pages 1107-1122 DOI: 10.1177/0038038514521714 Bethan Harries, Research Associate Centre on Dynamics of Ethnicity University of Manchester, United Kingdom It is not easy to name racism in a context in which race is almost entirely denied. Despite a recent focus on the ‘silencing’…

  • Runnymede film nominated for Limelight Award Runnymede Trust 2012-05-10 Clench, a Runnymede short film written and directed by Riffat Ahmed, has been nominated in the Best Drama category at this year’s Limelight Film Awards, to be held on 14 June 2012.   Made as part of the Generation 3.0 project, the film tells the story…

  • Clench: What are You Fighting For? Commissioned By: Runnymede Trust-UK’s Leading Race Equality Think Tank 2011 Written and directed by Riffat Ahmed Produced by Shane Davey, Courtney Edwards, Riffat Ahmed and Fabien Soazandry of Davey Inc Running Time: 00:15:39 Starring: Hussina Raja as Ash With: Kevin Morris, Jeff Caffrey, Afreen Mhar, Allan Hopwood, and Danny Randall…