Tuesday, 6 February 2018 at 10:30 am – Tuesday, 6 February 2018 at 11:30 am

Ada Nield Chew, Radical Suffragist: pop-up protest

The 6th of February 2018 is the centenary of the legal assent of the Representation of the People Act, which gave some women the vote for the first time, thanks to activists like Ada Nield Chew.

Ada Nield Chew was a radical suffragist, women’s trades unionist and an author. Her long career in activism began in 1894 with a series of protest letters to the Crewe Chronicle complaining about the unfair conditions in the factory, where she was employed as a tailor.

This “pop-up protest” is an original adaptation of Ada Nield Chew’s ‘Crewe Factory Girl’ Letters, written and directed by Shelley Piasecka (University of Chester) in collaboration with Kirsty Bunting and Orlagh McCabe (Senior Lecturers at MMU and Directors of the Local Youth Engagement Project).

Kirsty Bunting (English Subject Leader, MMU Cheshire) and Orlagh McCabe are Senior Lecturers at Manchester Metropolitan University and run the Local Youth Engagement Project, inspired by Nield Chew. They are delighted to collaborate with Shelley Piasecka, Senior Lecturer at the University of Chester (Performing Arts Department) and theatre director and writer. Shelley is co-founder of Piasecki & Piasecka Theatre Company. Jessie Harris is an actor based in West Yorkshire and has a number of theatre and production credits. Jessie is delighted to be performing as Ada Nield Chew for this event.

www.localyouthengagement.org

For more information, please contact:

Andy Turbine · andrew.turbine@mmu.ac.uk

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