Celebrating Alf’s Act 50 Years of Disabled People’s Rights Celebrate – Learn – Challenge Hosted through Manchester Histories Festival 2020 Manchester Histories Festival is taking place from Thursday 4 June to Monday 8 June 2020. The main hub for the festival will be at Manchester Central Library but your event could take place in any other venue across Greater Manchester. Your event can be a talk, performance, debate, film screening, discussion, exhibition or intervention around the themes of Celebrate – Learn – Challenge. Applications are open to all – individuals, organisations, health professional, researchers, historians, campaigners, academics, artists, musicians - anyone with a connection or interest in disabled people’s rights. The deadline for application is Friday 27 March 2020. 1 Manchester Histories Festival 2020 will mark the 50-year anniversary of the Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act (CSDPA) 1970. This landmark legislation was pioneered by the late Lord Alf Morris, who subsequently became Britain’s first minister for disabled people. Often described as the Magna Carta for disabled people, this was the first disability rights legislation anywhere in the world and laid the foundations for the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 and the Equality Act 2010. Alf Morris was born and bred in Manchester and served as an MP for Wythenshawe. Throughout his lifetime, he campaigned tirelessly for the rights of disabled people. Manchester Histories Festival 2020 is a collaborative programme between The University of Manchester, the family of the late Lord Morris of Manchester, Manchester Metropolitan University, University of Manchester’s Students’ Union, the TUC (Manchester), Manchester City Council and the Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People. In 2021 People’s History Museum will be exploring the theme of disabled people’s rights and activism through a year of events, exhibitions and learning sessions. Manchester Histories Festival 2020 will mark the start of this inspiring programme of activity. 2 Aims of Manchester Histories Festival 2020: In line with Manchester Histories’ mission to deliver projects, events and activities with people and communities that reveal, share and celebrate Greater Manchester’s diverse histories and heritage, the aims of this festival are: To raise awareness in the general population of the significance of this ground-breaking legislation and those other legal instruments for which it paved the way (including the DDA 1995 and The Equality Act 2010). To provide an historical and future orientated perspective on disabled people’s* lives in the UK including the positive developments that have taken place, current uncertainties and future directions. To provide a platform for disabled people to express their voices through performance, music and co- designed creative activity. To celebrate the life and achievements of Alf Morris (late Lord Morris of Manchester) and those with whom he worked. To spotlight, amongst the vast diversity of disabled people, everyday role models who are neither heroes nor victims but whose positive, ordinary and occasionally spectacularly talented lives make our whole society richer. To encourage a present-time, open and critical debate about the promotion of equality for disabled people to the benefit of all in society. For disabled people, on their own terms, to author the past, current and potential futures of their citizenship, contribution and participation in the UK. This is a position of empowerment and possibility that would not have been possible without that initial piece of legislation which we honour in these events. *By ‘disabled people’ we mean any person who identifies as being disabled, neurodiverse and/or have a long-term health problem or chronic illness. 3 Support in Completing the Form If you need this form in a different format, please let us know; you can submit your expression of interest as a film, reading, or any other format to get your ideas across. Please contact [email protected] , call 0161 306 1982 or text 07890 863176. We also welcome submissions in BSL. To submit a large file, please send by WeTransfer https://wetransfer.com/ . Application Process Your application will be considered by the steering group to decide on how best we can support you, we will contact you by the end of April 2020 to confirm or discuss your event further. There will be an advice drop in on Saturday 29 February 2020 11am – 2pm at Manchester Central Library to help with applications. There will also be session on Monday 20th April 2020 from 2.00-7.30pm at Manchester Central Library for people to come and talk to us in more detail about their event. The programme team will try to accommodate all applications, but we cannot guarantee that we can support all submissions. Manchester Histories is a small charity we have limited resources and cannot provide any funding to support events, however we can provide support in marketing, a slot in the brochure, social media, free use of space, Audio Visual support, access support, volunteers to help support your events, and moral support. Deadline for application is Friday 27 March 2020. We look forward to receiving your completed form. 4 Section 1: Contact details Please tell us about the organisation or group you are applying on behalf of: Organisation or group name: Location and Postcode: Please provide your details as the applicant representing your organisation: Name: Job/role in group: Address: Postcode: Email: Phone number: Website: Twitter handle: Facebook page: Instagram handle: Any age restrictions: Please provide a summary of the work which your group, organisation or charity does: (maximum 50 words). 5 Section 2: The themes for Manchester Histories Festival 2020 Our three festival themes are Celebrate – Learn – Challenge. Which theme best describes your event? Please place a tick in one or more of the boxes that describes your activity. E.g. Celebrate + Youth may describe a piece of theatre by a group of young disabled people; or Challenge + Historic may describe a debate about the past and future disabled people’s rights etc. Historical Rights and law Current and Arts and Youth Other political performance CELEBRATE CHALLENGE LEARN 6 Section 3: Event overview Event Title Do you require a space or slot at Manchester Central Library? If not, please tell us the name, address and postcode of the venue. Please describe the event (maximum 200words). This will be used on-line and in the printed brochure. What kind of activity is it? E.g. is it a debate? A performance? An exhibition? A talk? Online or digital? 7 Who is your event aimed at? Any access requirements? Is your event free of charge? Tell us your booking URL or let us know if you need help with ticketing. What day/s will your event ideally be on? Ideally what time? How long will your event last? E.g. a fixed exhibition? A 30-minute debate? A one-hour film? Please email an image to Minimum pixel dimensions – width:1,200, height 800. represent your event. Images Images may be cropped and resized and should avoid containing text. should be in JPEG format and suitable for print and use on the By submitting your image, you confirm that you have the rights, licence web. and permission to allow Manchester Histories to reproduce the image in print, web and digital channels. Do you need volunteers to support your event? Is there any other information that you would like to give to Manchester Histories? 8 Events in Other Venues If you are planning to put on an event or activity in a different venue to Manchester Central Library, the space must be accessible if you would like it to be included in Manchester Histories Festival 2020. You can download a pdf information sheet on Accessibility Guidelines on Manchester Histories website https://manchesterhistories.co.uk/media/MHF2020/BDF_Premises_accessibility_checklist.pdf. If you have any questions about this, please contact [email protected] or call 0161 306 1982. Please send your completed pro forma to: [email protected] or post it to: Janine Hague Manchester Histories, 3.17, Mansfield Cooper Building, The University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL Thank you! 9 .