E17 replacement: Art & Class - David Kennedy

Richmond Town Hall, DL10 4QL 7.30pm 10 refreshments bookstall disabled access
On a bright autumn day in 1857 the workers from Salts Mill were waiting for special trains to take them on a day trip. But they were not going to Blackpool: they were going to The Manchester Art Treasures Exhibition which attracted mill hands, factory workers and domestic servants.
Today less than 8% of visitors to our great galleries are from the working classes. When and why did the working classes stop visiting art galleries and why does this matter?
Join us for a discussion into art and class with David Kennedy author of Art and Class. How the middle classes hijacked the nations galleries.
David has worked as an apprentice in the cotton mills, a climbing instructor in Africa and America, a social worker in Bradford and eventually became a serious man in a suit running Bradford Council.
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