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Stand up for the creative arts
This year’s Tolpuddle festival will be sure to support the call for more arts funding, fair pay for creative workers and proper protection for them at work, says NIGEL COSTLEY
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THE Tolpuddle Martyrs’ Festival features a diverse programme of art, music, poetry and working-class culture.
Art and performance have always been a key part of the labour movement for inspiration and enjoyment.
As well as a blistering line-up of music, the festival will host the new display of images by photographer Red Saunders to mark the 200th anniversary of the Peterloo Massacre.
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