Programme for Raise your Banners 2009

this is the main programme page for Raise Your Banners 2009. There's loads of events this year but highlights include: The Friday Night Concert with Chumbawamba (among others); the Turning Silence Into Song concert on Saturday afternoon; the Choir Concerts at the Catherdral (also on Staurday); and of course the Songs for Peace at Bradford Cenotaph on Sunday. But check out the full listing below - there's plenty more happening!

Download the Weekend Concerts Flyer [PDF]

Contents

Monday 2nd NovemberBack to top

Storytelling

Full Moon, Politics and Pirates

  • Where: Treehouse Café at 2 Ashgrove, BD7 1BN (entrance on Great Horton Road, opposite the university). Ring 01274 732354 to book.
  • When: 7:00 PM
  • Cost: donations on the door
Beehive Poets

Including readings by entrants to the Poetry Competition.

  • Where: New Beehive Inn, Westgate
  • When: 8:30 PM
  • Cost: donations on the door

Tuesday 3rd NovemberBack to top

Political Film Festival

See the Film Festival page for more information.

Wednesday 4th NovemberBack to top

Political Film Festival

Thursday 5th NovemberBack to top

Song Writing Competition Finalists' Performances and Political Sing Around

Friday 6th NovemberBack to top

Community Dialogue

We get the debate flowing with David Douglass speaking about and leading a discussion on the 25th anniversary of the 1984/5 Miners' Strike

Friday Night Concert

With Chumbawamba; Bleeding Hearts; Tracey Curtis; Gary Kaye

Raise Your Banners at the 1-in-12: Festival Fringe - Political Punk Night

Eastfield "sheer bloody-minded political urban rail punk with a twist"; Active Slaughter "all-vegan activist anarcho punk"; The Kirkz "lean hungry music from the bottom of the food chain"; Maxwell's Dead "ska-punk gone nuts"

  • Where:
    • The 1-in-12 Club
  • When: 7:30 PM
  • Cost: £3 1-in-12 Club Members; £4 Others

Saturday 7th NovemberBack to top

Book Fair

See the Book Fair page for more information.

Cathedral Concerts

Performances by political and community choirs and singing groups. See the Choirs page for more information.

**SOLD OUT**Turning Silence into Song - Leon Rosselson Birthday Concert

With Leon Rosselson; Roy Bailey; Frankie Armstrong; Sandra Kerr; Martin Carthy; Janet Russell

Saturday Night Concert

With the Alun Parry Band and The General Will's repertoire of past and present political song and satire

Raise Your Banners at the 1-in-12: Festival Fringe

Al Baker and the Dole Queue "troubacore, white-hot folk smelts into punkrock"; James Bar Bowen "searing social commentary and fabulous folkpunk songs"; Jim Sputnig "acousticfolkskaprotestpunk"; + tbc

  • Where:The 1-in-12 Club
  • When: 7:30 PM
  • Cost: £4 1-in-12 Club Members; £5 Others

Sunday 8th NovemberBack to top

Book Fair

See the Book Fair page for more information.

Songs for Peace @ the Cenotaph

Led by Janet Russell. Real ale bar and food will be available at St Peter's House before and after the event.

Sunday Concert

Claire Mooney; Hall Brothers; Sex Patels; Imani Hekima