Photo taken at Birmingham city centre by Angela Schuster

Together with the Trade Union Congress Midlands, Stand Up to Racism has summoned more than 60 organisations to Victoria Square this Sunday 4th October for the Birmingham’s Unity Rally. Starting at 1:00pm, there will be keynote speeches, music, entertainment, and a march through the city centre, to celebrate the diverse and multicultural West Midlands.

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As member of the Musician’s Union, I was part of the process to sign a memorandum of understanding between Coventry City of Culture Trust, Midlands TUC Cultural & Leisure Committee and the trade unions Equity, BECTU and the MU. This memorandum contains the agreements we reached on the terms of engaging professional actors, performers, musicians, creatives, and technicians, looking forward to the fact that Coventry is the UK City of Culture 2021.

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