Katya Sander If you read this, I’ll give it to you

During March, the project If you read this, I’ll give it to you by Katya Sander will be visible in the public realms of Manchester and Salford. It will be made manifest by the movement of thousands of pin-badges through the cities bearing the statement “If you read this, I’ll give it to you (but then you must wear it too)”. Each badge and its statement forms a social contract between those who wear it, and those who read the statement and choose to act upon it, to acquire the badge.

Badges will be available at sites throughout the city, and can be taken from anyone you see wearing them.

This project is part of Whose Cosmopolitanism? a series of public events to launch the Research Institute for Cosmopolitan Cultures (RICC), University of Manchester.

Katya Sander will be speaking on Tuesday 3 March, 6.30pm - 8.00pm in Claiming the City: Belonging and Exclusion, at Manchester Town Hall, on a panel with Don Flynn (Migrants’ Rights Network); Irene Khan (Amnesty International); Sir Richard Leese (Manchester City Council) and Alex Poots (Manchester International Festival), moderated by Jim Hancock (Liverpool Daily Post).

Full details of all events connected with RICC’s launch can be found at www.socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/ricc/

This project has been supported by Arts Council England (Grants for the Arts) and The Danish Arts Council. Thanks also to The Manchester Beacon.