End Wage Theft at Cambridge Shakespeare Festival! Opening Night Demo

Help us demonstrate outside of the opening night of Cambridge Shakespeare Festival to inform audience members about the wage theft taking place.

The more public pressure we can put on the colleges who are hosting the festival, the more likely it is we can get them to withdraw their support for the festival next year!

We’ll be leafleting audience goers as they arrive, speaking about dodgy employment practices, and generally making a spectacle! All on the public ground outside the colleges.

Speakers:

 Equity President Lynda Rooke
 Invited speakers from sister unions supporting our dispute

Schedule:

6.00pm – Meet at the grass area on the corner of Queen’s Road and Garret Hostel Lane for demo briefing & photocall
6.30pm – Disperse to the demo sites outside of Kings College gardens & St Johns College gardens colleges as the box offices open; flyer audience goers
[Both colleges accessed by Queens Rd]
7.00pm – Paul Fleming, Lynda Rooke and invited speakers from sister unions tour the demo sites for speeches
7.30pm – End of demonstrations; social at local pub

Bring your union flags and banners!

If you want to know more about this dispute, find our campaign page here: End wage theft at Cambridge Shakespeare Festival

 

Grass area on the corner of Queen’s Road and Garret Hostel Lane. This is between the 2 protests sites on the same road, approx. 5 minute walk from each. 

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By train: From Cambridge station take the U1/U2 bus to Silver St then walk north on King’s Road to the meeting point, approx. 8 min walk.

By car: Suggested parking at Madingley Road Park & Ride. Take the P&R bus to Bridge St, from where the meeting point is a 12 minute walk.