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Poets of Colour Incubator Drop-In Sessions
Interactive drop-in sessions to help inform the poetic response to global issues being explored by the Poets of Colour Incubator artists
Music Drop 2023-24
–Beatmakers, rappers, singers or anyone interested in making music, Music Drop is the perfect project for you. Whatever your musical background is this project will teach you key music skills and support your musical journey.Workshop
SICK! Festival: North Manchester Film Festival: Your Voice
–In collaboration with The Miners - The North Manchester Film Festival is an essential part of SICK Festival 2024. Bringing together filmmakers, artists, and community members for a dynamic showcase of local talent and diverse perspectives…
SICK! Festival: SMASH! OPEN - GROW/Planting Good Intentions
Join ecotherapist Steph Wild for an immersive nature-connection experience. Together, we'll explore the conditions that contribute to a plant's health, wellbeing and growth; while guided to find parallels within our own lives. Through…
SICK! Festival: SAFE
–The SICK! Festival Ambassadors, a group of young people from North Manchester, lend their voices to lead this large-scale public art installation created in collaboration with artists Ria Righteous and Rachel Shore and found in the heart…
SICK! Festival: In Our Nature
In Our Nature is a fun day that invites people to North Manchester to explore nature, the climate and identity. Amongst the trees in Boggart Hole Clough, we are bringing together arts, sports, live music, and activities for all, to…
SICK! Festival: Channel 2049
–It is the future. Everyone is a broadcaster and content maker. The high-rise residents of Whitebeck Court in Charlestown, Manchester have their own media channel to share views on housing, local history, technology, health, animals, food…
SICK! Festival: RENT
–North West Theatre Arts Company present RENT for a week during SICK Festival 2024. A story revolving around a group of struggling artists in the late 1980’s/90’s who come together as a chosen family, chasing their dreams while…
SICK! Festival: The Launderette Sessions
–Merel Smitt and SICK festival host The Launderette Sessions at Harpurhey launderette ‘Amazing Grace Launderette’, transforming it into a supportive, collective community space, where the time spent waiting is no longer something to be…
SICK! Festival: SMASH! OPEN - OCD
Discover the journey behind Lauren Yvonne Townsend's, debut play OBSESSED, presented as a work-in-programme at SICK! Festival 2024, as she shares her personal experience of navigating life with OCD and making the move from theatre producer…
SICK! Festival: Mindgames: Online and IRL (In Real Life)
MINDGAMES: Online and IRL (In Real Life) takes on mental health matters through gaming, exploring if games can make you feel better. Through this day event we will launch ‘Never, Forever Always’, a game created through a creative global…
SICK! Festival: Sustainable Travel Agency
–When was the last time you had a break? With a lot of pressure to ‘do the right thing’ these days, this pop-up travel shop, complete with red blazers, reassuring smiles and a friendly conversation, gives you the chance to book your own…
SICK! Festival: Dementia Street
–When his mum's battle with dementia ended Smug wanted to contribute something to the fight against it, so he wrote a play about the seven stages of her cognitive decline. It’s called Dementia Street. He tells her story in reverse, starting…
SICK! Festival: SMASH! OPEN - Create Your Own Access Rider
Vijay Patel of Brotherly, Otherly, Disorderly, presented as part of SICK! Festival 2024, leads this workshop on creating access riders (a document that communicates your access requirements). This session is open to all, including d/Deaf,…
SICK! Festival: Obsessed
Following Meghan, someone who knows pretty much everything about Beyonce, Hunger Games, Zac Efron and BTS, but who also finds that other ‘obsessions’ make their way to the surface, Obsessed is the semi-autobiographical debut play by Lauren…
SICK! Festival: For the Mandem
‘All you have to do is show up for yourself, for your community and for the Mandem.’ Come as you are, you’re welcome here.
SICK! Festival: No Us and Them
‘No Us and Them’ is a creative dance project celebrating social unity. It is choreographed by participants from across North Manchester guided by Company Chameleon who make inspiring dance theatre, by working with each other's ideas and…
Itch that Scratch Night
–A brand new multi disciplinary feminist evening of creative works in progress. Scratch some creative itches with us as an audience member, collaborator or commentator. Expect unfinished, unready and exciting work from artists of all…
SICK! Festival: Benched
Tink brings Benched to SICK festival to ask, ‘why do we treat strangers better than our friends and family?’. Over the past 6 years, Tink has been taking their bench out into the public across the country and inviting strangers to sit with…
SICK! Festival: Famehungry
Famehungry is a nose-dive into the helter-skelter world of TikTok, the attention economy, and what it’s like to live your life online chasing followers. Fusing dance, performance art, and real TikTok experiences, this show looks at fame…
SICK! Festival: Tones: A Hip-Hop Opera
–Tones combines the gritty underground sounds of Hip-Hop, Grime and Drill with the drama of Opera for a unique theatre experience, looking at identity and where you fit in the world. A journey through the depths of Black British culture,…
SICK! Festival: SMASH! OPEN - Let's Talk About Cough: One in Ten
A listening experience and discussion exploring chronic cough conditions. Let’s Talk About Cough: One in Ten shares moving personal stories with a fascinating journey into the mysteries of the human body. You will be gently guided through…
SICK! Festival: Brotherly, Otherly, Disorderly
Brotherly, Otherly, Disorderly (B.O.D) is a show by two autistic siblings, an access rider in the form of a neurodivergent pop concert. It’s a joyous and celebratory theatrical toolkit for supporting themselves and each other; while…
