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Partisan’s Club space is located inside the Islington Mill on James Street (M3 5HW). Our Community Space is located across the courtyard on the ground floor of New Islington Mill, which can also be accessed from the Regent Trading Estate off Oldfield Road (M5 4DE).
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Reading Group: Restorative Justice
Reading Group: Restorative Justice
No Prisons Manchester present... Restorative Justice Reading Group! Just as important as fighting prisons and policing is building alternatives to them. How can we deal with social problems without causing more harm and trauma through prisons and policing? There are many projects developing successful alternatives. The reading group is a space we can learn about…
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2 events,
Media & Print Working Group meeting / workshop
Media & Print Working Group meeting / workshop
We'll be having a collective image making session, followed by a meeting. We'll be putting together nice things for a collective zine about Partisan and other promotional materials, come along to draw and collage and cut and stick with us! All Partisan members are welcome to attend. The Media and Print working group is the…
MAKE STUFF
MAKE STUFF
✄ MAKE STUFF is series of creative skill-sharing workshops, offering a space to be playful, enhancing your skills, encouraging collaboration & participation. Open to all who seek comfort through making. Workshops run on the last Saturday of every month. ⎔ If you enjoy working with people & possess any skill that you would like to…
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Private Booking
Private Booking
The basement has been hired for a private booking. There will be no access at this time.
(open for member’s drop-in)
(open for member’s drop-in)
If you're a Partisan member, this evening you are welcome to come in and use our upstairs social space! No events are booked at this time, but we'll be open for you to come and use your space however you like. Come in after work and spend some time with some pals while not spending…
Partisan Events Working Group meeting – Live Music
Partisan Events Working Group meeting – Live Music
This is a meeting for Partisan’s events working group specifically to discuss live musicians such as bands.
Partisan Events Working Group meeting
Partisan Events Working Group meeting
The events team will be having a meeting to discuss events at Partisan. All Partisan members are welcome to attend. What the Events Working Group does: facilitating the running of events at Partisan. We make decisions on organising outside bookings, and occasionally organise our own in-house events. We also volunteer with running of events on the…
4 events,
Natural Sciences x Mannequin with Alessandro Adriani
Natural Sciences x Mannequin with Alessandro Adriani
TICKETS AVAILABLE HERE - Alessandro Adriani (Mannequin) - Strahinja Arbutina (BANK / Natural Sciences) - Antonio (Mannequin / Natural Sciences / Smashing Tape) - Animal Mannequin teams up with Natural Sciences to bring Alessandro Adriani, Antonio, Strahinja Arbutina & Animal to a former municipal complex turned community space outside Manchester.
VAM #2 Afrodeutsche/ Dubonautik/ Everett/ Joe Beedles/ KAT.A
VAM #2 Afrodeutsche/ Dubonautik/ Everett/ Joe Beedles/ KAT.A
BUY TICKETS HERE It’s been too long since the last VAM party. That’s why we’re having another one! This time, the wonderful Partisan Collective will be hosting our sensory extravaganza on the top floor of the venue. We’re very excited to be collaborating with Partisan as this space adds a lot of value to the city of…
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Partisan All Day Party!
Partisan All Day Party!
PARTISAN ALL DAYER ? - midday til midnight! Shaken and inspired by the revelry of the Wet Play / Microdosing NYD all dayer, Partisan has taken the day party into our own hands ? No squeezing through sweaty hoards on packed dancefloors any longer. It's time for a party. ? We’re issuing an official call-out…
Staying Out: Manchester
Staying Out: Manchester
"I'm still coming out No end to out There's no end to out there's no ending No ending to bending" 'Staying Out'. Beep. 2017. Join us for an evening to mark history, make futures and bend the present. 2018 will mark thirty years since legislation was passed that prohibited the ‘promotion’ of homosexuality in schools…
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1 event,
(open for member’s drop-in)
(open for member’s drop-in)
If you're a Partisan member, this evening you are welcome to come in and use our upstairs social space! No events are booked at this time, but we'll be open for you to come and use your space however you like. Come in after work and spend some time with some pals while not spending…
2 events,
2 events,
(open for member’s drop-in)
(open for member’s drop-in)
If you're a Partisan member, this evening you are welcome to come in and use our upstairs social space! No events are booked at this time, but we'll be open for you to come and use your space however you like. Come in after work and spend some time with some pals while not spending…
Darn It: Marbling & Book Binding Workshop
Darn It: Marbling & Book Binding Workshop
During this workshop you'll create unique swirling patterns with brightly coloured marbling inks on a variety of papers and cards. These will act as a cover for a hand bound book, we'll be using Japanese stab binding techniques to create books with a variety of decorative stitching. You will leave the workshop with at least…
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(open for member’s drop-in)
(open for member’s drop-in)
If you’re a Partisan member, this evening you are welcome to come in and use our upstairs social space! No events are booked at this time, but we’ll be open for you to come and use your space however you like. Come in after work and spend some time with some pals while not spending any money,…
Partisan Community Outreach Working Group meeting
Partisan Community Outreach Working Group meeting
Meeting for Partisan’s Community Outreach team, all Partisan members are welcome to attend. We want to make sure we engage with the local community and other communities in Manchester. This group is responsible for making this happen in a number of different ways. Come along to find out more and get involved. Contact [email protected] for…
2001: A Space Odyssey: Remembering 1960s Cinema-going
2001: A Space Odyssey: Remembering 1960s Cinema-going
As part of the UCL/AHRC Remembering 1960s Cinema-going project, we are delighted to screen Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey. Before the screening, Dr Patrick Glen will give a short talk on people's memories of watching the film and going to the cinema during the 1960s. A month before the film's 50th anniversary, this is…
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Partisan Safer Spaces Policy Meeting (Access & Accountability Working Group)
Partisan Safer Spaces Policy Meeting (Access & Accountability Working Group)
Hey all, the accountability team's been fairly dormant for a few months but we're going to try to get it back on the road. we're going to meet on Thursday which will largely be to work out a plan for how we're going to do it. We've got about 3/4 of a first draft for…
Partisan Community Open Day and Social
Partisan Community Open Day and Social
Are you a community, activist or social justice group who already uses or wants to use Partisan's space? Or are you someone looking for a group like this to get involved with? Then come along to our Community Open Day! We will give you a tour of the space and tell you about what we…
Partisan Events Working Group meeting
Partisan Events Working Group meeting
The events team will be having a meeting to discuss events at Partisan. All Partisan members are welcome to attend. What the Events Working Group does: facilitating the running of events at Partisan. We make decisions on organising outside bookings, and occasionally organise our own in-house events. We also volunteer with running of events on the…
1 event,
1 event,
DIY RISO Beginner’s Course No.3
DIY RISO Beginner’s Course No.3
Team Trident Press's monthly RISO Beginner’s Course – learn the basics about risography and how to use it right. We’ll be using the RISO at Partisan to explore the machine and understand how to make use of this unique printing method for DIY projects like zines, flyers and posters. Each participant will be able to…
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1 event,
Private Rehearsal
Private Rehearsal
The basement has been booked for the University of Manchester Musical Theatre Society.
3 events,
(open for member’s drop-in)
(open for member’s drop-in)
If you’re a Partisan member, this evening you are welcome to come in and use our upstairs social space! No events are booked at this time, but we’ll be open for you to come and use your space however you like. Come in after work and spend some time with some pals while not spending any money,…
Partisan Events Working Group meeting – Live Music
Partisan Events Working Group meeting – Live Music
This is a meeting for Partisan’s events working group specifically to discuss live musicians such as bands.
UMMTS Presents: Little Women
UMMTS Presents: Little Women
UMMTS is proud to present: Little Women. Based on Louisa May Alcott’s critically acclaimed book and with a beautiful score by Grammy Award winner Jason Howland, ‘Little Women‘ follows the adventures of the four March sisters – Jo, Meg, Beth and Amy. Jo, the second eldest of the March daughters and an aspiring writer, weaves…
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2 events,
(open for member’s drop-in)
(open for member’s drop-in)
If you’re a Partisan member, this evening you are welcome to come in and use our upstairs social space! No events are booked at this time, but we’ll be open for you to come and use your space however you like. Come in after work and spend some time with some pals while not spending any money,…
Steady State Manchester AGM & Workshop
Steady State Manchester AGM & Workshop
Steady State Manchester's 2018 Annual General Meeting will be accompanied with a workshop event on the Greater Manchester Spatial Framework. There was a lot of opposition to the previous version of the Framework, much of it centred on the growth assumptions and the proposals to further encroach on the Green Belt. But what alternative future…
2 events,
(open for member’s drop-in)
(open for member’s drop-in)
If you’re a Partisan member, this evening you are welcome to come in and use our upstairs social space! No events are booked at this time, but we’ll be open for you to come and use your space however you like. Come in after work and spend some time with some pals while not spending any money,…
Feminist Print Network Meet Up
Feminist Print Network Meet Up
The Feminist Print Network has formed over the last few months through conversations with people from around the UK involved with self-publishing, archives and community initiatives. We’re looking to forge links with existing community groups, public archives and individual creative practitioners at all levels to open up the process of the group’s development. Following an online…
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Partisan: DIY Music Social & Open Mic!
Partisan: DIY Music Social & Open Mic!
Want to meet more musical people? Find future band members?? Or just fancy meeting like-minded people??? Come to our first DIY music social/networking/hang out (what do you call this we don't know), whether you're a well-weathered DIY veteran or have been thinking about making some noise somehow maybe. You're also free to chill out with…
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These Walls Must Fall – FiIms and Discussion: Immigration Detention in the UK & Europe
These Walls Must Fall – FiIms and Discussion: Immigration Detention in the UK & Europe
An afternoon of short films made by migrant in the UK and in Europe about their experiences of immigration detention and migration control. These include films made by members of Women Asylum Seekers Together and the These Walls Must Fall campaign, and refugee activists based in Lesvos, Greece. Several of the filmmakers will be present…
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Party Politics: How can hedonism help build socialism in the 21st century
Party Politics: How can hedonism help build socialism in the 21st century
When in 2013 David Mancuso reflected on his long running NYC party The Loft, he said that "the core idea is social progress." The Loft was foundational to dance culture, and had an immense impact on people who would shape that culture from the seventies onwards. Its dancefloor was legendary for its communal atmosphere and…
2 events,
(open for member’s drop-in)
(open for member’s drop-in)
If you’re a Partisan member, this evening you are welcome to come in and use our upstairs social space! No events are booked at this time, but we’ll be open for you to come and use your space however you like. Come in after work and spend some time with some pals while not spending any money,…
1 event,
Writing from the Margins with Otter Lieffe
Writing from the Margins with Otter Lieffe
Otter Lieffe is back in town and organising a creative writing workshop with us. Whether you're completely new to creative writing or already quite experienced, there will be something for you. * * * What could a strong, diverse - even utopic - resistance movement look like and how could we create it together? How…
1 event,
RITE
RITE
A party held in the immersive greenwood. Expect cosmic dalliances, happenings, trips and tricks, games and rituals. Prepare for a night like no other. /// In the city, the cranes grind on. Developers snap up land, demolish old buildings and destroy loose space. Artistry and experimentation is stifled as the ‘creative industries’ sanitize, price-tag and…
3 events,
Municipal Dreams: The Future of Council Housing
Municipal Dreams: The Future of Council Housing
Join Manchester Momentum for a panel discussion on the future of council housing in the UK. We're delighted to be welcoming John Boughton, author and historian, as he embarks on his book tour for his upcoming release "Municipal Dreams: The Rise and Fall of Council Housing" (Verso, 17 April 2018), along with Rachael Gibbons, programme…
House Party w/ Kiss Me Again
House Party w/ Kiss Me Again
Following on from Momentum's panel discussion on the future of affordable housing in the UK (https://www.facebook.com/events/280594635806584/) Manchester Momentum will be throwing a House Party to make all your municipal dreams come true. We're buzzing to be joined by the Kiss Me Again DJs who will be dancing with us until midnight ahead of their regular…
Microdosing # 7 ∞
Microdosing # 7 ∞
/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/ ∞ M I C R O D O S I N G S E V E N ∞ . Saturday 5th May - 19:00 till Midnight . Mathis Merlin (Live modular ambient sound bath) . Special Guests (TBC) . Microdosing Friends & Regulars . * * * * * * * . Appropriate music…
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