Communications Working Group – March Meeting
Join our Communications Working Group for an online meeting to discuss this month’s priorities. Visit our WhatsApp group for more info including login details.
Communications Working Group – April Meeting
Join our Communications Working Group for an online meeting to discuss this month’s priorities. Visit our WhatsApp group for more info including login details.
Communications Working Group – May Meeting
Join our Communications Working Group for an online meeting to discuss this month’s priorities. Visit our WhatsApp group for more info including login details.
Communications Working Group – June Meeting
Join our Communications Working Group for an online meeting to discuss this month’s priorities. Visit our WhatsApp group for more info including login details.
Communications Working Group – February Meeting
Join our Communications Working Group for an online meeting to discuss this month’s priorities. Visit our WhatsApp group for more info including login details.
Communications Working Group – January Meeting
Join our Communications Working Group for an online meeting to discuss this month’s priorities. Visit our WhatsApp group for more info including login details.
Members Social
Join us on 27th November 6-8pm at the Working Class Movement Library Annex for our first monthly members social!
Catch up with all things Partisan and get to know other members old and new over a cosy hot drink and biscuits.
We’ll probably head to a pub nearby afterwards to continue the chit chat and search for some scran.
See you there!
Ether Mech EP Listening Party
Free tickets available on Eventbrite.
Ether Mech’s debut EP 'Fear, Desire' is being celebrated with a listening party!
We didn’t fancy the work of a release gig so we’re doing this instead. We love a low-energy EP launch!
We are making zines and tapes especially for this event, and we'll also be selling merch like t-shirts, badges and mugs for the first time.
Here's how the event will run:
2pm – Doors open (get settled, get some merch if you fancy)
2:45pm – EP listening begins (intentional listening where we sit and listen)
3pm – The band will say a few words about the EP
3:15 – General social space to hang out with background music on
There will be no food or drink available at this event. You are welcome to bring snacks and drinks but we are keeping this a sober space, please be mindful of this.
More details about the space will be added closer to the event.
About the EP:
Fear, Desire is the first EP from “ferocious and sparkling” Manchester band, Ether Mech, delivered to you in dazzling stereo sound. Formed in 2019 from the bubbling mass of Manchester community organising, Ether Mech’s current members are Madeleine Françoise on bass, synth and vocals, Vivien Holmes on guitar and vocals, and Rami Yasir on drums. Their cathartic blend of noise and sound has landed them spots at local festivals all over Manchester and Salford – Sounds from the Other City, Beyond the Music and Fat out Fest to name just a few – and allowed them to support personal favourite bands such as Screaming Females and SPECIAL INTEREST.
Recorded and mixed at No Studio by Joe Clayton of Pijn - whose previous work includes recording for Conjurer, Ithaca and Underdark - Ether Mech’s Fear Desire mixes elements of punk, metal, hardcore and pop into a sound that will pull you into its world guts first. The pounding, insistent drums, the viciousness of the guitar’s bite, the growl and groove of each bassline, the gnawing drone of the synth – these five tracks disappear into a landscape of weirdness, queerness, anger and release that is uniquely Ether Mech.
Chippy + Chat
Partisan members only.
Join your fellow members for a chippy tea and a chat!
On the 24th September we’ll be meeting in the community space to socialise.
We’ll be putting a big communal order in to a local chippy so bring £5 to contribute if you want to be part of that.
Political Reading Group
Partisan Political Reading Group meets every two weeks to discuss set readings from a wide range of thinkers, with a focus on progressive politics. We offer a relaxed, welcoming space for open and respectful discussion, open to all ages and experience levels.
Writer’s Workshop - Community Space
Calling all Manchester based writers! We’re running a new fortnightly workshop for all budding writers to come together and carve out some dedicated time for your writing projects. We welcome writers from all fields and levels of experience, and each session, we’ll be taking part in a range of activities to learn new skills, help each other and most importantly, get some writing done!
Riso Club Social + Open Sessions
Come along if you want are interested in using the risograph for your projects. The Partisan RISO is available to all Partisan members. This session serves as an intro to newcomers, social, and peer-to-peer support group.
Partisan Jumble
As we prepare to move on from our Islington Mill Community Space at the end of September, it’s time for a big clearout!
On TUESDAY 17 SEPTEMBER from 6PM we’re inviting our members and supporters to drop in and have first pick of the giveaways – help yourself to furniture, books, kitchenware and more – there’s plenty of treasure to be claimed for FREE (Donations are very much welcome, and every penny will support our future plans!)
You can also meet our team of volunteers, chat to us about what’s next for Partisan, and find out how you can get involved!
(P.S. If you’re currently storing any items in the space, please email info@partisancollective.net ASAP to claim and collect them – we’d also love to hear from you if you can lend a hand with the move, especially if you’re a driver)
Political Reading Group
Partisan Political Reading Group meets every two weeks to discuss set readings from a wide range of thinkers, with a focus on progressive politics. We offer a relaxed, welcoming space for open and respectful discussion, open to all ages and experience levels.
Just Do The Thing
We’re Just Do the Thing! A social group set up for and by trans women and transfeminine people to get together and share information, skills and help support each other to Just Do the Thing!
Just Do The Thing: Clothes Swap
Just Do The Thing are hosting a clothes swap at the Partisan Community space on September 7th.
Writer’s Workshop - Community Space
Calling all Manchester based writers! We’re running a new fortnightly workshop for all budding writers to come together and carve out some dedicated time for your writing projects. We welcome writers from all fields and levels of experience, and each session, we’ll be taking part in a range of activities to learn new skills, help each other and most importantly, get some writing done!
South Asian Solidarity Group
The South Asian Solidarity Group will be meeting in the Community Space.
Gelli Plate Printing
This free series of Gelli Plate Mono-printing courses is open to anyone and funded by Salford CVS and the UK Government.
Learn how to use a Gelli plate to create designs based on a theme of telling your own story of your art and culture. Come meet others in the community for casual art and fun!
Free! Please e-mail autumn@partisancollective.org to sign up.
Gelli Plate Printing
This free series of Gelli Plate Mono-printing courses is open to anyone and funded by Salford CVS and the UK Government.
Learn how to use a Gelli plate to create designs based on a theme of telling your own story of your art and culture. Come meet others in the community for casual art and fun!
Free! Please e-mail autumn@partisancollective.org to sign up.