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Chapeltown Picture House: An independent cinema emerges from the pandemic

By: Tom Taylor 3rd May 20213rd May 2021

I duck under red stage drapes into the projection room. The walls are lined with DVD and video game cases. Toby Soar talks me through the impressive specs of each piece of technology with a great deal of pride. “We show cult cinema and anything film nerds want”, he says. I scan the shelves, picking…

“I was absolutely disgusted”: Manchester football fans on the European Super League

By: Joe Ronan 27th April 202127th April 2021

FeaturesLong Read

Last Monday, my flatmate walked in from work looking stressed. “Twenty-two years and I woke up this morning and now I don’t even want to be a United fan”. He was visibly agitated: hoovering and tidying constantly while consuming as much commentary on the proposed European Super League as possible. The maintenance man who came round the following day to fix our ovens…

An architectural snapshot of Sale Town Centre

By: Tom Taylor 13th April 202113th April 2021

PhotographyPhoto Essay

A man in lycra paddles beside me. The bow of his kayak cuts through the still water and ripples lap the canal bank in its wake. I worry that he might tip over as he leans to the side and swivels round, but his expression is calm and determined. I’m walking into Sale town centre,…

Engaging artists and young people in urban planning with FutureEverything

By: Nia Thomas 4th April 20214th April 2021

FeaturesLong Read

In light of recent events, questions are being asked about who designs our urban public spaces, and which interests they serve. Following the Sarah Everard case, in which a police officer is charged with the kidnap and murder of a young woman who was walking home from a friend’s flat, the government announced a…

Manchester Collective: A cultural organisation for “people who live in the real world”

By: Joe Ronan 26th March 202126th March 2021

MusicInterviews

Classical music has a reputation for being uppity, a bit exclusionary. But Manchester Collective, co-founded in 2016 by their music director Rahki Singh, and chief executive Adam Szabo, set out to be different: “we had just both got to the point where we were really sick of seeing audiences that were old and white and very affluent”. In fact, when I spoke to Adam, he was…

Ears to the ground with Dance Wax and Jockey Slut

By: Will Seth-Smith 23rd March 202127th April 2021

MusicInterviews

Sharing tracks with friends is one of the joys of discovering new music. Whether face to face in someone’s kitchen, or through a text message, it’s a nice feeling when your appreciation for a particular song is reciprocated. It was from this simple love of exchanging tracks with friends that the music recommendation platform Dance…

Coronaverses Collective: The zine helping to save the UK’s music scene

By: Kirsty Bird 8th March 202127th April 2021

MusicDeep Dive

It’s coming up to a year since the pandemic brought an indefinite end to conventional live music in the UK. Stripped of their dominant source of income, musicians have been left to seek out alternative ways of keeping themselves afloat, while the government continues to leave them stranded. The lack of sufficient financial support for…

Joey San on making dance music in Manchester

By: Joe Ronan 27th February 20214th April 2021

MusicInterviews

Joey San has had a momentous year. In the haze of summer after the first lockdown, he was featured on BBC Radio 1’s show ‘Introducing Dance’. Joey lay in bed with his earphones in, waiting for his song ‘MeToBe’ to play. It had been a long, boiling hot day and it was not until 12:30am…

Dreams and stories: Adam Curtis’s ‘Can’t Get You Out of My Head’

By: Joe Ronan 22nd February 20214th April 2021

ArtsScreen

In ‘Can’t Get You Out of My Head’, Adam Curtis tackles the dark history of modern society with extensive use of archive footage, eerie audio and his own distinctive narration. It is utterly unlike anything else apart from every other Adam Curtis documentary. Maybe that’s unfair. Curtis’s key theme in this six-part series is our…

Withington Walls: How street art can drive urban rejuvenation

By: Carina Simi 15th February 202123rd March 2021

ArtsGallery

If you have travelled through Withington Village over the past year, you will have had the pleasure of seeing the vibrant street art covering various walls and shutters. Art has always had the ability to cross language and cultural barriers. Public art is accessible to everyone, and, because of this, it can be a vehicle…

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