We’re meeting in the Canalside Room on
Tuesday November 10th
between 6pm and 9pm

for a well overdue General Meeting. This one will be pretty freeform and an opportunity to hear from members what they’d like to see from Partisan and all the ways to get involved. We’ll also have some socialising time before and after so everyone can get to know each other.

All welcome!

Political Reading Group
Spinning Room
3-5pm

This week: An introduction to sound studies and psychogeography, looking at the acoustic environment of the city.

Join the WhatsApp group chat for more info and reading materials.
Email thepartisancollective@gmail.com to find out how to join.

Partisan Cinema are proud to present their latest collaboration with CULTPLEX where we will be screening Jerzy Skolimowski’s 1978 British horror/thriller The Shout.

This event will take place at CULTPLEX, 50 Red Bank, Cheetham Hill, Manchester M4 4HF
Tickets £5/£6 via Cultplex

The Shout captures an eerie ethereality like the ammonite unearthed upon the Devonshire shores where it is set. What may seem as ordinary and chipper as a cricket match, soon gives way to a tale of a mysterious wanderer who upends the lives of a sound recordist and his wife by revealing the guttural might of his eponymous sound.  

Having played in competition at Cannes in 1978, The Shout won the coveted Grand Jury Prize that year. Ever since, it has receded into the canon of cult horror classics owed to the way Skolimowski adapts the short story by Robert Graves to be a sparing, unsettling supernatural thriller. The score by Tony Banks and Mike Rutherford of Genesis, enhanced by electronics from Rupert Hine, gives The Shout a sonic signature which cements this as a time capsule of 70s British fear manifest.

Following their first collab with Cultplex showing Radu Jude’s Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World, Partisan Cinema is delighted to return with a spooky selection for scream season. The Shout is a lauded but now under-seen and under-sung horror film from Polish director Jerzy Skolimowski whose foray into British cinema began with his 1970 classic Deep End and was bookended by 1982  drama Moonlighting. The Shout encapsulates a roster of then-fresh British talent from British New Wave star Alan Bates to fresh-faced John Hurt and the late, great Tim Curry.

Join us, if you dare, to witness The Shout.

Facilitated banner making and know your rights training in preparation for the counterdemo on 31 October.

💡 Are you a writer who is looking for a place to share their work? 💡

🤔 Someone who’s never written before, and wants to begin? 🤔

💖 The Partisan Writing Club wants YOU to join our next meeting on Wednesday 28th October at Partisan, from 6.30pm 💖

Are you an experienced writer delving deep into one genre? Someone unfamiliar with writing who's been inspired to new? Whatever it may be, we are an enthusiastic, supportive group here to provide solo or group feedback on your writing that will enable to grow and develop as a writer, with no experience needed!

In this meeting, we'll be looking at the beginning. How do you open your writing? Let’s discuss, share, and we hope to see you there!

Join as a Partisan member and access Write Club group chat via our WhatsApp community to find out about upcoming news about our club, and stay in touch with your fellow writers.

DM us for a join link or find the channel in our WhatsApp Community.

We hope that you'll come along and share your creativity with us!

Want to learn about RISO printing and or get more confident in using Partisan’s EZ model? Come along to this refresher group session. Let us know if you want to join so we can plan accordingly and allocate time slots. Just find us in the Partisan Community chat on WhatsApp or email us to get the join link sent to you.

Usually runs twice a month.

🤖 Partisan Computer Club Partisan Computer Club is a space to learn new things and share what you know about software and hardware stuff related to computers. Let’s explore the liberatory potential of computing together. Join the Computer Club channel via the WhatsApp community to find out more or send an email to Partisan.

Just Do The Thing is a DIY/Do It Together community/social group for trans women & transfems in Manchester to come together to get shit done. Message for any Qs via Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/justdothethingmcr/

Our September meet up will be on Sunday 25th September at 3 PM. It's been working quite well not planning anything specific so we're just going to do that again. Bring any board games, projects, crafts, and snacks you'd like to share. The time and space is for us to be around our community.

See you at Just Do The Thing!

📽️ FILM SCREENING FUNDRASIER 📽️

Join Partisan Cinema and Anti-Fascist Action Manchester for a screening of a secret/surprise Anti-Fascist films 👀

Tickets are free with a pay as you feel donation on the door, though there is no expectation of a donation for unwaged or low income folks!

All profits will go towards local anti-fascist efforts 💪

Warning: The film is R Rated and features gore and violence from fascists. Please reach out for more details if you feel this could be a trigger ❤️‍🔥

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/secret-anti-fascist-film-screening-tickets-2002915316629

You’re invited to Partisan’s 10th anniversary get together where we’ll share memories over a delicious meal, celebrate everything we’ve achieved and look forward to the next 10 years and beyond ✨

Sunday 11th October
From 3pm
Tickets are free and there will be free food!

No matter what your involvement with Partisan in the past, we’d love to see old and new faces at this one so get down if you can 🥰

Tickets must be pre booked via ticket tailor
https://www.tickettailor.com/events/partisancollective/2394513 🎟️

Partisan Computer Club are planning a visit to Northwest Computer Museum

Saturday 10th Oct 2026
Leigh Spinners Mill, Park Ln, Leigh WN7 2LB

Meet at the above address at 1pm
or meet at Piccadilly Gardens at 11am to get the 35 bus together as a group

Make sure to join the WhatsApp community chat to let us know you’re coming or email thepartisancollectie@gmail.com to get access.

Want to learn about RISO printing and or get more confident in using Partisan’s EZ model? Come along to this refresher group session. Let us know if you want to join so we can plan accordingly and allocate time slots. Just find us in the Partisan Community chat on WhatsApp or email us to get the join link sent to you.

Usually runs twice a month.

🤖 Partisan Computer Club Partisan Computer Club is a space to learn new things and share what you know about software and hardware stuff related to computers. Let’s explore the liberatory potential of computing together. Join the Computer Club channel via the WhatsApp community to find out more or send an email to Partisan.

Just Do The Thing is a DIY/Do It Together community/social group for trans women & transfems in Manchester to come together to get shit done. Message for any Qs via Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/justdothethingmcr/

Our September meet up will be on Saturday 26th September at 3 PM. It's been working quite well not planning anything specific so we're just going to do that again. Bring any board games, projects, crafts, and snacks you'd like to share. The time and space is for us to be around our community.

See you at Just Do The Thing!

💡 Are you a writer who is looking for a place to share their work? 💡

🤔 Someone who’s never written before, and wants to begin? 🤔

💖 The Partisan Writing Club wants YOU to join our next meeting on Wednesday 23rd September at Partisan, from 6.30pm 💖

Are you an experienced writer delving deep into one genre? Someone unfamiliar with writing who's been inspired to new? Whatever it may be, we are an enthusiastic, supportive group here to provide solo or group feedback on your writing that will enable to grow and develop as a writer, with no experience needed!

In this meeting, we'll be looking at the beginning. How do you open your writing? Let’s discuss, share, and we hope to see you there!

Join as a Partisan member and access Write Club group chat via our WhatsApp community to find out about upcoming news about our club, and stay in touch with your fellow writers.

DM us for a join link or find the channel in our WhatsApp Community.

We hope that you'll come along and share your creativity with us!

Want to learn about RISO printing and or get more confident in using Partisan’s EZ model? Come along to this refresher group session. Let us know if you want to join so we can plan accordingly and allocate time slots. Just find us in the Partisan Community chat on WhatsApp or email us to get the join link sent to you.

Usually runs twice a month.

On Monday 14th September, Partisan Political Reading Group will celebrate its 4th birthday!

After three different Partisan venues and hundreds of attendees, we're now looking to plan the next block of sessions. We are especially keen to open up this planning to anyone who has an interest in a certain topic, thinker or movement they would like to discuss.

Join us at Bridge 5 Mill Spinning Room from 6:30 with your ideas and we will start to plan for the autumn! In true birthday fashion pizza and cake will be provided 🥳

The mill is a meat-free venue and both vegetarian and vegan options will be available.

Partisan Folk Club is a place for sharing and learning folk songs.

Everyone is welcome to sing or bring an instrument, or just sit back and enjoy the music.

It’s free, and you can bring your own booze, soft drinks, snacks and food.

Almia - a queer-led arts and wellbeing organisation based in the North West - have funding available to deliver a number of free creative workshops for LGBTQ+ and queer-questioning adults from September onwards. Partisan and Almia have teamed up to bring Postcards to a Queerer Future!

Participants arrive to find a postcard waiting for them - made by a queer person before them, sent forward to a future they couldn't see. The workshop moves from that moment of receiving to one of making: participants create their own collaged postcard about what a queerer future looks like to them, contribute words to a collective found poem, and choose what happens to what they have made - whether it travels to a queer friend now, or forward into a community archive for queer people yet to come. 

It invites participants to imagine, celebrate, and contribute to a wider conversations about the futures we want to build together through collage, creative writing, and collective storytelling!

Does this sound like something you would enjoy? If so sign up via the Google form - we’ll see you in September!

https://forms.gle/JbnA7fKk1DiLjmXs6

Our next Riso Club will be August Bank Holiday Monday (31st August) 11am-2pm and we're gonna make a zine!

Everyone will create A5 page(s), which we'll assemble into a 2 colour zine and print so that everyone gets their own copy.

We'll have the materials to create your pages on the day, or you can bring pre-existing artwork. To give us enough time, we'll limit the colours and we'll stick to analogue hard copies (so if you have digital versions, bring a hard copy of each layer).

If you can't make it and would like to submit to the zine, send your (1 or 2 layer) page via the WhatsApp Community chat, and we will add it to the zine and leave a copy for you in the Partisan office!