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.
General Meeting
Make it stand out
Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
HUGE UPDATE! WE MIGHT HAVE A NEW HOME!!
Join us on 20th May to look around our possible new home - Bridge 5 Mill!
Partisan members have been working behind the scenes to find the right home for our collective, and we think this might be it, but we want to invite all members to have a look and decide collectively.
Bridge 5 Mill, 22A Beswick Street, M4 7HR
Tuesday 20th May
Look around from 6pm
Meeting: 6:30-8:30pm
Now is a really exciting time to become a Partisan member, or rejoin us. If you haven’t already, become a member and be part of our next chapter. This way you can have your say at our general meeting, and be sure you’re supporting making this next step a reality.
Access info - B5M has a lift which is currently being repaired, with expected completion date in the next few months. If you would like to join us in person, the room we have booked is down three steps or we can move the meeting to the outside space which is physically accessible but has no toilet access. Alternatively we will provide a zoom link to join to all members via email, and can do video tours of the space ahead of the meeting for anyone who would like one.
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 – 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.
CANCELLED! - Exclusive Author Chat - Partisan Political Reading Group
APOLOGIES BUT THIS EVENT HAS NOW BEEN CANCELLED - IT WILL BE RESCHEDULED, HOPEFULLY IN MAY OR AT THE BEGINNING OF JUNE
Partisan Political Reading group are hosting an exclusive chat with ME O’Brien and Eman Abdelhadi, the author of Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune 2052-2072.
Past and future reading group attendees all welcome.
4pm at the WCML Annex
Sunday 20th April
Partisan Members Social
You’re invited to our next members social on *Saturday 5th April, 4-6pm* at the Working Class Movement Library (annex building).
We will be playing board games (and table tennis if anyone feels sporty!), sharing snacks and drinks, and getting to know each other in a very relaxed way. If you’re a newer member it’s also a great chance to find out more about Partisan and what you can get involved in. And it should also just be some lovely irl fun 🤞
Please bring any board games you’d like to share, that will be super helpful 🎲
Any questions or access requests, message us. Hopefully see you there!
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.
Partisan Folk Club
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.
Next session:
📅 Thursday 20 March
⏰ 7pm
📍 @wcmlibrary
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.