Partisan Players invite you to join a read-through of Heiner Müller’s short text, Mauser (1970)
Beginners Welcome! Partisan Players is a space to experiment with performance, acting, and theatre. This session is a rehearsal for a performance at Partisan’s Festive Social. Come together to join in rather than attending as an audience member. This will be possible on Saturday 13th December at the Festive Social.

Heiner Müller was a German dramatist, poet, writer, essayist and theatre director. His "enigmatic, fragmentary pieces" are a significant contribution to postmodern drama and postdramatic theatre.

The short text, Mauser was completed in 1970, and is largely regarded as one of Heiner Müller’s most important works. Its première was planned to take place in the GDR in Magdeburg in 1972, but the production did not make it to the stage, and Mauser was subsequently never performed in the GDR. In this time, however, it received much success in Western theatres, and was eventually performed in the former GDR in Müller’s own production of the play at the Deutsches Theater, Berlin in 1991.

Partisan’s Web Team is a friendly bunch of tech-a-phile, web-heads, eager to welcome you to their circle.

Partisan’s Web Team is a place to learn more about and share your knowledge about building and maintaining websites. Intersted? Curious? Join the Web Team channel via the Partisan WhatsApp Community. This team is actively looking for new members. Could it be you? <3

This month’s meet-up is virtual. Details will be shared with the group prior so you can log in!

📚 Partisan Reading Group – November sessions moving to a different location!

We’ll be at Withington Sandbar, M20 4AN
Please make sure its the correct Sandbar (there are two!
on Sunday 16th November and Sunday 30th November
meeting at our usual time 3–5pm.

Links to reading materials are in our Insta bio. For any updates, last-minute changes and access to the reading, please join the WhatsApp group within the Partisan community. See you there! ✨

Welcome! Partisan Players is a beginner-friendly, member-led drama club, where you can learn acting/directing skills, develop your creative practice, and explore the dramatic possibilities engendered by the slow death of late capitalism. Our next meeting is on Sunday Nov 30 from 2.30-4.30 pm at Bridge 5 Mill in Ancoats.

We'll be doing some script work using the play EVANSTON SALT COSTS CLIMBING by Will Arbery, which I can share with you if you would like to read ahead of the session – though if it's your first time, your presence is enough! Really hope to see you there 🥰

Join Partisan Art Club and make your own cute presents or festive decorations to take home out of air dry clay!

This event is two sessions and you need to come to both to complete your creations.

Session 1 - 23rd November 12:30-2:30

Session 2 - 30th November 12:30-2:30

Tickets are £10 for Partisan members and £15 for non-members. The ticket price covers the cost of materials - this means that cancellations less than 48 hours before the event will not be refunded as materials will have already been purchased.

https://www.tickettailor.com/events/partisancollective/1933599

Partisan Cinema presents: The People’s Joker (2024)

Tickets are now on general sale.

A law-breaking comedian who is grappling with her gender identity forms a new anti-comedy troupe with a friend and finds herself battling a fascistic caped crusader.

A limited number of an exclusive zine produced by Matchbox Cine to celebrate The People's Joker are also available. If purchased in advance, these should be collected on the night of the screening. Any that aren’t sold in advance will be available for purchase on the night as well.

Ticket: £3

Ticket + zine: £8

Join Partisan Art Club and make your own cute presents or festive decorations to take home out of air dry clay!

This event is two sessions and you need to come to both to complete your creations.

Session 1 - 23rd November 12:30-2:30

Session 2 - 30th November 12:30-2:30

Tickets are £10 for Partisan members and £15 for non-members. The ticket price covers the cost of materials - this means that cancellations less than 48 hours before the event will not be refunded as materials will have already been purchased.

https://www.tickettailor.com/events/partisancollective/1933599

6pm- 7.30pm, Friday 21st November; Donation ticket, at Partisan Collective, Bridge 5 Mill, Ancoats, Manchester

At a time where the policing of protest is ever more under the spotlight, Kate Wilson will be discussing her book Disclosure: Unravelling the Spycops Files and what we have learnt from the ongoing Undercover Policing Inquiry.

Kate will be discussing the book, her remarkable journey and the latest from the still ongoing spycops inquiry. Donation tickets available online: https://spycops-manchester.eventbrite.co.uk

*Our next General Meeting is on*
🍁 Tuesday, 18th November 2025
⏰ 6:30 - 9pm, arrive from 6pm for a mingle

Watch out for updates on the agenda that will come through via social media channels. Broadly speaking we will discuss Partisan's Safer Spaces Policy and our Code of Conduct.
There will be an update about finances and we'll look to approve the policy on affiliate groups.

👕 📘 Don't forget to pick up your copy of Partisan's 101 zine and any Partisan T-Shirts you have pre-ordered for pick-up.

🤝 We're looking forward to seeing you all there. If you are a new member and have not been to one of these meetings before give us a shout via the WhatsApp community channels or via email and we'll make sure there's a buddy there for you on the day.

📚 Partisan Reading Group – November sessions moving to a different location!

We’ll be at Withington Sandbar, M20 4AN
Please make sure its the correct Sandbar (there are two!
on Sunday 16th November and Sunday 30th November
meeting at our usual time 3–5pm.

Links to reading materials are in our Insta bio. For any updates, last-minute changes and access to the reading, please join the WhatsApp group within the Partisan community. See you there! ✨

Assemblies, Greens, Your Party... what are next steps on road to climate/social justice? Ex-climate prisoner Jan Goodey discusses.....

Tickets are free but need to be registered through Eventbrite here: https://shorturl.at/Kl0k9

Just Do The Thing will be 3 years old this month! Thank you so much for everyone who made JDTT what it is, through the good and the bad we have created a space for trans women and trans femmes to exist separate from whatever bs the world cooked up.

To celebrate: bake, bring, or buy divine delicacies to divide with the dolls.
Plus: bring any boardgames you might like or creative projects you’re working on.

JDTT started as a group at Paritsan Collective and they ensure we have a space to host our session each month. Show them some love by becoming a member which gives you access to clubs and events that they run. They offer concession memberships.

See you at Just Do The Thing!

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 23 October 2025
⏰ 7pm
📍 @bridge5mill Flaxworks

Our next regular Partisan Reading Group session is on the topic of ✨Antifascist Feminism ✨

Sunday 19th October, 3-5pm, Bridge 5 Mill

All the readings for this session are quite accessible. We always welcome new people and no prior knowledge/experience is required, so hope to see folks there 😊

Readings are either in links or found here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1JtmXaVuEPwSTmsx2wzLC0Sem9Lli6X0n

Core readings:

Sophie Lewis's 'Enemy Feminisms' - Introduction (pp11-29)

Lola Olufemi's 'Feminism, Interrupted' - short extract from the introduction: pp19-23

And 'No bounds' section: pp162-7

Optional extra readings:

Saadiya Hartman one-page chapter 'Wayward: A Short Entry on the Possible' (p 203 in 'Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments')

Extract from 'Fascism and the Women's Cause: Gender Critical Feminism, Suffragettes and the Women's KKK'

First section until 'US Suffragism'

https://libcom.org/article/fascism-and-womens-cause-gender-critical-feminism-suffragettes-and-womens-kkk

'Feminism, biological fundamentalism and the attack on trans rights'

https://irr.org.uk/article/feminism-biological-fundamentalism-attack-on-trans-rights/

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Some suggested questions for reflection while you read:

* Why might fascist visions of womanhood appeal to some women? What's the outcome of this?

* How have fascist ideas about womanhood and gender been spread into the mainstream? Where do we encounter them in our lives?

* How do these texts suggest we can make our feminism anti-fascist?

Second Session: Aging (Part 2)

FeminiSit With It is a DIY facilitated space for all affected by patriarchal misogyny, in solidarity and care towards each other. We will reflect together on selected feminist themes that might be affecting us all, and talk about the lived reality of our own experiences. We will think, talk, feel, learn, laugh, dig deep, be inspired.

Open to all who are experiencing patriarchal misogyny because of who they are. Misogyny is the hatred, contempt, prejudice of women and anything associated with them, anything considered feminine. FSWI is therefore trans inclusive (binary and non-binary) and open to cis-men who express femininity (please note not every session will be fully open to everyone).

Website: fswi-mcr.infy.uk
Email us at fswi_mcr@tutamail.com
Please register ahead of the session