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As a co-operative, Partisan is democratically owned and managed by the people who work in and use the space. https://linktr.ee/partisancollective

Partisan Collective provides an inclusive, accessible, not-for-profit platform and space in Greater Manchester where our members meet, share, learn, create, perform and dance together.

02/09/2026

📬️🍁 A lovely event double whammy is coming your way 🍁 🎶

Thursday 10th September 6-9pm

Welcome juicy autumn with folk song and/or design and write a postcard for a q***rer future! We're looking forward to seeing you there. Bring a friend, a song, an idea, or just yourself

24/08/2026

✍️ One for your calendar in September!
🎂 Happy 4th Birthday to the wonderful Partisan Political Reading Group!

📆 Monday 14th September 2026
⏰️ 6.30-9pm
📍 Spinning Room at Bridge 5 Mill (aka Partisan headquarters)

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.

18/08/2026

💡 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 26th August 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 delving into why we write, and what we write. This will be a relaxed session as we get to know one another as writers, 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!

13/08/2026

🍁📚️ Partisan Book Club - October Session 🍁📚️

Put the next Partisan Book Club date in your diaries and get stuck in with Helen DeWitt's 2011 novel Lightning Rods. Lightning Rods is the tale about Joe, a failed door-to-door salesman who creates a bizarre, corporate-backed service to resolve workplace sexual tension and boost productivity.

Join the Book Club chat via the WhatsApp community and get stuck in.

11/08/2026

📮 Calling all Partisan Members - Come on get creative with Almia!🗒️

Almia - a q***r-led arts and wellbeing organisation based in the North West - have funding available to deliver a number of free creative workshops for LGBTQ+ and q***r-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 q***r 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 q***rer 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 q***r friend now, or forward into a community archive for q***r 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 via the link in our bio - we’ll see you in September!

10/08/2026

💖 Partisan is looking to recruit new Directors! 💖

This is a great chance for members to support the organisation, and to learn more about cooperative structures first hand!

Partisan's Coordination Team has put together an application form, a more in-depth information about waht the role entails, and what the legal responsibilities of a director at Partisan are. Please have a look via the link in our bio or send us an email if you have any questions about the process or directorship.

We're looking forward to welcoming you to the team!

15/07/2026

The Partisan Cinema team has cooked up a delicious collaboration with local cine-heros Cultplex! This absurdist workers' rights bonanza is not to be missed! Read on for more info below 🚕 🎥 🏥

Partisan Cinema Presents: Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World

📅 Wed 5th August 2026
⏰️ starts 7.30pm
📍 Cultplex Manchester

Partisan Cinema are very proud to present our first collaboration with Cultplex () where we will be screening Radu Jude’s 2023 satirical absurdist black comedy Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World.

Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World follows Angela, a production coordinator in Bucharest who spends much of her day driving round the city interviewing injured employees of a multinational corporation for a ‘Safety at Work’ video. Intercut with the Andrew Tate-style TikToks Angela makes to blow off steam on her long days, as well as footage from a 1981 film about a female taxi driver in the Romanian capital, a complex interrogation of the interaction between labour, gender and bodily danger emerges.

Radu Jude’s darkly comic exploration of exploitation at work in the twenty-first century flits between Zoom screen, phone camera and archival footage providing an at times uncomfortable but always compelling perspective on the absurdity and obscenity of being alive in the current moment. Radu Jude’s filmmaking is as discordant, poetic, dense and impressive as you would hope.

This is not one to be missed!!!

05/07/2026

📚️ Partisan Book Club's First Session! 🚀

🛌🤸 Whether you’re a prolific reader looking to discuss your favourites with other members, or someone who is eager to discover and unpick must-reads - we would love to have you! Our first read will be Olga Ravn's The Wax Child:

"The Wax Child' by Olga Ravn explores a 17th-century witch trial in Denmark through the eyes of a wax child witnessing historical events." - Amina's Bookshelf

📆 Thursday 6th August 7 - 10pm
📍 Bridge 5 Mill, Flaxworks (Foyer)

Join as a member and access Book Club group chat via our WhatsApp community to find out about future announcements, including our format and initial selections.

💖 The group intends to give everyone an opportunity to pitch selections but even those who just want to read and discuss are more than welcome.

03/07/2026

📚 Partisan Reading Group – Rejection 📚

On 5th July at 3pm at Bridge 5 Mill, we will be detouring into fiction and examining the topic of incels with Rejection by Tony Tulathimutte

DM us for the reading list link or join the WhatsApp Community

02/07/2026

💡 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 💖

📅 Tuesday the 21st July
📍 at HOME MCR
🕕️ 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 delving into why we write, and what we write. This will be a relaxed session as we get to know one another as writers, 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!

Address

Partisan, Islington Mill, James Street
Salford
M35HW

Website

http://partisancollective.net/

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