Manchester
Highlights
Way Down to Pomona
This project offers an immersive audio exploration of Pomona Island, Manchester, using field recordings, electroacoustic music, oral histories, and archival materials accessed via the Echoes app through GPS location. The island, once a 19th-century leisure site with Pomona Palace and later a dockland, now serves as an urban wildlife refuge facing imminent development and gentrification.
Running Artfully Network – Launch event
The Running Artfully Network (RAN) is a new international artist-led group that brings communities and experts together to reframe running as an artistic intervention to unpick our time of multiple global crises, and to create a more equitable and creative future. This online launch event features contributions from: Fiona Adamson, Véronique Chance, Beth Clayton, Kathryn
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An artistically, architecturally driven and experience-focused art route: the Citylink Walking Trail – Global Design News
Commissioned by Oak View Group, creative studio NEWSUBSTANCE provided a turnkey creative solution to design, deliver and install an 11-part public art trail leading to Co-op Live, a spectacular new music venue in Manchester City Centre. We were proud to work with Climate Pledge as the official sustainability partner and the presenting partner of the
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Walking the Pennine Way put everything into perspective for me, including my right to be here | Anita Sethi | The Guardian
Inspired by the Manchester Ramblers, who campaigned on exclusion and the countryside, I’m also taking a stand Source: Walking the Pennine Way put everything into perspective for me, including my right to be here | Anita Sethi | The Guardian
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Manchester mates walk ‘world’s rudest pub crawl’ – and the GPS map is hilarious – Manchester Evening News
The group took part in a ‘Cock and Ball story’ to raise awareness and funds for men’s health issues Source: Manchester mates walk ‘world’s rudest pub crawl’ – and the GPS map is hilarious – Manchester Evening News
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Little Amal, a puppet, is walking 8,000 kilometres, from Turkey to the UK in search of her mother – The Hindu
Good Chance Theatre’s latest production features aSyrian puppet that will walk from Gaziantep to Manchester, to raise awareness on the refugee crisis Source: Little Amal, a puppet, is walking 8,000 kilometres, from Turkey to the UK in search of her mother – The Hindu
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Articles elsewhere
2026 First First Sunday on January 4th
Dear friends and loiterers The LRM will gather for a wander on the First First Sunday of 2026 – Sunday January 4th. Join us 2pm outside Manchester Central Library where we will go for a walk together that maybe, just maybe, will help make the year be...
