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A creative event series+community promoting creativity, collaboration, confidence+positivity, to help inspire+support women to succeed in life work+society

eed in life work and society. Keen not only to foreground and empower our fellow women-folk, we want to put the fun back into being a female in an all out celebration of womanhood! We aim to put on immersive screenings, present live performance, workshops and skill sharing sessions, support local business's and artists, present gigs and club nights, curate exhibitions, publish fan zines, create artwork, host socials and above all create a completely accessible community open to people of all genders and back-grounds to feel celebrated, supported safe and nurtured and provide a platform for the talent that exists within our city! We promise to create fun, welcoming atmospheres, beautifully decorated spaces and unique events. We want you to dance on tables, whip your hair back and forth and sing the words to every single song! We want to make a platform for you to be Queen of the night, every night! Girl Gang Sheffield was founded by Handmade Cinema and The Creeps Store in April 2015 to try and create a supportive space for women with creative businesses to thrive in Sheffield. To date the collective have run two sell out signature events, (Girl Gang Sheffield #1: Mean Girls at The Picture House Social in May which won Best Single Event at the National Cinema For All Awards and Girl Gang Sheffield #2: The Craft at Moor Theatre Delicatessen) three signature Babes Parties Babes, Bats and Babes and Masquerbabes, all at Bungalows and Bears) a show and tell skill sharing social, and curated a space at Tramlines Festival (Glitteratti Lua Party at The Great Gatsby) and co-presented Spice World: The Movie with Sensoria Festival. Girl Gang Manchester will be co-produced by Pull Your Finger Out Productions, Handmade Cinema, The Creeps Store and a vast array of fabulous individuals. Girl Gang functions because of the voluntary talents and efforts of not only a core team, but a huge array of individuals and artists engage, so if you would like to be involved, or have an idea, please get in touch! Support your local Girl Gang!

03/01/2025

“Equal pay is not enough, we want the moon!”
Happy New Year gang 💖
(Protest pic from the excellent Women In Revolt exhibition we saw at Tate Britain back in February x

22/12/2024

So buzzing that Millennial Pink will be part of PUSH Festival this year! Tickets already on sale here: https://homemcr.org/production/millennial-pink/

21/12/2024

🚨 Just over 24 hours left to apply! 🚨
We are seeking multi-skilled collaborative performers who bring a broad range of talents, identities, opinions and experiences to the process to help us figure out the next phase of MillennialPink!
Wanna gain more experience creating cross art-form experiential theatre?
Wanna add your voice / story / skill to a collage piece about millennial identity?
Wanna learn more about integrating AV in theatre?
Wanna get back in the room and be playful with other creatives?
Wanna have a role shaped around your unique identity / experience / skill set?
Sick of making work alone and wanna skill share and learn from other artists?
Wanna be a part in shaping something ambitious?
Wanna perform in PUSH festival at HOME?!
Interested in interrogating gender, s*xuality, feminism and pop culture?
Got a lot of feelings about the 00’s?
Got some free time in January?
Wanna put your voice and talents to use and re-dress the balance between applications and creating??
Interested in making work that is fun and accessible?
Then come help us figure out the next phase of Millennial Pink!
All further info at the link in our bio x

All photos from our first R&D in Feb 23 ft .andass

18/12/2024

Casting for the second stage of Millennial Pink as part of PUSH Festival this January!
We’re looking for collaborative, multi-talented performers to come make some magic with us at the start of the year.
Check out the info on the posts and head to the application link in our bio to find out more- closes Dec 23rd!!
Please help us spread the word so we can reach the right people!

Production photography from the sharing of our first phase of development at by

17/12/2024

Have you seen our casting for PUSH Festival this January?! https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdBWbu3VA7UCz46xDrKjhTcKBV1FyDmLsxT9Q-QtahCSOAFsw/viewform?usp=sharing

15/12/2024

Are you any of the following, or do you have skills in these areas, a desire to collaborate and good availability in January? We are looking to connect with the following people to bring Millennial Pink to life:
* Stage Manager (a bigger commitment!)
* Photographers (for promo, rehearsal and production photography)
* Choreographer (for approx 3 60-90 min sessions)
* DJ’s (to play live & on stage & potentially be integrated into the cast!)
* Sound Designers (to work in collab with the DJ)
* Social Media Whizz’s and graphic designers! (for our marketing campaign!)
* People who can make simple “early internet” style animations (all will be revealed)
This is an ambitious cross-art form project and we’re so excited to collaborate with as many talented people as possible!

Please check out our pinned project announcement post & link to the show on sale at HOME for further MP info!
Please check out the casting info above and form in our bio for further project structure info- feel free to fill this in or drop us an email on [email protected] to connect

Please help us spread the word!
Thank you for your support!!

15/12/2024

‼️ submissions deadline: Midnight Sun 22nd Dec ‼️
We’re super excited to be programmed for 2 nights (Fri & Sat!) as part of PUSH Festival at this Jan and are seeking talented performers to help us deliver a vivid & provocative cross art form celebration/critique of Millennial identity.
Like many others, we recently had our ACE funding bid rejected (strong bid, no feedback, just not enough cash to go round). HOWEVER, as a project that has been years in the making & is still evolving & building momentum, and having finally been programmed in PUSH after being shortlisted twice- we have decided to make it happen with the help of our creative community!
We want to be really clear about the ask:
* This is an unpaid opportunity that requires a speedy engagement of professionals wanting to collaborate & commit
* Rehearsals and shows are in Manchester between Jan 8th - 31st with shows on Jan 31 & Feb 1
* You will not be needed for the entire rehearsal period, but we do need artists who have good availability across January.
* We are looking for adaptable actors confident in voice and movement including learning and performing choreography
* We are looking to represent a broad spectrum of millennial adolescence & would love to be as representative across all protective characteristics as we are able- though we realise the lack of pay creates inevitable barriers.
* We are also interested to hear from specialist artists who may appear in the show for short moments as part of a collage of millennials to present a poem or song in response to a provocation. If this is you, we’d still like you to submit the self tape.

Please check out our pinned project announcement post & link to the show on sale at HOME for further MP info!
Please find all additional info re the casting (inc script extracts, rehearsal dates) at the application link in our bio!
Please help us spread the word!

If you’re not a performer but are/know other creatives looking to connect and collaborators, eyes on our next post…!

13/12/2024

We’re so excited to announce phase 2 of Millennial Pink is going to be a part of HOME’s PUSH FESTIVAL 2025!!

Millennial Pink is a tough-love letter to pop music and MTV; an ode to bedroom culture and girlhood.
To memorising lyrics and learning dance routines, scribbling in your diary, and learning to kiss using your pillow or your best friend.

Join us at HOME this January to explore how 00’s pop culture shaped millennial women’s ideas around gender, s*xuality and self worth.
The show embraces the raw authenticity and passion of being a teenager, reflecting on what we soaked up from the world around us that doesn’t serve us, but also wondering if we lost some of the good bits along the way.

Remember how it felt to scream lyrics at the top of your lungs and dance til your feet hurt sober mid week? We want Millennial Pink to remind you of who you were and ARE once you strip away all the mixed up messaging that blocked, boxed, shrunk and tamed you.
It’s a show about taking back power, subverting the gaze, spotlighting and repositioning the joys and conflicts of modern mainstream feminism, flipping the script on what it felt like to be an adolescent and offering a more optimistic view of the power and potential within teenage girls today.

Expect: Heaps of nostalgia, joy, giddiness and anger. Optional audience interaction including singalongs, dance offs, chants, break out discussions, passing the mic and and opinion polling. We hope there will be home truths, collective learning, fun and frank conversations.

This will be a sharing of work from the second phase of development, which see us re-embrace our DIY dreams (due to a funding bid rejection!) crack on and prove that magic can be made without money!! Keep your eyes on our channel and newsletter for various call outs for creative collaborators!!

12/12/2024

💻 🎇⭐️💖NEW GIRL GANG WEBSITE!!! 💖⭐️🎇💻
We can’t quite believe it’s finally happening! But we’ve been lucky enough to have the super talented Charlie from on our core team and they have been working tirelessly behind the scenes to not just do our gorgeous 2023 rebrand but to also build us a brand new website!!!

Kitmoz Creative () is a Manchester based designer, offering a full spectrum of creative branding, web design and development services. Designing bespoke websites with real substance for small businesses and organisations.

Encapsulating and condensing such a wide ranging project as ours, and summarising the literally HUNDREDS of projects we’ve done over the last 9 years is such a huge feat and we could not be more thrilled with what Kitmoz have created!!! Thank you so much for your talent, patience, perseverance and for finally giving us something we have dreamed of for literally YEARS!! (We shamefully stopped updating our website since covid 😅) To have our portfolio, ethos and vibes encapsulated so beautifully online as well as one centralised place to direct people to is going to be an absolutely game changer for us!!!

Now head across to www.girlgangmcr.com to trawl through the archives and get a sense of who we are beyond the grid (which has mainly been promoting our regular events over the past few years!)
Did you know we do
💖immersive screenings
⭐️experiential exhibitions
💎creative club nights
🎇theatre
💖workshops
⭐️campaigns
💎zines
🎇podcasts
💖panels and so much more!!

We are very much seeking commissions and opportunities for 2025 so do get in Touch if you would like to collaborate on: [email protected] (new email too!)

we would be so grateful if you could share this post / our website(!!) with your networks to get it the attention it deserves!

Another massive round of applause 👏 & eternal gratitude 🙏 💖 for our Charlie and their fabulous brand who we have had the BEST time working with- get in touch with them for all your branding needs!

www.kitmozcreative.co.uk
www.girlgangmcr.com

We did it Joe!!!!

10/12/2024

helloooo! Is there anyone out there?! We’ve heard this works 😅 can Megan’s face trick the algo into favouring us again?!
For the past couple of months we have been getting super low engagement on all of our posts! we are lucky enough to have loads of you on here who are here cus you wanna know what we’re up to and we have loads of exiting things to tell you really soon!! so just wanted to check in and see whether this old thing is still on!!
Please comment below if you can see this and (let us know if you haven’t seen us for ages 🥲) exciting news coming soon!!!
We send a bi-weekly newsletter too so please subscribe via the link in our bio to get our news direct to your inbox!

20/11/2024

Itch that Script Out Loud: Space for writers and readers to read, and hear, and feel, new things. Please bring your POV, your pages, your voice, or all three.

This is a free development day for any texts in progress that would benefit from being heard aloud. It is open to any gender, s*x, age, level of experience or artistic discipline. We will need some people to bring their work, and some people who would like to read something aloud.
🌐We will be set up in theatre’s rehearsal room (Space 4) 🕰from 11-5 on FRIDAY 29TH NOV

You can join us all day, or at a time that suits. This part of the building is not open to the public so we will need to know you are coming so please either:
Book a free space now via our
Ticket Tailor events page (link in bio)
Choose your role and time
OR
tell us how you’d like to participate (e.g. i’d like to read/act/direct/bring some pages) and when you can join (11-1 or all day for eg) via email:

[email protected]

❓🙋🏽‍♀️🙋🏿‍♂️? Qs welcome on email too

We will be facilitating the session in a light touch, ad hoc and easy going way…but it will help us to know as much as possible about what you’re bringing/wanting to do in advance.

Please let Caitlin know via email if there’s anything specific we can do to help make the development day accessible for you.

Thanks to Itch that Scratch artist for being model reader ❤️

19/11/2024

2024 is drawing to a close and we are in our final 2 weeks of programming for the year, but it’s never too late to make new mates!!
If you’re craving some new connections in your life, or simple fancy a wholesome evening of conversation, creative challenges, games, ice breakers and general warm fuzzy vibes, we’d love for you to join us for our last Speed Mate-ing of the year!
THIS THURSDAY 7PM START (soft arrivals from 6.30pm)
We’ll hold your hand, look after you and make sure everyone leaves with a smile on their face!
Hope to see you there ###

13/11/2024

✨ TONIGHT’S THE NIGHT! ✨
We’re buzzing to be presenting the digital premiere of I Really Do Think This Will Change Your Life, the acclaimed one woman theatre show taking down multi-level marketing, girl boss feminism and get rich schemes lauded as “an innovative new production for the digital generation.” Whether you’re interested in how capitalism and feminism intersect, solo shows, what young women are up against online, or capturing your theatre work on screen, we’d love to hear your insights!

Tickets are free/pay as you feel!
Join us on zoom for an introduction to the project at 6.45pm, screening at 7pm-8.20pm following by a Q&A with the creative team 🎀

A finalist for The Stage Innovation Award, this is a hair-pulling, fake-nail scratching, cat-fight against get-rich-quick schemes and what it means to be a Girl Boss™. Featuring bold, immersive video design with creative captions and a pioneering approach to accessibility, this fast-paced, multi-disciplined show was a finalist of The Stage Innovation Award 2024.

Be the first to see this cinematic multi-angle recording, captured live at The Mercury Theatre this September!

Hope to see you there!!

09/11/2024

Next Sunday (17th) it's our November 100% That Stitch craft & connect session at . As always, attendees can bring a craft project they've been working on, grab a brew or a bevvy and have a good old chat.

Don't have a craft but fancy joining? This month you can buy a Christmas card crafting ticket! This will get you 10 blank Christmas cards and a whole load of collage materials (as well as some examples of easy collages to make and help with crafting if you need it. It's a lovely way to spend a chill winter afternoon!

For tickets see the link in our bio!

08/11/2024

🚨 New Speed Mate-ing AND Action Point dates 🚨
Speed Mate-ing: Thur 21st Nov, 7pm
Action Point- Understanding Neurodiversity, Thur 28th Nov 6.30pm & online

In September we merged the events to explore mental health justice, community & connection and loved getting the opportunity to share experiences and opinions, strategise & solution build together with conversation, building blocks, games and of course post its!!
For Novembers editions we will be running the events in their traditional forms - a Speed Mate-ing with facilitated activities to help build intimacy fun and connection for those looking to make new friends, and an interactive Action Point loosely facilitated to enable participants to explore some of the themes from Unmasked & consider what you may need as a neurodivergent person or how as a neurotypical person you can help make the world a friendlier place for ND babes!

Further info and tickets available in our bio, we hope you can make it!! Xx

06/11/2024

“I want a president” by Zoe Leonard, 1992 💔

03/11/2024

‼️🚨 THIS WEEK 👇✨

Write Here, Right Now #11: Writing & Performing Your Own Work- Online Special with Guest faciltiator
Join us for a special online edition of monthly writers meet up Write Here Write Now focussing on mastering the one woman show! Presented in collaboration with the workshop will use theatre, plays and specifically the one woman show as a case study, but many of the exercises and skills will be transferable for other formats, so we encourage authors, poets and whoever else feels they may find it useful to attend too!

Writing One Person Shows: Integration & Innovation with Emma-Louise Howell
Fresh off a 5 star critically acclaimed run of her one-person show I Really Do Think This Will Change Your Life at Edinburgh Fringe, Writer and Performer Emma-Louise Howell shares insights into her creative process.
Described as ‘a one woman show unlike any other’ (Broadway World) and nominated for The Stage Innovation Award, Change Your Life has been lauded for its bold theatricality, dark humour and innovative integration of digital language and technology into the script. This interactive and practical workshop will explore how to begin writing one-person shows, how technology can be used as secondary characters and how to balance the Writer/Performer dynamic.
Watch the trailer for the show and find out more about I Really Do Think This Will Change Your Life, Write Here Write Now & Emma at the link in our bio!

Tickets are presented at a self-assessed sliding scale cost with pay as you feel options available due to ACE funding helping to cover facilitator costs for this workshop. Ticket sales will go directly back into the project costs & the core costs of running Girl Gang as an unfunded organisation.

Hope you can make it!! Xx

30/10/2024

Join us for the digital debut of this funny, fierce, feminist tour-de-force and be the first to see this cinematic digital production, captured live by
On Wed Nov 13th we’ll celebrate the online launch of I Really Do Think This Will Change Your Life the acclaimed one woman theatre show taking down multi-level marketing, girl boss feminism and get rich schemes lauded as “an innovative new production for the digital generation.”
Fresh off the back of a multi-award nominated ★★★★★ run at the Edinburgh Fringe, we’re teaming up with the creative team behind this funny, fierce, feminist tour-de-force to host their digital debut.

We’ll gather online to introduce the project, its themes and inspiration, watch the show and host a short post-screening Q&A.
Whether you’re interested in the ways in which capitalism and feminism intersect, solo shows, what young women are up against online, or capturing your theatre work on screen, we’d love to hear your insights!

I Really Do Think This Will Change Your Life:

Belles was the it-Girl, hip girl, oh-so-very-fit-girl.
When she was 17.
Now, she’s 24 and spends her days bossed about by her Mum and girls she 100% used to bully.
So, when a life-changing opportunity slides into her DMs, she carpes the diem, makes her millions and proves the worth of women one social media post at a time.
Except she doesn’t.
Because… come on.

A finalist for The Stage Innovation Award, this is a hair-pulling, fake-nail scratching, cat-fight against get-rich-quick schemes and what it means to be a Girl Boss™. Featuring bold, immersive video design with creative captions and a pioneering approach to accessibility, this fast-paced, multi-disciplined show was a finalist of The Stage Innovation Award 2024.

“A FASCINATING BLUEPRINT FOR THE FUTURE OF THEATRE” The Stage

A Mercury & Pleasance Edinburgh National Partnership Production. Produced by ThickSkin through its Supported Artists Programme.

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Speed Mate-ing 3-3.30pm today!

✨ 💖 IT’S NOT TOO LATE! SPEED MATE-ING @fairfieldsocialclubmcr TODAY 3-5.30PM 💖 ✨ If your intention this International Women’s Day is more more more!! More women, more connections, more new friends, more soul mates you can’t believe you didn’t meet already, more conversations with strangers, more people totally different to you you may never get, to speak to otherwise, more being held as you bravely venture outside your comfort zone, then we’ve got you covered! Join us for an International Women’s Day Special Edition of Speed Mate-ing to collectively celebrate the women who inspire you and welcome more legends into your life! Very excited to be first on the bill for le grand opening of @grubmcr new venue @fairfieldsocialclubmcr and part of a totally cracking line up of babes and totally varying activity for LASSFEST 2024! Come down from 12pm to check out the new venue and for free sausages (lol!) for the first 100 through the door! Exchange your old plant pots for beer! Doors for Speed Mate-ing from 2.30pm and facilitated activity 3-5.30pm and stay after for @josielong !! Banging day out if we say so ourselves!! Further info and tickets available via our tickettailor in our bio, check out @fairfieldsocialclubmcr for the full LASSFEST line up ### Video from our event @contactmcr in January! #speeateing #girlgangmcr #internationalwomensday #iwd24 #lassfest24 #grubmcr #fairfieldsocialclub https://www.tickettailor.com/events/girlgangmcr/1156027?

❄️ ✨ GGMCR’S WINTER 2024 EVENTS PROGRAMME ✨❄️ All your favourite events are back for the New Year… and we have some exciting **newness** for 2024 too! All out venues are accessible and our events are open to all! More information about each event and the deets of where & when etc can be found on our ticket page: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/girlgangmcr We’re looking forward to moving, creating, meeting new folk, learning, reflecting and generally having a blast with YOU this year! Get involved, tell a friend, see you there!! 💖💖💖