We couldn’t have done it without you!
Our aims for SICK! Festival 2024 were to deliver a diverse & innovative arts programme in Moston, Harpurhey & Charlestown, co-creating the programme with the community and inviting in local, national and international artists exploring issues impacting the health & wellbeing of North Manchester.�
We’d like to thank the people of Moston, Harpurhey & Charlestown, and beyond, and look forward to working with you going forward. We’d also like to thank all of the artists, creatives, mental health practitioners, funders & partners, volunteers and technical teams who were part of SICK! Festival 2024.
We couldn’t have done it without you!
Thank you, SICK! Volunteers & YMCA
Working behind the scenes we wanted to extend the warmest of thank yous to our volunteers who supported many of our events, and to YMCA chairty shop in Harpurhey Shopping Centre who hosted us as our community hub during the festival.
Thank you, Festival Hosts Poor Lass
It was a privilege to have Poor Lass on the ground talking to the artists, participants, audiences & people in the community, going live behind the scenes of SICK! Festival 2024.
Thank you to Em & Seleena for being festival hosts, and to all who stop for a chat with them.
Thank you - In The Community
SICK! Festival 2024 was chockfull of events & performances, that involved you, the people of Moston, Harpurhey & Charlestown. Thank you for working with us in the community, with artists, performers, at workshops & creating the art with us.
Thanks to all involved in In Our Nature including the people of Moston, Charlestown & Boggart Hole Clough and all the artists who joined us, No Us & Them with Company Chameleon & the participants, The Launderette Sessions at Amazing Grace with Merel Smitt, and the North Manchester Film Festival at Miners Arts and Music.
Thank you to everyone at Simpson Memorial Hall over SICK! Festival 2024!
Part of our aim for SICK! Festival 2024 was to activate spaces in Moston, Harpurhey & Charlestown, and showcase a unique programme of work by local, UK, and international artists, engaging concerns that are affecting the health of our communities. ��
We’d like to thank all involved in the shows at Simpson Memorial Hall across the festival, for helping us realise this vision.
With Benched by Tink Flaherty, Famehungry by Louise Orwin, ‘Brotherly, Otherly, Disorderly’ by Vijay Patel (supported by We Are Unlimited) and CAttS by Frankie Thompson and to Manchester Deaf Centre for providing BSL interpretation.
Thank you, North West Theatre Arts
When Moston North West Theatre Arts Company's director Prab Singh said ‘we do things differently here’, he wasn’t kidding.
Thank you to the whole crew & cast and front of house team, for hosting 3 of the diverse and innovative shows as part of the SICK! Festival 2024 programme, including their own take on the classic musical ‘RENT’, starring a cast made up of performers from Moston & North Manchester.
We'd also like to thank Gerel Falconer for bringing the Mancunian debut of Hip-hop Opera ‘Tones’ here, and thank Harpurhey artist Smug Roberts' for kicking off ‘Dementia Street’ with us.
Huge thanks to Contact for partnering with us & hosting ticketing across the shows too.
Thank you, SICK! Ambassadors, Ria Righteous, Rachel Shore & M3 Industries
The SAFE installation in the heart of Harpurhey Shopping Centre became a big talking point when we were out and about in the community over SICK! Festival 2024. It was born from the vision of the SICK! Ambassadors in collaboration with artists Ria Righteous & Rachel Shore, and support from M3 Industries.
You can still listen to the full audio description here: https://shorturl.at/p6oAt�
The SICK! Ambassadors are a group of young people from Moston, Harpurhey & Charlestown, who are our direct link to the community, informing the work that we do, and we’ve already started looking to the future with them.
Thank you, Creation Foundation
Now that our festival hosts Creation Foundation have released their final podcast episode, SICK! Festival 2024 has officially finished!
It seems fitting to extend our first ‘thank you’ to them for their incredible involvement in the festival, digging deeper into some of the events talking to you the people of North Manchester, the artists, creators and participants who worked with us too.��
Huge thank you to North Manchester FM and Something To Aim For for broadcasting/streaming the podcast. Listen to all episodes here: https://staflive.com/channel/creation-foundation
Creation Foundation x SICK! Festival Podcast: Episode 3 - Let's Talk About Cough
Tonight at 6pm, the final episode from our festival hosts Creation Foundation goes live. Sam & Pelumi sit down with researcher Professor Jackie Smith to chat about ‘Let’s Talk About Cough: One In Ten’ as part of the SMASH! Open series during SICK! Festival.
Tune in here 🎧: https://shorturl.at/zPsPF
All episodes of Channel / 2049 now on staflive.com
All episodes of Channel / 2049 are now live on our dedicated streaming platform by Something To Aim For, broadcasting from Charlestown’s Whitebeck Court, where the over 60’s residents imagine the future of everything from sports, culture, politics and weather 25 years from now.
Here, artists Alan Dunn, Sh*t Theatre & Claire Nolan talk about the series.
Watch the full episodes at: https://www.staflive.com/
'When Artists Produce' - Episode 2 Creation Foundation x SICK! Podcast
‘We just can’t wait for this conversation to be had!’ The second podcast episode from SICK! Festival hosts Creation Foundation, ‘When Artists Produce’, chatting with Rapperturg and ‘Tones’ writer & performer, Gerel Falconer, is out this evening at
6pm!�
Tune in here: staflive.com
Where Gaming & Community Intersect: Creation Foundation x SICK! Festival Episode 1
FESTIVAL PODCAST OUT NOW: ‘Where Gaming & Community Intersect’!�
Our festival hosts Creation Foundation came down to our Mindgames gaming day at Harpurhey Neighbourhood Project - The Centre during the festival and chatted with the gamers & Dan from Arcade Club UK about mental health, community & the launch of the game made by young men from North Manchester and Finland ‘Never, Forever, Always’, for the first episode of their festival podcast.
Listen here 🎧: staflive.com
Channel / 2049: Episode 4 Trailer - On staflive.com
It’s the season finale! At 6pm, catch the final episode of the pilot 4-part series Channel / 2049, before binging the whole lot! Tonight, the residents of Whitebeck Court in Charlestown traverse & talk over what politics & wellbeing will look like in 25 years time!�
Watch on 📺: staflive.com
Sport & Culture in the year 2049 - Channel / 2049 Episode 3 Trailer
This evening’s scheduled programming: broadcasting from the heart of Charlestown at 6pm, tune in to episode 3 of Channel / 2049, as the residents of Whitebeck Court & F.C United of Manchester Women’s Manager Jennie Swarbrick, look to the future of sport & culture.�
Tune in 📺: staflive.com
We interupt today's programming...Channel / 2049 Episode 2 'Tenantspin' - Trailer
We interrupt today’s programming to bring you a special broadcast of Channel / 2049. At 6pm this evening the second episode ‘Tenantspin’ will air with artists Alan Dunn & Maria Stukhoff discussing the project's inspiration and origins, starting 25 years ago!
Tune in 📺: staflive.com
Channel / 2049 Episode 1
In a slight change to the advertised schedule, Episodes 1-4 of CHANNEL / 2049 will air Mon-Thur this week, starting this evening at 6pm on staflive.com as part of SICK!.
Join us at 6pm on www.staflive.com for episode 1: Life In The Block
Captions included on STAF Live
SICK! Festival Simpson Memorial Hall - Final 2 Nights!
The 2 final shows at our Simpson Memorial Hall programme in Moston, as part of the festival this year with incredible artists bringing their work to North Manchester, are TONIGHT & TOMORROW, and here’s what to expect when you arrive. ��
♾️ WED 29 MAY, 7:30pm:
Neurodivergent access rider as a pop concert ‘Brotherly, Otherly, Disorderly’ by Vijay Patel��
😻 THURS 30 MAY, 7:30pm:
One-woman lip-sync ballet about doomscrolling our way through our dystopian world, ‘CAttS’ by Frankie Thompson.
Book via our partners Contact's website here: https://contactmcr.com/book-now
We've teamed up with the Manchester Deaf Centre for BSL at our shows!
We have teamed up with the Manchester Deaf Centre to provide BSL interpretation for the final 2 shows happening at Simpson Memorial Hall on Moston Lane this week. In this video, Marcel tells us more about Frankie Thompson’s one-woman lip-sync about doom scrolling through our dystopian reality, CAttS, happening this Thurs 30 May!
Book tickets here via our partners Contact website for the Moston shows: https://contactmcr.com/book-now
The venue is also wheelchair accessible with fidget toys, ear plugs
and ear defenders available.
Join us this week at Simpson Memorial Hall:
🟣: WED 29 MAY, 7:30pm - Brotherly, Otherly, Disorderly by Vijay Patel (Supported by Unlimited)�
🟣: THU 30 MAY, 7:30pm - CAttS by Frankie Thompson�
�For any other access enquiries, please email [email protected]
We've Teamed Up with the Deaf Centre
We have teamed up with the Deaf Centre to provide BSL interpretation for the final 2 shows happening at Simpson Memorial Hall on Moston Lane this week. Marcel from the Deaf Centre tells us more about Vijay Patel’s ‘Brotherly, Orderly, Disorderly’, happening on Wednesday 29th May, in this video.
The venue is also wheelchair accessible with fidget toys, ear plugs and ear defenders available.��
Join us this week at Simpson Memorial Hall:
🟣: WED 29 MAY, 7:30pm - Brotherly, Otherly, Disorderly by Vijay Patel (Supported by Unlimited)�
🟣: THU 30 MAY, 7:30pm - CAttS by Frankie Thompson��
Book tickets here: https://shorturl.at/2j1zw��
For any other access enquiries, please email [email protected]
Let's Talk About Cough / One In Ten, Sat 25th May - Reserve Free Spot Now
Join us this Saturday 25th May at North City Library in Harpurhey for an interactive audio experience about chronic cough at 'Let's Talk About Cough / One In Ten'.
Immerse yourself in this fascinating journey into the mysteries of the human body with eye-opening real-life stories, followed by discussion with refreshments.�
Free to book for each session at 11am, 1pm and 3pm: https://tinyurl.com/bddyb53s
