25 Years of Quarantine

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Here’s 25 years worth of thanks to every single person who has collaborated with us, attended or taken part in an event / performance / exhibition / workshop of ours, supported us, asked questions and given advice

Announcing our new Executive Director

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We’re delighted to announce that Kevin Jamieson will be joining the team in September 2023 as Quarantine’s Executive Director. Kevin Jamieson joins Quarantine from HOME, Manchester where he has been Head of Programme for nine years. He produced over 50 HOME productions working with a wide range of artists and theatremakers, on the stages of […]

Lucy Tomlinson: The process of looking

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Lucy Tomlinson is our research assistant for The Beauty Project; a research project that seeks to expand an evidence base for cultural value by looking at ways to understand and articulate the value of beauty. Here Lucy shares her reflections on doing a deep dive into beauty through key philosophical texts spanning hundreds of years. […]

Would Like to Meet: Artist reflections

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“I never imagined having such an opportunity to reflect as an artist at this point in my life… to cast myself back 20 years, and also somehow, forward 20 years… The residency was like a tidal water mark… I sense in a few years time I will be able to trace decisions, senses and feelings […]

Dr Rox Middleton: Communicating beauty

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Dr Rox Middleton, a physicist from the School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol, is collaborating with us on The Beauty Project; a research project that seeks to expand an evidence base for cultural value by looking at ways to understand and articulate the value of beauty. In September 2022, Rox came up to Manchester to […]