No Such Thing nominated for Culture Award
We’re pleased to report our monthly curry and conversation event, No Such Thing has been shortlisted for Best Event at Manchester Culture Awards 2019. No Such Thing has been running since June 2012. Every month, we occupy a couple of tables in Kabana curry cafe in Manchester’s Northern Quarter. The offer is simple: we buy you a […]
Announcing new three-year programme: Locating the Commonplace
We’re delighted to announce we’ll be undertaking an exciting new three-year programme of work, following a generous grant made by the Rank Foundation. ‘Locating the Commonplace’ builds on the thinking of our Tenancy project and will see us continue to explore the relationship between the city and its residents. Over the next three years, our […]
Manchester’s Culture Awards
Manchester City Council has launched the city’s inaugural Culture Awards, and is asking the people of Manchester to put forward nominations. Did you have an incredible cultural experience between April 2017 and April 2018, or do you know someone who goes above and beyond to support culture in Manchester? If so, you can nominate them here: www.manchester.gov.uk/culture_awards We’re putting […]
Meet The Neighbours awarded Creative Europe Funding
Quarantine have been awarded funding from Creative Europe to lead on a new international residency project, Meet The Neighbours, in partnership with Comédie de Béthune(France), Galeria Labirynt (Lublin, Poland), Grand Theatre (Groningen, Netherlands) and 18, derb el ferrane (Marrakesh, Morocco). Addressing the role of artists in changing cities, Meet The Neighbours aims to foster a true sense of neighbourhood on both a hyperlocal and an international […]
Summer. Autumn. Winter. Spring. is nominated for a Manchester Theatre Award
Quarantine’s Summer. Autumn. Winter. Spring. has been nominated for a Manchester Theatre Award for Best Special Entertainment. Summer. Autumn. Winter. Spring. premiered in April 2016, transforming Old Granada television studios into a performance venue for our seven-hour quartet of performance and film, tracing the shape of a life. Co-produced with HOME and Contact, the quartet featured over 50 local […]
Sharing the learning from our strategic touring project 2014/15
In 2014 and 2015 Quarantine was supported by Arts Council England’s strategic touring programme to take three projects to new people and places across the North West, West Yorkshire and the East Midlands. Between us, we know everything…, The Soldier’s Song, and Table Manners were presented in collaboration with our project partners: Contact, Manchester; Derby Theatre; Spot On Rural Touring, […]
The human life that’s here: A Symposium investigating Quarantine’s Quartet | 29-30 September 2016
Quarantine’s Summer. Autumn. Winter. Spring. was a major international performance event, staged at the Old Granada Studios, Manchester, on 26 March and 2 & 3 April 2016. It comprised four pieces of work developed over a two-year period. “Whilst each show was originally performed separately, together they constitute a sustained enquiry into the performance of ‘life’ – […]
Catalyst Evolve – new funding awarded to develop Quarantine fundraising capacity
Quarantine have been awarded funding from Arts Council England‘s ‘Catalyst Evolve’ programme to develop our fundraising capacity. Catalyst Evolve is a new initiative that aims to support organisations with a limited track record in fundraising to attract more private giving. Quarantine are one of 140 projects that will collectively receive a total of £17.5 million through […]
‘We Know That Everybody Dances’ Workshops at Juncture 2016
We Know That Everybody Dances is a series of artist-led workshops presented by Juncture 2016, exploring creative collaboration with people who aren’t trained to dance/people who think they can’t dance/people who love to dance. This series of workshops departs from the premise that non-professional dancers, and professional dance workers of all kinds, can form different modes […]
Lab Sweden at Göteborgs Dans & Teater Festival
This month, Wallflower travels to Tanum in Sweden for this year’s Göteborgs Dans & Teater Festival (18 – 27 August), Sweden’s international festival of performing arts. As part of Quarantine’s involvement in the festival, Richard Gregory and Renny O’Shea have been invited to lead a two-day workshop as part of Lab Sweden, an artistic lab […]