Hopefully see as many of you as possible on Sunday 12th May afternoon from 3pm at HEAD in Stretford. Address is 127-128 Stretford Mall, Chester Rd, Manchester M32 9BH I know people struggled to find it before – to be clear the entrance is on Stretford Road, as the address states, NOT inside the Stretford […]
Still ill, ok?
Just am desperate to do a quick post wishing all the well wishes in the world to the lovely Charlie J Fitz who is in sunny Barcelona recovering from her life-saving surgery, necessary due to a rare complication of EDS, which she raised a significant amount of money through Chance4Charlie in order to finally have. […]
Sunday was a bad day for me and my body. In hindsight, it was a bad-bad situation that led to an even worse situation last week that led to urgent (and totally traumatising) procedures on both hips, which in turn led to my current situation: still completely and totally shit. Hence the very late post […]
Incredible and incredibly cold gig experience.
I was very lucky in Liverpool to spend my Monday afternoon with the very lovely Laura and Brendan from The Everyman Theatre on Hope Street, discussing this blog’s current research theme of ‘Art & Access’ in relation to their outreach work and in-house efforts. Laura’s job as Community Engagement Officer is to engage people who […]
There are a shit ton of events that look amazing around Manchester today and this weekend in celebration of International Women’s Day, but alas I am still too poorly to attend (ahem. Cue violin strings, please). This time last year me n a fab lady colleague took some fab young people on a trip to […]
Hello, An extremely belated post here so hurriedly trying to cover a number of things. Firstly, thank you to everyone who came to the Still Ill OK launch event at HEAD in Stretford. We made some cool art which, as promised, will come together to form the first issue of the Still Ill OK zine […]
Super excited to FINALLY, yes finally, announce the first Still Ill OK Collective meet up and launch event! We will be at the gorgeous, Lynchean, stylish and spacious HEAD bar in Stretford, Manchester from 4pm on Tuesday 19th February. As well as meeting each other you are invited to take part in a number of […]
I will be running a craftivism workshop focusing specifically on the zine format on day 2 of Breakthrough UK’s brilliant upcoming event, Democracy, Disability and Devolution; an event aiming to encourage more disabled women to get involved in politics. The event takes place over two days and features inspiring female politicians to speak to, various […]
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