Come and get a taste of what’s happening in the minds of the city’s creatives, as we bring artists, designers, makers and creatives of all fields to talk about their practice, projects or sources of inspiration in five minutes flat.
Speakers include
- Bimmy, founder of onlyonemono, the self-taught graphic designer behind the artwork of most of Manchester’s new music scene, who will talk about unconventional routes into the creative industries.
- Documentary filmmaker and multimedia artists Victoria Dahl, whose project The Collective Self invites the viewer to experience the ordinary and extraordinary of everyday life by mapping the interior life of women all over the world.
- Visual Artist Sadé Mica, whose practice explores their experiences navigating the world as a fat, queer, black person and the nuances that brings in fleshing out an identity that is often met with contempt and confusion.
- Owain Kelly, one half of the composing duo JWOK who specialised in music composition for Film & Television after working together on numerous projects for over a decade, including electronic synth-wave act NO CEREMONY and experimental orchestral folk quartet Tigers That Talked.
- Rachel Cook, a Graphic Designer with a passion for typography and hand-drawn lettering. In her spare time, you’ll find her attending some of Manchester’s most inspiring creative events or, most likely, thinking up her latest piece of type.
- Writer and Director, Jack Benjamin Gill, who will talk about exploring modern slavery and human trafficking in his latest short film Doggerland, shot on location in Manchester.
- Chris Butler, co founder of multidisciplinary arts collective We Are Willow, who will talk about A Different Light, an artistic collaboration contributing to the awareness of male mental health.