DMLab sessions 2024
Drake Music‘s DMLab sessions bring together a community of technologists, makers and Disabled musicians on a regular basis to support…
Suffragette City 2023
Suffragette City – the annual riotous celebration of International Women’s Day – is back again for 2023. This year we…
Drake Music Collective – Artists in Residence 2022
Throughout 2022 I had the honour of being Creative Facilitator for four emerging Disabled artists. The artists were given creative…
‘Not Going Shopping’: Stop The Clause March audio documentary 2018
This audio documentary was created to mark the 30th anniversary of Manchester’s Stop The Clause march, 1988. Attended by 20,000…
Queer Noise: The History of LGBT+ Music & Club Culture in Manchester 2017
Seventies secrecy in Salford pubs, joyous Gaychester resistance and cutting-edge, late-nineties, alternative club culture. Manchester’s musical LGBT+ history explored with…
Mauerstadt 30: Stories from the Berlin Wall 2019
Saturday November 9th 2019 marks 30 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall. This free afternoon event at YES, Manchester, celebrates this anniversary…
Queer Noise exhibition press 2017
We are delighted to announce that our Queer Noise exhibition at the People’s History Museum has been extended to 5th…
The Lapsed Clubber Podcast: Recording the memories of Manchester’s original rave community 2019
The Lapsed Clubber Audio Map is an online platform that allows members of Manchester’s original acid house community to share…
Northern Carnival against the Nazis: Evaluation Report 2018
This document presents the evaluation of the Northern Carnival Against the Nazis: 40th Anniversary Exhibition project, delivered by Abigail Ward…
Spirited at The Portico Library 2018
Spirited is a new exhibition at The Portico that tells the stories of some of the young women and girls who fought…