EVENTS
Our events are designed to celebrate the diverse interests and passions of our community, offering something for everyone. From informative workshops to lively panel discussions, from networking opportunities to art exhibitions, our calendar is constantly abuzz with exciting happenings.
What sets SEESAW's events apart is our commitment to collaboration. We believe that the best ideas come from a collective effort, which is why we actively involve our members in the event creation process. By listening to your suggestions, interests, and expertise, we ensure that each event truly reflects the vibrant spirit of our community. Whether you are a long-standing member or someone new to the SEESAW family, our events offer you a chance to connect with like-minded individuals, expand your knowledge, and discover new horizons.
SEESAW's events also extend their reach beyond our immediate community. We embrace the opportunity to collaborate with external partners, inviting industry experts, thought leaders, and innovators to join us in delivering enriching experiences. This ensures a diverse range of perspectives, stimulating conversations, and opportunities for mutual learning that go beyond our walls.
So, whether you're looking to broaden your network, gain new skills, or simply engage with an incredible community, SEESAW's events are here to make it happen. We invite you to explore our dynamic programme, mark your calendars, and join us!
The Waiting Line - Bobbie Wilson
Bobbie Wilson is an artist and curator based in Manchester, she currently works from DMZ Studio in Ancoats.
Bobbie creates emotionally charged depictions of her personal history, where simple moments are embedded with themes of grief, memory and mental health.
‘The Waiting Line’ chronicles a chapter of the artist’s life, a diary of works responding to the changes in her mental health, oscillating between illness and healing. Bobbie invites us to peer at her inner world, her flitting fixations, where paintings of the peaceful Yorkshire moors sit alongside anxiety ridden self-portraits.
The exhibition launches on Friday 21st Feb 6-9pm, and continues until March 25th.
Manchester Society of Architects Talk: New Practice
Marc Cairns is Managing Director at New Practice, experts in place working across the UK and Ireland. The practice exists to develop the community, creative and cultural capacity of places and to connect people with the decision making processes that underpin lived experiences.
The practice is committed to embedding social value in place-based projects across the UK and beyond through community engagement, meanwhile use, retrofit & reuse and strategies for community; ensuring that community-centred briefs and shared decision making shape the future of the built environment.
New Practice, a RIAS and RIBA chartered practice, became part of Civic in Autumn 2024 through a shared commitment to the design and delivery of places that have a positive impact on the environment and enable people to lead healthier, happier lives.
a tenuous line, a lot of feelings: an evening of readings.
A tenuous line, a lot of feelings. Rich in timbral diversity: engines hum, instruments are methodically destroyed, tension hangs on taut wire.
World Poetry Day. Free entry.
Readers:
Lu Rose Cunningham
Martin Kratz
Hilary White
Tom Branfoot
Hamish Rush
Jordan Hayward
Re-start. The new season is coming.
Recollect, gather parts, remember a whole.
Spill - Dilara Koz Exhibition
Spill is a cafe intervention comprising twenty-five set-of-ten recycled paper coasters and fifteen instructional letters.
Within the last month, fifteen people received an instructional letter from Dilara, inviting them for a coffee. Recipients were asked to open the folded letter before noon, when they have an hour to spare, without further explanation. The response to the letters are contained within the coasters.
Dilara (b. Ankara) makes installations (placements) and artists books, occasionally delivering performance-lectures. She is the art director of New Papers, a magazine of fiction and poetry, and a visiting tutor at Bilgi University, İstanbul. Her practice moves between observation of space and its documentation, oftentimes resulting in derealised images that disrupt the conventional definition of its contents, or works of text that strive towards diluting signification.
The private view will be held on Friday March 28th, 6-9pm. The intervention will then continue to be on display until April 23rd.
The Neurodivergent Gals Creative Club - Behind the Mask
Welcome to The Neurodivergent Gals Club! They host in person social events for ND gals & LGBTQIA+ pals every second Thursday of the month. This is a fantastic opportunity to connect with like minded people. The creative club runs differently every month, featuring knitting workshops, bring your own craft and more. Don't miss out on this opportunity to unleash your creativity and connect with fellow crafty enthusiasts. See you there!
Other People’s Poetry
A Spoken word evening, a little differently. Artists from around Manchester will be performing poetry that has inspired their creative process, sharing their passion and context for their works whilst performing other people's poetry.
This event is hosted collaboratively by Joseph Conway and SEESAW. (Other People's Poetry will be recurring on every third Tuesday of the Month)
The event is a Pay What You Can Event; this ticket fee is to pay the artists and all money paid will be distributed evenly between all performers.
The bar will be open, do buy a refreshment to support the venue!
Doors open 6:30pm
Event Start 7pm
Line Up
TBC
Coffee and Poems Club
For people who like coffee but want to try out poetry. ☕🖊️
Coffee and Poems Club is all about coming together in cafes and trying out something new. It's about making writing poetry more simple. You come and enjoy a coffee, hear some poems, and then we write some poems together. If 2025 is your year of trying out something new, this event is for you.
The session will be hosted by Louis Glazzard at SEESAW. Louis Glazzard is an author and coffee lover. His poems have been published nationally and he released his debut poetry collection Human Men in 2021. He started Coffee and Poems Club in 2024 when he realised he spent so much of his own time writing in cafes and wanted to offer a relaxed event for people to try out writing and connect.
Tickets for this event include a coffee in the cafe at SEESAW.
ClayLife.
Looking for something completely unique to do? Look no further! The perfect occasion to spend a fun couple of hours with a friend, family member or a date. Also, a fabulous solo-date you will meet and mingle with like-minded creatives
Join our Nude Model Sculpting Sessions and learn the art of sculpting a figure out of clay under the expert guidance of Nina, specialist figurative ceramicist.
Don't worry if you're a beginner, Nina will provide step-by-step instructions to help you create a stunning sculpture that you'll be proud to take home, all the materials are provided.
Queer Hive Coworking
Queer Hive are Manchester's Queer Co-Working Community.
We are a friendly bunch of remote and hybrid workers across many different industries who meet a few times a week to get work done and meet new, like-minded folks. Anyone who identifies as Queer or LGBTQIA+ is welcome to join our free sessions by booking on Eventbrite.
We meet a few days a week across the city centre, cumulating in fun Fridays at SEESAW. We also run an active community WhatsApp which is a great resource for more social and community events - please see our Instagram @queerhivemcr for more information!
SHADE Yoga Club
Come escape the hustle and join us for our weekly yoga club meet-up and discover how transformative the power of yoga has on dealing with stress in a supportive and welcoming community! Whether you’re a seasoned yogi or just starting your journey, our meet-ups offer something for everyone. Immerse yourself in an hour of mindful movement, guided by experienced instructors who will help you deepen your practice and explore new techniques.
Catalog Pop-up: A Bookshop on Wheels
Pete from Catalog will be parking his book bicycle in SEESAW's Foyer Area. Catalog is a mobile independent bookshop where quality is valued over quantity. A speciality magazine space with a focus on high-quality publications of both local and international magazines and books.
Treat yourself, grab a read and a coffee - warm out of the rain.
Catalog will be matching the coffee shop opening hours of 8:30am-4pm.