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Local Groups: Manchester

Our regular full group meeting is at 6.45pm for 7pm on the second Tuesday of each month at the Green Fish Resource Centre on Oldham Street (next to Mint Lounge, on the right just after Hilton Street if you're walking from Piccadilly Gardens). We also hold monthly campaigns meetings for each of our main campaigns at which we plan actions in more detail.

These are usually held on the second Thursday of the month for climate, third Thursday of the month for food and last Thursday of the month for transport - but please check our website for the latest updates: You can also find us on Facebook and Twitter. Manchester Wood Art and Craft Club. Manchester M16 8QP, UK to Whaley Bridge, Derbyshire, UK. Whaley Bridge to Manchester in High Peak, United Kingdom. EM Research Organization, Inc. Abundance Manchester. Going out and goings-on in the rainy city. Released by late Beastie Boy Adam Yauch’s Oscilloscope Laboratories, this documentary follows LCD Soundsystem founder James Murphy in the weeks preceding his band’s final show at New York’s Madison Square Gardens in 2011.

Going out and goings-on in the rainy city

Displaying the same self-deprecating humour found in the band’s best songs, 40-year-old Murphy ponders the wisdom of ending the career of his DFA punk-disco pioneers at their commercial peak, with a hometown show in front of their biggest ever audience. The film is directed by Will Lovelace and Dylan Southern, best known for their Blur film No Distance Left to Run. Manchester Metropolitan University Jobs. Greenroom. Manchester Digital Laboratory. Gallery and Event Space, Northern Quarter, Manchester. Soup Kitchen. New to Manchester. Manchester Library Theatre.

Full Circle Arts - Homepage. Platt Chapel. Manchester's OKasional social centre. Manchester Book Bloc. Last month OS members Jonathan and Paul started the 'Book Bloc' project - creating banners / riot shields for forthcoming demos. As the picture shows, they're essentially HUGE books, each having a special meaning in the context of deflecting aggression. They've a thin wooden base, but are made of thick slabs of foam- giving them yet more of a built in non violent / self defense message.

In the past these superb objects have been made as cloth and lettering only... but Paula and Jonathan wanted to take it a stage further and create books of genuine beauty... the amount of care having gone into them adding yet more power to the metaphor. Through Single Cell Music Collective (who as many of you know have links to OpenSpace) Jonathan staged a successful fundraising benefit at the very civilized OK Cafe temporary squat (a long standing Manchester tradition) on Liverpool Rd. They followed this up with a spectacularly good building session in the same space.

Over to Paul.. Manchester Social Centre. Carcanet Press - About Us. Etymologies and Origins (1967) Shakespeare calls holidays 'captain jewels in a carcanet'. A carcanet (pronounced KAR-ka-nett) is a 'jewelled necklace' with an etymological skeleton in its cupboard. Its ancestor is the Old French carcan, 'a slave's halter', more appropriate than a gorget as an emblem for a publishing house.

Carcanet was a literary magazine, founded in 1962. Michael Hind, a member of the original editorial board, recalls how the idea was to 'collect together and publish as a periodical poetry, short fiction, and "intelligent criticism of all the arts"; there were to be both student and senior members contributions.' The first issue, Michael Hind writes, appeared in 1962, with a plain white cover with a drawing of a gorget -- blue on white. The magazine Carcanet had fallen on hard times by October 1967 when Michael Schmidt, a newly arrived undergraduate at Wadham College, Oxford, took it over. 'Continue to build' is what independent literary houses must do.

Ten Alps PLC. Comma Press - A New Generation In Fiction. The Manchizzle: Introducing: The Real Story. Hooray!

The Manchizzle: Introducing: The Real Story

I'm delighted to be able to share the details about Openstories' new project, The Real Story. Walkit.com — The urban walking route planner. Event - What's On - Greater Manchester's CityLife. Sneak Preview: Inside new French restaurant Cote Brasserie Pictures and sneak preview inside the city's latest new £1mn restaurant, Cote Brasserie on St Mary's Street.

Event - What's On - Greater Manchester's CityLife

Home - Welcome to. Manchester gets new publishing house. Manchester novelist and academic Sherry Ashworth is doing something almost counter-intuitive this week.

Manchester gets new publishing house

“I think we’ll be different from many other regional publishing operations, because we will be completely independent,” says Ashworth. “We are doing it with our own money, we have no grant, just our experience and native cunning. And also, we hope, we have the writers.” ADZ Media: Publishing Company Manchester. Americana, folk, indie and alternative concert promotions in the rainy city. Victoria Baths. Things to do in Manchester. {*style:<i>Green hills, moorland, sheep and hedgerows? Check. Guest blogger <b>Richard Jones </b>explores the bits of Manchester where you’re more likely to find nightjars than nightclubs. </i>*} When people have children, you often hear them talk about “settling down” and “getting out of the city,” but around here this doesn’t have to mean stifling suburbia. There are plenty of rural communities that are actually within the boundaries of Greater Manchester.

I’d probably be run out of town if I didn’t choose my new home village of Dobcross in Saddleworth (above), where streets of classic weavers’ cottages lead away from a beautiful central square. Disley is the sort of village that looks as if it ought to be in the Cotswolds. Even the most rural parts of Manchester are full of reminders of the cotton industry. Between Wigan and Bolton, Haigh is a small village with a grand estate house, Haigh Hall , and an adjoining country park.

{*style:<i><b> Images </b>: all Richard Jones. Best Wild Swimming Spots in Manchester - Kate Feld. Kate Feld finds there are more things to do in Manchester (and its surrounds) than purely urban pursuits.

Best Wild Swimming Spots in Manchester - Kate Feld

She packs her swimsuit and takes the plunge… For me, summer means swimming outdoors. Bridgewater Canal. The Bridgewater Canal connects Runcorn, Manchester and Leigh, in North West England.

Bridgewater Canal

It was commissioned by Francis Egerton, 3rd Duke of Bridgewater, to transport coal from his mines in Worsley to Manchester. It was opened in 1761 from Worsley to Manchester, and later extended from Manchester to Runcorn, and then from Worsley to Leigh. The canal is connected to the Manchester Ship Canal via a lock at Cornbrook; to the Rochdale Canal in Manchester; to the Trent and Mersey Canal at Preston Brook, southeast of Runcorn; and to the Leeds and Liverpool Canal at Leigh. It once connected with the River Mersey at Runcorn but has since been cut off by a slip road to the Silver Jubilee Bridge. Often considered to be the first "true" canal in England, it required the construction of an aqueduct to cross the River Irwell, one of the first of its kind. Design and construction[edit] Brindley's aqueduct, replaced late in the 19th century.

Cycling around Manchester. Cycling around Manchester, interesting?

Cycling around Manchester

Manchester does not have the name to be the nicest city in England. But the year I lived in Manchester I saw a side of the city I had not expected. Chorlton Park To my surprise Manchester, despite its reputation, turned out to be much nicer then I had expected. The old city center was nicely renovated after the bombings of the mid 1980's. I was to live in the southern areas of Manchester, near Chorlton. MAD Walkers - Manchester 20s & 30s Rambling Group. Secondhand and Antiquarian Bookshops in Greater Manchester. 1 Church Street. Www.treeoflifecentre.org.uk/wordpress/ The Bookshop Guide.

Triratna Buddhism Manchester.