Speed Mate-ing @Yolk
Upcoming Events
We are always busy here at Girl Gang – whether it is growing our own ideas and projects, taking on new commissioned work from partners, or cooking up exciting collaborations with local arts organisations and venues.
You’re never more than a few weeks away from an opportunity to join the gang and get crafty, chatty, creative or to have a dance!
Got an idea for an event that you want to run with us? Please get in touch.
What's Coming Up?
Check out all upcoming events below, alongside our monthly events series of creative, friend-making, fitness and community activities. Find out more information and get your tickets – we can’t wait for you to join our gang!
Speed Mate-ing #35
September 18,
6:30 pm -
9:15 pm
It can be hard making new friends as an adult, can’t it? Fear not, with nearly 9 years of success, Speed Mate-ing with Girl Gang Manchester is here to help! We can’t wait to watch the wonder of new friendships blossoming before us!
Build A Better Future: The Work We Need
September 25,
6:30 pm -
8:30 pm
The Work We Need sets out the principles of good 21st century work – work that will enable people, local places, nature and business to flourish – and she provides a road map as to how we might get there. This is a book for workers everywhere, for policy makers and for business leaders.
Build A Better Future: Conversations for Change Digital Workshop
October 23,
6:30 pm -
9:00 pm
It’s more important than to ever speak out for the things we believe in! But how do we continue to speak calmly and compassionately with people we disagree with, or worse, seem to be actively trying to antagonise us? How about challenging those closest to us?
Build A Better Future: In Defence of Witches
October 30,
6:30 pm -
8:30 pm
Mona Chollet’s In Defense of Witches is a “brilliant, well-documented” celebration (Le Monde) by an acclaimed French feminist of the witch as a symbol of female rebellion and independence in the face of misogyny and persecution.
Build A Better Future: Hope In The Dark - Digital Workshop
November 13,
6:30 pm -
9:00 pm
A Workshop About Collective and Individual Hope. Inspired by The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times by Jane Goodall and Douglas Abrams and Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities by Rebecca Solnit
Build A Better Future: Recognising the Stranger
November 27,
6:30 pm -
8:30 pm
From the award-winning author of The Parisian and Enter Ghost comes an outstanding essay on the Palestinian struggle and the power of narrative