This year's theme was 'There's no place like home', which we loved incorporating into Our Creative Sessions in the lead up to Manchester Pride. We hosted Our First Film Screening of Wizard of Oz at Our New Venue, which was a huge success! The MASH community made Our Participants some beautifully decorated fans, whilst Our Room worked with Poet Tom Stocks to create special badges for MASH. 

This month we start a residency with our Oxford Corridor neighbours, Manchester Museum. Getting hands on and behind-the-scenes, from conservation to object handling, we'll be creating and experimenting with lots of different making techniques centred on wellbeing and mindfulness. Across the weeks, we’ll be creating a special Our Room x Manchester Museum museum-based wellbeing resource.  

A safe, welcoming space for male, trans and non-binary sex workers - whether you are currently sex working or have done so in the past. 

     

Join Our Support Team at Our Room Office:

Get more info via our website.

We have been invited to talk at this year’s online community-focused festival, offering a unique mix of evidence-based mindfulness talks, workshops and practices. 

Maura (Head of Creative) and Harriet (Associate Artist) will talk about how Our Room use mindful approaches, sharing honest insights from participants on barriers and benefits of mindful making. We invite everyone to consider - how can we help to make mindfulness accessible and inclusive for anyone?

It's been one month since we had Our New CEO, Roxanna Locke, join us here at Our Room - we couldn't be happier! 

During her extremely busy start, Roxanna took some time to write this post, reflecting on her first month here at Our Room. Here's a quick deeper dive into Roxanna's experience and how she's found settling in to her new office.

Ongoing 

Piccadilly Station Sanctuary Garden 

18 September 7-9pm

Social Refuge, M4 5AJ

6 weeks starting in October

Apply by 18 September!