Trans Creative

📢 Calling all LGBTQ+ creatives in Greater Manchester 📢

Dibby Theatre Productions First Dibs Autumn programme is officially open for booking!

This year’s programme includes:
💥Free 1-2-1 Link Up mentoring sessions
💥Free Glow Up workshops
💥3 x Paid Glow Up Residencies
+ More to be announced!

See the full programme, eligibility criteria and how to book on their website here:
https://www.dibbytheatre.org/get-involved

📚 Author Event: Eli Erlick in Conversation

Join Eli Erlick as she discusses her latest book, BEFORE GENDER: Lost Stories from Trans History 1850–1950, in conversation with Eden Foxon.

🕡 Doors: 6.30pm | Event starts: 6.45pm
📍 Blackwell's Bookshop, 146 Oxford Road Manchester M13 9GP
💷 Tickets: £4 | Free with the purchase of a copy of the book
🎟️ https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/before-gender-eli-erlick-in-conversation-tickets-1520322618879

This event is part of Oxford Road Corridor’s Cultural Welcome Week. Don’t miss this chance to hear about the untold histories of trans lives and the making of Before Gender.

🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ After a year of hostility, Manchester Pride roars back with Trans Power.

Kate O’Donnell, founder of Trans Creative and a long-standing performer, host, and activist, is lighting up Manchester Pride 2025. From opening the Rally to headlining Freight Island’s House of MCR finale, she’s reminding us all: visibility is resistance, joy is defiance, Pride is where we dig deep for each other.

Says Kate: “We’re being legislated against… the rug’s being pulled out from under us… It’s where we remind each other that we belong, and we’re loved.”

Check out the full interview with I Love Manchester:
https://ilovemanchester.com/kate-odonnell-trans-power-pride-2025

✨ NEW SCREENING ADDED! ✨
🎬 Queerchester has officially SOLD OUT — and with so many of you on the waitlist, they have added an extra screening...

The sold out 6pm screening will feature a post-screening Q&A and the newly added 8.30pm screening will feature an introduction from Director, Mark Jordan and Narrator, Kate Odonnell

📅 Tue 21 Aug | 🕣 8:30PM
📍 Treehouse Hotels Manchester
🎟️ Tickets available NOW at scenefestival.com — move quick, they won’t last long!

🎶 Queerissimo are hoping to start a new q***r orchestra (or potentially other ensembles). They are looking to give LGBTQ+ instrumental musicians the opportunity to play and socialise together. They'll be based in Manchester but are aiming to have a reach across the north of England.

Sound interesting? Get in touch with them:https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSddUFF73lXkEnTJQ8A3homdYbvJqz7YuhBiTB6DSIUNzFI_Cw/viewform

🎨 Open Call for Trans or Non Binary Community Artist

Andro & Eve are looking to work with one or two trans or non-binary community artists or writers who are based in the North of England, and who have well rounded experiences facilitating workshops with communities / members of the public.

The Community Artist/s will collaborate on We Contain Multitudes, an exciting programme of creative workshops making space for trans and non-binary people to be creative together and finding out what is important to them. The Community Artist/s will design and facilitate a series of creative workshops to be delivered in Sheffield and Doncaster between October - December 2025.

Contract: Freelance
Fee: £275 per workshop + R&D time at £30/hr + travel expenses
Delivery: 9 workshops + up to 32 hours R&D time

Visit the Andro & Eve website to find out more about the role and how to apply, the wellbeing support in place, and to download the Information Pack.

Application Deadline: 9am Monday 28 July

https://androandeve.com/open-call-for-trans-or-non-binary-community-artist/