24 Mar
The 6th National Black Writers and Publishers conference: an informative and thought provoking day drawing on published writers and industry professionals from the UK’s most innovatory publishers and agents. Full programme for the day (please click) Tickets available from Quay … Read more
22 Mar
Ghosts Disappearing Histories : Exhibition CELEBRATING THE CLUBS OF MOSS SIDE AND HULME FROM THE 50′S TO THE 80′s Exhibition Commonword and Zion Arts Centre are celebrating the Moss Side and Hulme night clubs of the 50′s to the 80′s … Read more
1 Dec
Commonword Ghosts : Disappearing Histories Exhibition Celebrating Clubs of Moss Side & Hulme from 50s to 80s Windrush Millenium Centre Windrush Millenium Centre, 70 Alexandra Road, Moss Side, Manchester M16 7WD 1-6 December 2011 11am – 4pm every day FREE … Read more
20 Oct
Superheroes of Slam, the Dike Omeje Slam Poetry Award 2011, is the quest to find the ultimate slam poet with spoken word superpowers. GRAND FINAL – MANCHESTER Thursday 20 October Yard Theatre 41 Old Birley Street, Hulme, Manchester M15 5RF 7.30pm … Read more
19 Oct
Rachel Connor’s compelling debut novel weaves together a moving tale of love, faith and redemption through the lives of two women married to the same man. It moves through past and present, city and community, following a tangled web of … Read more
14 Oct
COMMONWORD POETRY FACTOR Part of Manchester Literature Festival Talent-spotted young performance poets from across the north enter our pitching competition in a bid to convince our panel of distinguished judges (poets and promoters Helen Clare , Baba Israel , Segun … Read more
14 Jul
An Evening Of Poetry, Performance And Love Music! Come along and invite all your friends to this fantastic charity night, an evening of poetry, performance and love music in association with MAV ( Mothers against Violence). http://mavuk.org/ This is an … Read more
2 Jul
Back by popular demand, a funkalicious night of experimental Spoken Word and Music, hosted by Chanje Kunda. Featuring Yusra Warsma, Akiel Chinelo, Yvonne McCalla, Anita Whitehead & an ‘Anything in the Mancuniverse Could Happen’ open mic, the event will be … Read more
25 Jun
In collaboration with Zion Arts Centre we are celebrating the Blues parties and clubs of the 1950s-1980s. Join us for a night remembering the Nile, Reno & PSV Clubs, that played a key role in bringing together as a community … Read more
13 Jun
Commonword, as part of the Ghosts project, has been collecting unrecorded histories of the clubs and shebeens of Moss Side and Hulme from the 50s to the 80s. Clubs like the Nile, Reno and PSV were key in bringing together … Read more
26 May
Commonword are proud to announce the official launch on Thursday 26th May at 5.30pm of Womanswrite’s anthology “Life, Death… The Whole Damn Thing”. Featuring short stories from members of the award-winning Tuesday writing group, this long-awaited collection is an engaging … Read more
11 Feb
Love Bites – Commonword/Cultureword Valentines Special February swings around and suddenly there’s a spring in your step. It’s the season of love and whether you sit on the sidelines happy to watch others fall and make fools of themselves, or … Read more
25 Jan
A night of music, spoken word and soul food themed on the African Caribbean clubs in Moss Side and Hulme from the 50s to the 80s. Come along, reminisce and find out more about the Ghosts project and the history … Read more
22 Jan
The Ghosts Project is looking for photos of the Moss Side and Hulme cubs of the 50s to 80s for an archive and exhibition of African-Caribbean heritage in Manchester. If you have any old photos of the Nile, Reno or … Read more
14 Jan
The Ghosts Project is looking for photos of the Moss Side and Hulme cubs of the 50s to 80s for an archive and exhibition of African-Caribbean heritage in Manchester. If you have any old photos of the Nile, Reno or … Read more
10 Jan
The Ghosts Project is looking for photos of the Moss Side and Hulme cubs of the 50s to 80s for an archive and exhibition of African-Caribbean heritage in Manchester. If you have any old photos of the Nile, Reno or … Read more
4 Jan
The Ghosts Project is looking for photos of the Moss Side and Hulme cubs of the 50s to 80s for an archive and exhibition of African-Caribbean heritage in Manchester. If you have any old photos of the Nile, Reno or … Read more