hidden rivers, flowing beer and sweet sweet music

It's the grand finale of get lost tomorrow and we are going out on a high.....

The Hidden Rivers of Manchester
Meet 4pm outside The Royal Exchange Theatre (St Annes Square)

Manchester is a city built on capital, not geography. It's rivers lie buried beneath concrete and steel, culverted and diverted, polluted and buried. We will locate the lost rivers of Manchester - the Irk, the Tib, the Gore to trace their paths and explore their forgotten potential. NB this is an above ground walk and you shouldnt get wet unless it's raining.

Afterwards Garden City Social are hosting a shindig for us at The Britons Protection (as close to the river as we could find a pub with a music license) We're asking for a suggested donation of £3 on the door for the gig towards the cost of staging events but it will be easy to sneak in if you are skint.

The night will be starring Dan Seizure- electro nonsense from the Forrest Cafe, Edinburgh,
Ryan Van Winkle Poet and visionary (also from the Forrest), You and Boo - Urban pastoral outta Hulme and Samson and Delilah - Long hair and lullabies plus I think there will be more pictures from those naughty urban explorers

Please come and join us, and if you do - mine's a makers mark with ice.

ruinous recollections

opening tonight at upper space gallery (aka sunshine studios) every glimpse and whisper i've been privvy to about this work has been fascinating and i can;t wait to see what they have been creating

time travel and the big debate

although the lrm are all still coming down from a triptastic weekend we're rallying our energies to bring you still more fabulous events....

The Bored in the City Time Capsule Project Tonight
25th June) 7pm at the Queen Victoria Statue, Piccadilly Gardens

Please bring along small objects to be placed in a specially designed time capsule which will be buried somewhere suitable; attendees will write cryptic clues alluding to its hiding place which will then be published as a masquerade style literary piece

Regeneration and its discontents: Urban Democracy Forum

Tomorrow (26th June) 6-8pm Nexus Dale Street

An evening of lively debate kicked off by short talks from our range of panellists including academics, journalists, activists and politicians. Come along and have your say!

We will also be having fun at the Ruinous Recollections launch, Underground Rivers walk and Garden City Social but more of that later. Pictures are from the shared TRIP flickr pool. Please add your images too

tripped out, ecstatic and coming down

love and thanks to all who made TRIP into such a special occasion. full reports one day but now i need to sleep xxx

Manchester Freedom Trail

the meeting point is Cafe Pop not the royal exchange. sorry for any confusion x

Apologies to dragon hunters

Sorry to anybody who may have gone to meet me at Victoria Station to search for dragons. I got burgled an hour before we would have set off and had to cancel the expedition and speak with the police instead. I hope the tannoy announcement got the message through at the station.
Speak soon,
Kaspar
http://treacleonline.wordpress.com

No Borders Tour of Manchester

The No Borders Tour will meet at 11am Thurs 19th outside the Aquatics centre, Oxford Rd

No Boarders is a network of individuals against the persecution, detention and exploitation of refugees and other migrants. They are committed to imagining a world without borders and ways to realise this. The walk takes in the sights of Manchester's Asylum Seeker deportation apparatus.