The Next Term Festival

25/04/2018

PANEL DEBATE / SCREENING: Next Tuesday 1st May MMU will host this event which is looking at many similar themes to The Next Term and reimagining an education system for the 21st Century. Tickets to attend are free and there is also an opportunity to be on the panel (email [email protected]). We will be there and hope to see some of you guys too! The more we organise, the more we can start to make real change happen in our schools.

Most Likely to Succeed is a Creative Education Film that is part of a campaign and movement looking at change within our education system. This special screening of the film Most Likely To Succeed at Manchester School of Art is taking place in partnership with STEAM Co. The film is a call to parents...

26/03/2018

25/03/2018

1 day left to visit The Next Term Festival! We had an amazing day yesterday thanks to everyone that came down. We're here 11-6 with art installations, spoken word, free workshops and our amazing jazz band :DD

24/03/2018

Infinite cast library at The Next Term festival, in response to research with schools, teachers and young people. With school libraries facing a bleak future and many public libraries closing daily, children’s access to books is fast becoming a major concern.

Get yourselves down to The Next Term this weekend! Free and open to all, 11am-6pm. There are plenty of performances tomorrow to look forward to! Check out our full programme: www.thenextterm.com

24/03/2018

‪THIS WEEKEND Join us on the 24th/25th March for a wonderful weekend of art, performances, workshops, discussion, food and fun - All Free and open to all thenextterm.com ‬

22/03/2018

2 more sleeps until The Next Term Festival! Here’s a sneak detail from one of the installations, the space is open 11am-6pm, see you there! For a full list of performance and workshop times check out our website: www.thenextterm.com

A big thank you to Arts Council England and Futures Venture for funding the project and making the festival possible!

21/03/2018

Burning the midnight oil, SUPER excited for this weekend! Get yourselves down to Rogue Artists' Studios & Project Space CIC 11am-6pm Saturday & Sunday for immersive art installations, free creative workshops, performances and more!

21/03/2018

Experimenting with pianos which were abandoned in our project space - a disused school, once Varna Street Primary. The Next Term Festival respond is just 3 days away! Plenty of FREE creative workshops to look forward to over the weekend, open to all from 11am-6pm Rogue Artists' Studios & Project Space CIC

Getting there:
The space is a short 5 min train from Manchester Piccadilly, round the corner from Gorton Station. Check out our event page for more info.

20/03/2018

Testing visuals (and paint colours!) this afternoon for one of our installation pieces 'The Age of Disinformation', a collaboration with musician and technologist Chris Ball.

See this alongside a whole host of other artworks this weekend as part of our festival. We are opening 11-6 Saturday and Sunday and entry is totally FREE.

19/03/2018

We’ve been working with schools, youth groups and their educators - raising important questions about the future of education and what can be done to bring about positive change in our schools!

If you’re a teacher, teacher’s assistant or tutor and you have a spare moment, there’s still time to contribute to our project by having your say on our website:

This questionnaire is open to teachers, teaching assistants or other schools staff. It should take around 10 minutes to complete. Your responses will directly feed into the artworks we make and the…

18/03/2018

We've been working with this beautiful collection of donated instruments today to create an interactive installation for The Next Term Festival - 5 days to go! 🎻

17/03/2018

Negatives from laser-cutter tests last week - come down to The Next Term Festival next weekend to see the finished result! 💥