hÅb's Partners
Updated 4 December 2024
hÅb can only function in partnership with a host of other organisations and networks, some of whom are linked to below; we are:
an Arts Council England National Portfolio Organisation, supported using public funding;
a Divergency core partner — an ongoing artist development programme encouraging diversity in Live Art;
a Manchester Independents lead partner — highlighting independent Greater Manchester artists alongside over 30 organisations across our city region;
a Live Art UK member — a national network, supporting and developing the Live Art infrastructure for the benefit of artists, presenters, and audiences;
a GMAST Network member — over 60 Greater Manchester cultural organisations brought together to address the climate and ecological crisis;
a GM LGBTQ+ Arts & Culture Network member — an LGBT Foundation Project, supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England, supporting cultural partners to become more inclusive and transform how they engage with LGBTQ+ audiences/participants/artists/staff.
We are pleased to count among our friends and regular partners:
The Arden: Theatre and Performance
Artsadmin
Black Gold Arts
Chanje Kunda
Company Chameleon — Turn partner
Compass Live Art
Contact — Emergency, Social Experiment, Turn, Works Ahead partner
Dance Consortia North West — Turn partner
Darren Pritchard Dance
DERELICT
Factory International
The Guinness Partnership — Domestic I & II partner
HOME
In Between Time
Lancaster Arts
Live Art Development Agency (LADA) — Live Art UK partner
LOWRY — WTF Wednesday programme partner
Manchester Museum
Michael Pinchbeck
Mkultra
MMU: Performance at Manchester School of Theatre
NIAMOS — Emergency StopGap partner
Pigeon Theatre
Project Auske — Turn partner
Proto-type Theater
Proud & Loud Arts — Hazard partner
Quarantine
Reckless Sleepers
Royal Exchange Theatre
Two Destination Language
UCLan: Theatre
University of Salford: Theatre and Performance Practice
the Whitworth
Work for Change — home to making space The Yard and our office
Z-arts — Haphazard partner
Former Partnerships
In 2012 we were pleased to partner with Live at LICA (now Lancaster Arts) to produce the Getting It Out There symposium on touring; a FREE publication produced with the Live Art Development Agency following the event can be downloaded here.
From 2012 to 2016 hÅb was funded by Manchester City Council through the Manchester Cultural Partnership.
From 2014 to 2021 Sustained Theatre Up North (STUN) was a Divergency partner.
From 2020 to 2023 hÅb was a GM Artist Hub member — a joint artist development project supporting independent artists and freelance creatives across our city region.