hÅb's Partners
Updated 5 Jan 2023
We can only function in partnership with a host of other organisations and networks, some of whom are linked to below. hÅb is:
an Arts Council England National Portfolio Organisation, supported using public funding;
a core Divergency partner alongside STUN (Sustained Theatre Up North) — an ongoing artist development programme encouraging diversity in Live Art;
a GM Artist Hub partner — a joint artist development project supporting independent artists and freelance creatives across the city region with:
Community Arts Northwest, Contact, Factory International, FutureEverything, HOME, Octagon Theatre Bolton, Oldham Coliseum Theatre, Royal Exchange Theatre, SICK! Festival, Sustained Theatre Up North, The Lowry, The Old Courts, Waterside Arts & Creative Industries Trafford, Z-arts;
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;
a Live Art UK member — a national network, supporting and developing the Live Art infrastructure for the benefit of artists, presenters, and audiences;
a Manchester Independents lead partner — supporting and spotlighting GM artists alongside other cultural organisations and businesses in our city region.
We are pleased to count among our other friends and regular partners:
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Chanje Kunda
Company Chameleon — Turn partners
Compass Live Art
Contact — Emergency, Turn, Works Ahead partners
Darren Pritchard Dance
DERELICT
Flare
HOME
In Between Time
Live Art Development Agency (LADA)
Lancaster Arts
Michael Pinchbeck
Mkultra
MMU: Performance at Manchester School of Theatre
NIAMOS — Emergency/StopGap partners
Pigeon Theatre
Project Auske — Turn partners
Proto-type Theater
Proud & Loud Arts — Hazard 2018 + 2022 partners
Quarantine
Reckless Sleepers
Royal Exchange Theatre
STUN (Sustained Theatre Up North) — Divergency partners
The Arden: Theatre and Performance
The Guinness Partnership — Domestic I + II partners
The Lowry — WTF programme partners
the Whitworth
Two Destination Language
UCLan: Theatre
University of Salford: Theatre and Performance Practice
Work for Change — home to making space The Yard and our office
Z-arts — Haphazard partners
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.
NB from April 2012 to March 2016 hÅb was funded by Manchester City Council through the Manchester Cultural Partnership.