The Weavers
Up to ten older local people are helping shape the questions, stories, sounds and choices at the heart of the work.
Walking the World’s First Modern City
Mancunianity Flows
Mancunianity Flows is a River Irwell cultural walking project connecting Manchester and Salford through co-created stories, music, history and place.
Planned for November and December 2026Dates and booking information will be announced when confirmed.
Follow the Spider’s Web
Mancunianity explores how people, places, memories and ideas shape belonging across Manchester and Salford. Mancunianity Flows follows the River Irwell as route, boundary, ecology and meeting place.
A walk woven by local experience
The creative journey
Ten connected sessions move from personal maps and river exploration towards route testing, sound and public readiness.
The River Irwell
The project traces connections between Manchester and Salford through a waterway that carries histories of work, movement, change and recovery.
“What is your Manchester history?”
The public experience is being developed through researched history and lived experience, with room for challenge, humour, disagreement and different ways of taking part.