1. Starting the Web
Build trust, introduce the project frame and begin identifying questions, places and ways of working.
Ten connected sessions
Creative Journey
Explore the ten-session co-production journey shaping the Mancunianity Flows River Irwell walking experience.
The session titles are working titles. Outcomes are not predetermined: the Weavers may alter, challenge, combine, reject or reframe ideas as the project develops.
2. Personal Cartographies
Map meaningful journeys, landmarks and changes without requiring personal disclosure.
3. River Irwell Walk through Peel Park
Explore the river as ecology, boundary, route, memory and public space.
4. People’s History Museum Visit and Reflection
A planned visit, including a guided element if confirmed, followed by private reflection about evidence, authorship and public voice.
5. Loving and Arguing with a Place
Make room for affection, criticism, contradiction, humour and contested belonging.
6. Route Laboratory
Test a possible route from Aviva Studios into Manchester and Salford, examining pace, transitions and audience experience.
7. Public History and Personal Counterpoint
Place researched narratives beside memories, questions and lived perspectives without forcing agreement.
8. Sounding the Web
Explore music, field sound, voice and silence as ways of experiencing place.
9. Assembly, Editing and Legacy Choices
Select, combine or reject material and decide what should remain private, public or in development.
10. On-site Rehearsal and Readiness
Test the experience on location, including access, timing, participant comfort and contingencies.