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Let’s Talk About It!
Our Story
Themes are explored through many art forms – dance, theatre, film, spoken word – and through discussion and debate. SICK! Festival presents and commissions powerful, innovative and engaging work by artists from across Manchester, the UK and the world. We take the conversation into the heart of the communities where the subjects matter most as well as major cultural venues.
SICK! Festival has grown and evolved since 2013, emerging from reflections on our own lives and the lives of people around us to embrace issues of wider significance for communities and deep importance for individuals.
We are constantly guided by those communities and individuals, who ground our work in real-life experience, huge knowledge and immense understanding of the sensitivities of emotive issues. All too often these subjects are kept away from public view and debate. We exist to change that.
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Our Team
OUR TRUSTEES
Paul Ferry
Executive Chairman of gbpartnerships Interim Board Chair
Peter Bulkley
Prof. Sandeep Ranote
Executive Medical Director, Mental Health & Integrated Care – WWL NHS FT
Executive Medical Lead Mental Health – Greater Manchester Health & Social Care Partnership
Visiting Professor in Mental Health – University of Salford & University of Chester
Charmaine Connors
Education & Skills Manager at SharpFutures
Joe Strickland
Artistic Director at Chronic Insanity, Executive Director at Strickland Productions, Digital Producer at DaDaFest
John McLuckie
Director of Finance, Southport & Ormskirk Hospital NHS Trust
OUR OPPORTUNITIES
General Manager
We’re looking for a dynamic an enthusiastic individual to join us, to work closely as part of our fantastic team here at SICK! and help us achieve our potential and grow our impact and reach.
We’re looking for someone who will bring their unique energy to this, along with their experience of general office management, financial operations, setting up systems, and creative problem solving, and is also passionate about, and interested in, the areas in which SICK! operates – arts, health, diversity, community development and international work.
Find out more about the process and how to apply: General Manager opportunity
Mental Health Practitioner
SICK! Productions is seeking an experienced and efficient Mental Health Practitioner to support its Creative Team to deliver two of our Creative projects across 2023.
A Community Mental Health Arts Programme (SMASH Women and Girls) as part of our creative engagement with Moston and Hapurhey and our Mental Health gaming project for young men in Manchester and Finland (MINDGAMES).
Find out more about the process and how to apply: Mental Health Practitioner opportunity
SICK! Ambassadors
We are looking for a small group of four young people aged 18 – 30, with a range of experience and perspectives, to help us to continue to shape our 10-year programme of exciting creative projects in Charlestown, Moston & Harpurhey.
You will attend bi – monthly meetings to discuss issues that are important in the area, help us come up with new ideas and look at how we communicate with the wider community.
Find out more and how to apply: Opportunity: SICK! Ambassadors