The COVID-19 pandemic sent most of the world population to their homes. In many countries in Latin America, it seemed to stop the strength the feminist movement acquired during recent years. At the same time, levels of violence against women increased, and gender gaps grew. With this in mind, some feminists created virtual platforms to help women reconnect. In this article, Natalia Stengel Peña explores Mexican artist Lorena Wolffer’s platform Diarias global. In 2020, the str

What does it mean to be practicing in the cultural and creative industries? How do we understand practice and the many forms, acts, spaces, and relationships that make it possible? What does it look, sound, and feel like to be involved in Cultural Practice today? Drawing on these questions, the Cultural Practices Magazine aims to build a global picture of Cultural Practice, its objective is to create a live repository of practice that sheds light on the sector in this moment

The Institute for Cultural Practices is proud to present ‘The New Normal?: Voices of the COVID-19 Pandemic’, a pop-up exhibition in collaboration with NHS Voices of Covid-19 and The University of Manchester’s Museum of Medicine and Health. The free entry exhibition explores a wide variety of experiences of the Covid-19 pandemic and will be on display at Manchester Central Library for one day only, on Thursday 9th December 2021, 10.30am-6pm. From community to inequalities, fro

The COVID-19 pandemic left orchestras unable to carry out what is arguably their primary role: performing and making live music with others. Rebecca Parnell reflects on the industry’s learnings during this time, and looks towards a bright hybrid future. In May 2020 I wrote about the initial steps taken by Manchester Camerata at the beginning of lockdown as we turned our attentions to creating digital products. Now, over one year on and with the first tentative steps of a retu