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05/12/2024

READY FOR TOMORROW?! 🎉🧑‍🎄

🤝 The teams curated a heavy line up alongside entries from our ongoing DJ open call. Tomorrow is a great chance to meet our team, other DJs & event promotors in the community! WANT TO GET INVOLVED? To apply to our open call and get paid for playing for us, follow the link in our bio!

⬇️ The whole night will be a tempo fluid genre mashup party supplied by these djs below!

🤯 DJ line up:
Supa Ape (UK Jungle)
Charlie Power (Yeno Tha)
Malware (Dropjaw Audio/Pick & Mix)
Emily Knight (Dropjaw Audio)
Frogger
Nowah
Lucidik
Hypermax (Third Ground Sound)
BST (Third Ground Sound)

🧑‍🎄 Don't forget we've got festive burlesque, Santas Grotto immersive experience, puppet show, market stalls and best dressed prize!

22/11/2024

🦌PERFORMANCE ART - CHRISTMAS PARTY🔔

We've got a killer performance line up for our Christmas party, with performances and prize for best dresssed hosted by the brilliant Pixie Pickles! (.central)

🎁 Introducing & performing all sorts of festive burlesque!

🧑‍🎄 The Side Quest Chronicles (.side.quest.chronicals) are bringing you your very own Santa's Grotto & The Deranged Puppet Show presents: Secret Santa! ()

Tickets are as low as £4, grab yours early!

🖼️ Poster by
📸 Photos 4-7&9 by .donkey & photo 8 by

20/11/2024

📆 November Calendar Update🔔

What have we got left for this year?⬇️
1️⃣ Make Your Mark with .frenzy - Thursday Takeover next week on the 28th at the Mansion!
2️⃣ Christmas Party - Music event next month on the 6th at Rebellion!

‼️Only change to the calendar is the Takeover date was moved from the 21st to the 28th.

These are our last events for a while so come and enjoy, more info on this coming soon 👀

19/11/2024

❄️MUSIC LINE UP - CHRISTMAS PARTY❄️

Self employed, unemployed, cba with your works Xmas do? Come join us for ours!

🎄We've got a line up that'll chill you to the bone, starting off with jungle legend part of alongside .wav .hypermax .babyy &

🧑‍🎄What else have we got on? We've got our very own Santa's Grotto, puppet show, lots of incredible performances (line up out next), stalls and prizes!

🪙Tickets are as low as four quid, grab yours early!

🖼️
📸 .donkey

12/11/2024

🎄CHRISTMAS PARTY INCOMING!!!

West Art Collective presents: Christmas Party, our xmas music event!

Self employed, unemployed, cba with your works xmas do? Come join us for our holiday celebrations!

Expect:
• Music event curated by West Art Collective (RAVE/DNB/HARDCORE/JUNGLE/4X4/UKG)
• Performance art including Burlesque
• The Side Quest Chronicles presents: Santa's Grotto
• Market stalls
• The Deranged Puppet Show presents: Secret Santa
• Best dressed prize
• More TBA!

🎟️ Tickets have been released and are currently four quid!

(There is no open call for this event)

📸 .donkey
🖼️

17/10/2024

⚡TOMORROW - Halloween event⚡

What to expect:
• Ghost hunting experience by Haunting Nights in the basement of a 200 year old Victorian mansion.
• Guest speaker & exhibition of Metallica and Def Leppard + more album cover designs by Tony McGuire in memory of his brother, Andie Airfix who designed the albums.
• 40 person artist exhibition.
• Tarot card readings by the Lizard Oracle.
• Portraits by Keg Killar Portrait.
• The Side Quest Chronicles: Hell's Kitchen Edition.
• Craft stalls.
• Burlesque, drag, pole & seane performance art.
• Best dressed prize = X2 Ghost Hunt tickets from Haunting Nights & X2 tickets to a future West Event

04/10/2024

🔮 FULL LINE UP - SÉANCE 🔮

The complete line up for our annual Halloween themed art event at the mansion, you know this is our 5th run?!

We will be going into more details about what to expect over the coming weeks but for now expect:

• Ghost hunting experience by Haunting Nights in the basement of a 200 year old Victorian mansion.
• Guest speaker & exhibition of Metallica and Def Leppard + more album cover designs by Tony McGuire in memory of his brother, Andie Airfix who designed the albums.
• 40 person artist exhibition.
• Tarot card readings by the Lizard Oracle.
• Portraits by Keg Killar Portrait.
• The Side Quest Chronicles: Hell's Kitchen Edition.
• 15 craft stalls.
• Burlesque, drag, pole & seane performance art.
• Best dressed prize.

All this for a tenner, don't forget to bring your own booze, lets have a spooky time!

*Please note this is the last West Art Collective hosted event until September next year bar our takeover with Fruit Frenzy in November - More on this announced soon!*

29/09/2024

🧙 THANK YOU - ETHEREAL 3.0 & 3.5 ✨

What a crazy week it's been, thus ends this years Ethereal saga!

Special thanks to our incredible and ever growing team, everyone who was involved in both events and especially to all the lovely people that made the effort to get down for a silly time! Photos from both events to come.

DO YOU WANT MORE? 🎃
We are back at the mansion for Séance, our Halloween art event on the 18th. Grab your tickets asap!

23/09/2024

Ethereal 3.5 DJ line up (Room 2 update)🧚🎶

With Light Ethereal complete we are taking a turn for the worst and gearing up for Dark Ethereal, our dark magic themed music and art event!

Room one DJ's:

Room two DJ's:

Grab your tickets for a tenner!

*Huge thank you who applied for our DJ open call, your deets have been saved for our future music events. We've got lots of opportunities on the way!*

18/09/2024

Full Light Ethereal (3.0) line up 🧚

Here's our entire line up all in one place! We've got everything from the large art exhibition to Taterball finals, performance art to tarot card reading, stalls to a bug making workshop... and plenty more!

Tickets are only a tenner for all this silly fun!

15/09/2024

🐞 Workshop line ups: Ethereal 3.0 & 3.5 💎

At Ethereal 3.0 (this Friday!!):
• The Bug Orchestra by
• Tarot Card Readings by

At Ethereal 3.5 (not this Saturday, next!!):
• Tooth Gems by .times

02/09/2024

Exhibition line up - Ethereal 3.0 & 3.5 🔮

Incredible exhibition line up for both Light and Dark Ethereal's. These contrasting exhibitions explore both positive and harrowing takes on the theme of fantasy.

🌝 Light Ethereal:
.st .ashleigh .mcr
._@gooberthesquishyartist .moon_ .scream.sand.wiitch
.art .stares.designs

🌚 Dark Ethereal:
.x .scream.sand.wiitch
.art

💌 If you'd like to bring your magical element to either Ethereal, drop us a message!

29/08/2024

🔮 Dark Ethereal - DJ line up🔮

We've got a killer line up for our fantasy music event Ethereal 3.5 as things take a turn for the dark side...

Room 1 DJ line up:

Room 2 DJ line up:
Coming soon - applications open!

What to expect:
• Art exhibition
• Two stages of DJs
• Burlesque & drag performances
• The Deranged Puppet Show: Potion making edition
• The Side Quest Chronicles: Snow White scraps
• Carnifolk Immersive theatre experience
• Live mural
• Tooth gems
• Market stalls
• Prizes for best dressed
• & more!!

Snap:
Promotors:
Graphics:

28/08/2024

🎧 DJ OPEN CALL - It's finally here!! 🎧

We get SO many emails and DM's from you lovely lot wanting to play so we've created an ongoing DJ open call. This is PAID opportunity to anyone wanting to get behind the decks - no club experience needed. The review is based purely on track selection and mixing skills. Link in bio for application.

‼️ (Our next music event is on Sept 28th and is themed to dark fantasy so fill in the link ASAP for the opportunity to play) ‼️

22/08/2024

Market stalls line up - Ethereal 3.0 & 3.5! 🔮

Alongside all the magical fun we've got planned, check out local artists selling their trinkets! Tickets are flying 🧚 grab yours asap!

🌝 Light Ethereal:

art
art

artjewellerydes
by.goblin / .jhno

🌚 Dark Ethereal:f.creationsby.goblintimesart

20/08/2024

Performance art line ups - Ethereal 3.0 & 3.5! 🧚

Our annual fantasy events are next month, which means a week of line up releases...

🎤 We are pleased to announce we have Bunch of Pansies (.mcr) hosting the performances for both events. Bunch of Pansies are a q***r collective led by drag king things Polly Cystic () & Bozo Nietzsche ()

🌝 Light Ethereal 3.0 at Antwerp Mansion:

• Amethyst Thornthorn
(Burlesque performer)

• Kee La Basa

(Dragon poi performance)

• Lexie Vee

(Chair performance)

• Lilly Von Ice

(Burlesque performer)

• Lavender Menace

(Burlesque/chair acro)

• Miss Vienna Rose

(Burlesque performer)

🌚 Dark Ethereal 3.5 at Rebellion:

• Palace Plastick

(Drag performer)

• Rotten Peach

(Clown performance)

• The Sapphic Menaces

(Double act burlesque)

🎟️ Tickets are £5-15 so grab yours asap!

*Please check your emails junk box for responses to the other open calls, drop a DM for any questions*

16/08/2024

Carnifølk takeover - THANK YOU!

Huge thank you and well done to all who came or were involved in yesterday's takeover. It was very silly! Congrats to .folk for their biggest self lead event yet, the coordination from these guys is on another level.

Want more fantasy fun? Our next event is on September 20th with the winner of the School of Sorcery house cup headlining!

Tickets are available at a fiver!!!

15/08/2024

TONIGHT - What to expect & what are we doing to keep you safe? Swipe to read 🧙

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🧑‍🎄‼️ Santas Grotto THIS FRIDAY during a 2 room music event ‼️ 🔊 The Side Quest Chronicles presents: Santas Grotto! These weird bunch bring us their next quest at our music event this Friday. Immerse yourself into our festive grotto and send Santa a list of your desires! 🎟️ Tickets are on last release! #manchester #manchesterart #manchesterartist #smallgallery #diyevents #northernart #manchestermusic #mcrmusic #mcrfootwork #mcrdnb #mcrtechno #mcrhardcore #mcrjungle #mcrevents #manchesterfreshers #manchesterdjs #mcrstudent

🧑‍🎄 West Christmas Party this Friday at Rebellion, Manchester! What to expect: • 2 room music event • Art exhibition • @the.side.quest.chronicals • Burlesque & performances • Stalls Check out some of our DJs performing on the night! @supaape @charliepower.wav @emilyxknight @oli_malware @dj.hypermax @bst.babyy #manchester #manchesterart #manchesterartist #smallgallery #diyevents #northernart #manchestermusic #mcrmusic #mcrfootwork #mcrdnb #mcrtechno #mcrhardcore #mcrjungle #mcrevents #manchestertheatre #manchestertodo #whatsonmanchester #mcrfinest #mysecretmanchester #manchesterlife #immersivetheatre #manchestermedieval #medievaldress #manchestetfreshers

We were invited to @dazed x @mubi Cinema Club at @factory_international 🎥 We spent the day in-between panel talks from the Dazed and Mubi teams, film directors and people within the film industry ending with a screening of Gasoline Rainbow! Obsessed with irl talks atm 😮 Thank you so much for inviting us along to this interesting day! #mcrevents #manchester #manchesterart #manchesterartist #smallgallery #diyevents #northernart

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