Voicebox: New Creatives

"My personal experience of Manchester is mostly through sketching, looking, listening to local music and absorbing all of this. I love architecture and drawing it."

"A lot of women I grew up around have been challenging these patriarchal narratives for a long time. It’s just that the mainstream media doesn’t pick it up."

As part of New Creatives, Adelina Court has illustrated and directed animation Songs of the City, a beautiful and whimsical following of a blackbird above Manchester.

"There’s a lot of pressure on people to find work and you can very easily lose hope during this process. You will find something that’s right for you, but in the meantime take care of yourself"

We talk to Emma Robinson about her New Creative short, 'Being Better'.

Being Better asks if we can break our addiction to self-improvement

A mother tells her experience of the 80s to her children

New Creative commission Swiped takes online dating into virtual reality.

Erasure Island expresses the experiences of those society often ignores.

“I know a lot more gay Davids who speak like the Queen, than I do gay Daves who speak like Barbara Windsor”

"I know that all the amazing women I see around me are capable of everything I do, but often, they lack that confidence. They are overwhelmed and shaped by the negative associations made of us."

Siren’s Song turns the struggle to get out of bed into gothic horror.