The Football Beyond Borders team will deliver an engaging session grounded in thinking and feeling, demonstrating how to engage vulnerable young people and draw out a range of skills and assets within a trauma-informed environment. The session will be grounded in personal and professional reflections, FBB's founding theories, and practical tips and activities you can deliver in your interactions with young people in your setting. 

Football Beyond Borders is an education and social inclusion charity who are working to ensure every young person has a trusted adult relationship during their secondary school years. Their work is delivered nationally and throughout Greater Manchester. 

Exploring a curriculum for science in an ever-changing world. Participants will have time to consider and question the purpose of a primary science curriculum and the principles to drive curriculum curation and development.

Prof Lynne Bianchi, Director of SEERIH/Vice Dean for SREDIA: Lynne specialises in science and engineering education, with a specialism in the primary phase and student-led learning. She became Director of the SEERIH in 2014. She has a well-established profile in the areas of teaching, learning and assessment of school science and engineering, and cascades learning by working with in-service teachers.

Join Southbank Centre and Factory International as we explore how creativity can support young people to explore identity and community through creativity. Using REFRAME: Inspire Schools Project, a creative multimedia project for KS3 pupils in schools Birmingham, London and Manchester as a case study, the session will provide strategies for adapting lesson plans to be more inclusive, culturally responsive, and relevant to students’ experiences, empowering them to express themselves through various creative outlets.

This workshop will explore Shakespeare, language, rhythm and drama in a fun and practical way. This is ideal for schools wanting to grow their students’ confidence in speech and language, or simply looking for some. This interactive session is designed to assist in building self-confidence and unlocking creative and artistic abilities by using tools like sonnet-writing and performing and creating their own original poetic and lyrical based on Shakespearian raps. We will work on pronunciation and diction but also work on young peoples’ natural instincts to play, explore and have fun.

Learning Outcomes

• Introduction to Shakespeare’s language
• Develop communication and expression skills
• Increase confidence and wellbeing
• An opportunity to learn in a playful and accessible way 

Join Manchester Art Gallery’s Associate artist to explore connections between resilience skills and the creative process. The artist will introduce Art Of Resilience, a programme that uses creativity, compassion and experiential learning to help pupils to develop skills in self-regulation and self-assurance. You will take part in an activity using simple materials to playfully connect with contemporary artwork, giving you a flavour of the principles and approach we use. 

Take part in a rhythm & sound workshop exploring creative ways of reigniting engagement in the classroom. This session will be led by the Z-arts Music & Sound Facilitator who will guide you through activities that will share engaging tools and techniques, demonstrating how sound, rhythm & movement can be used to increase focus and connect with students in a playful & creative way. Within this session you will also be exploring how rhythm & sound activities can provide engaging memory tools and techniques for retention, considering how repeating information can be transformed into creative activities.

Our full address is Aviva Studios, Water Street, Manchester M3 4JQ and the what3words is chop.feeds.chase.

You can approach Aviva Studios along Water Street (coming from Quay Street) or along Liverpool Road (coming from Deansgate or Castlefield). Both entrances to the building have double sets of glass doors.

Once inside Aviva Studios, there is step-free access to all areas of the venue. The flooring throughout the building is smooth concrete.

The entrance to the Hall is by lift, escalator or stairs from one side of the Social beside the brick arches. There is only one escalator, and this will take you up to the Hall before the show, and will be reversed so that you can travel down at the end of the performance.

The Social has a range of seating, including those with arms and backs.

The bars in the Social and Hall Foyer have lowered accessible service points.

Our building is large. We have portable stools available to borrow if you would benefit from resting along the way during your visit.

We have wheelchair spaces and seats at standing events for all events.

There is step-free access to all areas of the venue, with lift access to the Warehouse from the Social, and lift and escalator access to the Hall from the Social.

There are accessible toilets on all public levels of our building.

Accessible toilets are located inside the main toilets space in the brick arches of the Social.

Here you’ll find a mixture of accessible cubicles with left- or right-hand transfer, towards the back of the space, as well as ambulant accessible cubicles with grab rails, as well as a Changing Places facility.

The toilets in the brick arches of the Social are split into male, female and gender neutral – all of which contain accessible cubicles. There are shared handwashing facilities in each arch – they have soap dispensers under the mirrors to your left and dryers to the right. There are separate handwashing facilities inside the accessible cubicles.

There are additional single-room accessible toilets located in both Hall Foyers, at stalls and circle level.

There are additional single-room accessible toilets located in the Warehouse Foyer.

You do not need a key to use the accessible toilets at Aviva Studios.

Assistance dogs are welcome in our building, and we can provide mats and water bowls on request, just ask a host when you arrive. We can also take care of your assistance dog if you do not want to take your dog into the performance space. Please also refer to our assistance dogs policy.

If you are bringing an assistance dog to a ticketed event, please let us know in advance by contacting access@factoryinternational.org or calling our access phone number: 0161 817 4531 (phone lines are open 10am to 6pm, Monday to Saturday).