Manual Labours is supported by Arts Council England’s Grants for the Arts and Birkbeck University Widening Participation.

The event marks the second stage of the practice based research project Manual Labours, initiated by Sophie Hope and Jenny Richards, exploring physical and emotional relationships to work and focuses our artistic activity in exploring the complaining body through a series of workshops with complaints teams across different sectors within the UK. These workshops will inform three new commissions by visual artist Sarah Browne, choreographer Hamish MacPherson and writer Ivor Southwood and a programme of Film Clubs, Reading Groups, exhibitions and published texts developed in partnership with The Showroom, London; In Certain Places, Preston and Movement and Division of Labour, Worcester.

To keep up to date or contribute to the project please email [email protected] or visit Manual Labours