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The Manchester Bees have moved

That’s right, the Manchester Bees have relocated to a new home, which means this site will no longer be updated. From now on, please visit http://manchesterbe.es/

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Manchester Worker Bee set to be celebrated with a creative twist from the city’s screen printing duo, one69A

To celebrate the incredible variety of creative talent in Manchester, One69A are running a design competition and hosting a screen printing party on Thursday 22nd October at 6pm at Islington Mill, Salford. With a selection of incredible prizes up for grabs, this is set to be a hit with the cities innovative makers and thinkers.

The party will include live screen printing demonstrations and workshops that visitors can get involved in as well as live music and refreshments.

One69A are inviting responses to the following design brief:

We would like you to design a Manchester Bee that represents you, your studio, collective or agency. From the designs submitted, we will select our favourite 35 to be featured on a hand pulled, screen printed A1 poster. The three colours that we have chosen are black, metallic gold and pantone 7450U. Illustrations should consist of the three specified colours and fit inside an 87mm square. Please submit a colour separated pdf / psd file to us by 1st October 2015.

The competition is open to anyone and everyone; so whether you are a designer, doodler, maker, illustrator, tinker or tailor we would like you to get involved. Each person(s) design that is featured will receive a poster and the remaining posters printed will be given to the first 50 people to arrive at the party.

Both the competition and the party are free to take part in, if you would like to respond to the brief or attend the party please email RSVP’s/submissions to [email protected]

The competition prizes are as follows:

1st Prize 4 x additional A1 posters 10 x T-shirts featuring your Bee design Private Screen Printing Workshop at Islington Mill for 10 people.

2nd Prize 4 x additional A1 posters 5 x T-shirts featuring your Bee design 4 x places on our Print Your Own Tshirt Workshop

3rd Prize 2 x Additional A1 posters 2 x Places on our Print Your Own Tshirt Workshop

Prize winners will be announced at the event.

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Dromomania interviewed both myself and The Manchester Bee Company for an article on Manchester Bee. Worth a read, especially as there’s a small announcement about the future of The Manchester Bees

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Ancoats Bees by Tenz

Location: Blossom Street, Ancoats (googlemaps)

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‘The Manchester Bees’ - A half hour radio documentary by Matthew Beckwith featuring, amongst others, John Consterdine, Natalie Bradbury, Amanda McCrann, John Mouncey and John Peel who run Manchester Art Gallery’s Beespace along with your erstwhile author.

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Mancsy’s Exhibition Launch at Victoria Warehouse.

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Mancsy Exhibition Launch: Victoria Warehouse

Details of Mancsy’s new exhibition can be found here, with the launch taking place this Thursday.

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Investigating the Archives+ Bee Hive Box.

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Villlage Manchester Football Club Logo.

Image courtesy of the club.

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Manchester Metropolitan University Crest Bees

"The crest shows a lion holding a globe with bees. This is a reminder of the institution's links with the City of Manchester, the lion being one of the supporters in the City's arms and the globe with bees being taken from the City's crest. For the University, the bees symbolise the activity and the hard work of education, whilst the globe suggests the migration of students to the University from all over the world".

Reproduced with kind permission of The Manchester Metropolitan University.

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Central Library Mosaic Bee

Location: Central Library, City Centre (googlemap)

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The first yield from the Printworks Beehives have now been harvested by the Hard Rock Cafe Manchester. Limited to 30 jars, with a special edition label designed by Mancsy, all proceeds are going to local charities Forever Manchester and The Booth Centre.

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The Handmade Film Festival are presenting an evening of Bee movies on Sunday evening at the Harpur Mount Oasis Academy, including the premiere of UP ON THE ROOF about the rooftop bee hives of Manchester and Salford. The Manchester Beekeepers featured in the film on hand to answer any questions with the event free to all, with doors open 6.30pm for a 7.00pm start.

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A bee based treasure hunt across Manchester being run by Barney & Taylor, which started today. More details at the link.

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Last night saw the launch of this year's Bee Raphaelite Honey at Manchester Art Gallery. Harvested from the gallery's own hives up on the roof, the event included honey tasting, a selection of honey-based cocktails and a fascinating talk from Kathryn Lwin of River of Flowers.

The honey is now on sale in the gallery shop and there's more information on hives here.

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Manchester Bee Parade

A Yarn Bomb celebrating Manchester's Northern Quarter's textile heritage and craft tradition.

The next free workshop is on Sat 4th Oct 12pm-3pm, Pom Pom Bees with Sherelle at The Bead Shop (Affleck’s Palace).