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Both Feet
Celebration
Welcome Back!
In 2027, Both Feet turns 10.
Ten bloody years.
And rather than looking backwards with a slideshow and getting all nostalgic about it, I want to do what Both Feet has always done best.
Get people in a room together and see what happens.
Over ten years, this community has grown in all sorts of directions. Some of you have trained together and become lifelong friends. Some of you know each other by name but have never actually met. Some of you were here right at the beginning. Some of you only joined us this year.
Some of you haven't been back for a very long time.
If Both Feet has a little place in your heart you are a Both Feeter.
So, for two days in Manchester, we're bringing as many of you back together as we possibly can.
To reconnect. To do some of the work. To meet each other. To share what you're making. To remember some of what you already know. To have conversations that actually matter. To laugh, move, breathe, enquire, eat, play and celebrate.
A little bit about where we've been.
A lot about where we are.
And plenty about where we're going - Both Feet, me, and all of you.
5-6 February 2027
Stretford Public Hall, Manchester
Friday Day -
The Gathering
9.30-5pm
£85 (lunch included)
Welcome back, this is our day.
We'll start as we mean to go on - music, movement, breathing, enquiry. Then we'll spend the day reconnecting, meeting Both Feeters from across the years and getting properly into the good stuff.
Where are you now? What's working? What's got stuck? What are you avoiding? What do you need?
There'll be structure and space and plenty of space to talk, enquire, laugh, eat and find each other.
Come back. Do the work. Meet your people.
Friday Night -
The Celebration
7-10.30pm
£10
Then we throw the doors open.
Bring your partners, friends, family - all the people who've heard you banging on about Both Feet over the years.
There'll be short performances and sharings from Both Feeters, makers' stalls, food, a Bod bar, music and plenty of time to hang out.
We'll sing or move or do something all together. And we'll celebrate.
Ten years. One room. Loads of brilliant humans.
Saturday Day -
Open House
9-5pm
£85 (lunch included)
Old and new, come on in.
We'll start the day together, Both Feet style, before opening up the rooms for two longer sessions with some of the brilliant practitioners who make up the wider Both Feet world: Barbara Houseman, Arabella Gibbins, Clown Space and Dr Henrie Lidiard.
Choose where you want to go. Work with someone you've been hearing about for years. Get inspired.
We'll come back together throughout the day and close as one big group.
A whole day to experience a little more of our world.
Want the whole damn thing? £165
Friday day: The Gathering + Friday night: The Celebration + Saturday Day: Open Day
with 2x lunches included
If you know you're coming, book early. It helps me enormously to know who's going to be in the room, and it means you can stick it in the diary and know you're coming back. So I've made the first tickets the cheapest. Prices may increase as we get closer.
Haven't been back for a while?
Have things changed?
Doesn't matter.
Whether we saw you last month or you trained with us 10 years ago, whether you've been to Bod twenty times or never set foot through the door - if you've trained with Both Feet at some point during the last 10 years, you're part of this.
You don't need to know everyone. That's rather the point.
Come on home!
Get Involved
This two day celebration is being made by the community as much as it's being made for it.
There are a few ways you can be part of making it happen.
Muck In
I'll need a small team of Both Feeters to help me make the whole thing run - welcoming people, setting up, keeping things moving, food/drinks, resetting spaces and generally being useful humans.
If you'd love to be there but the cost is getting in the way, this could be a way of making it work.
