FUNNY how time flies (when you’re having fun) as the Janet Jackson song goes. So it’s hard to credit that this weekend Chorlton’s pioneering Dulcimer bar is celebrating a decade of folky existence with a four-day weekender.
In comparison The Pilcrow is mere fledgling, but that’s not stopping it toasting its first birthday in style on Saturday, September 23 with a daylong party in Sadler’s Yard.
Naturally outstanding craft beer will feature, including a special birthday collaboration brew with Mad Hatter Brewery. Street food will be available from Manchester favourites The Otto-Men.
The event will start from 12pm and run until last orders, with DJ sets from All The Shapes, Piccadilly Records, Better Days, Living Room Dance Club, Ultimate Choice and All Our Yesterdays throughout the day.
In a homage to the handmade artisan origins of the pub the Yard will also host a Pilcrow market with designer makers who ran workshops during The Pilcrow Project selling their products and chatting about their involvement.
There’ll also be continual screenings of a ‘making of’ film at PLANT NOMA, following The Pilcrow Project team through the highs (and lows) of building the pub, including construction and volunteer recruitment through to the final days of installation and launch night.
The Pilcrow was the first large-scale participatory project at NOMA, a neighbourhood which prides itself on being innovative and community focused. Since the Pilcrow opened the tools and the skills have moved across Sadler’s Yard to PLANT NOMA, an ‘Open Design Studio’ where the public are welcome to pitch ideas, develop projects and take part in workshops.
Oddie McClintock, Pilcrow general manager, tells us: “It’s been really interesting to see the pub grow over the last 12 and see how the community has really embraced it as part of Manchester. We’re always seeing familiar faces of volunteers mixed with new people just discovering what this part of the city has to offer.”
For full details on The Pilcrow’s First Birthday, visit @thepilcrowpub.