Dare To Be Bored

If you had free time — real free time — what would you do with it?

What are the perfect conditions to be creative?

In a world of endless distraction, responsibility, AI, and rising inequality… how do we allow ourselves to pause?

Earlier this year, with support from MCC, North Manchester Community Partnership and HOME, we launched the North Manchester Youth Collective.

Dare to Be Board is an intimate, vibrant exploration of class, opportunity, and creativity imagined and performed by some of the most ambitious and fiercely talented young artists in North Manchester.

These 17–27-year-olds aren’t waiting for permission. They’re claiming space, asking bold questions, and using audacity as a creative force.

It’s about boredom as protest. Creativity as survival.And what might happen when we dare to do... nothing.

Come. Witness. Support.