Fun-a-Day Manchester

Fun-a-Day Manchester was a project we ran in 2019, and this is what is looked like.

make something, learn something, do something

This is your open invitation to take part in Fun-A-Day Manchester!

Here’s how it works:

  1. Pick a project, it can be anything, as long as it makes you happy.
  2. Do it every day for the whole of January
  3. In February (dates and details TBC), we’ll get together to have a small exhibition and share how it all went over the month.

Stuck for ideas?

art-a-day
drawing-a-day
knit-a-day
poem-a-day
word-a-day
dance-a-day
date-a-day
painting-a-day
GIF-a-day
recipe-a-day
postcard-a-day
act of kindness-a-day
new thing-a-day
song-a-day
film-a-day
zine-a-day
review-a-day
podcast-a-day
kiss-a-day
sculpture-a-day
sewing-a-day
jigsaw-a-day
photograph-a-day
walk-a-day
make up-a-day
pose-a-day
reading-a-day
noise-a-day
collect-a-day
comic-a-day
colour-a-day
page-a-day

And the end you can either have a collection of work, or something more abstract. Why not document your process in photographs, a film, a diary, or a zine?

This is open to anyone to join in. You can share your progress online, or keep it to yourself. You can have your work displayed in our February exhibition, but that’s totally optional too. This isn’t about skill level, just a way help beat the post-xmas winter blues.

Use #funadayMCR and I’ll repost and share how you’re doing on Pen Fight’s social media. You can follow Pen Fight on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. 

Head to the Fun-a-Day Facebook event and share your social media info in the discussion, so other participants can follow you through January!

Fun-A-Day is a simple concept that produces beautiful results. Participants choose a project and produce one piece of artwork every day for the entire month of January. The resulting pieces create a narrative outlining each person’s journey through the first month of the year. Projects vary from lighthearted to serious, high-brow to low-brow.

Fun-A-Day seeks to remove the barriers to creativity by offering opportunities and invitations for participation. The project seeks to create a welcoming forum for people to share what they do, to strengthen existing communities of artists and non-artists. Fun-a-Day is an open invitation to foster a daily creative practice. It began as a way for the originators of the project to keep each other motivated and maintain their creative practices through the month of January. The project spread as others embraced the idea and vowed to not only complete their project, but to encourage their friends to do the same. Since its inception in 2004, the project has shown tens of thousands of pieces by hundreds of artists, non artists, creative types, and kids.