Jack Arts

Feel Good Club and Manchester’s Finest: Notes to a Stranger

As 2022 began perhaps a little more unsteadily than we all would’ve liked (thanks again to the ongoing pandemic), Blue Monday remained fixed as a difficult point in the year, where the nights are still long and dark, and the weather is at the peak of its cold.

After the success of our 2021 Manchester collaboration with Northern Quarter positivity-peddlers Feel Good Club, and long-term city leaders Manchester’s Finest, we teamed up again to brighten the streets of the north-west with good deeds and kind words at a time when they’re needed the most.

Taking in our sites right across the city, Notes to a Stranger was a joint effort to bring brightness and good-feeling to the people of Manchester – with Feel Good Club also hiding vouchers for free coffees right alongside their heartfelt messages on the street, for any passers-by lucky enough to spot them. With phrases and affirmations like, “It’s okay if you can’t give the energy that you think is expected of you today”, and “Be exactly who you are, in every given moment, and no, you never need to apologise for it”, the solid sentiments were hugely appreciated by the many people who witnessed them.