The last couple of years have been hard for everyone working in the hospitality sector, but Covid has really taken its toll on one club and its visionary manager.
Hazel O'Keefe, who has been running events at Sackville Street's Tribeca for years, took over the club months before Covid – soon after she was homeless. The award-winning organiser, whose background is in community youth work, wanted to make the Gay Village venue 'a community centre as well as a club'.
She claims Tribeca is the only venue in Manchester that hosts loss-making alcohol-free events on a Saturday night – a hit among an Asian LGBT group. Describing itself as 'the only truly diverse venue in Manchester', the club next to Sackville Gardens hosts Hungarian, Romanian and Portuguese nights too.
