The Ripples of Hope Festival celebrates the power of people to make human rights a reality for all.
Inspired by people – their stories, their strength and their creativity – Ripples of Hope is a new, unique 5-day festival for all of us to:
The Smiles Fund by Walkers and Comic Relief is inviting proposals which use participation in the arts and comedy to challenge stigma and provide community-based support for people who are experiencing emerging symptoms of poor mental wellbeing at an early stage.
Save Hulme Hippodrome are looking for creative minds to contribute to a multi-media exhibition, hosted by Green Island Festival at Hulme Garden Centre on 4 September.
Save Hulme Hippodrome are looking for artistic works that use their archive material on the Hippodrome and / or respond to:
Are you 15 – 19 and living within the Greater Manchester area?
Are you interested in dance, music, spoken word and film making?
Do you have some time over August to commit to a brand-new project that focusses on you?
Do you have something to say about young people’s mental health?
Are you an organisation or business that owns, works with or manages heritage based in England?
Is your organisation at imminent risk of failure due to Covid-19?
Would this be your first Culture Recovery Fund grant?
Do you require a grant between £10,000 and £1million?
The aim of this strand of the fund is to help maintain England’s cultural ecology by supporting culturally significant organisations, which are now:
After a forced break last year due to the pandemic, the Manchester Culture Awards – recognising the very best of culture, arts, and creativity in the city – are back for 2021.
In Place of War’s (IPOW) Open Call is for creative practitioners (e.g. artists, makers and curators) in Greater Manchester with a heritage of forced displacement (e.g. migrant, exile, refugee or person seeking asylum), who are looking to develop their entrepreneurial skills and professional opportunities in the creative industries.
Applications for artists to be part of the 2022 Manchester Open Exhibition are now open.
Submissions are open to all, including those who may already identify as artists and those who might not, working in any medium. It is free to submit work for consideration, although HOME encourages donations in order to support their outreach and engagement programme.
Odd Arts is an innovative charity that uses theatre and the arts to transform the lives of people facing the greatest levels of barriers, vulnerabilities and inequalities. Odd Arts are looking for an exceptional individual who shares their passion for social justice to become the Chair of Trustees at a time of real growth and innovation.
Sonder Radio is delivering a 3 week long online project 'Let's Get Musical' - for 50+ residents of Manchester who are not currently in employment, in partnership with Manchester Adult Education Service.