Community Arts North West

Artform: Combined arts
Region: North West
Local authority: Manchester

Community Arts North West (CAN) produces high-quality arts projects across Greater Manchester with socially excluded groups. It works primarily with young people, culturally diverse communities, refugees and asylum-seekers, and disabled people. We fund the organisation in this core work and to develop partnerships with other arts and non-arts organisations and venues to provide high-quality arts projects, opportunities and joint-planned initiatives in the region.

Funding awards

2012-2013: £190,000
2013-2014: £194,370
2014-2015: £199,424

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Machine Speaks

Sept 24 2012

Down with the Dictator

Set in the Cameroon, Down with the Dictator is a timely piece exploring themes of power, political corruption and censorship in all its absurdity It reminds us of the consequences to humanity and the reasons why many people all over the world are forced to flee from oppressive regimes. The play was recently selected to perform as part of the prestigious COAST International Festival of Community Theatre in Bristol. Down with the Dictator was written by Cameroonian playwright and community activist, Lydia Besong. Lydia and her husband Bernard Batey live in Bury and are fighting a high profile campaign to remain in the UK. The play is produced by Afrocats and is supported by Community Arts North West as part of their Exodus Greater Manchester Refugee Arts programme. For more information please contact Katherine Rogers, Exodus Coordinator on 0161 234 2987.

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Film Jam 2011

Can a woman hold up a building? Can there be two versions of me? Is there really such a thing as a happy ending? Is Manchester the city of love or the herald of the apocalypse? These questions and more will be answered through the medium of film. Four workshops in 2 days are all that's needed for a group of people from all over the world to embark on an intensive, four-day film-making fest. Community Arts North West and AlbinoMosquito present a screening of short films from new and seasoned film makers whose backgrounds include France, Nigeria, England, Mauritius, Portugal, Congo, Libya, Iran, Mozambique, Spain, Burma and Scotland.

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Exodus Sparks full performance 2007

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Surviving in Shawbridge

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Exodus Onstage 2010 - Nu Britannia - NESTAC Dance

NESTAC - New Step for African Community at Contact Theatre Manchester

Exodus Onstage 2010 - Nu Britannia - Rafiki

Rafiki improvise a scene opening. www.can.uk.com/exodus

Exodus Onstage 2010 - Nu Britannia - The Machine Speaks

Nu Britannia - The Machine Speaks at the Contact Theatre www.can.uk.com/exodus

Exodus Film Jam, February 2011

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Exodus Onstage 2010 - Overview

Exodus Onstage 2010 Edited Highlights http://www.can.uk.com/exodus

Exodus Festival 2008

The Exodus Festivlal featured world music, dance, creative workshops, children's activities, international food, world crafts and stalls that took you on a journey from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe and many places in between!

Exodus Onstage 2010 - Speakeasy Young Identity

Speakeasy's legendary open mic events are an essential part of Manchester's spoken word & club scene. Speakeasy performance poets have been working with emerging refugee poets to present an Exodus Live event, a brimful of incendiary lyrics and inspirational stories, alongside the raw funk of the Speakeasy People live band. http://www.can.uk.com/exodus

Exodus Onstage 2010 - Speakeasy

Exodus Onstage 2010 - One Night There

Presented by Kurdistan Art and Culture, Community Arts North West and North West Playwrights. A new play devised by Kurdistan Art and Culture, a group of Kurdish artists in exile in Greater Manchester, and scripted by lead actress Bhean Ali. One Night There draws on the performers' own experiences of life in Kurdistan and in exile and creates a wider exploration of the pressures faced by women in contemporary society. The piece was originally performed in Kurdish at CAN's Tower of Babel event in March 2010. This English language version has been developed especially for Exodus Onstage by playwright Crystal Stewart, in collaboration with Bhean Ali and Kurdistan Arts and Culture. In July this year the group returned to Iraq to perform the play at several venues in the Kurdish Autonomous Region, where it provoked great interest and discussion. http://www.can.uk.com/exodus

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Contact details

www.can.uk.com

46-50
Oldham Street

Manchester
M4 1LE

53.48315, -2.23256

53.48315 -2.23256 Combined arts

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