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5000 Morris Dancers

Artist David Owen's installation of an alternative vision of the traditional English morris dancer was the focus of large-scale multimedia event '5000 Morris Dancers', which took place in and around …

Our North West office covers the arts in Cheshire, Cumbria, Greater Manchester, Lancashire and Merseyside.

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Lemn Sissay, Playwright

The Creative Future Literary Awards: UK’s first national literary competition for marginalised and disabled writers

Brighton based charity, Creative Future, has launched a national literary award to discover and celebrate writers from disadvantaged groups, supported by an Arts Council England Grants for the arts award.

Young man in front of a microphone

Key2Radio offers cultural engagement for young offenders through innovative partnership of Manchester’s Key103 radio and arts charity TiPP

Key2Radio is a new radio project in Greater Manchester that gives young offenders the opportunity …

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Theatres in the North West come together to discuss the Creative Case for Diversity

As part of the North area Creative Case for Diversity work we asked Liverpool-based 20 …

Latest publications

Front page of Arts Council Plan 2011-15

Arts Council Plan 2011-15

This Plan sets out what we will do to deliver our Achieving great art for everyone goals and priorities over the years 2011-15.

Responses to the Digital Britain interim report

In January 2009, the Government published Digital Britain, a plan to secure Britain’s place at …

Front page of Great art for everyone 2008-2011: North West

Great art for everyone 2008-2011: North West

Our mission for the next three years is great art for everyone. Our regional plan, …

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  • Fax: 0161 934 4426
  • Textphone: 020 7973 6564

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Press and media

For press and media enquiries contact:

Kathryn Goodfellow
(Out of hours contact)
Senior Manager, Advocacy and Communications
Phone: 0191 255 8580
Mobile: 07725 660 550

Julie Leather
Officer, Communications 
Phone: 0161 934 4464

Laura Simms-Luddington
Assistant, Communications 
Phone: 0161 934 4458



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