Current Programme.

Horizons Festival is a free, annual global arts festival co-curated by Community Arts North West and HOME. The festival is a major highlight of Refugee Week and is designed to celebrate international cultures, promote solidarity, and provide a platform for artists with lived experience of forced migration.

Over two days at HOME, the Horizons festival features live music, special commissions, global cinema, visual art, storytelling and performance,…

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A non-binary black person and a black woman smiling in front of a colourful artwork at the Horizons Festival.

Horizons is a free global arts festival in the heart of Manchester. Horizons Festival is curated by HOME and Community…

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A group of six Vietnamese people taking part in an arts workshop.

The group brought objects to the workshop that had a personal and cultural resonance rooted in Vietnamese culture.  Objects included…

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Celebrating creativity, community, and connection, the Horizons Festival 2025 theme is More in Common, reflecting a shared desire to build…

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Do Something Great

Both opportunities are for Greater Manchester-based artists or filmmakers who have experienced displacement from their home country or are seeking…

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Three male artists and one female artists outside at an event.

The events take place in the early evening at HOME. The Arts and Migration Group is a network of artists, freelancers, facilitators,…

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This year’s Horizons features HOME’s commissions of a short film, visual art, and theatre. CAN’s community programme features visual art,…

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We’re delighted to announce the commissioned artists – a film maker, two visual artists and a theatre maker – who…

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The Horizons Festival was back at HOME during the weekend of Friday 16 and Saturday 17 June 2023. The annual Horizons…

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Join us at the Horizons Creative Café on Thursday 14 July between 12.30pm and 6pm at the Event Space @…

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Young people from Afrocats responded to 2021’s Horizons Festival, the arts festival celebrating Refugee Week developed and delivered in partnership…

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On Saturday 12 June 2021, the Horizons Festival, the week-long event we curate with HOME every year to celebrate June’s Refugee Week, kicked off…

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Audiences enjoyed brilliant sunshine on Saturday 12 June for Solidarity Social, which launched the Horizons Festival, which took place outdoors…

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