Current Programme.

Highlights of recent years have been major projects bringing people from different communities and cultures together. Creating new work, new networks and above all exciting cross-fertilisation and ideas for future work.

CAN and HOME are looking forward to meeting artists who've experienced forced migration at a special artist event.

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Running between September to December 2022, Pushing Boundaries supports artists with lived experience of forced migration to learn skills and develop the networks to work in schools

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Young people created art work for the Rochdale date of the international tour of acclaimed visual artists Luke Jerram's stunning art-work Gaia.

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We're thrilled to introduce our talented CAN Do Creatives to Greater Manchester's art organisations.

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Older Asian women from KYP’s ESOL group and young women from M6 Theatre Company explored the place of women and girls in the world.

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Our Kámoši Juniors Performing Arts Group, used their creative ideas and activities from the Summer and Autumn terms to create a stunning animation film about the threats to our planet.

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Originally developed as part of Horizons Festival, audiences were fascinated by Brouhaha created by Iraqi artists Sherko Abbas and Kani Kamil at HOME.

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Over in Leigh, Kámoši Junior Performing Arts Group started their new term and met in person.

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CAN was a partner in a live and online panel discussion at University of Manchester with refugee arts networks from Europe

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A free event explored the barriers musicians with refugee backgrounds face and how support organisations and venues can better support them.

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On Saturday 25 September there was a free mini-festival at Oldham Library giving a world perspective on climate change and its impact on people.

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Across September and October, we created exciting live events featuring music, art, discussion, poetry and family friendly workshops in Bolton, Manchester, and Oldham Libraries.

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We celebrated Bolton Libraries joining the Library of Sanctuary movement with live music from the Democratic Republic of Congo from Britannia Rumba.

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