
Stella has successfully led CAN since 2019, having joined us from a freelance career, which followed a 13 year career…

CAN’s work is celebrated in Rochdale
25 Jan 2023The Rochdale Women’s Voices project was a finalist in the Community Education Project category in the annual Rochdale Borough Sports and…

Community Arts North West (CAN) is confirmed as an Arts Council England NPO for 2023 – 2026
2 Nov 2022We are proud to take our place amongst thousands of arts and culture organisations that will realise the objectives of…

Here’s an edited transcript of Stella’s presentation which was featured in the symposium: Transnational Lived Citizenship Through Creative Production. We…

CAN’s work is more important than ever. Most of our face-to-face projects were cancelled during lockdown, but we still made…

Emmanuela Yogolelo is our Assistant Creative Producer working on our Children and Young People’s programme. She is also a nationally…

Community Arts North West is recruiting for a new Chair of the Board as our current Chair, Martin Hazlehurst, is…

Do you want to join CAN as a Creative Producer / Project Manager? Deadline: Monday 11 October
30 Sep 2021CAN is recruiting for Creative Producers/Project Managers Community Arts North West works with communities and artists in Greater Manchester, especially those…

We want to hear from experienced creative trainer/s who work with adults to deliver weekly training sessions for our CANDoCreatives…

Saturday 5 June marks the one-year anniversary of Manchester’s Black Lives Matter demonstration. Thousands of people gathered in Piccadilly Gardens…

We’re delighted to welcome Remi Adefeyisian to the CAN team in time for a very busy Summer 2021. Remi is…

Coronavirus Update
6 Apr 2020The CAN team is following government guidance and focusing our work on supporting artists and young people remotely during the…

We’re extremely proud of Cilla Baynes, CAN’s Creative Director and Co-Founder, who recently won an Inspiring Change Award as part…

We’re celebrating the news that CAN is a Finalist for two prestigious Manchester Culture Awards in the categories of Promotion of Talent…

CAN is delighted to announce the appointment of Stella Barnes as its new Creative Director, succeeding Cilla Baynes MBE, CAN’s…

CAN is delighted by the news that we’ve secured ACE NPO investment for the period between 2018 – 2022. We…

CAN has developed a new creative-digital programme between 2016 – 2017 with national and international reach through the TANDEM programme. …

Learning Lab is part of the Platforma North West Hub which supports artists, cultural workers, organisations, activists, academics and change-makers…