Current Programme.

CAN is a specialist youth arts provider offering unique programmes where young people from diverse heritages can work together, are valued and encouraged in their creativity, and can become part of exciting production processes that create profound cultural memory.

Beginning in 2022, Community Arts North West (CAN) has developed a programme of work with newly arrived refugee communities in…

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Are you aged 13 – 18 years? We’re rolling out the next part of the CAN Young Artists programme with…

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South Asian woman with audience reading poetry

As part of CAN’s project, Rochdale Women’s Voices, which celebrates women’s strength and resilience, we worked with two partners: the…

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Creative Pulse is the latest in a series of free workshops aimed at young people from new migrant and more…

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The group took photographs working with Shirlaine Forrest and created moving image from representations of their names, lines from their…

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In partnership with Band On The Wall, we’ve developed World of Music: Without Borders, a creative August summer holiday project…

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We’re looking for young people aged 13 to 21 to join the CAN Young Artists group this June – July….

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The project is part of Community Arts North West (CAN)’s year-round work with young people with whom CAN builds long-term connections….

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In 2021, the Kámoši Performing Arts Group, for primary-aged children from diverse communities in Wigan, Greater Manchester, explored environment and climate…

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CAN has been working in partnership with Bury Council CLAS on The School’s Linking Project since 2019.  Through the project, CAN…

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Are you a young person interested in drama, visual arts, music, and movement? Want to take part in some FREE…

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Over two days Wednesday 18 May and Wednesday 25 May between 11 – 3pm, why not try out song-writing and…

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The CAN Young Artists taster sessions took place in April, and included a whole range of creative activities – film,…

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In December 2021, CAN partnered with Rochdale Youth Service to work with groups of young people to create artwork to…

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Throughout 2021, Kámoši, based in Leigh (Wigan Borough), explored the topic of the environment and climate change. They expressed their…

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Our CAN Young Artists group, aged between 13 and 18, are meeting face-to-face on Thursday evenings and Saturday afternoons. This follows…

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In the run-up to December, the Kámoši Junior Performing Arts Group have been working with different artists building on all…

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Families joined in with singing, clapping, body percussion and heard music and stories from the Congo Basin in a special…

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CAN was delighted by the return of Kámoši Juniors Performing Arts Group to face-to-face work after lockdown which interrupted the…

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Their new project was developed through outreach in Manchester’s diverse communities which continued the group’s proud history of making diversity…

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