Exodus is a dynamic programme of participatory cultural production, working with refugees and host communities across a range of traditional and contemporary art forms.
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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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The acclaimed exhibition A Great British Welcome, created by the UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, and featuring CAN , will…
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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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Force of Nature brings the global to the local in a conversation about climate change and inequality through a free…
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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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Force of Nature; Song Warriors of the Global South saw three Manchester-based women Singers/MCs take to the stage in Factory…
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Join us at Fly With Me from 2pm on Saturday 20 August 2022 at Platt Fields Park in Fallowfield, Manchester, M14…
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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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Are you an artist with lived experience of forced migration? Would you like to gain experience running creative sessions in…
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Featuring newly built handmade unconventional instruments, Iraqi artists Sherko Abbas and Kani Kamil created the performance Brouhaha to reflect the…
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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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Refugee Arts Networks: The Extending The Frame panel discussion and exchange brought together refugee-led artists’ advocacy networks to discuss new…
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On Saturday 30 October at Beswick Library, CAN ran free family-friendly workshops with dance, drumming and percussion from Africa and…
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We had a fabulous day with musician Arian Sadr, artist Mei Yuk Wong who taught families creative crafts for the…
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We had a fabulous afternoon of FREE family-friendly workshop at Wythenshawe’s Forum Library on 16 October. There was singing and…
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The event connected musicians from refugee backgrounds, people and organisations who work to support them, and music venues that had…
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Voices For Action – live and online – featured music, poetry, visual and digital arts, and discussion. The event raised…
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Bolton, Manchester, and Oldham Libraries are now accredited as Libraries of Sanctuary, libraries which welcome refugees and asylum seekers to…
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Audiences were dancing amongst the books of Bolton Central Library to celebrate Libraries of Sanctuary with Britannia Rumba delighting audiences…
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The project connected Oldham’s communities with people in Bremen, Germany through Oldham Libraries’ participation in the Building Bridges programme linking…
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HUNGER was a unique piece created by international artists Abas El Janabi (Lead Artist), Farjana Kabir and Louison Kangombe at Manchester…
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The intimate event celebrated the life, poetry, and spiritual beliefs of the 13th-century Persian poet, Rumi and connected audiences to…
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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…