Current Programme.

Exodus is a dynamic programme of participatory cultural production, working with refugees and host communities across a range of traditional and contemporary art forms.

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

Read more

Force of Nature brings the global to the local in a conversation about climate change and inequality through a free…

Read more

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

Read more

Force of Nature; Song Warriors of the Global South saw three Manchester-based women Singers/MCs take to the stage in Factory…

Read more

Join us at Fly With Me from 2pm on Saturday 20 August 2022 at Platt Fields Park in Fallowfield, Manchester, M14…

Read more

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

Read more

Are you an artist with lived experience of forced migration? Would you like to gain experience running creative sessions in…

Read more

Featuring newly built handmade unconventional instruments, Iraqi artists Sherko Abbas and Kani Kamil created the performance  Brouhaha to reflect the…

Read more

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

Read more

Refugee Arts Networks: The Extending The Frame panel discussion and exchange brought together refugee-led artists’ advocacy networks to discuss new…

Read more

On Saturday 30 October at Beswick Library, CAN ran free family-friendly workshops with dance, drumming and percussion from Africa and…

Read more

We had a fabulous day with musician Arian Sadr, artist Mei Yuk Wong who taught families creative crafts for the…

Read more

We had a fabulous afternoon of FREE family-friendly workshop at Wythenshawe’s Forum Library on 16 October.  There was singing and…

Read more

The event connected musicians from refugee backgrounds, people and organisations who work to support them, and music venues that had…

Read more

Voices For Action – live and online – featured music, poetry, visual and digital arts, and discussion. The event raised…

Read more

Bolton, Manchester, and Oldham Libraries are now accredited as Libraries of Sanctuary, libraries which welcome refugees and asylum seekers to…

Read more
Photo of band leader

Audiences were dancing amongst the books of Bolton Central Library to celebrate Libraries of Sanctuary with Britannia Rumba delighting audiences…

Read more

The project connected Oldham’s communities with people in Bremen, Germany through Oldham Libraries’ participation in the Building Bridges programme linking…

Read more

HUNGER was a unique piece created by international artists Abas El Janabi (Lead Artist), Farjana Kabir and Louison Kangombe at Manchester…

Read more

The intimate event celebrated the life, poetry, and spiritual beliefs of the 13th-century Persian poet, Rumi and connected audiences to…

Read more

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

Read more

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…

Read more

Artists continue to speak out, through their work, about these injustices and their work is a profound reflection on our…

Read more

In February audiences were lucky to get a sneak-peek preview of the work-in-progress of three CAN artists, Abas Eljanabi, Farjana…

Read more