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.
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We’re looking forward to some CAN Young Artists’ activities this summer
CAN and HOME are looking forward to meeting artists who've experienced forced migration at a special artist event.
CAN invites young people to try out music and singing in new workshops
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
Sparks of Freedom - creative taster sessions to find the next generation of CAN Young Artists.
Young people created art work for the Rochdale date of the international tour of acclaimed visual artists Luke Jerram's stunning art-work Gaia.
We're thrilled to introduce our talented CAN Do Creatives to Greater Manchester's art organisations.
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.
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.
Discover what CAN Young Artists are up to...
We're thrilled to introduce our new group of CAN DO Creatives.
Originally developed as part of Horizons Festival, audiences were fascinated by Brouhaha created by Iraqi artists Sherko Abbas and Kani Kamil at HOME.
Over in Leigh, Kámoši Junior Performing Arts Group started their new term and met in person.
Families joined storyteller and musician Emmanuela Yogolelo for a storytelling, singing and music performance.
CAN was a partner in a live and online panel discussion at University of Manchester with refugee arts networks from Europe
Families tried out drumming, dance, and craft at Beswick Library.
Families tried out drumming, art and circus skills to celebrate Libraries of Sanctuary
Families joined in with music, singing, drumming, and craft workshops
A free event explored the barriers musicians with refugee backgrounds face and how support organisations and venues can better support them.
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.
Across September and October, we created exciting live events featuring music, art, discussion, poetry and family friendly workshops in Bolton, Manchester, and Oldham Libraries.
We celebrated Bolton Libraries joining the Library of Sanctuary movement with live music from the Democratic Republic of Congo from Britannia Rumba.
Climate Connections was a new arts project to develop greater awareness about climate change and enabling Oldham’s diverse, working-class communities to have a louder voice in the environmental movement.