Vestiges: Crafting Connections through the Heritage of the Peak District
Written by Dr Melanie GilesVestiges worked with Sheffield Museum Trust’s Weston Park Museum to help enrich the cultural and creative content of their exhibition celebrating the life and work of Peak District antiquarian, Thomas Bateman. Collaborative discussion...
Building Cultural Diplomacy into the Agenda of Cultural Sustainability
Written by Dr Biyun ZhuThis project positioned cultural diplomacy at the heart of cultural sustainable development. It discussed how international cultural activities address cultural sustainable development goals (such as cultural diversity and equity) amid the...
Our Green and Pleasant Land
Written by Dr Jenna C. AshtonPatriotism meets climate campaigning in 'Our Green and Pleasant Land!'Throughout April 2022, a small artist-researcher team held workshops with families in Miles Platting and Newton Heath Libraries and at Miles Platting St Cuthbert's...
Schools Poetry Clinics
Written by Joe HunterAt first, I wasn't sure I was the right person to act as a mentor for the schools poetry competition. After all, I was – I am – primarily a fiction writer. But I write plenty of poetry, and had certainly studied it for long enough. As Dr Luke...
Poetry & Nature in Greater Manchester
Written by Dr Clara DawsonIn June, I had the pleasure of organising nature and creative writing workshops for school pupils in Manchester, co-ordinated with Lancashire Wildlife Trust. The three workshops were designed for Year 10 Manchester Academy pupils in the...
Beautiful Care
Written by James Thompson Over the course of 2021-2022, Luke Tanner (dementia care therapist and consultant) conducted interviews with care workers asking them what they understood by the term 'beautiful care' and if they could give examples of beautiful care in their...
A Walk along the Cornbrook
Written by Dr John Piprani and Alexandra McGaughrin CrossThe Cornbrook is a culverted watercourse that rises in east Manchester, and on its journey west, travels below The University of Manchester campus before finally emptying into the Manchester Ship Canal (behind...
Let’s Talk Zindabad
Written by Amina BegIn December 2021, I went to Let’s Talk Rochdale which is a community-based organisation set up in 2019 working to empower women from South Asian backgrounds. They provide various activities to create awareness for the mental/physical health of the...
Defining and Developing the UK’s First Arts and Culture Community Land Trust through Community-Led Research
Written by Emma Martin This project supported the initial development phase of the UK’s first Community Land Trust (CLT), dedicated to arts and culture, based in Wirral Arts and Culture CLT (WACCLT), Wirral, Northwest England. CLTs are democratic, non-profit...
Migrant Songs 1950s-80s: Preserving Bangladeshi Musical Heritage in the North-West
Written by Professor Anindita GoshThis project is aimed at Bangladeshi audiences in the North West and is designed to showcase their rich folk music in tribute to the migrant experience in the region. It consisted of a series of events organised in the North-West –...
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