Communities

Home from HOME

Our community programme Home from HOME delivers long-term creative projects with young people and adult within community settings across Manchester. Working closely with housing associations, grass roots and third-sector organisations to ensure that our work reaches communities that may not have a high level of cultural activity. Through our projects we want to improve health and wellbeing, reduce isolation and promote access to art and culture. We strive to build long-term relationships with our local communities and co-create work that authentically tells their stories and amplifies their voices. Throughout the year their work is shared within community venues and at HOME, and our Home from HOME groups decide what they want to see within their communities.

Home from HOME delivers activity in Gorton, Hulme, Moss Side, Wythenshawe and North Manchester.

Inspire Galleries

Our Inspire Gallery community exhibition programme lives across two dedicated exhibition spaces at HOME. Our purpose-built community white box exhibition space is located to the right of the Box Office and opened in 2024 which joins the original Inspire Gallery located in HOME’s downstairs bar area. Both spaces showcase artworks by local people that encourage community, tell important stories, inspire others and celebrate how art connects us. If you are an artist, participant or project coordinator working on an existing project that you would like to exhibit in HOME’s Inspire Galleries, please tell us about your exhibition idea here.

Horizons Festival

HOME are proud to co-curate Horizons Festival with Community Arts North West and artists with lived experience of forced Migration. Horizons festival brings together diverse communities, families and audiences to celebrate creativity and migration. The festival invites people to come together, connect, learn, stand in solidarity with, and share the traditions and talents of people forced to leave their countries and make Manchester their home. Horizons Festival programmes and commissions local artists to create and perform theatre, film, visual art, spoken word, storytelling, music, dance, workshops across an action-packed programme in June during Refugee Week. Horizons Festival also commissions community artists and organisations to co-create with new migrant communities/asylum seeker/refugee/communities all year round, leading to showcases and celebrations that happen during the festival.

Arts & Migration Group

The Arts and Migration Group is a network of artists, freelancers, facilitators, and producers who have lived experience of migration hosted by Community Arts North West and HOME. The group typically meets twice a year and hosts an event during Horizons Festival annually. Meetings of the Arts and Migration group typically include discussion on local priorities and work by artists from a refugee background, festival programming for Horizons Festival (which takes place in June at HOME for Refugee Week) and a social event to meet and share opportunities and support with others in the network. Catering is provided for attendees and an agenda is sent out in advance. New members are welcome to join the network meetings and socials and can subscribe to an email group. For more information or to join please contact: Lucy.follon@homemcr.org or Nikta producer@comartsnw.org.uk

Inspire Cinema Ticket Offer

HOME’s Inspire Cinema Ticket Scheme provides £1 tickets to specific community groups, and those who might not normally have the opportunity to visit our venue or take part in cultural events. Inspire tickets are currently available for most screenings at HOME and can be requested via tiffany.bowman@homemcr.org.

Please give 5 days notice when requesting Inspire Cinema Tickets.