1520 studios is a creative community hub in the heart of Manchester. We aim to encourage, uplift and invigorate Manchester’s creative community by providing a space where people feel empowered to express themselves. We are committed to nurturing the creative impulse in us all and breaking down any barriers that stand in the way of people reaching their creative potential.
Migrants In Culture
Migrants In Culture is a migrant-led design agency. We resource organisers and artists to build more creative and powerful social movements. We move towards our collective capacity to imagine and to live without borders.
Miknaf Ha’aretz
Miknaf Ha’aretz organises to heal, repair and reimagine Jewish belonging & connection to land beyond nationalism and zionism. We cultivate earth-based, radical, diasporist jewish community in the UK through immersive courses, retreats & events exploring nature-connection, food & land justice & regenerative farming. We insist on uplifting Jewish safety, belonging and re-connection to land through a politics of solidarity and collective liberation.
performing borders
performingborders is a collectively run, migrant-led platform for artistic research and creation, centered on notions and lived experiences of intersectional borders through live art and performance practices. Co-run by Alessandra Cianetti, Xavier de Sousa and Anahí Saravia Herrera, in collaboration with guest curators, thinkers, artists, activists and researchers.
inCommons
inCommons is working to develop an accessible, action-focussed, educational programme for adult learners of any age to develop understanding of commoning and build commoning experience and networks to make positive change in their communities.
Foreshadowing
Foreshadowing is the transnational initiative dedicated to grieving ecological loss. This space builds and activates multi-platforms and resources for interrogating neo-colonial structure around the climate crisis and developing the agency and intelligence for collective witnessing and transformative healing. It aims to process grief through community-led interspecies epistemology.
shado mag CIC
shado is a lived experience-led community of artists, activists and journalists united in the fight for social justice. shado provides a space for those across different fields, who are currently working in isolation, to co-exist. We work with a community of over 300 artists, activists and journalists in over 50 countries around the world to spotlight and celebrate necessary and innovative stories.
The Atchin Tan / Stopping Place
The Atchin Tan (Stopping Place) is a welcoming creative space for raising awareness of issues affecting Britain’s Romany, Traveller and nomadic communities. From the decimation of living places, to the historic contribution of Travellers to Glastonbury Festival, there are lots of creativity, talks and discussions to be a part of.
Team Domenica
Based in Brighton & Hove, Team Domenica supports young people with learning disabilities – our
candidates – to acquire the skills, confidence and independence they need to gain paid employment,
to reach their full potential and find their place in society.
Theatre Uncut
Theatre Uncut tackles inequality by supporting playwrights to create new work that raises awareness and encourages debate on social injustice. By presenting our work in theatres, online and releasing it free of charge for groups across the world to perform themselves we aim to galvanise action to create a fairer world.
theblokhouse studio
Founded by Fine Art graduates from University Centre South Essex College in 2020, theblokhouse is an artist-run studio and project space in the heart of Southend on Sea, offering supportive studio space and facilities, artist-made creative learning resources addressing a wide range of disciplines, workshops, critiques, mentoring and career development.
The Star and Shadow Cinema
The Star and Shadow Cinema is a community owned cooperative in Newcastle upon Tyne. It is 100% volunteer run.
The building which houses a 90-seater cinema, 220-capacity music venue, café, meeting room, Changing Places Loo, workshops and a community garden, is owned by the members.
ACV
Asset of Community Value (ACV) document community and culture through print, digital and collaborative real-life projects that bring people together in a supercollider of diversity. The collective showcase their work through an annual 200-page publication, spotlighting communities, grassroots organisations & artists working with people-based practices and themes of social justice.
Mouries Collective
We, Mouries Collective, are a fluid and interdisciplinary group of female artists, researchers and therapists based in Athens, Greece. Originally we gathered due to our common interests in healing and divination practices. We focus on developing connections with trees, plants and the diverse beings with whom we share this planet. We are now working under […]
Liverpool African Diasporic Filmmakers Network
Liverpool African Diasporic Filmmakers Network (LADFN) is a collective of Filmmakers, Creatives, Practitioners and Entrepreneurs that centre black identity in their work. We hold monthly gathering (in person and virtual) to connect, share and develop creative and entrepreneurial initiatives. If you’re interested networking, send your email and join our membership.
Lantana
Lantana is a children’s book publisher and social enterprise that believes in the power of reading to encourage children towards a greater sense of self-worth, self-esteem and belonging. By publishing inclusive books by authors from under-represented groups, their books promote diversity and inclusion, social and racial justice, female empowerment, and empathy.
The Reading Room
The Reading Room is a collaborative project where people can read, learn, listen, and share ideas. Through linking up with spaces across the country, we’ve created libraries stocked with thought provoking books. Reading groups and opportunities to meet authors are being established, providing resources and activities that hope to catalyse collaboration and conversation.
Good Grief
Good Grief is a podcast that sets out to explore the taboo nature of grief and how we develop, learn and form meaningful traditions around it.
Fuel Poverty Action
Fuel Poverty Action confronts the climate and cost of living catastrophes as one fossil-fuelled crisis. We support residents fighting for safe, non-flammable insulation; warm secure housing; reliable, affordable communal heating systems; windfall taxes on energy corporation profits; and fair energy pricing. Born 2011, we’re a small but growing grassroots group.
Hopeful solidarities
Hopeful Solidarities is a collaboration between three writer-teacher-activists and community
organisations we are part of in Brighton and Hove. In times of multiple intersecting crises,
ranging from struggles for daily survival in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic, the spiralling cost
of living, climate change and the racist legacies of European colonialism, we explore and work
alongside islands of hope. We engage with members of our community organisations, listening
to people’s reflections on their own stories in the light of the present moment, and seek to
build on emergent solidarities through everyday, practical and creative work including writing,
film, photography, food and music.