Creative Manchester

NEW EVENT: Research Café: Housing with care and creativity with older LGBTQ people

Location: Kanaris Theatre, Manchester Museum
Date: Tuesday 7 July, 2-4pm

Join us for research findings, creative outputs and more from this interdisciplinary pilot research project exploring the experiences, needs, and aspirations of older LGBTQ people.

Over the past 10 months, the researchers have observed the process of co-designing Kindred House, an extra-care housing scheme developed through a collaboration between a community steering group of older LGBTQ people and local residents, Manchester City Council, Great Places Housing Group, and the LGBT Foundation.

Image credit: Len Grant

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A new banner for Rochdale – Unity Is Strength 🏳️

Ruth Flanagan, artist, Cartwheel Arts You Live and You Learn Coordinator and Community Innovation Practitioner through Creative Manchester, has developed Unity Is Strength.

Unity Is Strength demonstrates how a community arts project can place the participants as ‘owners’ and build a space for reflection and conversation. A series of workshops brought together women from the town’s diverse communities, including women who have experienced forced migration, to create an embroidered banner.

The Community Innovation Practitioner (CIP) Awards, are part of the Creative Communities programme and funded by the UKRI Arts and Humanities Research Council - AHRC.

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