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We create the environment for Carnival arts, people and communities to thrive.
WHAT WE BELIEVE
We believe that Carnival can create positive social change. Creating a Carnival can build bridges, promote understanding, and provide an opportunity for creative cultural expression and celebration. We believe that healthy and happy communities need diverse, high quality art experiences in which everyone can get involved and feel uplifted.
WHAT WE DO
By co-creating high quality arts experiences with communities, we use artistic expression to challenge dominant ideas of what art is. We focus on collaboration with communities, promote inclusivity, and celebrate diversity. Carnival has roots in resisting injustice, giving voice to marginalised communities and challenging inequality through collective creativity.
We share the collaborative objective to build a progressive and grassroots arts culture in the UK and animate public spaces with jaw-dropping outdoor arts (music, dance and visual arts) for the enjoyment of everyone. We are proud to be the only Arts Council England National Portfolio Organisation (NPO) in Tameside, and to run the North’s only Carnival Centre of Excellence. Artist-led and ambitious, we work throughout the UK and – as our name suggests – internationally, bringing together world-class artists with young people, communities and organisations to tell stories, create the most extraordinary opportunities, moments and memories. We provide training, mentoring, consultancy, volunteering, participation and performance opportunities.
Explore how our work manifests in amazing projects and performances.