Great Place 2019-2022
GM Arts delivered strategic projects as part of Greater Manchester’s ‘Stronger Together’ Great Place scheme funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund and Arts Council England. Projects took place during the global COVID-19 pandemic.
Delivered by FutureEverything, this place [of mine] was a young producer programme, online hub, and artwork commissioned by GM Arts with support from GMCA.
This exciting project brought together people from across the region and beyond to co-imagine the future of our high streets and town centres through digital art, culture and creativity.
Produced by FutureEverything and delivered in partnership with Manchester City Council, One Manchester, Oldham MBC, Link4Life, Tameside MBC, Wigan MBC, and The Turnpike CIC.
Cap & Dove was a tiny travelling arts centre, housing a one-window museum, theatre, and shop. It was a Peterloo legacy project, celebrating protest, liberty, and equality.
Artist Joshua Sofaer was commissioned by Greater Manchester Arts, and supported by Rule of Threes to produce the ‘art centre on wheels’ which took art, performance, and storytelling to the heart of Greater Manchester communities, Bury, Bolton, Manchester, Oldham, Rochdale, Salford, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford, and Wigan in the summer of 2021.
“Joshua’s idea for taking the shared and distinct histories of Greater Manchester and it’s ten districts direct to people living across the region can finally be realised in full this summer. The intricacies in the design of Cap & Dove provide an ever-unfurling journey of discovery into some of the most inspiring and sometimes bizarre aspects of local history, incorporating the radicals, the dreamers and the iconoclasts that wrote the region into the history books. With each stop on the tour offering something new to experience it’s a small arts centre with a huge story to tell.”
— Marie Holland, Acting Chair, GM Arts (2021)