“I'm really grateful to be here - I love everybody here - thank you!”
With the help of funding from Allen Lane, we've been reducing social isolation and empowering women seeking asylum through creative...
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Our team
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Dance and Movement: breaking through language barriers
Every Tuesday we spend the morning dancing with a group of Bangladeshi women in Longsight. The women are between the ages of 35 and 80...
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'It's the imperfections that count' - photography and poetry workshop part 1
In May we collaborated with our partner, Manchester Poetry Library, on a project with 14 women from sanctuary-seeking backgrounds from...
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Maternity Care - session 1
The maternity healthcare inequalities of women seeking asylum and refugees are well documented. We are on a mission to change this. Our...
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Sharing Is Caring – Busting Menopause Myths
Myths and mysteries surround the menopause, and many women don’t know what to expect when their time to experience it comes along. The...
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Fitness Friday's
Working in collaboration with WAST we have been delivering Friday fitness sessions to try and combat the stress, anxiety, depression and...
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If everything was fine, people wouldn’t wouldn’t leave family to go through this
We spoke to Bukola about the fight for her stay in the UK. "I came to the UK in 2015 with my two daughters who were 14 and 7 years old....
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Pauline's story
Pauline is one of the 70 adults we support through our Natives of the World programme. We interviewed Pauline in 2020. Earlier this year...
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Jilla's story
Jill is one of the 70 adults we support through our Natives of the World programme. "I am Iranian but I’ve been here in Manchester for 10...
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Currently training with Afrocats
We would like to introduce you to our trainee artists who started with us this year. Maya Marsh Maya is in her final year at Northern...
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I am a river, moving slowly
Poems created by our Urdu speaking writing group, led by artist Hafsah Bashir thanks to funding from the Greater Manchester BAME Network...
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We are bubbles of energy
A collaborative poem created by our French-speaking writing group that was led by artist Keisha Thompson. This project was made possible...
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Through love thorns becomes roses
Poems created by our Persian-speaking writing group that was led by Mahboobeh Rajabi. This project was made possible thanks to funding...
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If you could only choose 4 of the last words in the world, what would they be?
Outside was murky but inside creativity was starting to take shape in our new world...on ZOOM. People from Africa, South Asia and the...
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Let's Make a Pamphlet!
'It was great fun and good quality time with interesting activity.' We had our first session with the fabulous Jo Ford, who led a...
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Tandrima's story
Tandrima is one of the 70 adults we've supported as part of our Natives of the World programme. Throughout the pandemic we've been able...
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Creative culture!
Thanks to GM BAME Network (GMBAMEN) from December 2020 to the end of February 2021, we are running 18 bespoke online sessions for 30...
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First Delivery!
This Sunday 29th November 2020 Afrocats made our first delivery to 30 people including families, lone parents, men and women from...
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