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🍜🍌🥟 SNACK & SKETCH! ✏️🎨 What's cooking, Longsight? 👀 Join us for a deliciously creative Snack & Sketch session as we explore the flavours, foods and stories that make Longsight so special! 🌍❤️ From your favourite childhood snacks and family recipes to the tasty treats found in our local shops and markets, we'll be celebrating our community through food, drawing and storytelling. 🍉 Draw your favourite foods, snacks and meals. 🥘 Share the stories, cultures and memories behind the food you love. 🍪 We'll be providing snacks & non-alcoholic drinks for everyone to enjoy! You're also welcome to bring along your own favourite snack or meal to inspire your artwork and share your story. ✏️ No drawing experience needed — just bring your imagination, your appetite and your love for Longsight! Come along, get creative and celebrate the flavours that bring our community together. 💛 📍 Longsight Community Art Centre, Manchester 📅 This Thursday, 4–6pm 🎟️ Free event — no booking needed #SnackAndSketch #Longsight #LongsightManchester #CommunityArt #ManchesterWorkshops FoodAndCulture CreativeManchester ArtForEveryone
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These are the people of Longsight. The ones who never left and the ones who arrived and never wanted to. The aunties who feed you like it’s their job. The neighbours who know about all of your struggles and are there with anything and everything. A community that was never defined by a postcode or a boundary. Just people, making it home. 🤍 Two weekends ago, 2,813 of us came together to celebrate exactly that. A film premiere made with local residents. A day in the park where 2,500 people showed up, for free, to watch, dance, make things and sit with each other. A community dinner that was meant to seat 120. We fed 230. Because that is what happens when you actually show up for a community and a community shows up back. Longsight is one of the most diverse places in Manchester. It is also one of the most under-celebrated. Our festival exists to change that. Not from the outside looking in, but from the inside, led by the people who live here, work here, were born here, or arrived here and chose to stay. This year’s festival was delivered in partnership with over 30 local organisations, 35 volunteers, artists, performers, chefs, makers and facilitators, most of them from right here in Longsight and Manchester, with a few brilliant people who travelled to be part of it. Every stall, every workshop, every performance was community-led. Thank you to Better We CIC, Women’s Voices CIC, Originally.Black, Rise & Flourish, 422 Community Hub, Odopa Cultural Group, Across Ummah CIC, Afrocats, Manchester Museum, Longsight Library, The Christie NHS Trust, Prevent Breast Cancer, Manchester Bangladeshi Women’s Organisation, Victoria Baths, Citizens Advice Manchester, Arab British Centre, Creative City / CleanupUK, MSM Powerhouse, BeLongsight, The Whitworth, Dishoom, One Chattogram and every individual who gave their time, energy and heart to this weekend. Supported by Manchester City Council, Groundswell, Westhill Endowment Fund, Great Places Housing Association and the Arab British Centre / Freelands Foundation. The set design for the community dinner was done by Sara Edilbe (@edilbsara) Photography by Omari Taylor (@omaritaylor.one)
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Big things are taking shape in the park! We are extremely honoured to announce that Shahed Saleem @shahed.saleem is creating a brand new public sculpture which will be revealed on 22nd August for Our Longsight Festival. A sculpture that you can sit within, chat together, and will be adorned by flags created by members of the community during workshops with the talented local artist Fajar @fajkart Titled 'If you live with me, I'll live with you' the sculpture is about co-existance, created out of two pieces hanging together, though it is not clear how they are interconnected or how they support each other, somehow they do. About the artist: Shahed Saleem is an architect, author and Reader in Architecture at the University of Westminster. He works across disciplines to create installations, buildings, texts and drawings. He explores the built envrionment as a complex interplay of narratives as embodied through people’s individual and collective memories and imaginations. Saleem co-curated the V&A Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2021 and his book ‘The British Mosque’ was published in 2018 by Historic England. His design work has been nominated for the V&A Jameel Prize 2013 and the Aga Khan Award for Architecture 2016, and his research work won a RIBA Presidents Medal for Research commendation 2020 and was nominated for the Historic England Angel Award and the SAHGB Colvin Prize 2019.
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"We are thrilled to annouce Nadia Sultana @henna.fusionz has been making a stunning new artwork for Our Longsight Festival. Over the past month she has been running workshops across the city, helping people of all ages and backgrounds create silver and gold butterflies that will be installed amongst the trees right here in Crowcroft Park! Come watch the magic happen starting 22nd August from 11 am to 5 pm. About the artist: Lancashire-born and deeply rooted in South Asian heritage, Nadia is an artist whose work moves between the intricate and the expansive, from traditional henna and mandala-making to large-scale outdoor installations. Her recent commission brought together local participants to hand-make foil butterflies, which came together into a shimmering installation celebrating creativity, community and transformation.
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In many South Asian cultures, July is the month of water deities, a month of swelling rivers, bringing the gods of rain down for the much-awaited relief from the scorching heat. This month, as part of the Longsight Table - a 12-month dinner project hosting food from around the world - we are celebrating the great, old Tamil land. Longsight Art Space is delighted to invite our dear friend, Sujatha (a classical dancer trained in Bharatnatyam, a poet, an actor, and a doctor in NHS) for a dinner-evening reminiscent of her growing up in Madras, its summer sky-ceilings, and a fat sun massaging the scalps of her great-grandmothers. The evening will commence with a short talk by Dr. Anandi Ramamurthy, Professor Emeritus at Sheffield Hallam University, giving us a brief introduction of the dinner and Tamil culture. Followed by a Bharatnatyam recital, on the theme of Ardhanarishwara, narrativised and performed by Sujatha, which is then followed by the dinner, introducing the attendees to the quintessential Tamil cuisine. The Longsight Table project was conceptualised by Saman Rizwan, also an Executive Director of the gallery. The project hopes to bring together the split-ends of diasporas in our communities and introduce the wider public to the ancient culinary cultures from across the world. We ask for your support to share this togetherness. To book your place, please get your Pay-what-you-can tickets in our bio. Supported by Westhill Endowment Fund.
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Words From Where We Live This April, we’re opening up a space to write, reflect and find your voice, right here in Longsight. Over 12 weeks, we’ll explore poetry as a way of telling our stories. The places we know, the people we love, the things we carry. No experience needed. Facilitated by Elmi Ali, a North-West-based creative whose practice spans writing, directing, facilitating, translation, performance, and education. Every Friday, 6-8pm Starting 24th April The Pavilion, Crowcroft Park, M12 5QY All welcome. Free to join. Link in bio to register. Supported by @welovemcrcharity #wordsfromwherewelive #poetry #longsight #manchester
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These queens! 😍 👑 So gorgeous to be in a room full of some of my favourite #Gorton changemakers - dreaming up a better future for our wonderful community. Working together to push for big thinking, inclusive citizen participation in decision-making, better democracy, youth leadership, accountability, equity and a happier, greener, safer, fairer future! 💞✊ #Prideinplace #gortonsouth #civicpride #participatorydemocracy
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*A Journey Through Manchester’s Black Hidden History* 300 children. 5 schools. 1 city’s hidden history. One of the most ground-breaking Black History Month exhibitions in Manchester told through the eyes of 300 local children. Over two months, artist @tinaramosekongoart worked with schools across Longsight, Gorton and Levenshulme, guiding Year 6 students to explore Black Mancunian history from the origins of the Manchester Caribbean Carnival to the 5th Pan African Congress. Held in Manchester in 1945, the 5th Pan-African Congress was a defining moment in the global fight against colonialism and racism. A gathering that inspired independence movements across Africa and the Caribbean. Through art, the children reflected on its enduring legacy and what it means for identity, equality and belonging today. Their creative responses now form a powerful exhibition. At: Longsight Art Space From: 25 October - 2 November 2025
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For one magical week in Swinton Square Shopping Precinct, empty shop units came to life with performers from across Salford to tell stories past and present in Carousel of Us. Film by @canteencreate and music by @gideonconn Such a joy to make this with @bolellireboucas and a brilliant creative team including @biffroxby @katedaleyworks @anotherdiasporan @fowsiiaa @victoriathomas_makeupartist @artsletloose @nyree_____waters @breigecobanephotography and others Featuring @mariykasdancestudios, @salfordyouthservice @swintonpalais Co-op Academy Swinton and @barton_theatre_company Starring @astartecara @sianlouised98 @nataliecamilla01 @creativityinthemaking_puppetry @firephoenixrising96 @hanafazalwriter @kirstiemcadam @paulcsherlock @paddymcauley88 and many more Produced by @georgie_edwards_1 and @fromtheother._ Supported by @salford_council Special thanks to @salfordshaun1 and the people of Swinton. #CarouselofUs @visitsalford
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> A little throwback to the private view of Reframe: The Residency Exhibition. The exhibition showcased the works of 77 black or black mixed heritage creatives aged 18-30, from Manchester, Birmingham and London as part of the pioneering REFRAME programme. The immersive art installation fused together the creatives’ disciplines in music, photography and film to create body of work in response to climate change. My role on the programme was “Co-Lead Tutor” which involved being a photography mentor and facilitator for the Manchester cohort. Swipe across to the end :-) The programme was produced by @southbankcentre (the UKs largest art institution) alongside @factory_international and STEAMhouse and @mac_birmingham. Also, in case you missed it the first time around, check out my MENTOR story highlight under my bio @tanyaweekes to see more of what of we got up to during the programme. Video of me outside the exhibition by @benjahmineking Pictures of me for the exhibition by superstar Josh @photosbyjrd, one of the Manchester creatives. #blackbritish #southbank #artexhibitionuk #blackbritishcreatives #blackphotographer #blackfemalephotographer #manchesterblogger #blackfilmmakers #blackcreatives #factoryinternational #blackart
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Photographs of our film in articles is a bit surreal and I’m super proud to have worked with a talented and strong team & mentor. To future projects and proud moments. When editing I added some Ai animation which can be seen in the photograph no.1. The 2nd photograph of bees was filmed at Salford community garden centre which has provided me with natural solace whilst living in the city centre. @factory_international @apple @southbankcentre @steamhouse_uk @petewoodhead 📸
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So, 5 years ago TODAY @fauziyajohnson and I released the first issue of ROOT-ed Zine after months of researching, fundraising, building the business and brand, designing the pages of the zine and establishing this unique community. Here are a few photos showing some of my fave ROOT-ed moments over the past 5 years! HBD @rootedzine and a massive thank you to the artists, friends, family, collaborators, tutors, mentors, galleries and charities who’ve helped us along the way 🤍 🎂🎈🥳🍾🎁🪩
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