Arts, Music, Blogs and Archives
Take a look and learn about all the amazing archives, arts and music organisation across Greater Manchester & beyond!
Blue Shoes Production
Blue Shoes Productions creates innovative digital content for organisations that are implementing social and cultural change.
About
We are a production company based in Manchester, England. Blue Shoes Productions creates innovative digital content for organisations that are implementing social and cultural change. Drawing on a background that combines historical research with filmmaking, we are well experienced in delivering meticulously-crafted narratives and enthralling visual content.
Much of our work attempts to illustrate the fountain of artistic wealth found in the North West of England. We attempt to disseminate the unique tales and hidden histories found in the region. We are especially passionate about locating and circulating the untold stories of those who are traditionally underrepresented and seldom heard in society to offer a platform for social change.
How can people get involved?
Contact us with interesting stories from around Manchester and the North West and we can look into collaborating together to create short documentary films!
How can people contact you remotely?
Email: blueshoesdocs@gmail.com
Website: blueshoesproductions.com
Twitter: @blueshoesdocs
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BlueShoesDocs/
https://blueshoesproductions.com/2020/06/19/congos-activist-in-exile/
https://blueshoesproductions.com/2020/04/28/tales-to-inspire/
https://blueshoesproductions.com/2020/03/16/rockets-and-blue-lights/
https://blueshoesproductions.com/2020/01/31/multilingual-manchester/
https://blueshoesproductions.com/2020/03/06/the-lowry/
https://blueshoesproductions.com/2020/01/24/macfest/
https://blueshoesproductions.com/2020/01/07/folk-festival/
https://blueshoesproductions.com/2020/01/08/ferocious-dog/
https://blueshoesproductions.com/2019/11/18/celebrating-syria/
Cartwheel Arts
Cartwheel Arts is a community arts charity based in Heywood. Cartwheel Arts promotes social inclusion, cohesion, diversity and regeneration through community participation in vibrant, innovative, high-quality arts projects.
About
Cartwheel Arts is a community arts charity based in Heywood. Cartwheel Arts promotes social inclusion, cohesion, diversity and regeneration through community participation in vibrant, innovative, high-quality arts projects.
We are particularly keen to showcase our HLF funded project, Overspill, which has now been extended to October 2020. The project, which has been live since January 2019, has been collecting stories of people who moved from the Manchester slums in the 1950s and 1960s to the Overspill estates of Langley in Middleton and Darnhill in Heywood which are both areas in which Cartwheel Arts have been working.
The website will remain live for 5 years and the information will be deposited with the Manchester archives.
Email: vicki@cartwheelarts.org.uk
Chorlton History Blog
The Chorlton History Blog exists to tell the stories of Greater Manchester’s past, and in particular the people, buildings and events which have often been forgotten by history or worse never recognised. Each blog article aims to present a story, using a range of historical sources, and adds a national context in which to view them.
The blog sits along a series of books written between 2012 and 2019. The first focused on the study of Chorlton-cum-Hardy, in the first half of the 19th century when it was still a small rural community 4 miles from Manchester. The second looked at Manchester during the Great War, and the third was a commission by the Manchester children’s charity which told the story of its history from 1870 to the present day. Along side these there are five written in conjunction with a Manchester artist exploring the history of Manchester pubs, places of workshop and the transformation of Didsbury during the last century.
Est. 1761
In early February 2014, Salford City Council secured funding from the National Lottery Heritage Fund, Peel Holdings and other partner organisations to revitalise the Bridgewater Canal in Salford. Est. 1761 was created to tell the stories of this momentous waterway and to transform it into a place people want to use and enjoy.
In early February 2014, Salford City Council secured funding from the National Lottery Heritage Fund, Peel Holdings and other partner organisations to revitalise the Bridgewater Canal in Salford. Est. 1761 was created to tell the stories of this momentous waterway and to transform it into a place people want to use and enjoy.
They can email us at bridgewatercanal@salford.gov.uk
Family resources – download a free iSpy and things to make and do
Via email on: bridgewatercanal@salford.gov.uk
International Anthony Burgess Foundation
The International Anthony Burgess Foundation is an independent charity that supports educational and artistic work, as well as preserving and promoting the archive of the author Anthony Burgess, who was born and raised in Manchester.
About
The International Anthony Burgess Foundation is an independent charity that supports educational and artistic work, as well as preserving and promoting the archive of the author Anthony Burgess, who was born and raised in Manchester.
Although best known for his novel A Clockwork Orange, Burgess wrote 33 novels and many works of non-fiction and journalism alongside over 250 musical works. The Burgess Foundation was established by Burgess’s widow, Liana, to encourage engagement with Burgess’s life and work.
The archive consists of books, photographs, music, audio, personal and business papers, furniture and other objects that belonged to Burgess and his family. It’s a fascinating record of 20th Century writing life, documenting the breadth of Burgess’s creative output, his eclectic tastes and interests, and his interaction with other major writers, film-makers, composers and artists.
The archive is accessible to on-site researchers in a designated reading room. We also have a performance venue which we use to deliver a year-round programme of public events and activities, including concerts, readings, conferences, book launches, workshops, away-days, lectures, film screenings, discussions and in-conversation events. We are keen to provide a platform for new writing and music and present these works alongside pieces by Burgess.
Online resources
https://www.anthonyburgess.org/news/Online exhibitions, a new one launched most months:
https://www.anthonyburgess.org/anthony-burgess-exhibitions/Lots of information for people researching Anthony Burgess:
https://www.anthonyburgess.org/about-anthony-burgess/Podcast series:
https://www.anthonyburgess.org/burgess-foundation-podcasts/Objects of the Week:
https://www.anthonyburgess.org/category/object-of-the-week/Lots to listen to on our Soundcloud:
https://soundcloud.com/misterenderbyA catalogue of our archive at the Archives Hub:
https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/search/archives/98ba7d32-aa50-39af-b75d-65898dcf7371
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National Black Arts Alliance
NBAA (formerly BAA) works across art forms to create productions that challenge perceptions of Black culture and that celebrate the many dimensions of Black heritage.
Black is a political expression representing the arts and culture drawn from ancestral heritages of South Asia, Africa, South America, and the Caribbean and, in more recent times, owing to global conflict, our newly arrived compatriots known collectively as refugees. It acknowledges and respects the diversities that exist and the different historic experiences that have been encountered and survived.
Royal Northern College of Music
RNCM Archives collects and shares the heritage material of the college and its predecessors (Royal Manchester College of Music, Northern School of Music), its staff and students.
Anyone is welcome to explore the collection, you don’t have to be a musician, and we encourage you to use the collection to inspire your own works of art, poetry, diary keeping, photography, whatever you are interested in.
The college’s hidden gem is the Collection of Historic Musical Instruments. With items stretching back to the mid-16th century and across different continents, it’s a wondrous map of music making through time and cultures. From the beautiful to the macabre, we’re proud of our fascinating collection, which boasts such jewels as a Stradivarius violino piccolo and beautiful Italian virginals from the Renaissance. If you’d like to visit and hear recordings of some of the instruments being played, look out for our opening hours on our website.
The archive catalogue is available here: http://www.archives.rncm.ac.uk/ Not everything is catalogued or indexed fully so please get in touch if it looks like we don’t have something you’d expect to find listed here.
Our online archive exhibition is with our friends at the Manchester Digital Music Archive with thousands of images and more to come. https://www.mdmarchive.co.uk/exhibition/677/rncm-archives
Information about the Collection of Historic Instruments can be found here https://www.rncm.ac.uk/research/resources/collection/
A beautiful catalogue of the Collection of Historic Musical Instruments with images of the items is with our friends at MINIM here http://minim.ac.uk/index.php/explore/?filter[legalBodyName]=%22Royal%20Northern%20College%20of%20Music%22
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