Ahmed Iqbal Ullah RACE Centre’s Festival Of Libraries Workshop, 9 June 2021...
Community-Focused Digital Engagement
This is a blog post of an online event held on 10 February at the 2021 Digital Past Conference. it was written and presented by Drew Ellery, Digital O...
Responding to COVID-19 – Hafsah
Before Hafsah joined us as Community Producer, she contributed a film to our COVID-19 Collecting project, and she tells us about her contribution here...
Introducing…
New team members Heena Patel and Hafsah Bashir introduce themselves...
Introducing Nat Holmes
Nat Holmes, who will be working with us to create new teaching resources Please note: In this piece we use the term global majority communities. By th...
Be yourself, your authentic self
We talked with Shirley May, our Poet in Residence, about her new poem ‘They Came With Backbone‘, written for International Women’s D...
They Came With Backbone – a poem for International Women’s Day
Our new poet in residence, Shirley May, has written this poem for International Women’s Day, inspired by some of the women whose stories are fou...
“Does Your Blood Not Move?”
Earlier this year we shared a post about the tragic death of Shukri Abdi, and its similarities with the case of Ahmed Iqbal Ullah. Shortly after that ...
Poet in Residence
We are delighted to announce the appointment of our first poet in residence, Shirley May, one of the best known and loved performers on the Manchester...
Recruitment – Community Producer
We are recruiting for a Community Producer to develop, commission and deliver new community-led creative responses exploring Black, Asian and Refugee ...



