Last week saw the launch of a brand-new decade long cultural strategy for the city.
Always, Everywhere: Manchester’s Cultural Ambition 2024 – 2034 has been shaped following conversations with local people living and working in the city, as well as input from cultural organisations, creatives, and others directly involved in culture and the arts.
To celebrate its launch members of the public are being invited to get out over the coming weeks and months and try some of the city’s amazing cultural offer – much of it free –
A key part in helping shape the new cultural ambition for the city was consultation with local people as well as cultural organisations, creatives, and others.
Over 240,000 residents were reached out to during the consultation period by social media, nearly 59,000 through newsletters and bulletins, in addition to meetings with over 50 different groups representing 800 community voices. Over 1300 detailed survey responses were also submitted as part of the consultation and direct conversations took place with hundreds of people in local communities across the city.
Councillor Garry Bridges, Deputy Leader Manchester City Council said:
“Modern-day Manchester is a place underpinned by diversity, vibrancy and creativity. Take away our culture and there would be no city. Culture and creativity bring happiness into everyday life and attract visitors from all over the world.
“As part of our renewed cultural ambition for Manchester over the next decade we want to make a difference both locally and internationally to how people see and enjoy arts and culture, both in the city and from the city.
“Widening access to culture for everyone in Manchester is at the core of our ten-year plan, along with a cultural offer that reflects the city’s many and diverse communities.
“Sitting alongside this is our ambition to strengthen even further the city’s cultural offer to ensure it equals that of the most dynamic and culturally rich cities across the globe.” for themselves.
