DIPACT CIC @DIPACTmcr
Creative Cafe Clusters run & led by Artists | Diverse Innovative Platform for Artists Communities Transformation 🇬🇧 Founder @mahboobehmcr DIPACT.co.uk Manchester, England Joined April 2017-
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Art connects us ….
What do we carry from home? 🌍 Through Global Roots Canvas @DIPACTmcr , artists including Vian, Karolina, Daria, Gloria, and Mahrokh have shared culture, identity, heritage, and creativity in powerful ways. instagram.com/p/DZp80efDNQe/ Art connects us. ✨@ace_thenorth
Continuing Creative months for our workshops in June and July as part of Global Roots Canvas @ace_national @ace_thenorth : 23rd June: Where The Image Begins bit.ly/49KaNbu Move & Draw MCR Art Gallery bit.ly/3SeEcEx Photo Walk 4th July bit.ly/3Q6leQ0
It was such an incredible day at such powerful exhibition, and looking forward for next stages for Made In Persia …
An incredible workshop, We Need to Keep This House, inspired by the powerful Peripheries exhibition at 1853 Studios ✨ This creative response became a continuation of my Made in Persia journey — exploring memory, identity, displacement, and resistance through poetry, video art,
Since 2021, Made in Persia has been a journey of memory, womanhood, resistance, heritage, and survival. Now begins the next phase: Sacred Survival. @DIPACTmcr A new visual chapter exploring the weight we carry, the histories that shape us, and the power of continuing to exist, create, and speak through my Persian heritage, ancestors, and resistance. Alongside this new phase, we’re also continuing conversations and one workshop this Friday @ 1853 Studios called ‘We Need to Keep This House’ Created by Mahboobeh Rajabi @mahboobeh.mcr Photography & Videography by the incredible Melika Rafat Very exciting things coming soon. #MadeInPersia #SacredSurvival #PersianArt #IranianArtist #PerformanceArt VisualArt DiasporaArt WomenArtists CreativeResistance ManchesterArtists 1853Studios ContemporaryArt
There’s something incredibly powerful about people coming together around empty canvases ✨ No expectations, no pressure — just expression, creativity, conversation, and the courage to make something together. 🎨 What I’m really loving about Global Roots Canvas is not only the incredible artists leading these spaces, but also how the project is connecting people to so many important creative spaces across Manchester & Greater Manchester — from galleries to studios, each with their own energy, history, and artistic voice. It feels like a real celebration of global creativity, artistic exchange, and multicultural Manchester. 🌍✨ Thank you Arts Council England @ace_thenorth for making this happen.
A beautiful workshop with Mahrokh Mofidnakhaei at Islington Mill ✨ Shared expression, mark-making, creativity, and conversation — bringing together voices and perspectives from global backgrounds through art. 🎨 This is what Global Roots Canvas is about. Thank you @ace_national
A beautiful workshop with Mahrokh Mofidnakhaei at Islington Mill ✨ Shared expression, mark-making, creativity, and conversation — bringing together voices and perspectives from global backgrounds through art. 🎨 This is what Global Roots Canvas is about. Thank you @ace_national
Global Roots Café 2025 ✨ A beautiful coming together of art, food, and community — where stories, recipes, and creativity connected us all. Led by incredible women, shaped by shared experience. Thank you to everyone involved, and to @TNLComFund for making it happen. 🌍🍽️
From one space… to across Manchester 🌱 Global Roots Canvas is moving through studios & galleries Incredible kickoff. Proud of our artists. This is just the beginning. Are you ready? 👀 @ace_national #artscouncil #acesupported #Nationallottery
It went beautifully. 🎨✨ What an artistic day yesterday 🥰 Art, stories, food, connection — all in one space. Kim Hubball exhibition and collaborative workshop with incredible Mahrokh Mofidnakhaei paintings. Global Roots Canvas 🌿 #ArtsCouncilEngland @ace_national
A reminder of the power of coming together. ✨ Surrounded by Kim Hubball’s exhibition, at 1853 Studios Oldham, working through Mahrokh’s paintings — cutting, layering, building stories through collage. Different backgrounds, shared space, food, memory, art. It was something special. 🌿🎨 #GlobalRootsCanvas
Collage, conversation, and shared moments 🎨✨ Creative Friday with Kim Hubball & Mahrokh Mofidnakhaei at 1854 Studios Oldham Global Roots Canvas in motion 🌍 #ArtsCouncilEngland @ace_national
Collage, conversation, and shared moments 🎨✨ Creative Friday with Kim Hubball & Mahrokh Mofidnakhaei at 1854 Studios Oldham Global Roots Canvas in motion 🌍 #ArtsCouncilEngland @ace_national
Tomorrow. It begins. ⚡️ Global Roots Canvas Vian Hussein • Daria Protsenko • Karolina Kanska • Mahrokh Mofidnakhaei • Gloria Saya Manchester’s creative energy flowing through every artist, every story, every moment. ✨ Let’s go. 🎨🔥 #ArtsCouncilEngland @ace_national
1/3 I wanted to say a huge thank you and congratulations for 30 years of @heritagefunduk , to make incredible heritage projects happen. @cultureword #NationalLottery30
1/2 also want to say a huge thank you again to @HeritageFundUK for funding ‘Heritage Crafts’ project @CartwheelArts . I am so proud to be the researcher and also mentor for the incredible trainees for this truly wonderful projects.
4/4 We are proud to continue being an artist led and continue listening and acting based on voices of artists and creatives who are from many backgrounds especially global backgrounds that made our city Manchester a global multicultural city.
3/4 explore being artist and creative led and what change we want to bring. Since 2016 we have been led by artists and creatives from global backgrounds and their unique stories help us understand true leadership potential these incredible artists and creatives bring to us.
1/4 Proudly announcing our Creative Thinkers, @zozanyasar and Caroline Kennedy, who have been helping DIPACT looking at what are the challenges and what resources need to be in put, when we talk about Artists and Creative led spaces.
Read our CEO’s latest interview:
My latest interview with The Conduit @DIPACTmcr theconduit.com/perspective/ar…
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