We're still collecting donations
On the 10th July 2022 we'd raised £196 with 10 supporters in 69 days. But as every pound matters, we're continuing to collect donations from supporters.
We want to create a truly awesome festival that explores the future of Muslim art and culture.
by Salaam Festival in Manchester, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom
On the 10th July 2022 we'd raised £196 with 10 supporters in 69 days. But as every pound matters, we're continuing to collect donations from supporters.
Our festival story began at the start of lockdown in Apr 2020. It is a culmination of community members and artists designing a truly diverse and exciting new international festival programme in Manchester.
After years of learning and patience we feel now is the time to put our collective resources, skills, and finances to work and represent Muslim art and culture at the highest quality possible.
Through the power of people, community and genuine belief to make a change- we are asking you to help us raise the funds to produce a world class festival.
Muslim communities are the least represented in the arts in both employment and art programmes across the UK. In order to change how we are seen and perceived it is important that we are a visible community that excels in the arts and become cultural change makers to inspire, portray our faith and culture in the most positive and engaging ways possible.
We do not want to rely on funding which could compromise our values and ethics and involves a lot of tedious processes and box ticking. This is a common hurdle that has left many minority communities and their artistic ideas excluded from making art and culture happen at scale because we simply don't understand the funding language and it has not been made accessible to learn and employ those skills needed.
We need 1,000 supporters to donate up to £50 each to reach our initial target of £50k to get back on track to deliver in 2023 and 2024. Alternatively you can give anything £10 upwards to help us get there. Every pound counts.
The festival itself will cost close to £1million to pay for staff, artists, venues, production companies, marketing and many more technical requirements that are needed when making something remarkable like this. We are absolutely certain we will achieve our target regardless of the timeframe with your support. We just need you to support and share this with 10 other friends and family members to help fundraise at the speed we wish.
We have a UK population of 3.5 million Muslims and a global community of 1.8 billion. We can do this!
Our long term plans are to create UKs first first Muslim contemporary art space in Manchester and this cannot happen without placemaking work of the highest standard. We believe Manchester is the city to make this happen as it represents multiculturalism, diversity, power of speech, protest and history contributed to by our Muslim ancestors who migrated here many years ago.
We are a not-for-profit CIC LTD and working towards charitable efforts in the city to help Muslim communities access, gain training and develop work experience in the arts. If you wish to discuss how you would like to support the festival as a corporate partner then please email [email protected].
We look forward to your support ! It means everything to us!
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