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The Chorlton Community Arts Festival is run by local people for local people, involving local artists. It is not a festival that brings in elite acts to attract visitors from afar. It is a festival in which everyone from organisers to artists to venue hosts are local and give their time voluntarily and are not paid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Artists included visual artists; photographers; film makers; online graphic artists; musicians; singer songwriters; choirs; poets; dancers; literary artists; puppeteers; sculptors; environmental artists; crafters; performance artists. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Events included exhibitions; performances; plays; choral sessions; films; classical music; jazz; hip hop; world music; poetry slams; puppet shows; book readings; cabaret; comedy; DJ sessions; participative drumming; workshops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Benito Lounge will be hosting a Jazz night this will include Jazz works who is a 6 piece instrumental band consisting of 2 saxophones, trumpet, piano, bass and drums. The playlist ranges from cool blues, latin flavours to jazz standards. Mike Dowd & Jan Riley have a 45 minute set and The MadDonnas who will return to Chorlton Arts Festival with their voices, guitar, accordion, spoons and coconuts, and a mix of new songs and old favourites this event will take place on the 20th# May kicking off with Mike Down and Jan Rowley 7:30pm till 8:30pm and the Jazz works at 9:00pm till 10pm<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n There will be 45 venues across Chorlton, 25 exhibiters at the Barlow Hall in Chorlton Park one of the exhibiters who is a artist and portrait photographer called Sop Rodchenvko originally from Mexico his photography is about writing poetry free, for free, democratic and without attachments, in a place that belongs to marketing. his images generate a narrative nearly by themselves; that narrative allowed him to adjust my thoughts and, little by little, <\/p>\n\n\n\n He told NQ \u2018Consciousness\u2019 is a form of therapy. It is embedded in philosophy yet approached from the personal angle. \u2018Identity\u2019, quite obviously relates to the fundamental questions of the self, but I also admit that my interest stems from paternity \u2018Memory\u2019, is approached from the perspective of a family memory and my life-long recording of the mom\u2039entary passage of my life. “Togetherness\u2019 stems from my interest in how we make a community happen. It narrows down to document collective celebrations and mobilisations, as well as protests, the latter as the means to raise a voice and express political standpoint.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Chorlton Arts Festival will place on the 19th May and will end on the 28th May. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Chorlton will hosts its 21st annerversy of the Cholrton Arts festival, where local artists and volunteers share their talents. This event will take place on the 19th May and will end on the 28Th May<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1594,"featured_media":11444,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4972],"tags":[1091,5181,7,132],"class_list":["post-11443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-chorlton","tag-chorlton-park","tag-manchester","tag-manchester-city-council"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/satellite.mmu.ac.uk\/northernquota-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/437\/2023\/04\/Joe-Hylton-Photography-297-1024x322.jpg\")
<\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\nWhat is happening at Barlow Hall Chorlton Park?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n