One of my most persistent and vivid memories as a child growing up in Blackpool, was of having a keen desire to live in a certain type of house. Not a...
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The exhibition, for me, came at a good time, as it was when I started to hate creating art, studying and work as I inched ever closer to my A-level ex...
When I submitted my artwork to the Didsbury Summer Open, I knew I was taking a punt, as it's not what you'd call usual exhibition fare. I'm a writer a...
Hello out there, let me introduce myself I'm Yvonne Noworyta, not always known by that name, but my partner being of polish descent has much to do wit...
After teaching BA (Hons) Graphic Design for many years, i've finally found time to rediscover my own creativity. I'm revisiting silkscreen printing at...
While finishing my Master's, I had the chance to co-curate Gallery 3 at the Didsbury Parsonage Trust as part of the Didsbury Summer Open. It arrived a...
This summer, I had the joy of volunteering with Didsbury Arts Festival, supporting the curation and delivery of the first-ever Didsbury Summer Op...
Announcing Greater Manchester's newest open call art exhibition, held in the beautiful surroundings of the Old Parsonage, Didsbury. Open to artists yo...
As you may have heard already, Didsbury Arts Festival is changing. And we've been speaking to loads of people about it! We spoke to hu...
The Didsbury Arts Festival team had a brilliant time at the recent Didsbury Festival in Didsbury Park! We loved meeting people, hearing their vie...
Over 10,000 people attended the over 100 events that made up Didsbury Arts Festival in 2023, making it the most popular iteration of the festival so f...
Rod has worked for more than 20 years as a Creative Producer, Programmer and Consultant - working across the youth, community and creative sectors - d...
Available now to watch on-demand, our summer of free performances and a talk by poets, musicians, a painter and a collector. We presented a ...
FREE online DAF event: One of Manchester's true innovators, sound and electronic media artist, Vicky Clarke, is an established international perf...
Poet Mike Garry performs live online for DAF - this Manchester poet has worked with John Cooper Clarke, New Order and Philip Glass. Mike will be perfo...
Did you miss it? Not a problem as we recorded it - click HERE A rising star in the UK spoken word scene, Afshan D'souza-Lodhi's debut poetry collectio...
Commissioned by DAF in 2021 PREMIERE : available to watch online from May 1, 7pm. Carol Ann Duffy and Jackie Kay were among Clae Eastgate's Paint...
Enjoy a DAF Summer of free Art, May to September 2021 Celebrate summer with a series of unmissable, monthly arts highlights brought to you – onli...
Here are our Big Bake winners in partnership with Co-op and Food Sorcery. Well done to Ave Bond, Emma Leckie Traynor and Mary Rennie. Well done and ou...
Our thanks to Co-op for supporting this project: About the DAF Big Bake - In early 2021 Didsbury Arts Festival (DAF) delivered the BIG BAKE to celebra...