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JOB OPPORTUNITY – Freelance Marketing & Communications Manager
We have some exciting news - we are hiring! Breaking Barriers Rochdale is looking for a creative, strategic and versatile Freelance Marketing and Communications Manager to help us share our work with wider audiences and to amplify our voice and impact. You’ll be...
Babs Smith 5 questions on Practice and the Living Report
Q: Tell us about yourself and your practise? I am a multidisciplinary artist focused on integrating augmented reality (AR) into my work, particularly within the context of environment and climate change. My artistic practice combines visual aesthetics and...
Elevation blog post
My name is Alapelode Oluwatobi and I was the Assistant Director for Elevation 2025. My role was both practical and deeply human. It began each day an hour earlier than everyone else, when I would set out the chairs that welcomed our guests. Those quiet moments of...
Student placement: Breaking Barriers – Rochdale’s hidden gem
As we roll around to that time of year where year 11’s have finished their exams and been granted early freedom, year 10s, like myself, are sent away for a week for work experience. Whilst most students go and work with their parents and some find themselves stuck in...
MATTHEW MUSING SPOTLIGHT
PRODUCERS WEEK - BREAKING BARRIERS 23 Mar From the 10th to the 14th of March, I attended a course hosted by Breaking Barriers designed to highlight the skills and knowledge required to be a producer. This course highlighted six...
Meet our young company- What About me ?
A brand new Young Company, consisting of six young people, has been recruited to support the production of the creative work, thanks to further funding from Salford City Council Culture Team. These six individuals are either still studying or are just starting in...
Richard Street creative studios to launch as part of ‘Rochdale Creates Space’
Rochdale Development Agency, working in partnership with Rochdale Borough Council, is setto open its new creative space ‘Richard Street Studios’ in Rochdale as part of ambitious plansto support the development of the boroughs...
The Impact of the Arts Within the Prison System By Ella Hurl-Hodges, assistant producer
Is it a coincidence that an area with little to no art is an area with a high crime rate? Upon numerous workshops in Buckley Hall Prison based in Rochdale, it was apparent to me that the arts weren’t widely prevalent in the lives of these men. However, with a little...
Braving the Cold by Amy Townsend-Lowcock, Assistant Director
What happens when you venture into the hills on a frosty, minus three degrees morning? Do your toes turn purple and curl up in your ill-equipped trainers? Do your fingers go numb and turn into frankfurters when you try to take photos to document the trip? Are you...