Macclesfield Barnaby Festival is looking for an experienced freelance creative professional to undertake two related strands of work: to deliver our creative programme for 2021, and to support the festival’s future development. Barnaby is a small community-based, volunteer-led charity who has successfully delivered festival arts programmes in Macclesfield since 2010 which benefit the town,
This current round of trustee recruitment closed on 21st February 2021. Macclesfield Barnaby Festival is looking to recruit a number of new trustees to our volunteer board to help us deliver our programme in 2021 and be part of shaping our future. You don’t need to have done something like this before, you need to
A time to reflect with artist Simon Buckley on Our Future is Ancient As we draw towards the end of 2020 many of us are reflecting on what has been an incredibly challenging and difficult year. Second Sight, Barnaby Festival’s new online gallery, launched in December and is the result of a year that
Barnaby Festival, in partnership with artists in Macclesfield and arts agency and innovation lab FutureEverything, has created a new online arts centre Second Sight.Second Sight is a virtual gallery experience curated to present a programme of visual arts showcasing the work of the creative communities in Macclesfield.Visitors can explore several galleries within Second Sight, where they
Such a lot has happened since the Barnaby Festival weekend in June. We hope that everyone is safe and well and has had a chance to have a holiday before we all head back to school. This new term there is a lot going on at Barnaby, so here is an update and some
We delivered our first digital Barnaby festival programme on June 20th & 21st 2020, you can now watch video content from the weekend Homemade Parade On Saturday 21st, our local communities came together (at home and online) to bring us the Homemade Parade; full of at-home creative making, home and garden 'floats' and a
We are delighted to be presenting a week-long programme of free online workshops this Summer. Peter Duncan, Circus Trainer and renowned circus expert, will be teaching us a range of easy-to-learn circus skills, tips and tricks. Sharon Ginnis, experienced Writer & Educator, will teach viewers to weave their own story in a week-long programme
Barnaby is committed to acting against racism. We aim to promote access to cultural expression, make positive change and celebrate diversity and inclusion in everything we do. Following the events and protests led by the Black Lives Matter movement after the racist killing of George Floyd, which articulate the deep-rooted anger and concern over
Artist Simon Buckley who produces the Not Quite Light project and is based in Salford will be presenting his digital commission on Saturday June 20. Simon has been visiting Macclesfield Forest every month to coincide with the dawn of the full moon, since December’s winter solstice. Click here for the promotional video
Barnaby Festival is excited to announce that we have been successful in our bid to receive Emergency Funding from Arts Council England, following our application in April. This award is to support the festival through the activities, events and income that have been lost due to the Covid-19 pandemic. It will help us find
