Macclesfield Barnaby Festival is a volunteer led festival. It is the enthusiastic, hardworking and creative people who live in and around Macclesfield that make our festival happen. We are keen to hear from people wanting to volunteer throughout the year. We have a number of ways you can make regular commitments to the festival
Barnaby Bright presents a series of midsummer events and commissions to coincide with the summer solstice 17 -27 June Barnaby Bright is a series of midsummer events that will take place this June around the summer solstice in the historic spaces of Macclesfield town centre, brought to you by the team at Barnaby Festival
May has arrived, the greening of Spring is all around, and with that some exciting new updates from Barnaby Festival! Firstly, we are delighted to announce we are working with our new Programme Director, Carol Whitehead, FRSA. Carol is a communications expert with over twenty years in publishing and brand promotions and organising events
We are making a collective artwork where everyone has a starring role! After the success of the 2020 Homemade Parade, this year Barnaby and IDST! are bringing you something different. The Macc Assemble Showreel Parade is part of a series of the 2021 Barnaby Bright programme of events and we are asking each of you to
Application writing workshop (Zoom): Arts Council England | National Lottery Projects Grants Mark Devereux Projects are pleased to offer their next online workshop to support artists & groups who are planning an application to Arts Council England’s National Lottery Projects Grants under £15k funding programme. Split over two evenings, Mark Devereux will share his extensive
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,
Applications are invited from Emerging Artists to exhibit at an established North West art fair in September 2021. For the first time in over 20 years Art Fair Cheshire is dedicating a specific gallery space to artists who may have recently graduated from creative degrees. This is a great opportunity for you to exhibit
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
Spot On Lancashire & Cheshire Rural Touring Artist Commission Brief Artists and makers are invited to apply for a commission for a making project within a special newspaper for Spot On Lancashire and Cheshire Rural Touring Arts. Each commission would be for the creation of bespoke 'how to ..' making project which would be
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
