DIPACT CIC

Creative Cafe Clusters run & led by Artists | Diverse Innovative Platform for Artists Communities Transformation 🇬🇧 Founder @mahboobehmcr

[DIPACT CIC @DIPACTmcr]

1/2We are proud to announce that we have been chosen as one of the final 12 global solutions to the Refugee Crisis, at the The Conduit London, Refugee Summit 2024 in London.

Our founder and CEO @MahboobehMCR will present us on the 27th of February.

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It was such an incredible day at such powerful exhibition, and looking forward for next stages for Made In Persia …

[Mahboobeh Rajabi @MahboobehMCR]

An incredible workshop, We Need to Keep This House, inspired by the powerful Peripheries exhibition at 1853 Studios ✨

This creative response became a continuation of my Made in Persia journey — exploring memory, identity, displacement, and resistance through poetry, video art, photography, objects, and performance.

The exhibition opened space for stories that deserve to be seen and heard, and this workshop allowed those conversations and artistic expressions to continue through collective creativity and reflection. ✨

Lovely food from Global Roots Café @DIPACTmcr led by Ruth’s Super Kitchen 🌍

It would not have been possible without the support of Arts Council England @ace_thenorth @ace_national 🙏
#ACESupported

[Mahboobeh Rajabi @MahboobehMCR]

Since 2021, Made in Persia has been a journey of memory, womanhood, resistance, heritage, and survival.

Now begins the next phase: Sacred Survival. @DIPACTmcr

A new visual chapter exploring the weight we carry, the histories that shape us, and the power of continuing to exist, create, and speak through my Persian heritage, ancestors, and resistance.

Alongside this new phase, we’re also continuing conversations and one workshop this Friday @ 1853 Studios called ‘We Need to Keep This House’

Created by Mahboobeh Rajabi @mahboobeh.mcr
Photography & Videography by the incredible Melika Rafat

Very exciting things coming soon.

#MadeInPersia #SacredSurvival #PersianArt #IranianArtist #PerformanceArt VisualArt DiasporaArt WomenArtists CreativeResistance ManchesterArtists 1853Studios ContemporaryArt

[Mahboobeh Rajabi @MahboobehMCR]

There’s something incredibly powerful about people coming together around empty canvases ✨

No expectations, no pressure — just expression, creativity, conversation, and the courage to make something together. 🎨

What I’m really loving about Global Roots Canvas is not only the incredible artists leading these spaces, but also how the project is connecting people to so many important creative spaces across Manchester & Greater Manchester — from galleries to studios, each with their own energy, history, and artistic voice.

It feels like a real celebration of global creativity, artistic exchange, and multicultural Manchester. 🌍✨

Thank you Arts Council England @ace_thenorth for making this happen.

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A beautiful workshop with Mahrokh Mofidnakhaei at Islington Mill ✨

Shared expression, mark-making, creativity, and conversation — bringing together voices and perspectives from global backgrounds through art. 🎨
This is what Global Roots Canvas is about.
Thank you @ace_national

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Global Roots Café 2025 ✨
A beautiful coming together of art, food, and community — where stories, recipes, and creativity connected us all.

Led by incredible women, shaped by shared experience.

Thank you to everyone involved, and to @TNLComFund for making it happen. 🌍🍽️

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From one space… to across Manchester 🌱
Global Roots Canvas is moving through studios & galleries

Incredible kickoff. Proud of our artists.
This is just the beginning.

Are you ready? 👀
@ace_national #artscouncil #acesupported #Nationallottery

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It went beautifully. 🎨✨ What an artistic day yesterday 🥰

Art, stories, food, connection — all in one space. Kim Hubball exhibition and collaborative workshop with incredible Mahrokh Mofidnakhaei paintings.

Global Roots Canvas 🌿

#ArtsCouncilEngland @ace_national

[Mahboobeh Rajabi @MahboobehMCR]

A reminder of the power of coming together. ✨

Surrounded by Kim Hubball’s exhibition, at 1853 Studios Oldham, working through Mahrokh’s paintings — cutting, layering, building stories through collage.

Different backgrounds, shared space, food, memory, art.
It was something special. 🌿🎨

#GlobalRootsCanvas

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Collage, conversation, and shared moments 🎨✨
Creative Friday with Kim Hubball & Mahrokh Mofidnakhaei at 1854 Studios Oldham
Global Roots Canvas in motion 🌍
#ArtsCouncilEngland @ace_national

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Tomorrow. It begins. ⚡️
Global Roots Canvas
Vian Hussein • Daria Protsenko • Karolina Kanska • Mahrokh Mofidnakhaei • Gloria Saya

Manchester’s creative energy flowing through every artist, every story, every moment. ✨

Let’s go. 🎨🔥
#ArtsCouncilEngland
@ace_national

[DIPACT CIC @DIPACTmcr]

Tomorrow. It begins. ⚡️
Global Roots Canvas
Vian Hussein • Daria Protsenko • Karolina Kanska • Mahrokh Mofidnakhaei • Gloria Saya

Manchester’s creative energy flowing through every artist, every story, every moment. ✨

Let’s go. 🎨🔥
#ArtsCouncilEngland
@ace_national

[Mahboobeh Rajabi @MahboobehMCR]

1/3 I wanted to say a huge thank you and congratulations for 30 years of @heritagefunduk , to make incredible heritage projects happen. @cultureword #NationalLottery30

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1/2 also want to say a huge thank you again to @HeritageFundUK for funding ‘Heritage Crafts’ project @CartwheelArts . I am so proud to be the researcher and also mentor for the incredible trainees for this truly wonderful projects.

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4/4 We are proud to continue being an artist led and continue listening and acting based on voices of artists and creatives who are from many backgrounds especially global backgrounds that made our city Manchester a global multicultural city.

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1/4 Proudly announcing our Creative Thinkers, @zozanyasar and Caroline Kennedy, who have been helping DIPACT looking at what are the challenges and what resources need to be in put, when we talk about Artists and Creative led spaces.

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3/4 explore being artist and creative led and what change we want to bring. Since 2016 we have been led by artists and creatives from global backgrounds and their unique stories help us understand true leadership potential these incredible artists and creatives bring to us.

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Read our CEO’s latest interview:

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My latest interview with The Conduit @DIPACTmcr

https://t.co/V0tVdsuXgt

[Mahboobeh Rajabi @MahboobehMCR]

My latest interview with The Conduit @DIPACTmcr

https://t.co/V0tVdsuXgt

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Missed the forums? Your input still matters!

Thank you to everyone who took part in our recent forums.

But many (maybe yourself) were unable to attend because of other work or life commitments or illnesses:

your input still matters!

https://t.co/EiDeqEsqhT