NBAA

Originally known as Black Arts Alliance when formed in 1985. We deliver education & community workshops; teachers CPD; exhibitions; performances; community cohesion seminars; conferences; prison & mental health engagement; public art; leadership; and creative participation opportunities. We curate the North West England’s only dedicated Black art and culture library: it is available for research studies at The Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Race Relations Resource Centre in Manchester Central Library. Black is a political expression representing the arts and culture drawn from ancestral heritages of South Asia, Africa, South America, and the Caribbean and, in more recent times, owing to global conflict, our newly arrived compatriots known collectively as refugees. It acknowledges and respects the diversities that exist and the different historic experiences that have been encountered and survived. What we do NBAA works across art forms to create productions that challenge perceptions of Black culture and that celebrate the many dimensions of Black heritage.