The Future Is Ours
The Future is Ours festival celebrating 2025 is back!
Our 5th annual The Future Is Ours arts festival is launching at The Horsfall Thursday 6th of May, and will be open to the public until Thursday 22nd May.
Featuring original artwork created by 5 young artists, from a unique project which links them to a full-time local artist to fully realise their ideas.
The festival projects provides the opportunity for young people to take a lead on the subject, medium and creative direction while learning new skills and the practical sides involved in creating and exhibiting artwork through the mentoring of the full-time artist. This approach allows them to gain skills and experience which go on to support them in the future and ensures that the young people get to say what they want in the ways they want to say it.
At 42nd Street is passionate about how creativity support young people's mental health, and we believe the creative process has an abundance of creative active ingredients that support in vast and numerous ways. Allowing young people to co-create their creative journey and work with the active ingredients their are drawn to means they can create their own recovery recipe. We believe deep down we know what we need to heal, we know what we need to say to ourself and others, and creating space and freedom to allow young people to express how they wish allows them to tap into their potential and self-realise.
This years festival will have artwork shown across the city at HOME, Fred Aldous, Manchester Craft and Design centre, a music and movement finale at the Halle - and will see the delivery of our second national Arts and Mental Health symposium.
The symposium will run across two days - the first looking at how we can better work together and integrate creative approaches in to young people's services across Manchester to better support young people in the way they need.
The second day will focus on how we can share our ways of working nationally to bring about the changes needed across the UK and to policy to advocate for meaningful change and ensure young people's voices are integrated into decision-making so these changes are relevant for young people today, and give them tools to support themselves now and throughout their lives.
BE part of the conversation and change. Join us as The Future Is Ours Mental Health and Arts Symposium Online, Friday 9th May, 10.00am-12.30pm.
