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Closing date: Midnight on Tuesday 1st April 2025. Global Grooves is seeking an experienced and highly organised Events Producer to play a key role in delivering touring productions, festival commissions, corporate events and community-led cultural productions.

A MOSSLEY arts organisation will bring the spirit of Carnival to one of the north’s best-loved music festivals next month.

International Carnival specialist Global Grooves has been tasked with producing the grand finale at Kendal Calling: a super-sized, celebratory parade, featuring over 220 community performers of all ages.

Global Grooves is commissioning an artist or collective to create a piece of site-specific artwork to be exhibited in response to our micro hydro project. This is a paid opportunity with a total fee of up to £6,000 available.

We are offering an opportunity to create new  biodegradable art works for a community event on the 6th April at The Vale and Mossley Heritage Centre. This is a paid opportunity with a commission fee of £5,000 available. 

The event is a celebration day to promote walking to The Vale through our new 'Trails to The Vale' initiative.

We are delighted to bring to you a series of FREE lantern making sessions (Dates below) so you can take part in Tameside Winter Carnival 2023, 5:30pm 18th November.

We are delighted to be able to share that we have been awarded a Sustainability Fund grant from Saddleworth Community Hydro. This funding is a big step towards our target of Net Zero by 2030 in line with Greater Manchester. In addition it will increase our engagement of local communities and young people in sustainability and the environment.

Global Grooves is amongst a handful of arts and cultural organisations that have been singled out as nationally important for the work they do. In the case of Mossley's Global Grooves, this means creating uplifting, hands-on Carnival experiences for hundreds of people of all ages every year. Next year, it will celebrate its 20th anniversary.

Homelessness charity Emmaus Mossley is planning a carnival as part of their 25th anniversary celebrations and is appealing for performers to get involved.

We are delighted to welcome Norbrook Youth Club to our Creating Carnival presentation to work with our artists to create a section of 20 giant silk flags as part of the Queens Platinum Jubilee.

It’s not often you get to see behind the scenes of a project like this, but we want to show you some of the magic that happens at our Carnival Centre, The Vale. Here's a little insight into the development of the composition elements at our first music development day.

We are delighted to welcome Wardle Academy Brass Band to join this year’s parade Bloco.

Cabasa will be joining us as lead creative partner to help develop the overall parade aesthetics, costumes and structures.