2022 winners
The full list of finalists and winners of the Manchester Culture Awards 2022 were:
Best Business Partnership
Winner: Barry Bennett Ltd and Venture Arts
Finalists:
- Brother and The Halle
- HOME and Ask Real Estates
- Manchester Contemporary Art Fund and Manchester Art Gallery
- Royal Exchange Theatre and Warner Media
Best Event
Winner: HOME - Homeground
Finalists:
- Manchester International Festival
- Manchester Libraries - International Mother Language Day
- Submerge Festival
- Z-arts - Summer of Play
Best Exhibition
Winner: Science and Industry Museum - Cancer Revolution - Science, Innovation and Hope
Finalists:
- HOME - Poet Slash Artist
- Manchester Art Gallery - Derek Jarman Protest!
- Manchester Hip Hop Archive
- Venture Arts - Completely A Hustling Place
Best Performance
Winner: Manchester International Festival - When The Birds Land
Finalists:
- Contact Young Company - Saturnalia
- Hope Mill Theatre - The Wiz
- Miray Sidhom - THE BREAD WE BREAK
- Z-arts - The Gift
Independent Creative of the Year
Winner: Sharon Raymond
Finalists:
- Emmanuela Yogolelo
- Jez Dolan
- Phill Howley
- Withington Walls
Made in Manchester
Winner: Manchester Young Carers Music Project
Finalists:
- Amid the Mirk Over the Irk - When Irish Meets Klezmer
- Mapping Migrant Voices - Olympias Music Foundation et al
- Postcards from Oxford Road - Manchester Literature Festival and Manchester Poetry Library
- Things That Go On Things
Promotion of Culture and Education
Winner: MADE
Finalists:
Creative City Youth Sketchbook Club
Reform Radio
Shooting Star Theatre School
The Manchester College Visual Arts Team and Manchester Art Gallery - Future Creatives
Promotion of Environmental Sustainability
Winner: Roots and Branches
Finalists:
- Ergon Theatre
- Kuljit Chuhan
- National Football Museum
- Royal Northern College of Music
Promotion of Equality and Social Justice
Winner: Uncertain Futures
Finalists:
- Libraries of Sanctuary - Manchester Libraries
- Michael Bishop
- The Oasis Choir - The Halle and The Oasis Centre
- Afrocats and The Whitworth
Promotion of Health and Wellbeing
Winner: The Edge
Finalists:
- Brighter Sound and SICK! Festival
- Reform Radio
- The Royal Exchange - We'll Be In Touch Project
- The Whitworth
Promotion of Talent and Leadership
Winner: Brighter Sound Leadership Programme
Finalists:
- Contact - Young People's Theatre
- Manchester International Festival 21 - Creative Fellowship
- Vic Elizabeth Turnbull
- Z-arts - Chair Development Programme
Young Creative of the Year
Winner: Yandass Ndlovu
Finalists:
- Danny Hassan
- Faz Barber
- Matthew Needham
- Oceana Cage Nzene
The Manchester People's Culture Award
Winner: Ed Wellard
Finalists:
- Alistair Hudson
- ALL FM
- Drywave Recovery CIC
- Liz O'Neill
- Block Cinema