Parks, leisure and the arts Manchester Culture Awards 2025

Winners and nominations 2025

Making it Happen: Best Business Partnership     

  • Brighter Sound and Sony Music     
  • Manchester City Football Club and The Hallé     
  • The Modernist Society with Fablr Ltd    
  • Skills Bootcamp - Winner
    • Reform Radio and Partners

The Best Performance     

  • Dark Beautiful and Chaste
    • Captains Leg Theatre Company 
  • Spaced Out
    • The Edge Theatre
  • Christmas Lights
    • Z-arts
  • LUCKY TONIGHT! - Winner
    • Afreena Islam­ Wright

Champions of Equality and Social Justice       

  • Olympias Music Foundation    
  • Emerging Scholars
    • Royal Exchange Theatre
  • Afrocats - Winner
  • RFK Human Rights    

Bright Spark: Young Creative of the Year     

  • Tom Rabbani    
  • Callum Shallcross - Winner
  • Emelia Hewitt    
  • Alfie Wright    

Igniting Creativity: Culture, Education and Talent Development     

  • Music Evermore CIC    
  • Company Chameleon - Winner  
  • HOME from Home 
    • HOME Creative Engagement
  • Everyday Art School
    • The Whitworth

Our Planet: Acting on Climate Change

  • Force of Nature
    • CAN
  • Belonging in Wild
    • Manchester Museum, Venture Arts, Pinc College & Manchester Deaf Centre  
  • Olympias Recycled Orchestra - Winner
    • Olympias Music Foundation
  • The Future is Green 
    • Royal Northern College of Music

Excellence in Creative Health and Wellbeing      

  • Afrocats     
  • So Many Beauties - Winner    
  • Portraits of Recovery, Let's Talk About Chemsex    
  • Sing their Name Choir
    • Dan McDwyer and Adel Owen 

The Best Exhibition     

  • Holly Graham: The Warp/The Weft/The Wake
    • Manchester Art Gallery   
  • Greater Mancunians
    • The Manchester College
  • Our Town Hall – Portraits of a Workforce    
  • Being Here - Barbara Walker - Winner
    • The Whitworth
  • Human Library
    • Elizabeth Wewiora and residents from North Manchester

Independent Creative of the Year     

  • Sam Edwards     
  • Balraj Samrai     
  • Liam Hopkins     
  • Tina Ramos Ekongo - Winner     

The Best Event

  • Wythenshawe Live Night - Winner
    • Brighter Sound, Music Evermore CIC, Manchester Libraries 
  • Ghosts at the Old Library
    • Levenshume Old Library 
  • Manchester Histories Festival    
  • WOMEX 24
    • Manchester Music City 
  • Re:Discover Festival
    • Streetwise Opera 

The Cultural Welcome Award

  • Afrocats     
  • REELMCR - Winner      
  • Reform Radio    
  • Manchester Jewish Museum     
  • The Whitworth    
  • Z-Arts     
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