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Katie presenting her access top tips while the rest of the panel laughs

Forward Together reflections: Top tips access panel

Meet our panel of access experts with lived experience as they share their top tips about how they navigate arts, culture and care.

Ash Cox leading an access workshop for makers, alongside a BSL interpreter.

Forward Together reflections: Access for makers with Ash Cox

How do we ensure we take care of ourselves and each other as well as our audiences and participants?

Rachel interviews Sarah Leung in The Lowry studio.

Forward Together reflections: Sarah Leung Casting Q&A

Sarah Leung is a Manchester-based independent casting director and we were so lucky to interview her for Forward Together.

Sarah performing Declaration, engaging audience

Reflecting on ADHD, neurodivergence and acceptance

October is ADHD Awareness Month, and Sarah was asked to give some reflections on ADHD, neurodivergence and acceptance at Caritas Salford’s Hate Crime event.

Artist Brew Day Free and Pay what you can advise sessions. Jan 13-16th.

Artist Brew Day: 1-1s this January for Salford Artists

This January, join Art with Heart’s Sarah Emmott, Rachel Moorhouse and Megan Holland for 1-1 advice sessions curated especially for Salford artists.

Meet our writers: trans and non-binary blog call out

We announce the two successful writers from our trans and non-binary writing pitch.

Two women, one with short blonde hair, one with short brown hair are wearing brightly coloured dresses and glasses laugh hysterically together. One of them holds a lime green shoe and behind them is a rack of clothes and shoes.

Old Stock New Stock returns to Swinton Gateway

Old Stock New Stock is back, with all our lockdown portraits in one place for the very first time at Swinton Gateway.

Jackie Hagan stands leaning against a purple wall, she is wearing an excellent dress, with teddy bare corset. She is eating frazzles.

Jackie Hagan, cosmically talented, universally loved.

Today we say goodbye to one of the most excellent humans, Jackie Hagan. An incredibly bright, talented, caring, funny, perceptive friend.

Call out for trans and non-binary artists write a blog for us

We’re looking for a trans or non-binary artist to write a blog for us

A paid opportunity to write a blog about arts and culture for our website

"There is no planet B" is written on a protest placard held up at a march

The climate crisis is disproportionately affecting LGBTQIA+ individuals: here’s what we can do about it. 

Climate change affects LGBTQIA+ and marginalised communities more prominently and there are actions that can create positive change.

Sarah and Rachel are stood in front of a barbed wire fence. Sarah is wearing Lucy & Yak dungarees with her hands in he r pockets, grinning as she looks up. Rachel is wearing a yellow Adidas jacket and has a hand in her pocket, she's looking towards Sarah and smiling.

We’ve received funding to champion culture and creativity in Salford.

We’re delighted to announced that we’ve secured a grant through Salford CVS in partnership with the Salford Culture and Place Partnership.

A group of actors rehearsing on stage

Are late payments driving freelancers out of creative industries?

We launched a late payment survey for freelancers and venues to create actions that can ensure freelancers are paid promptly.

The back of a person's head with a notebook in front of them

Consideration, respect and consent: supporting people with facial palsy and body dysmorphia

Our first exploring access workshop focussed on our experiences of facial palsy and body dysmorphia in an image-dominated industry

Squirrel Club is written above an illustration of a squirrel wearing a backwards cap writing in a notebook

Join us online this half term for Squirrel Club!

Squirrel Club is an online experience for children and young people aged 8+ to help them explore their ADHD.

Salford creatives we want to meet you is written above an icon of a tea cup with steam coming out of it.

Come and meet us for Artist Brew Day Salford

Salford freelancers creatives, come and meet us in March.

Freelancers, we want to meet you is written under a graphic of a cup of tea

Come and meet us for Artist Brew Day

Put the kettle on and grab your favourite mug, because this January we’re running an Artist Brew Day with a difference

Sarah stands at the front of a workshop with her arms open wide. She is wearing an Art With Heart T-shirt.

Sarah Emmott joins Arts Fundraising and Philanthropy governance enquiry cohort.

We’re excited to announce that Co-Creative Director and chief fundraiser at Art with Heart, Sarah Emmott is going to be part of the governance enquiry.

A note book that reads 'field notes and scribble book. The note book is blue and covered in squiggles and an illustration of a dinosaur. At the bottom it reads '(for curious minds)'

Buy Stan merch and support children impacted by the cost of living crisis.

For every piece of Stan merch we sell leading up to Christmas, we’ll gift the same to Visit from the Stork CIC in Salford

A panel of artists discuss their experiences of the industry in The Lowry theatre rehearsal studio.

Forward Together

An afternoon of access, inclusion and action, led by Art with Heart, The Lowry and leading access experts and creatives.

Artist Brew Day. Free and pay what you can workshops and advice sessions. Sept 12th-14th.

Artist Brew Day 2023

It’s back to school and a great time to brush up your skills, from audience development to access.

Meet the Art with Heart board

We’re over the moon to announce the Art with Heart board – a group filled to the brim with care and helping us to do the things we’re good at.

An illustration of a brain projected in Declaration

ADHD diagnosis: a letter to medical professionals

Over the last 7 years I’ve had more people than I can count tell me that they are starting the road to ADHD diagnosis.

Children read in a school library.

The developmental gap

The developmental gap: insights from an inner city school pastoral support worker on the effects of the pandemic and cost of living crisis.

A headshot of Sarah wrapped in bubble wrap. Coming out from behind her head are 6 small versions of herself dressed in different outfits with different facial expressions.

Stream Declaration

You can now stream Declaration, our award-winning autobiographical one-woman show exploring ADHD, mental health and diagnosis.