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    CABASA CIC is a registered Community Interest Company No. 11911095

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    • Postcode Neighbourhood Trust Funding!
    • Paint silk with us this March
    • Volunteer Celebration Night 2026 – Weds 28th Jan
    • Flying the Flag for Green Libraries launches across Greater Manchester
    • Cabasa partners with Global Grooves to deliver Creative Careers visual arts training

    Get In Touch

    Cabasa CIC
    The Annexe, Unit 5 Vale Mill
    Micklehurst Road
    Mossley
    OL5 9JL

    E-mail: [email protected]

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    Small Is Beautiful! 🦋 We've been having a lovely time delivering this workshop this season so far. We bring 10 sets of our smaller silk backpack butterflies for young people and their grown ups to try on. From town squares to festival fields, we'd love to bring this lovely workshops to your event. Who doesn't want to be a beautiful butterfly?!

Send us a DM or email hello@cabasacarnivalarts.com if you're interested and we'll send you some more info..

📸 Visit Barnsley

#SmallisBeautiful #CarnivalCostume #Childrensworkshops #Outdoorarts #CabasaCIC
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    Small Is Beautiful! 🦋 We've been having a lovely time delivering this workshop this season so far. We bring 10 sets of our smaller silk backpack butterflies for young people and their grown ups to try on. From town squares to festival fields, we'd love to bring this lovely workshops to your event. Who doesn't want to be a beautiful butterfly?! Send us a DM or email [email protected] if you're interested and we'll send you some more info.. 📸 Visit Barnsley #SmallisBeautiful #CarnivalCostume #Childrensworkshops #Outdoorarts #CabasaCIC
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    WhatsAppppp?!

We always have volunteering opportunities over the year, so if you’d like to be in the know, why not join our Volunteer WhatsApp community? 

We never send spam, just opportunities and project updates. 

Carnival can’t happen without many hands, so if you’d like to do some creative volunteering we’d love to have you here with us at The Vale here in Mossley. Jobs can include wax Batik, dyeing fabric, costume embellishment, painting, embroidery and more!

If you’re not into WhatsApp, you can sign up to our mailing list instead. 

Follow the link in our bio @cabasacarnivalarts .

📸 @lordbanks 

#Cabasa #Mossly #Tameside #Manchestervolunteer
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    WhatsAppppp?! We always have volunteering opportunities over the year, so if you’d like to be in the know, why not join our Volunteer WhatsApp community? We never send spam, just opportunities and project updates. Carnival can’t happen without many hands, so if you’d like to do some creative volunteering we’d love to have you here with us at The Vale here in Mossley. Jobs can include wax Batik, dyeing fabric, costume embellishment, painting, embroidery and more! If you’re not into WhatsApp, you can sign up to our mailing list instead. Follow the link in our bio @cabasacarnivalarts . 📸 @lordbanks #Cabasa #Mossly #Tameside #Manchestervolunteer
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    We had a fabulous day bringing the Great Garden Carnival to Barnsley Garden Party recently. Thanks to the fine folk of Barnsley for turning out. Check out these great pics! 🌞 🐝 🌺 

A Cabasa x Global Grooves collab ft @katumbadrummingmovement.

📸 @visitbarnsley 

#BarnsleyGardenParty #VisitBarnsley #GlobalGrooves #CabasaCIC #UkCarnival
    We had a fabulous day bringing the Great Garden Carnival to Barnsley Garden Party recently. Thanks to the fine folk of Barnsley for turning out. Check out these great pics! 🌞 🐝 🌺 

A Cabasa x Global Grooves collab ft @katumbadrummingmovement.

📸 @visitbarnsley 

#BarnsleyGardenParty #VisitBarnsley #GlobalGrooves #CabasaCIC #UkCarnival
    We had a fabulous day bringing the Great Garden Carnival to Barnsley Garden Party recently. Thanks to the fine folk of Barnsley for turning out. Check out these great pics! 🌞 🐝 🌺 

A Cabasa x Global Grooves collab ft @katumbadrummingmovement.

📸 @visitbarnsley 

#BarnsleyGardenParty #VisitBarnsley #GlobalGrooves #CabasaCIC #UkCarnival
    We had a fabulous day bringing the Great Garden Carnival to Barnsley Garden Party recently. Thanks to the fine folk of Barnsley for turning out. Check out these great pics! 🌞 🐝 🌺 

A Cabasa x Global Grooves collab ft @katumbadrummingmovement.

📸 @visitbarnsley 

#BarnsleyGardenParty #VisitBarnsley #GlobalGrooves #CabasaCIC #UkCarnival
    We had a fabulous day bringing the Great Garden Carnival to Barnsley Garden Party recently. Thanks to the fine folk of Barnsley for turning out. Check out these great pics! 🌞 🐝 🌺 

A Cabasa x Global Grooves collab ft @katumbadrummingmovement.

📸 @visitbarnsley 

#BarnsleyGardenParty #VisitBarnsley #GlobalGrooves #CabasaCIC #UkCarnival
    We had a fabulous day bringing the Great Garden Carnival to Barnsley Garden Party recently. Thanks to the fine folk of Barnsley for turning out. Check out these great pics! 🌞 🐝 🌺 

A Cabasa x Global Grooves collab ft @katumbadrummingmovement.

📸 @visitbarnsley 

#BarnsleyGardenParty #VisitBarnsley #GlobalGrooves #CabasaCIC #UkCarnival
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    We had a fabulous day bringing the Great Garden Carnival to Barnsley Garden Party recently. Thanks to the fine folk of Barnsley for turning out. Check out these great pics! 🌞 🐝 🌺 A Cabasa x Global Grooves collab ft @katumbadrummingmovement. 📸 @visitbarnsley #BarnsleyGardenParty #VisitBarnsley #GlobalGrooves #CabasaCIC #UkCarnival
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    We are so excited to announce our Unheard Stories exhibition this July at Stalybridge Civic Hall!

Unheard Stories: The Exhibition

🗓 Friday 3rd July: 10am - 5pm
🗓 Saturday 4th July: 11am - 4pm
📍Stalybridge Civic Hall, Trinity Street, Stalybridge, SK15 2BN
🎟 Free entry

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Through body art portraits, textiles, sculpture, photography, audio stories, poetry, and film, this large-scale exhibition shares lived experiences of endometriosis, pregnancy, and access to reproductive healthcare.

Over the past six years, Cabasa has worked with hundreds of women and people across Greater Manchester. Now, we invite you to hear their stories and celebrate the people who have shaped this work.

The exhibition will include images from both our Endomorphosis groups, pregnancy and postnatal body painting, audio stories, written experiences, textile work, and a large batik dress created for our Living Dress sculpture, carrying women’s stories of accessing reproductive healthcare.

We hope to see you there!

@heritagefunduk @aceagrams @postcodelotteryuk @the_vale_mossley 

#UnheardStories #BodyArt #cabasacarnivalarts #BodyPainting #Stalybridge
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    We are so excited to announce our Unheard Stories exhibition this July at Stalybridge Civic Hall! Unheard Stories: The Exhibition 🗓 Friday 3rd July: 10am - 5pm 🗓 Saturday 4th July: 11am - 4pm 📍Stalybridge Civic Hall, Trinity Street, Stalybridge, SK15 2BN 🎟 Free entry ___ Through body art portraits, textiles, sculpture, photography, audio stories, poetry, and film, this large-scale exhibition shares lived experiences of endometriosis, pregnancy, and access to reproductive healthcare. Over the past six years, Cabasa has worked with hundreds of women and people across Greater Manchester. Now, we invite you to hear their stories and celebrate the people who have shaped this work. The exhibition will include images from both our Endomorphosis groups, pregnancy and postnatal body painting, audio stories, written experiences, textile work, and a large batik dress created for our Living Dress sculpture, carrying women’s stories of accessing reproductive healthcare. We hope to see you there! @heritagefunduk @aceagrams @postcodelotteryuk @the_vale_mossley #UnheardStories #BodyArt #cabasacarnivalarts #BodyPainting #Stalybridge
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    Tie-dye fun again for @mrwilsonssecondliners! More rave shirts please 🌈 🙂

#tiedye #textiles #cabasacarnivalarts #tiedyeshirt #mrwilsonssecondliners
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    Tie-dye fun again for @mrwilsonssecondliners! More rave shirts please 🌈 🙂 #tiedye #textiles #cabasacarnivalarts #tiedyeshirt #mrwilsonssecondliners
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    We had a great time bringing The Great Garden Carnival (a Cabasa x GG collab) to Festival Oldham on Saturday, the sun was shining! Great to kick off Oldham’s year as Greater Manchester’s Town of Culture. Check out these great photos. 

 📸 Darren Robinson, Ian Hodgson. 

#CabasaCarnivalArts #GlobalGrooves #FestivalOldham #OutdoorArts #Oldham
    We had a great time bringing The Great Garden Carnival (a Cabasa x GG collab) to Festival Oldham on Saturday, the sun was shining! Great to kick off Oldham’s year as Greater Manchester’s Town of Culture. Check out these great photos. 

 📸 Darren Robinson, Ian Hodgson. 

#CabasaCarnivalArts #GlobalGrooves #FestivalOldham #OutdoorArts #Oldham
    We had a great time bringing The Great Garden Carnival (a Cabasa x GG collab) to Festival Oldham on Saturday, the sun was shining! Great to kick off Oldham’s year as Greater Manchester’s Town of Culture. Check out these great photos. 

 📸 Darren Robinson, Ian Hodgson. 

#CabasaCarnivalArts #GlobalGrooves #FestivalOldham #OutdoorArts #Oldham
    We had a great time bringing The Great Garden Carnival (a Cabasa x GG collab) to Festival Oldham on Saturday, the sun was shining! Great to kick off Oldham’s year as Greater Manchester’s Town of Culture. Check out these great photos. 

 📸 Darren Robinson, Ian Hodgson. 

#CabasaCarnivalArts #GlobalGrooves #FestivalOldham #OutdoorArts #Oldham
    We had a great time bringing The Great Garden Carnival (a Cabasa x GG collab) to Festival Oldham on Saturday, the sun was shining! Great to kick off Oldham’s year as Greater Manchester’s Town of Culture. Check out these great photos. 

 📸 Darren Robinson, Ian Hodgson. 

#CabasaCarnivalArts #GlobalGrooves #FestivalOldham #OutdoorArts #Oldham
    We had a great time bringing The Great Garden Carnival (a Cabasa x GG collab) to Festival Oldham on Saturday, the sun was shining! Great to kick off Oldham’s year as Greater Manchester’s Town of Culture. Check out these great photos. 

 📸 Darren Robinson, Ian Hodgson. 

#CabasaCarnivalArts #GlobalGrooves #FestivalOldham #OutdoorArts #Oldham
    We had a great time bringing The Great Garden Carnival (a Cabasa x GG collab) to Festival Oldham on Saturday, the sun was shining! Great to kick off Oldham’s year as Greater Manchester’s Town of Culture. Check out these great photos. 

 📸 Darren Robinson, Ian Hodgson. 

#CabasaCarnivalArts #GlobalGrooves #FestivalOldham #OutdoorArts #Oldham
    We had a great time bringing The Great Garden Carnival (a Cabasa x GG collab) to Festival Oldham on Saturday, the sun was shining! Great to kick off Oldham’s year as Greater Manchester’s Town of Culture. Check out these great photos. 

 📸 Darren Robinson, Ian Hodgson. 

#CabasaCarnivalArts #GlobalGrooves #FestivalOldham #OutdoorArts #Oldham
    We had a great time bringing The Great Garden Carnival (a Cabasa x GG collab) to Festival Oldham on Saturday, the sun was shining! Great to kick off Oldham’s year as Greater Manchester’s Town of Culture. Check out these great photos. 

 📸 Darren Robinson, Ian Hodgson. 

#CabasaCarnivalArts #GlobalGrooves #FestivalOldham #OutdoorArts #Oldham
    We had a great time bringing The Great Garden Carnival (a Cabasa x GG collab) to Festival Oldham on Saturday, the sun was shining! Great to kick off Oldham’s year as Greater Manchester’s Town of Culture. Check out these great photos. 

 📸 Darren Robinson, Ian Hodgson. 

#CabasaCarnivalArts #GlobalGrooves #FestivalOldham #OutdoorArts #Oldham
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    We had a great time bringing The Great Garden Carnival (a Cabasa x GG collab) to Festival Oldham on Saturday, the sun was shining! Great to kick off Oldham’s year as Greater Manchester’s Town of Culture. Check out these great photos. 📸 Darren Robinson, Ian Hodgson. #CabasaCarnivalArts #GlobalGrooves #FestivalOldham #OutdoorArts #Oldham
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    We’re delighted to announce we’ve received ongoing funding from Postcode Neighbourhood Trust! Over the next 3 years this funding will go towards supporting our core work to bring events, workshops, and ongoing projects to life which amplify often unheard voices in the community, enabling more women to take part, share their stories, and feel connected through Carnival art.

This Funding awarded by @postcodelotteryuk and raised by Postcode Lottery players (thank you!)

Image: Andrew Hayhurst

#PostcodeLotteryPeople #Cabasacarnivalarts #CarnivalUK #OutdoorArts
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    We’re delighted to announce we’ve received ongoing funding from Postcode Neighbourhood Trust! Over the next 3 years this funding will go towards supporting our core work to bring events, workshops, and ongoing projects to life which amplify often unheard voices in the community, enabling more women to take part, share their stories, and feel connected through Carnival art. This Funding awarded by @postcodelotteryuk and raised by Postcode Lottery players (thank you!) Image: Andrew Hayhurst #PostcodeLotteryPeople #Cabasacarnivalarts #CarnivalUK #OutdoorArts
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    Happy Whit Friday! It was fabulous to unveil this new community banner we made for Mossley Heritage Centre and @mossleytowncouncil at this new wonderful Whit Friday celebration event at Seel Park in Mossley today! It was great to bring their vision to life.

So many hands went into the making of this, and into the future it will be added to by many more hands. 

Design by Lizzie Rigby and Kate Rothery.
Martha Webster worked with lots and lots of children from Micklehurst School as well as Crafty Saturdays here at The Vale to make fabric for the edges and letters.
Hand painted and batiked by artists Nina Smith, Kate Rothery, Mary O’Neill, and Emily Wood as well lots of wonderful Cabasa volunteerswho gave their time.
The amazing Dyllis from Mossley Heritage Centre came and waxed the banner with us too!
Applique by Wednesday craft group at The Vale.
Sewn by Helen Plaumer 
Poles made by Gordon Banks

We can’t wait to see the journey the banner will go on next.

#Cabasa #MossleyHeritageCentre #Mossley #silkbatik #WhitFriday2026 @heritagefunduk
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    Happy Whit Friday! It was fabulous to unveil this new community banner we made for Mossley Heritage Centre and @mossleytowncouncil at this new wonderful Whit Friday celebration event at Seel Park in Mossley today! It was great to bring their vision to life. So many hands went into the making of this, and into the future it will be added to by many more hands. Design by Lizzie Rigby and Kate Rothery. Martha Webster worked with lots and lots of children from Micklehurst School as well as Crafty Saturdays here at The Vale to make fabric for the edges and letters. Hand painted and batiked by artists Nina Smith, Kate Rothery, Mary O’Neill, and Emily Wood as well lots of wonderful Cabasa volunteerswho gave their time. The amazing Dyllis from Mossley Heritage Centre came and waxed the banner with us too! Applique by Wednesday craft group at The Vale. Sewn by Helen Plaumer Poles made by Gordon Banks We can’t wait to see the journey the banner will go on next. #Cabasa #MossleyHeritageCentre #Mossley #silkbatik #WhitFriday2026 @heritagefunduk
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    This Saturday 30th May we’ll be at Festival Oldham bringing our fun, colourful celebration of nature with flora and forna inspired costumes, drummers and lovely puppet Sofiya. Another GG X Cabasa Collab.

The sun will be shining and we’ll be filling Oldham with vibrant summer Carnival vibes. We’ll be doing 3 mini parades in the town Centre at 12pm, 1.30pm and 3pm.

We love Festival Oldham, there’s loads going on over the day 🌞 

Find out more visit @iloveoldham

#FestivalOldham #Oldham #CabasaCIC #GlobalGrooves #GreatGardenCarnival
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    This Saturday 30th May we’ll be at Festival Oldham bringing our fun, colourful celebration of nature with flora and forna inspired costumes, drummers and lovely puppet Sofiya. Another GG X Cabasa Collab. The sun will be shining and we’ll be filling Oldham with vibrant summer Carnival vibes. We’ll be doing 3 mini parades in the town Centre at 12pm, 1.30pm and 3pm. We love Festival Oldham, there’s loads going on over the day 🌞 Find out more visit @iloveoldham #FestivalOldham #Oldham #CabasaCIC #GlobalGrooves #GreatGardenCarnival
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