Salford Quays and Media City

About

Salford is a city constantly changing and moving into an exciting future as a thriving cultural, economic and residential location. In the last decade the City has been on a remarkable journey, emerging as a modern global city, attracting record public and private investment and becoming an engine for growth in Greater Manchester.

The Salford Culture and Place Partnership is the city of Salford’s Cultural Compact. It works collaboratively and for the public benefit to co-create, promote and champion culture, creativity and placemaking in Salford.

The City is a hotbed of creative production, boasting leading artist-led studios, workshops and creation spaces as well as museums, art galleries and venues, with an eclectic year-round calendar of events. From urban buzz to greenbelt tranquillity, the City is building on its mixture of waterfront, urban and countryside environments and rich cultural heritage to create places where people want to visit, live, work and invest.
Salford Quays, the City’s iconic waterfront destination is bursting with creativity, independent food and drink, local art and immersive events and one of the most dynamic cultural districts in the region.

The Lowry, the award-winning venue housing two major theatres, a studio theatre, extensive art galleries displaying the famous collection of LS Lowry, alongside a vibrant programme of special exhibitions sits at the heart of Salford Quays and is the most visited cultural attraction in the North West. Alongside culture, in close proximity people can enjoy watersports, football and cricket, while just across the water is Imperial War Museum North and iconic TV soap opera Coronation Street’s famous cobbled set and popular visitor experience.
Salford Quays is also home to MediaCity, one of Europe’s leading digital, creative and technology clusters boasting some of the world's largest media and tech brands, including Epic Games, BBC, ITV, Ericsson, dock10 and the Immersive Technologies Innovation Hub - the Greater Manchester innovation cluster for immersive tech, virtual production, esports, and gametech.

A vibrant and eclectic programme of festivals and events invite the public to visit, stay and play in the district including Lightwaves (a spectacular trail of art installations), UK Chinese Dragon Boat Festival and the bi-annual ‘We Invented the Weekend Festival’ which has its roots in the City’s heritage of inventing the weekend in 1843 and celebrates the joy of free time, taking in sports, music, comedy, theatre, dance, workshops, talks, food, charity, wellness, crafts and more. A true Salford get together, celebrating leisure time, free time, quality time and me-time.

Visitors that explore further into the city can find iconic venues such as Salford Lads Club, Salford Museum and Art Gallery, Working Class Movement Library and RHS Bridgewater Gardens, the fifth RHS garden and at 154-acres, one of the largest gardening projects undertaken in Europe in recent years.

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Mission

The SCPP strategy for culture, creativity and place sets out the following vision: By 2030, Salford will have earned a global reputation as an open city where creativity and social innovation thrive and feed one another, a city that shares its cultural riches with the world.

The vision is underpinned by five delivery pillars:
1. City of Makers and Creators
2. Placemaking
3. Animating the City
4. Destination Salford
5. People at the Centre

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Reason for joining GCDN

To develop new international connections, networks and partnerships to learn, share and collaborate in the development and delivery of strategy, policy, planning and delivery. To share and promote the creativity of Salford and develop new opportunities for creative production, presentation and exchange.

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Links

https://www.supremalex.co.uk