MAST was established in 2011 by a group of Manchester-based arts and culture organisations to begin to understand how they could contribute to the delivery of Manchester: A Certain Future. The network now brings together over 50 cultural organisations across Greater Manchester and meets regularly to share best practice and develop new ways to collaborate.

Our innovative practice has been recognised by the EU’s URBACT Programme and we have worked with the Agency, Manchester City Council and Julie’s Bicycle to share this with 5 other European cities through C-Change Arts and Culture Leading Climate Action in Cities https://vimeo.com/541694280 https://www.g-mast.org/c-change
 

• AND Festival

• Band on the Wall

• BBC

• Bolton Film Festival

• Bolton Octagon

• Brighter Sounds

• Cakebread Artist Studios

• Cartwheel Arts

• Castlefield Gallery

• Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art

• Community Arts Northwest

• Contact Theatre

• Ergon Theatre

• Global Grooves

• HOME

• Imperial War Museum North

• ITV

• JB Shorts

• Leigh Film Society

• M6 Theatre

• Manchester Animation Festival

• Manchester Art Gallery

• Manchester Camerata

• Manchester City Council Events

• Manchester Craft and Design Centre

• Manchester Digital Laboratory (MadLab)

• Manchester Food and Drink Festival

• Manchester Histories

• Manchester International Festival

• Manchester Jewish Museum

• Manchester Literature Festival

• Manchester Museum

• Manchester Pride

• Manchester Science Festival

• Museum of Science and Industry

• National Football Museum

• People's History Museum

• Quarantine

• Quays Culture

• Reform Radio

• Royal Exchange Theatre

• Royal Northern College of Music

• Sick! Festival

• Submerge

• The Edge Theatre & Arts Centre

• The Hallé

• The Lowry Centre

• The Stoller Hall

• The Vectar Project

• Venture Arts

• Walk The Plank

• Whitworth Art Gallery

• XTRAX

• Z-Arts

We are essentially a networking group with a sustainability brief and meet quarterly. We also create events and topic based initiatives to help our organisations learn how to cut emissions. Current projects include setting up cultural sector specific Carbon Literacy Training and exploring how we might collectively procure our energy from renewable sources. We operate on an annual subscription based on the size of organisation and creates a fund from which we procure the reporting and fund events/initiatives but this subscription doesn’t stop anyone from joining the conversation nor indeed a Salford postcode. The group is facilitated by a host organisation which is currently the Royal Exchange Theatre and chaired by Simon Curtis who also sits on the Manchester Climate Change Partnership.