What's On
A brilliantly unique meeting of hip hop and theatre, Spoken Movement’s Family Honour asks how far one would go to uphold family expectations.
Join the Not Your Circus Dog collective in an evening of shameless sexy punk crip cabaret.
Black Angel: NewVision is an exhibition that looks at the present and towards the future representation of LBT Black and Asian women.
Be immersed in lights, lasers and video, and era-defining and defying original beats. Prepare to leave it all on the dance floor… get ready to GROOVE.
LOB is a tennis, poetry bonanza about moving through sporting spaces as a queer body, written and performed by Roma Havers.
Late night late 90s pioneering club night Black Angel returns to Contact to celebrate their 25th birthday.
With My Ear to the Wall is a tactile audio installation of tumblers, placed to the wall. Inciting empathy, curiosity and a sense of closeness, With My Ear to the Wall is an opportunity to eavesdrop on the tender insights of the lives of strangers. Created with local people.
Candid, ferocious, funny and loud, Glowing debunks the myths that pregnant women are having the time of their lives and new mothers spend their days softly singing nursery rhymes to sleeping babies.
Join Manchester Poetry Library for the launch of ‘Respect the Mic: Celebrating 20 Years of Poetry from a Chicagoland High School’, edited by the legendary founder of Respect the Mic, Peter Kahn.
Teachers, librarians and other poets/educators are invited to join Peter Kahn at the Manchester Poetry Library for an intimate and practical workshop.
This workshop will take place before our celebration of André Naffis-Sahely’s most recent collection, High Desert
Join Manchester Poery Library to celebrate André Naffis-Sahely’s most recent collection High Desert.
Dutch-Antillean poet Radna Fabias joins Kim Moore to read from their latest work at this special event.
Join a guided tour of a distant city where nothing seems to make sense. Its people are silenced and its landscape is disappearing.
A powerful afternoon of poetry and spoken word performance with Fly on the Wall Press and Manchester Poetry Library.