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.
Word of Warning and Contact present Emergency ’22, a day out for the curious. The annual platform for Live Art and contemporary performance
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.
Manchester Literature Festival is joined by two award-winning stars of Irish writing, Jan Carson & Louise Kennedy.
Part of Manchester Literature Festival
Kit de Waal discusses ‘Without Warning and Only Sometimes’ a memoir of a childhood of opposites and extremes.
Part of Manchester Literature Festival
In his captivating debut novel, ‘The Secret Diaries of Charles Ignatius Sancho’, actor Paterson Joseph tells a story hidden for 300 years.
Part of Manchester Literature Festival
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.
Winner of the 2021 Booker Prize, Damon Galgut discusses his masterpiece ‘The Promise’, a gripping, beautifully written family saga.
Part of Manchester Literature Festival