What's On
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 a guided tour of a distant city where nothing seems to make sense. Its people are silenced and its landscape is disappearing.
Join Poet Lemn Sissay for an exciting talk on how libraries have inspired him in his life, taking place at Manchester Central Library as part of the Festival of Libraries.
A powerful afternoon of poetry and spoken word performance with Fly on the Wall Press and Manchester Poetry Library.
Leading up to Refugee Week, Manchester Libraries will be holding a series of banner making workshops with artist Ibukun Baldwin.
Leading up to Refugee Week, Manchester Libraries will be holding a series of banner making workshops with artist Ibukun Baldwin.
Finalists from the School of Vocal Studies and Opera perform individually selected programmes from Strauss’ extraordinary collection of repertoire
Hidden LIVE, an immersive performance that will challenge you to encounter life as a young person struggling with their mental health.
Manchester-based collaborative ensemble, The Untold Orchestra Presents Disney An Orchestral Rendition.