What's On
CYC team up with Gobsquad to create an outdoor, immersive experience this summer at Contact.
A tribute to, and celebration of Bengali folk music, that has shaped the cultural identity of Bengali communities both in South Asia and the diaspora, including the UK.
Join Anita Sethi and explore themes of place, nature, journeying and how writing can bring a sense of belonging.
Get an insight into Manchester Museum’s ground-breaking South Asia Gallery, its development, vision and goals.
Manchester Museum is excited to be hosting a private screening of The Singh Twins’ film Jallianwala: Repression & Retribution
Celebrate the book launch of 101 brand new monologues written for actors who are either from the Global Majority and/or deaf and disabled. Contact and HOME are proud to have been a part of Hear Me Now Audition Monologues (Volume 2) book! This book launch will feature performances and panel discussions from Manchester’s vibrant artistic […]
Join Our Shared Cultural Heritage for a poetry workshop exploring taboos and untouched topics within South Asian culture and community.
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.