What's On
Pen Portraits is a night of promenade theatre about the lives of the Gaskell circle, performed within Elizabeth Gaskell’s House.
Forget Me Not is a free exhibition exploring the relationship between poetry and pictures on greeting cards printed between 1840 and 1920.
Make A Scene invite you to Contact for their latest high camp interactive film showing…Death Becomes Her.
Manchester Metropolitan University presents The Illustrated Woman: the art of tattoo a day of special events to launch Helen Mort’s latest poetry collection.
Lava Elastic is the UK’s first openly neurodiverse performance night, known for hilarious line-ups and zero-tolerance on hecklers.
Touchy + Anthology is a double bill of Live Music, Hip Hop, film, and poetry, from Liverpool’s finest 20 Stories High.
The Trauma Show explores the impacts of adverse childhoods, making a show and dance out of it, mourning our little selves, ‘therapise’ culture and how TikTok can heal us all.
An exhilarating gig theatre adventure inspired by the daytime raves of 1990s British Asian culture.
Join jury chair, celebrated novelist, columnist and activist Fatima Bhutto at Contact as she hosts the presentation of the UK and Ireland’s most coveted poetry prizes The Forward Prizes are an unmissable fixture on the literary calendar – a celebration for all who want to discover and enjoy the best contemporary poetry. All of the […]
Peggy Shaw and Lois Weaver combine spoken word, movement and Zoom technology to respond to a world turned upside down in Last Gasp.
Manchester launch of Camilla Grudova’s Children of Paradise – a surreal, discomforting debut novel. Camilla will be in conversation with host Naomi Frisby.
HOT IN HERE explores the UK’s place in the global climate crisis, and the action we can take to prevent it.
Contact’s new Artistic Director Keisha Thompson teams up with Contact Young Company to direct their Autumn show!
A new production of New Dawn Fades: A Play About Joy Division and Manchester celebrates its 10th anniversary at RNCM.
Guitarist Mike Walker returns alongside pianist and composer Nikki Iles for a jazz-filled soiree with the RNCM Big Band.