Fifty years after the Apollo 11 moon landing, space travel is still the final frontier technology hasn’t mastered. While the globe now feels a much smaller place, space is still the ‘outer’ world the vast majority of us will never get to visit. But...
You can approach Trajal Harrell’s new work, Maggie the Cat, as a purposeful critique of the politics of race, gender and class, inspired by (note: ‘inspired by’ not ‘based upon’) Tennessee Williams’s classic, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; or you can go in...
“Count the clouds and name them…” a voice booms out from a video installation conceived by Yoko Ono. “Listen to the sound of the earth moving”. This is Manchester and the clouds and the number of them draw an unexpected response – more of which...
Some of the most powerful political drama of the second half of the twentieth century (Athol Fugard’s, Siswe Banzi is Dead and Woza Albert! by Percy Mtwa, Mbongeni Ngema and Barney Simon, to name but two) was written in protest against apartheid...
Legendary filmmaker David Lynch will present a special season of screenings, live concerts and talks, alongside his first major UK exhibition of visual art, My Head is Disconnected, as part of Manchester International Festival and the summer...
Yoko Ono, David Lynch and Idris Elba are among the artists commissioned to create new works to be premiered at Manchester International Festival 2019 in July. Over 18 extraordinary days, internationally-acclaimed artists from over 20 countries –...
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