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October 15 — March 16 INKHEART: WHAT IF EVERY Book YOU READ… BECAME REAL? octOBER 15 — march 16 INKHEART: WHAT IF EVERY book YOU READ… BECAME REAL? New theatre season: Shakespeare, Beckett, Complicite and more James Benning’s Greatest Hits From Safe to Space: new exhibitions Jim Allen: A Retrospective PICK ME UP & TAKE ME HOMEBOOK NOW AT HOMEmcr.org or call 0161 200 1500 1 COntents see more, 4 quick season guide save 6 PEOPLE AND PLACES money! – JAMES BENNING dear reader: 10 october 14 november 16 Still Relevant AfteR All These Years When you work on – Jim Allen 18 december Ticket Saver a building project 19 january Book top price tickets for three different theatre shows at the same 20 february time and save 20%. Look for the such as HOME it’s easy ticket saver stamp on eligible shows. 21 our home is your home Offer does not include previews, 22 AL and AL: £5 student super advance tickets INCIDENTS OF TRAVEL or £10 tickets. 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Call 0161 200 1500 You’ll get more of a sense of that now as and young people can get stuck in too. or visit homemcr.org/members. you read this, our new season magazine. We have three major exhibitions that weave Way before HOME opened we began premiere not just through the galleries but through planning and programming, developing Do more our film programme too. We have artists new partnerships and pushing the boundaries Building tours and filmmakers who take the sci-fi genre of what we thought we could do. And now film season Join us at 11:00 on the last and make it relevant to a sophisticated, that HOME is open and over 350,000 people Saturday of every month for science and technology-literate society. have already visited us, we hope that you a tour of HOME. 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