Manchester International Festival 18 Extraordinary Days 29 June – 16 July 2017 July 16 – June 29

1 Manchester International Festival 18 Extraordinary Days 29 June – 16 July 2017

04 Introduction 06 Partners & supporters 08 MIF17 shows & events 60 Festival Square 66 Get involved 68 Commissioning & producing partners 69 MIF17 team 70 Join & support us 80 Venue information 82 Plan your visit 83 Booking information 85 Accessibility 86 MIF17 calendar & index

Manchester International Festival (MIF) invites the Follow us #mif17 world’s greatest artists to create brand new work mcrintfestival especially for us. We present this work every two MIFestival years all over the city, from theatres and galleries to hidden venues and public spaces. Many shows are mifestival free, and we aim to make our work accessible to all. ManchesterIntFest

Made in Manchester, our shows have travelled to mif.co.uk/live more than 20 countries around the world. To find Watch live or experience out more and see our work online, visit mif.co.uk. MIF events online

Cover by Peter Saville and Paul Hetherington. Design by Cathryn Ellis. For my first Festival as Artistic Director, I’ve followed the bold MIF formula of inviting around 30 of the world’s most extraordinary artists to come to Manchester and try things they’ve never tried before. We don’t set any rules about the themes they should address, nor about the venues where they should present their work. We simply invite them to come and amaze us – and from this invitation, a picture of the world emerges. Working in everything from classical music to digital technology, our artists come from cities as diverse as Berlin, Cairo, Karachi and New York. But we’ll also be celebrating Manchester: through local icons, from Friedrich Engels to New Order, and through events inspired by the city itself. We want everyone to feel part of MIF, whether by coming to an event (many are free), experiencing MIF online, visiting Festival Square or joining My Festival, our new creative community. I’d like to thank our generous partners and supporters, led by Manchester City Council and Arts Council England. My thanks also go to Matthias von Hartz, Mary Anne Hobbs, Michael Morris, Hans Ulrich Obrist and Peter Saville, MIF’s five visionary Artistic Advisors; and to the incredible MIF team, who work so hard to bring you these 18 extraordinary days. Artists help us to see new possibilities, and we need them now more than ever. We may be living through challenging times, but the Festival is also a moment to remember how much in our world is truly wonderful. I look forward to seeing you at MIF17 this summer.

John McGrath Artistic Director & CEO @johnmif

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We would like to thank all our MEMBERS and those who have kindly donated online or given anonymously. What Is the City but the People? Created by the People of Manchester. Directed by Richard Gregory. In association with Islington Mill. From an idea by Jeremy Deller. World premiere

This year’s Festival opens with an invitation – come to Date Thur 29 June Piccadilly Gardens and join friends, neighbours and 6.30pm total strangers for this self-portrait of the city. Venue Piccadilly Gardens As the working day ends on Thursday 29 June, MIF17 Book premium tickets for starts. All eyes will be on the people of Manchester as £5 in advance or turn up they become the opening event of the Festival. for free on the day

Raised high above the pavements, a unique selection MIF17 Tour Identity & the Fabric of individuals from across Manchester will walk along of the City a runway stretching more than 100 metres through See page 64 for schedule Piccadilly Gardens. mif.co.uk With live music from assisted by an 0843 208 1840 Graham Massey whatisthecity.com unexpected mix of local musicians, What Is the City but #whatisthecity the People? will capture and celebrate Manchester as Watch live online never before. mif.co.uk/live

Simon Banham Designer | Graham Massey Musical Director | Sonia Hughes Writer | Gavin Parry Photographer | Hawkins\Brown Architects

Get involved If you’re interested in walking the runway for What Is the City but the People?, please email [email protected] or follow MIF on Twitter, Facebook or Instagram to find out about our special open days for the project.

Photo: Piccadilly Gardens, Commissioned and produced by Manchester International Festival. Supported by Manchester, UK Arts Council England’s Ambition for Excellence and My Festival Circle. © Webb Aviation

8 9 New Order + Liam Gillick: So it goes.. Orchestrated & conducted by Joe Duddell World premiere

New Order take over Stage 1 of Manchester’s iconic Dates Thur 29 June, Sat 1, Thur 6, Old Granada Studios for this special series of intimate Thur 13 & Sat 15 July shows, created in collaboration with two close 8pm associates: visual artist Liam Gillick, who has previously Venue Stage 1 presented solo exhibitions at venues such as Tate Britain Old Granada Studios and MoMA in New York; and composer-arranger Tickets Joe Duddell, a fellow son of Manchester and a frequent £45 £12 for Greater Manchester collaborator with the band. residents on a lower wage For New Order + Liam Gillick: So it goes.., the group will mif.co.uk be deconstructing, rethinking and rebuilding a wealth 0843 208 1840 of material from throughout their career: familiar and #neworder obscure, old and new. To perform it live, they’ll be joined by a 12-strong synthesiser ensemble from the Royal Northern College of Music, with Joe Duddell providing the orchestrations. Inspired by this reinvention of the band’s catalogue, Liam Gillick will be transforming the historic Stage 1 into an immersive environment, creating a stage set that reacts dynamically to the music. MIF17 – so it goes…

Curated by Dave Haslam & Mark Beasley

Photo: New Order at Old Granada Studios, Manchester, UK Commissioned by Manchester International Festival and Wiener Festwochen. February 2017 Produced by Manchester International Festival. © Donald Christie

10 11 True Faith Curated by Matthew Higgs and Jon Savage Johan Kugelberg Archivist World premiere | Free

Bringing together work by some of the world’s most Dates Fri 30 June – Sun 16 July notable artists, True Faith explores the ongoing Daily 10am–5pm, significance and legacy ofNew Order and Joy Division except Thur 10am–9pm through the wealth of visual art their music has inspired. Exhibition continues after MIF17 until Sun 3 September Curated by Matthew Higgs and Jon Savage with Venue archivist Johan Kugelberg, True Faith is centred on four Manchester Art Gallery decades’ worth of extraordinary contemporary works Free from artists such as Julian Schnabel, Jeremy Deller, mif.co.uk Liam Gillick, Mark Leckey and Slater Bradley, all directly #truefaith inspired by the two groups. Also featuring Peter Saville’s seminal cover designs, plus performance films, music videos and posters from the likes of John Baldessari, Barbara Kruger, Lawrence Weiner, Jonathan Demme, Robert Longo and Kathryn Bigelow, True Faith provides a unique perspective on these two most iconic and influential Manchester bands.

Image: Slater B. Bradley Factory Icon, 2000/2017 Courtesy Slater Bradley Studio, Berlin and Blum & Poe, Commissioned and produced by Manchester International Festival Los Angeles/New York/Tokyo and Manchester Art Gallery. © Slater B. Bradley

12 13 What if Women Ruled the World? Created by Yael Bartana World premiere

This timely and electrifying new art experiment Dates Wed 5, Fri 7 & Sat 8 July ponders one of contemporary life’s great questions – 8pm what if women ruled the world? Venue Mayfield At the end of his remarkable film Dr Strangelove, Stanley Tickets Kubrick foresaw a post-apocalyptic future in which £25 dominant alpha males would repopulate the Earth, £12 for Greater Manchester residents on a lower wage with ten women assigned to every man. Yael Bartana’s groundbreaking film and performance project, mif.co.uk created with a team including performance director 0843 208 1840 mif.co.uk/live Vicky Featherstone and writer Abi Morgan, presents the #whatifwomen opposite scenario, placing women in charge of a world in desperate need of a new vision. Venue provided by the Mayfield Partnership In a war room, a group of 11 women will be confronted by some of the urgent crises of our time. Each night, a professional cast will be joined on stage by a different group of female experts: scientists, politicians, activists and thinkers of global reputation. Together, they will spend the evening trying to solve the global emergency as the clock ticks…

Vicky Featherstone Performance Director | Abi Morgan Writer | Saygel & Schreiber Set Design | Jackie Shemesh Lighting Design | Daniel Meir Sound Design | Full cast to be announced

Photo: Yael Bartana at the MIF offices, Manchester, UK Commissioned and produced by Manchester International Festival and January 2017 European Capital of Culture Aarhus 2017. © Donald Christie

14 15 10000 Gestures Boris Charmatz An explosion of movement

One of Europe’s most daring and exciting Dates Thur 13, Fri 14 & Sat 15 July choreographers, Boris Charmatz will be opening his 8pm newest work at MIF17. For this ambitious piece, staged Venue in the vast, atmospheric space of Mayfield, a 25-strong Mayfield ensemble of dancers will perform, in succession, Tickets £25 10000 Gestures – none repeated, every one unique. £12 for Greater Manchester At once joyous and melancholy, ephemeral and residents on a lower wage unforgettable, 10000 Gestures rethinks and reinvents the language of dance in thrilling fashion. mif.co.uk 0843 208 1840 #10000gestures Boris Charmatz is widely celebrated for his radical approach to contemporary dance. Since 2009, Charmatz Venue provided by the has been the director of the Rennes & Brittany National Mayfield Partnership Choreographic Centre, transforming it into the cutting- edge Musée de la danse. He has recently presented work to great acclaim at Sadler’s Wells, Tate Modern and New York’s Museum of Modern Art. This pre-premiere of 10000 Gestures marks the first ever staging of his work in Manchester.

Boris Charmatz Choreography | Salka Ardal Rosengren, Or Avishay, Régis Badel, Jessica Batut, Nadia Beugré, Alina Bilokon, Nuno Bizarro, Matthieu Burner, Dimitri Chamblas, Julie Cunningham, Olga Dukhovnaya, Sidonie Duret, Bryana Fritz, Kerem Gelebek, Rémy Héritier, Samuel Lefeuvre, Johanna-Elisa Lemke, Noé Pellencin, Maud Le Pladec, Mani Mungai, Jolie Ngemi, Djino Sabin, Marlène Saldana, Julian Weber, Frank Willens Interpretation | Magali Caillet-Gajan Assistant | Yves Godin Lighting Designer | Jean-Paul Lespagnard Costume Designer | Fabrice Le Fur General Stage Manager | Marion Régnier Dresser | Sandra Neuveut, Martina Hochmuth, Amélie-Anne Chapelain Production Direction | Curated for MIF by Matthias von Hartz

Produced by Musée de la danse in coproduction with Volksbühne Berlin, Photos: Manchester International Festival, Théâtre National de Bretagne-Rennes, Boris Charmatz in Madrid, Spain Festival d’Automne à Paris, Chaillot – Théâtre National de la Danse (Paris), December 2016 Wiener Festwochen and Sadler’s Wells. © Donald Christie

16 17 Cotton Panic! Created by Jane Horrocks, Nick Vivian and Wrangler Industrial musical drama World premiere

Cotton was once as good as gold in Lancashire, the Dates Sat 8 July (preview) engine for a thriving economy built on the Industrial Time to be confirmed Revolution. And then in 1861, reality bit: the US Civil War Mon 10 – Wed 12 July took root, American ports fell silent, the supply of cotton 7.30pm dried up and the prosperous North was brought to its Thur 13 – Sat 15 July 9pm knees. This was the Cotton Famine, and England has Venue never been the same since. Upper Campfield Market Hall Cotton Panic! tells the story of the catastrophe that Tickets befell the North and its people, all thanks to events £20 (preview), £25 £12 for Greater Manchester that took place thousands of miles away. Created by residents on a lower wage Jane Horrocks, Nick Vivian and Wrangler, featuring Stephen Mallinder of the great Cabaret Voltaire, the Post-show talk Members of the Cotton show uses a compelling collage of live music, drama, Panic! creative team words and film to evoke an era lost to history: of hard Wed 12 July work, of passion, and of the North of England’s inspiring Upper Campfield Market Hall solidarity with the slaves of the American South. Free with event ticket Cotton Panic! will be driven by a dynamic soundtrack, mif.co.uk taking in original material, familiar songs, industrial noise 0843 208 1840 and electronic soundscaping. Staged in the atmospheric #cottonpanic Victorian grandeur of Upper Campfield Market Hall, the show takes the audience through prosperity, panic and poverty, towards the peace of companionship with one’s fellow man.

Jane Horrocks Performer | Nick Vivian Writer | Wrangler Music | Chris Turner Visuals | Wils Wilson Director

Photo: Wrangler & Jane Horrocks in Bodmin, UK February 2017 Commissioned and produced by Manchester International Festival. © Heather Birnie

18 19 Party Skills for the End of the World Created by Nigel Barrett and Louise Mari with Abigail Conway World premiere

This is a party with a difference. Party Skills for the End of the World As turmoil and uncertainty sweep the world, you’ll learn Dates Tue 27 – Thur 29 June the essential skills you’ll need to survive and savour life (previews) 7.30pm when everything you’ve taken for granted has gone – Fri 30 June – Sat 15 July from starting a fire and making balloon animals to 7.30pm (except Sun & Mon) Sat 1, Sat 8, Sun 9, Sat 15 & mixing the perfect Martini and skinning a rabbit. Sun 16 July With the collapse of civilisation close at hand, it’s time 2.30pm to look at all the good things in life and the fear that Venue stops us enjoying them. This wild, immersive show will A secret venue Tickets teach you how to get by when the end finally comes £25 (previews), £30 and it’s time to celebrate everything that’s made life £12 for Greater Manchester worth living… residents on a lower wage Sensible footwear must be Created by Nigel Barrett and Louise Mari of the worn for this event acclaimed Shunt Collective, Party Skills for the End of the Ages 18+

World is the perfect tonic for the modern age. Dinner Party at the End of the World Lizzie Clachan Design Consultant | Abigail Conway, Bethany Wells Designers | Dates Marty Langthorne Lighting Design | Ben & Max Ringham Composition & Sound Tue 4 – Sat 15 July 5pm (except Sun & Mon) Venue Dinner Party at the End of the World A secret venue Tickets Inspired by Party Skills for the End of the World, £50 renowned Mancunian chef Mary-Ellen McTague Ages 18+ (Aumbry, the Real Junk Food Project) has devised a dinner party with a difference. Each evening, just 20 mif.co.uk 0843 208 1840 guests will share a special last supper, with delicious #partyskills and surprising food that explores themes of survival, extinction, scarcity and opulence. McTague’s creative menu will give you a flavour of how we may choose to eat, and what we may have to eat, come the end of days.

Photo: Party Skills workshop at the Party Skills for the End of the World commissioned and produced by MIF offices, Manchester, UK Manchester International Festival and Shoreditch Town Hall. January 2017 Dinner Party at the End of the World produced by Manchester International Festival. © Donald Christie

20 21 Fatherland Created by Scott Graham, Karl Hyde and Simon Stephens Songs and stories from a forgotten England World premiere

Fatherland is a bold new show about contemporary Dates Sat 1, Mon 3 & Tue 4 July fatherhood in all its complexities and contradictions. (previews) 7.30pm Created by Frantic Assembly’s Scott Graham, Karl Hyde Thur 6 – Sat 15 July from Underworld and playwright Simon Stephens (Punk 7.30pm (except Sun & Mon) Rock, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time), Thur 6, Sat 8, Sun 9, Thur 13 & Sat 15 July this emotive collage of words, music and movement will 2.30pm transform the Royal Exchange Theatre, animated by a Continues after MIF17 13-strong cast and a multitude of voices. until Sat 22 July Accessible performances Fatherland is a deeply personal portrait of 21st-century Thur 13 July, 7.30pm: Captioned England at the crossroads of past, present and future. Fri 14 July, 7.30pm: Inspired by conversations with fathers and sons from the BSL interpreted Sat 15 July, 2.30pm: trio’s home towns in the heart of the country, the show Audio-described explores identity, nationality, masculinity – and what Venue it means to belong in a world weighed down by the Royal Exchange Theatre expectations of others. Tickets £16.50 – £39 £12 for Greater Manchester Tender and tough, honest and true, Fatherland is a vital residents on a lower wage show about what we were, who we are and what we’d like to become. Post-show talk Scott Graham, Karl Hyde Scott Graham Co-Author & Director | Karl Hyde Co-Author & Composer | & Simon Stephens Simon Stephens Co-Author & Writer | Matthew Herbert Music Producer & Thur 6 July Co-Composer | Jon Bausor Designer | Jon Clark Lighting Designer | Royal Exchange Theatre Ian Dickinson for Autograph Sound Sound Designer | Eddie Kay Choreographer | Free with event ticket Anne McNulty CDG Casting Director | Nick Sidi Dramaturg mif.co.uk 0843 208 1840 #fatherland royalexchange.co.uk 0161 833 9833

Photo: Fatherland workshops Commissioned and produced by Manchester International Festival, in London, UK Frantic Assembly, the Royal Exchange Theatre, Lyric Hammersmith and LIFT. December 2016 Supported by PRS for Music Foundation. © Donald Christie

22 23 Music for a Busy City World premiere | Free

Music for a Busy City takes six leading composers out of Dates & venues Fri 30 June – Sun 16 July the concert hall and into Manchester, making music for Daily 8am–8pm the spaces through which we pass every day. Mohammed Fairouz St Ann’s Square This pioneering project features six new pieces of M2 7HD music, each created in response to a specific space in Matthew Herbert Great Northern Warehouse Manchester – from shopping centres and train stations M3 4EN to the Town Hall. Up to 10 minutes long, these recorded Huang Ruo pieces will become part of the spaces that inspired Manchester Town Hall M2 5DB them – playing in rotation every hour, so you can journey Anna Meredith around town and hear each one in succession. Whether Walkway linking Selfridges and Marks & Spencer you make a special trip or stumble on the pieces by M3 1BD accident, Music for a Busy City will challenge your Olga Neuwirth perception of places you thought you already knew. Victoria Station M3 1WY Mohammed Fairouz has been hailed as ‘one of the most Philip Venables talented composers of his generation’ by the BBC. Canal Street M1 3EZ Matthew Herbert’s works include albums, film scores, Free art installations and collaborations with everyone from Heston Blumenthal to Björk. In conversation Composers from Huang Ruo draws inspiration from ancient Chinese music, rock, Music for a Busy City experimental music, noise, processed sound and other styles in Sun 2 July 12.30pm his writing for everything from opera to sound installations. Venue to be confirmed Free – ticket required Anna Meredith creates acoustic and electronic music for a wild variety of contexts and audiences. Varmints won the 2016 mif.co.uk Scottish Album of the Year Award. 0843 208 1840 #busycity Olga Neuwirth writes multilayered and multisensory works Experience online for the stage, the concert hall and spaces beyond. musicforabusycity.com Philip Venables has been described by The Guardian as ‘one of the finest composers around’. His recent works include the award-winning opera 4.48 Psychosis.

Photo: Manchester city centre, UK February 2017 Commissioned and produced by Manchester International Festival. © Donald Christie

24 25 ToGather Susan Hefuna An exhibition and performance World premiere | Free

Featuring a major public performance and a wide- Performances Date ranging exhibition, Susan Hefuna’s timely, poetic work Sun 9 July addresses some of the most potent issues of our time: 2–5pm migration, movement and sensations of separation. Venue Whitworth Park The focal point of ToGather will be a free public event Free to which everyone is invited. Local residents, originally from as far afield as Iran and Sierra Leone, will trace Exhibition Dates individual paths through Whitworth Park. Their Fri 30 June – Sun 16 July movements will be echoed by dancers from Company Daily 10am–5pm, except Thur 10am–9pm Wayne McGregor, inspired by the emotions enjoyed Exhibition continues after and endured by migrants as they walk around their new MIF17 until Sun 3 September hometowns. Recognising the social importance of food Accessible exhibition tours Every Tue, 2pm: to migrant communities, there will be a wide range of Audio Plus tours food and drink available on the day. Sun 9 July, 2pm: Mind’s Eye AD tour The exhibition will take the form of a ‘mental map’, Venue installed in several rooms at the Whitworth and parts The Whitworth of Whitworth Park. A series of palmwood structures, Free inspired by boxes seen on the streets of Hefuna’s native MIF17 Tour Cairo, will be joined by a rich selection of drawings, Migration & the UK’s vitrines, personal objects and a new digital work, Most Amazing Street See page 64 for schedule all on themes of migration and separation, gathering and togetherness. mif.co.uk #togather ToGather’s multiple parts will combine into a hugely Experience online moving whole, a work of great significance and power mif.co.uk/live on this most urgent of subjects.

Jasmine Wilson Choreographer

Photo: Susan Hefuna in Commissioned and produced by Manchester International Festival and the Whitworth, Düsseldorf, Germany The University of Manchester. In association with Studio Wayne McGregor. Supported January 2017 by Arts Council England’s Ambition for Excellence and My Festival Circle. © Donald Christie

26 27 Last and First Men A film and live score byJóhann Jóhannsson Film narrated by Tilda Swinton Cinematography by Sturla Brandth Grøvlen Soundtrack performed live by the BBC Philharmonic Conducted by Daníel Bjarnason World premiere

MIF17 is thrilled to present the world premiere of Date Thur 6 July Last and First Men, an extraordinary new multimedia 7.30pm work by Oscar-nominated Icelandic composer Venue Jóhann Jóhannsson (Arrival, Sicario, Blade Runner The Bridgewater Hall 2049). Last and First Men combines music, film and Tickets £15 – £30 Tilda Swinton’s elegiac narration into a poetic £12 for Greater Manchester meditation on memory, loss and the idea of Utopia. residents on a lower wage For this world exclusive, the BBC Philharmonic will be performing Jóhannsson’s score live with the film at Post-show talk Jóhann Jóhannsson The Bridgewater Hall. Thur 6 July The Bridgewater Hall Based on the cult novel by British science fiction Free with event ticket writer Olaf Stapledon, Last and First Men blurs the boundary between fiction and documentary. The work mif.co.uk 0843 208 1840 sets images of a futuristic yet decaying monumental #lastandfirstmen landscape, beautifully filmed in 16mm black and white bridgewater-hall.co.uk in the former Yugoslav republics, against Swinton’s 0161 907 9000 narration and Jóhannsson’s mesmerising orchestral soundtrack. The result is a breathtaking requiem for the final human species in civilisation, and you can see and hear it first at MIF17.

Photo: Jóhann Jóhannsson Commissioned by Manchester International Festival, the Barbican Centre and in Berlin, Germany Sydney Opera House for Vivid LIVE. Produced by Manchester International Festival January 2017 and the BBC Philharmonic. © Donald Christie

28 29 HOME1947 A new work by Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy Reflections on the Partition of British India World premiere

Two-time Academy Award-winning filmmakerSharmeen HOME1947 Dates Obaid-Chinoy reflects on the experiences of people Sat 1 – Sun 9 July who left their homes during the Partition of British India Daily 10am–7pm in 1947, the largest mass migration ever witnessed. This Venue immersive installation puts a human face on history, The Lowry understanding what it means to find and feel at home. Free HOME1947 is centred on a series of short films featuring An Evening of Sublime Sufi Music families in India and Pakistan, who were among more Date than 10 million people displaced by Partition. The films Sat 1 July 7.30pm see ‘home’ through the eyes of migrants who left their Venue homes and never returned – ‘home’ as a physical place, The Lowry but also as a concept, an ideal, a shared tradition. Tickets £25 – £45 This moving installation will also feature an elegiac £12 for Greater Manchester reimagining of a pre-Partition house in British India – a residents on a lower wage recreation of the sights, sounds and smells of what once Imagined Homeland was home, drawn from the memories of those displaced A one-day symposium on the impact of Partition by history. HOME1947 will bring to life 70-year-old and today’s refugee crisis, experiences of displacement, as the refugee crisis organised as part of Asia continues to affect millions across the world. Triennial Manchester 2018 Date Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy Artist | Maheen Sadiq & Aleeha Badat Producers | Sun 2 July Ali Asghar Alavi Design Consultant | With contributions from Mobeen Ansari, 10am–6pm Taha Malik & The Citizens Archive of Pakistan Venue HOME Tony Wilson Place, First Street An Evening of Sublime Sufi Music Tickets A one-off concert on the opening night of HOME1947, £5 bringing together stars of Sufi music from both India mif.co.uk and Pakistan. Check mif.co.uk for full details of who’ll be 0843 208 1840 playing at this very special show. #home1947

HOME1947 commissioned by Manchester International Festival, the British Photo: Council and Super Slow Way. Produced by Manchester International Festival Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy in Karachi, Pakistan and The Lowry. An Evening of Sublime Sufi Music produced by Manchester January 2017 International Festival. © Nadir Siddiqui

30 31 Returning to Reims Directed by Thomas Ostermeier World premiere

Adapted from Didier Eribon’s bestselling memoir by Dates Wed 5 – Fri 7 July Thomas Ostermeier, the Artistic Director of Berlin’s (previews) 7.30pm revered Schaubühne and one of world theatre’s most Sat 8 – Fri 14 July thrilling directors, Returning to Reims is an urgent 7.30pm (except Sun) reflection on the new world order. Venue HOME Tony Wilson Place, When his father dies, Eribon returns to the working-class First Street community he had long since left behind – and is forced Tickets to re-evaluate everything he thought he understood £18 – £32 £12 for Greater Manchester about his life, especially when he discovers his family residents on a lower wage have switched allegiance from Communism to the Performed in English far-right Front National. This production may include adult themes In Ostermeier’s typically multilayered production, set in a recording studio, an actress (Homeland’s Post-show talk , a leading member of the Schaubühne Thomas Ostermeier Nina Hoss & Didier Eribon ensemble) tapes a documentary voiceover based on Mon 10 July Eribon’s memoir, and begins to reflect on her own HOME Tony Wilson Place, background as the daughter of a union leader and First Street activist. How has her personal history affected her place Free with event ticket in the world? And as populism marches around the mif.co.uk globe, does political activism still have a role to play? 0843 208 1840 This world premiere may help us find the answer. #returning homemcr.org Thomas Ostermeier Director | Nina Wetzel Stage & Costume Design | 0161 200 1500 Sébastien Dupouey Video | Nils Ostendorf Music | Maja Zade, Florian Borchmeyer Dramaturgy

Returning to Reims is a Factory Trailblazer – a preview of the kind of world-class art you’ll find at Factory, Manchester’s groundbreaking new multi-arts venue, when it opens in 2020 under the direction of MIF.

Commissioned by the Schaubühne and Manchester International Festival. Photo: Produced by the Schaubühne, Manchester International Festival and Thomas Ostermeier HOME, Manchester. © Jérémie Cuvillier

32 33 Available Light Music John Adams Choreography Lucinda Childs Stage design Frank Gehry

Available Light brings together three giants of post- Dates Thur 6, Fri 7 & Sat 8 July war American culture: choreographer Lucinda Childs, 8pm composer John Adams and architect Frank Gehry. This Venue new production takes the trio’s brilliant collaboration, Palace Theatre first staged in 1983, to a new generation of audiences. Tickets £18 – £40 Available Light beautifully unites the distinct visions £12 for Greater Manchester residents on a lower wage of its three creators. Gehry’s designs playfully subvert convention, setting a backdrop of chain-link fencing mif.co.uk against a stage split over two levels. Adams’ hypnotic 0843 208 1840 #availablelight soundtrack pulses out in waves, subtly blending acoustic atgtickets.com brass with synthesisers and electronics as it anchors the 0844 871 3019 movements of a dozen dancers. And Childs’ intricate, mesmerising choreography, playing with notions of space and time, is a brilliant distillation of the minimalist aesthetic that has long kept her work at the cutting edge. A perfect fusion of music, movement and art, Available Light is a landmark in American dance.

Beverly Emmons & John Torres Lighting Design | Kasia Walicka Maimone Costume Design | Performed by The Lucinda Childs Dance Company | Pomegranate Arts Production Management

Available Light is a Factory Trailblazer – a preview of the kind of world-class art you’ll find at Factory, Manchester’s groundbreaking new multi-arts venue, when it opens in 2020 under the direction of MIF.

The revival of Available Light was commissioned by the Cal Performances, University of California, Berkeley; Festspielhaus St Pölten; FringeArts, Philadelphia with the support of The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage; Glorya Kaufman Presents Dance at the Music Center and The Los Angeles Philharmonic Association; Kampnagel Hamburg – Center for Fine Arts; Onassis Cultural Centre – Athens; Tanz im August, Berlin; and Théâtre de la Ville – Paris and Festival d’Automne à Photo: Paris. Available Light was developed at MASS MoCA (Massachusetts Museum of Available Light Contemporary Art). Produced by Pomegranate Arts, Inc. © JJ Tiziou

34 35 The Welcoming Party Theatre-Rites World premiere

Come and help us give a warm welcome to some Dates Tue 4 July (preview) new arrivals in this inspiring immersive show from 7pm Theatre-Rites, one of Europe’s most imaginative Wed 5 – Sat 15 July theatre companies. 7pm (except Mon & Tue) Sat 8, Sun 9, Sat 15 & The Welcoming Party will take you on an exciting journey Sun 16 July through a historic hidden warehouse at the Museum 11.30am & 3pm Accessible performances of Science & Industry. You’ll walk alongside people Thur 13 July at 7pm: who have travelled here from towns and cities far BSL interpreted Sat 15 July at 11.30am: beyond Manchester, all looking for a place where they Relaxed performance can feel safe and sound. And along the way, perhaps Venue you can help them find what they’re looking for. 1830 Warehouse Museum of Science & Industry A beautiful blend of puppetry, performance, dance Tickets and live music for both children and family audiences, £15, £10 for under-16s £12 for Greater Manchester The Welcoming Party invites you to think about what it residents on a lower wage means to feel different ­– and why we should all be proud Sensible footwear must be of who we are. worn for this event Ages 8+ Sue Buckmaster Director | Simon Daw Designer | Jamaal Burkmar Choreographer | Frank Moon Composer | Mark Doubleday Lighting Designer In conversation Sue Buckmaster, Liz O’Neill, Phelim McDermott, Jane Davidson MBE, Nigel Barrett & Louise Mari on creating work for younger audiences Fri 7 July 1pm Venue to be confirmed Free – ticket required

mif.co.uk 0843 208 1840 #welcomingparty For family activities related to The Welcoming Party during August, visit z-arts.org/welcoming-partyhq Commissioned by Manchester International Festival, Theatre-Rites, Photo: The Welcoming Party Z-arts and Ruhrtriennale International Festival of the Arts. Produced by workshops in London, UK Manchester International Festival, Theatre-Rites and Z-arts. Supported by February 2017 the Granada Foundation. © Donald Christie

36 37 Dark Matter Curated by Mary Anne Hobbs Destroy your boundaries

Curated by BBC Radio 6 Music tastemaker Mary Anne Dates & venues Gorilla: Hobbs, Dark Matter is eight immersive shows from Thur 29 June LEVELZ pioneering national, international and Manchester- Fri 30 June Holly Herndon based musicians. Lighting designer Stuart Bailes will Thur 6 July Paleman Fri 7 July The Haxan Cloak transform Gorilla and the O2 Ritz, creating new universes Thur 13 July Kojey Radical for each artist. The line-up takes in everything from Fri 14 July Colin Stetson drone metal to freeform jazz, street poetry to radical O2 Ritz: electronica – all pushing creative boundaries to the limit. Sat 8 July Clark Sat 15 July SUNN O))) LEVELZ takeover For times, check mif.co.uk The grime crew that run the roads in the city storm Gorilla and Tickets get Dark Matter off to a flyer. £15 – £25 £12 for Greater Manchester Holly Herndon + Mary Anne Hobbs (DJ set) residents on a lower wage Following her recent album Platform and a tour with Radiohead, Ages 14+ the acclaimed electronic musician brings new music to MIF. For age guidance, see p83

Paleman + Walton (DJ set) mif.co.uk Two of the city’s hot young guns: a new live show from Calum 0843 208 1840 Lee, featuring his dazzling jazz drumming, plus DJ Sam Walton. #darkmatter The Haxan Cloak + Herron (DJ set) Björk collaborator Bobby Krlic premieres new material, with support from Herron of Manchester’s meandyou club night. Clark + Akkord (DJ set) Warp’s Chris Clark brings two dancers and his thrilling new live show to MIF, with a DJ set by Manchester bass heroes Akkord. Kojey Radical + Mary Anne Hobbs (DJ set) Blending the intimately personal with the fiercely political, Hackney’s Kojey Radical is one of the UK’s hottest rising stars. Colin Stetson + Mary Anne Hobbs (DJ set) Collaborator with Bon Iver and Tom Waits, saxophonist Colin Stetson is one of the world’s most wildly creative musicians. SUNN O))) + Demdike Stare (DJ set) Photo: The heaviest band on the planet return with an immense, Mary Anne Hobbs at the crushing set. Special guests Demdike Stare DJ in support. O2 Ritz in Manchester, UK October 2016 Commissioned and produced by Manchester International Festival. © Donald Christie

38 39 No End to Enderby The World Was Once All Miracle A work by Graham Eatough and Stephen Sutcliffe A song cycle by Raymond Yiu World premiere | Free Performed by the BBC Philharmonic Anthony Burgess in words and music World premiere

Director Graham Eatough and artist Stephen Sutcliffe Dates To mark 100 years since the birth of Harpurhey’s most Date Fri 30 June – Sun 16 July Tue 4 July pay suitably ingenious tribute to one of Manchester’s Daily 10am–5pm, famous son, MIF presents a special concert celebrating 7.30pm except Thur 10am–9pm most original minds in this unique installation, which his words and music. Anthony Burgess may be best Venue blends visual art and film drama in homage to the great Exhibition continues known as the writer of A Clockwork Orange, but he was The Bridgewater Hall after MIF17 until Anthony Burgess. Sun 17 September also a prolific composer, writing more than 250 works in Tickets a multitude of styles. £16 – £38 No End to Enderby is centred on two new films inspired Accessible exhibition tours £12 for Greater Manchester Every Tue, 2pm: residents on a lower wage by Burgess’s ‘Enderby’ series: Inside Mr Enderby, in Audio Plus tours For MIF17, acclaimed composer Raymond Yiu has set Sun 9 July, 2pm: which a school trip travels back in time to pay desultory Mind’s Eye AD tour text from six Burgess poems into The World Was Once Pre-show talk Raymond Yiu homage to the title character, a dead poet; and Venue All Miracle, a major symphonic song cycle given its world The Muse, in which a young historian journeys to a The Whitworth premiere tonight by brilliant baritone Roderick Williams Tue 4 July 6.30pm parallel universe to investigate whether Shakespeare Free and the BBC Philharmonic. The concert also features the The Bridgewater Hall really wrote everything credited to him. Presented here first European performance of Burgess’s own Symphony Free with event ticket with some of the original sets for the films, both shot this mif.co.uk in C, along with a work by a composer whose music has #enderby mif.co.uk year in Manchester, No End to Enderby explores issues influenced Yiu, Burgess and every other symphonist of 0843 208 1840 of artistry, authenticity and posterity in a playful fashion the last two centuries: Beethoven’s Symphony No.8. #raymondyiu of which Burgess would surely have approved. bridgewater-hall.co.uk Michael Francis Conductor | Roderick Williams Baritone (The World Was Once 0161 907 9000 All Miracle) | Robin Tritschler Tenor (Symphony in C) Graham Eatough & Stephen Sutcliffe Artists | Richard Heslop Director of Photography | Laura Hopkins Set & Costume Design Presented by the Contemporary Art Society, 2015, through the Annual Award, funded by the Sfumato Foundation. Commissioned by Manchester International Photo: Xaverian College, Photo: Festival, the Whitworth, The University of Manchester and Glasgow International Manchester, UK Raymond Yiu in London, UK 2018. Produced with the Royal Exchange Theatre. Supported by Creative Scotland December 2016 Commissioned and produced by Manchester International Festival, February 2017 and Outset Scotland. Developed in partnership with LUX/Artists’ Moving Image. © Donald Christie the International Anthony Burgess Foundation and the BBC Philharmonic. © Donald Christie

40 41 Manchester Street Poem Underworld World premiere | Free

Conceived by Karl Hyde and Rick Smith from Dates Mon 10 – Fri 14 July Underworld, Manchester Street Poem will spotlight the Times to be confirmed stories of those who find themselves homeless in the Venue city – in a work where the catch-all term ‘homeless’ will A city centre venue – give way to individuality, identity and integrity. see mif.co.uk for details Free Manchester Street Poem will bring to life the stories of people who are homeless in Manchester. The work is mif.co.uk #mcrstreetpoem both fleeting performance and compelling installation: Experience online as Hyde covers the walls of the venue with words and mcrstreetpoem.com phrases drawn from the streets, the space will fill with a powerful soundtrack built on snatches and fragments recorded by Smith all over the city. Co-created by Underworld and individuals with personal experience of homelessness, Manchester Street Poem will proudly broadcast the voices of those who so often go unheard and ignored.

Photo: Produced by Manchester International Festival. With thanks to Mustard Tree and Karl Hyde in Tokyo, Japan the Manchester Homelessness Partnership. March 2016

42 43 BambinO An opera for babies World premiere

BambinO is a pioneering piece of music theatre aimed Dates & venues Pavilion Theatre: at an audience that doesn’t often get a look in at the Tue 4 July (preview) opera – babies. 1.30pm Wed 5 July This colourful work will reinvent operatic language and 10.30am & 1.30pm traditions for children at an age when their minds are Venues around Greater Manchester: wide open to new sounds, images and experiences. Thur 6 – Sun 16 July Babies will be free to crawl around during the (except Mon 10 July) For details, see performance, interacting with singers, musicians and mif.co.uk/bambino each other. Even adults may find new ways of hearing Tickets music through the ears of the young. £5 for 1 adult and 1 baby Ages 6–18 months Written by Scottish Opera’s acclaimed Composer in Residence Lliam Paterson and directed by Improbable’s In conversation ever-imaginative Phelim McDermott, who has directed Phelim McDermott, Jane Davidson MBE, at opera houses around the world, BambinO will be a Sue Buckmaster, Liz O’Neill, twin celebration of the possibilities of music and the Nigel Barrett & Louise Mari on creating work for power of the infant imagination. younger audiences Fri 7 July Lliam Paterson Composer | Phelim McDermott Director | 1pm Giuseppe Belli & Emma Belli Designers Venue to be confirmed Free – ticket required

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Photo: BambinO workshops in Glasgow, UK Commissioned and produced by Manchester International Festival, Scottish Opera December 2016 and Improbable. © Donald Christie

44 45 One of Two Stories, or Both Field Bagatelles: a radio composition in five episodes, and a sound installation Samson Young World premiere

Fresh from representing Hong Kong at the Venice Radio drama Dates Biennale, brilliant young artist Samson Young premieres Fri 30 June – Tue 4 July a major new work at MIF17. Inspired by mythic tales of 6.30pm 17th-century Chinese travellers making their way to Venue Low Four Europe on foot, this multilayered piece asks: how are Old Granada Studios journeys remembered and retold? What of the aching Tickets feet that carry the bodies, the bumpy ride, the incidental £5 mountains? How do stories lend meanings to places left behind? Exhibition Dates Fri 7 – Sun 16 July One of Two Stories, or Both (Field Bagatelles) will begin Daily 10am–5pm with an MIF first: a five-part radio series, performed by Exhibition continues after a cast of actors, artists and musicians. Broadcast live MIF17 until Sun 29 October from Low Four in Old Granada Studios, this tapestry of Venue Centre for Chinese sound, oral histories, songs and poetry can be heard Contemporary Art throughout Manchester on FM and online: on radios, Free laptops and phones. A small number of tickets will be available for audiences to observe the live broadcast of mif.co.uk 0843 208 1840 each episode. #oneoftwo Listen live on FM – check Following the radio series, a multichannel sound and mif.co.uk for frequency visual installation will premiere at the Centre for Chinese Experience online Contemporary Art. The installation will bring another mif.co.uk/live intriguing perspective to these stories, while also marking the 20th anniversary of the UK’s handover of Hong Kong to China.

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Commissioned by Manchester International Festival, the Centre for Chinese Photo: Samson Young in Contemporary Art, Edouard Malingue Gallery, the University of Salford Art Düsseldorf, Germany Collection and West Kowloon Cultural District. Produced by Manchester December 2016 International Festival. © Donald Christie

46 47 Ceremony Phil Collins World premiere | Free

Friedrich Engels – philosopher, writer, radical thinker – Event Date is coming back home. Turner Prize-nominated artist Sun 16 July Phil Collins is returning Engels to the city where he made 6pm his name – in the form of a Soviet-era statue, driven Venue NCP Bridgewater Hall across Europe and permanently installed in the centre Car Park of Manchester. Free – ticket required Ceremony will be a singular moment in the city’s history. Statue Performers, musicians and the people of Manchester Location will create an extraordinary live film to bring MIF17 to Tony Wilson Place, First Street a close, mixing footage from the statue’s journey with live coverage of its inauguration. The welcome Film season celebration will also include a soundtrack by Mica Levi A series of films inspired by Ceremony and Demdike Stare, a new anthem by Gruff Rhys, and Venue stories of today’s Manchester workers filmed by Collins HOME during his year-long MIF17 residency. Tony Wilson Place, First Street The radical son of a German mill owner, Friedrich Engels See mif.co.uk/ceremony arrived here in 1842, documenting the plight of the MIF17 Tour city’s working classes during his 20-year stay. It’s now The Radical City exactly 100 years after the ideas from The Communist See page 64 for schedule Manifesto, written by Engels and Karl Marx, changed mif.co.uk the course of history by inspiring the Russian Revolution 0843 208 1840 during the final phase of the First World War. Reflecting #ceremony on the conditions of contemporary workers and the last homemcr.org century of change, as part of 14-18 NOW, Ceremony will 0161 200 1500 return Engels to prominence in Manchester, reasserting Watch live online mif.co.uk/live the city’s crucial role in the history of radical thought.

Phil Collins Artist | Mica Levi & Demdike Stare, Gruff Rhys Music | Florian Stirnemann for raumlaborberlin Architectural & Set Design | Full cast to be announced

Commissioned by Manchester International Festival, 14-18 NOW: WW1 Centenary Art Commissions and HOME, Manchester. Produced by Manchester International Photo: Phil Collins in Festival, HOME, Manchester, Shady Lane Productions and Tigerlily Productions. Maryanivka, Ukraine Supported by Arts Council England’s Ambition for Excellence, the BBC and December 2016 My Festival Circle. © Yevgen Nikiforov

48 49 Lost Memories Dot Net FlexN Residency Created by Nina Freeman In association with Young Identity In collaboration with Aaron Freedman World premiere | Free

MIF’s first ever game commission comes courtesy Dates Reggie ‘Regg Roc’ Gray directed one of the big hits of Venue of one of the most innovative and individual video Available to download MIF15: FlexN Manchester, a thrilling transatlantic street Contact for PC and Mac from Free – details at mif.co.uk game designers working today. Based in Portland, Fri 30 June at dance collaboration featuring dancers from Greater Oregon, Nina Freeman has won huge renown for mif.co.uk/lostmemories Manchester and Reggie’s native New York. Two years Free mif.co.uk autobiographical video games such as Cibele, which on, we’re delighted that Reggie will be returning to the #flexn Ages 18+ draw strongly on her own life and experiences – and Festival for a residency at Contact, part of a series of her new game for MIF17 is every bit as frank and #lostmemories MIF17 events exploring contemporary dance. intensely personal. During his time at Contact, Reggie will be introducing Lost Memories Dot Net harks back to the early 2000s, a group of young dancers to the flexn dance style, when Freeman was a young girl discovering the twin working with local spoken word collective Young joys of online chat and creating websites. You’ll play Identity to explore new ways of telling stories through a role based on the young Freeman, building both words and movement. To find out how you can get relationships and websites online while following a involved in Flexn Residency, email [email protected]. narrative that grows more intimate as the game goes Alongside these workshops, MIF will be presenting on. Available to download from mif.co.uk/lostmemories a series of masterclasses and open rehearsals from during the Festival, Lost Memories Dot Net is a special Boris Charmatz (10000 Gestures), the Lucinda Childs work from a very singular talent. Company (Available Light), Company Wayne McGregor (ToGather) and Frantic Assembly (Fatherland). Photo: Nina Freeman’s home, For details, see mif.co.uk. Photo: Portland, Oregon, USA Reggie ‘Regg Roc’ Gray January 2017 at MIF15, Manchester, UK Commissioned and produced by Manchester International Festival. © Donald Christie Produced by Manchester International Festival and Contact. © Sodium

50 51 Interdependence: Machynlleth Comes to Manchester We Need to Talk Provocative conversation and new ideas

The world has never been more connected – nor more Dates This summer, we’re bringing a little bit of West Wales Dates Sat 1 July, Hallé St Peter’s Fri 7 July at 7pm & 9pm divided. The old world order is being challenged by a Sat 8 July, Stoller Hall to Manchester as the Machynlleth Comedy Festival Sat 8 July at 5pm, 7pm & 9pm new populism, with fear and mistrust on both sides. And Chetham’s School of Music decamps for a weekend at MIF. Sun 9 July at 5pm & 7pm Sat 15 July, Albert Hall yet such uncertainty and upheaval can inspire original Venues 10.30am & 2pm Every spring, 6,000 people descend on the tiny Welsh thinking, as genuine engagement with opposing 53two & International Accessible sessions town of Machynlleth (population: 2,235) for one of Anthony Burgess Foundation arguments breaks down barriers, reveals our shared All sessions will be BSL interpreted Europe’s most delightful and unusual comedy events. Tickets humanity and gives rise to bold new ideas. £7 – £15 Tickets The small but perfectly formed Machynlleth Comedy Top-price tickets available at Curated by MIF, FutureEverything, The Guardian and £5 per session Festival encourages comics to experiment and have fun £12 for Greater Manchester £10 per day residents on a lower wage VICE, Interdependence: We Need to Talk invites you with their material in some very intimate venues, with Ages 16+ to debate today’s hot-button topics: power, heroes, mif.co.uk shows staged everywhere from the local bowling club to community, technology, anger and change. Over six 0843 208 1840 the ancient Welsh parliament building. mif.co.uk mif.co.uk/interdependence sessions, we’ll be bringing together six pairs of leading 0843 208 1840 #interdependence In the spirit of Machynlleth, we’ve invited the likes of #mif17 figures to explore each issue and be quizzed by you. Mark Watson, Sara Pascoe and Tony Law for a series Alongside these intimate conversations, each session of special shows at two tiny Manchester venues, will also feature discussions, performances and artist joined by some of the country’s best young comics. interventions. We’ll be announcing the line-ups in the See mif.co.uk for a full schedule. run-up to MIF17 – check mif.co.uk for details.

Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios Architects

Photo: Women’s March on London, UK Photo: Commissioned and produced by Manchester International Festival. January 2017 Commissioned and produced by Manchester International Festival. Machynlleth in May In association with FutureEverything, The Guardian and VICE. © Yael Bartana In association with Machynlleth Comedy Festival. © Ed Moore

52 53 Arcade Fire Bonobo Presented by SJM and MIF Simon Green’s move to LA inspired his 2017 album Migration – but he’s returning to his homeland for this intimate one-off show in Manchester Cathedral, featuring new visuals and a band augmented by strings and brass. Don’t miss it. Date Venue Tickets Tue 4 July Manchester Cathedral £34*

© Neil Krug Sampha + Pauli He’s collaborated with everyone from Solange to Frank Ocean, but Sampha Sisay is very much his own man. In the wake of 2017 debut Process and a major world tour, he’s coming to MIF17 for a one-off headline set at the Albert Hall, destined to be one of the hottest tickets of the Festival. Date Venue Tickets Wed 5 July Albert Hall £25*

Ride The return of shoegaze heroes Ride was greeted with rapturous acclaim Six years on from their last appearance in the city, Date when they reunited two years ago. Thur 6 July Arcade Fire return to Manchester for this one-off show 5pm This summer, the Oxford quartet at Castlefield Bowl. Venue release their first album in 21 years Castlefield Bowl Since the release of their stunning debut album Funeral, – and you can hear it live, first, at this Tickets exclusive Manchester show. the Grammy Award-winning Canadian band have won £49.50 Date Venue Tickets a well-earned reputation as one of the most exhilarating Tue 11 July O2 Ritz £25* live acts around. We’re thrilled to be bringing them back mif.co.uk #arcadefire *£12 for Greater Manchester residents on a lower wage to Manchester as part of MIF17 and Sounds of the City. All shows: 14+. For guidance, see p83.

54 55 © Tatiana Gorilovsky Live at the Pavilion Theatre Sounds from the Other City and Serious are presenting a packed programme of live music from Wed to Sun in Festival Square.

Serious presents Date Fri 30 June, 7.30pm LaSharVu Tickets Powerhouse British female vocal trio – a must-see live act. £12

LaSharVu House Gospel Choir © Emile Holba © Tatiana Gorilovsky Serious presents Date Sat 1 July, 7.30pm House Gospel Choir Tickets A glorious blend of spirituality and dancefloor euphoria. £12

Sounds from the Other City & Grey Lantern present Date Sun 2 July, 7.30pm Hookworms + special guest Tickets Jawdropping cosmic psych-rock from over the Pennines. £12

Serious presents Date Thur 6 July, 7.30pm Bokanté Tickets Genre-crossing fusion from members of Snarky Puppy. £12

Hookworms Bokanté © Steve Gullick © Francois Bisi

Serious presents Date Fri 7 July, 7.30pm Chassol Tickets Maverick French pianist plays live with two original films. £12

Sounds from the Other City & Samarbeta present Date Sat 8 July, 7.30pm Stealing Sheep Tickets Liverpool electro trio premiere new tracks and visuals. £12

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56 57 Chassol Stealing Sheep Sounds from the Other City & Hey! Manchester present Date Wed 12 July, 7.30pm Kiran Leonard: ‘Song for the Husband’ Tickets Leonard presents a new performance and visual art show. £12

Kiran Leonard Portico Quartet © Sebastian Matthes © Duncan Bellamy Sounds from the Other City & Fat Out present Date Thur 13 July, 7.30pm Portico Quartet Tickets Beautiful, futuristic new music from the London foursome. £12

Serious presents Date Fri 14 July, 7.30pm La Mambanegra Tickets Floor-filling salsa-hip hop fusion from Colombia. ¡Vamos! £12

Serious presents Date Sat 15 July, 7.30pm Flavia Coelho Tickets From Rio de Janeiro via Paris, a delicious samba blend. £12

Flavia Coehlo La Mambanegra © Youri Lenquett

Sounds from the Other City & Now Wave present Date Sun 16 July, 3pm Spring King + Let’s Eat Grandma Tickets Post-punk local heroes plus a bright young alt-pop duo. £12

mif.co.uk We’ll be announcing more Live at the Pavilion Theatre 0843 208 1840 shows in the run-up to MIF17: see mif.co.uk for details. #festivalsquare

58 Let’s Eat Grandma 59 Spring King © Francesca Allen Festival Square Albert Square will again become Festival Square for MIF17, the home of the Festival in the heart of the city.

Festival Square is getting a new look for BBC – live in Festival Square MIF17. We’ve commissioned Paloma The BBC will be broadcasting to the Gormley of Practice Architecture nation from Festival Square during and Nicolas Henninger from the MIF17, with special guests from the Office for Crafted Architecture, two Festival, CBeebies and beyond. We’ll of the country’s most exciting young post a full schedule at mif.co.uk in the designers, to take a hands-on approach run-up to the Festival. to the Square – they’ll design and build a range of new structures where you’ll Live music be able to eat, drink and take in the Festival Square’s outdoor stage will Festival buzz. showcase some of the best local acts every day during MIF17. Check out Students from Manchester School of mif.co.uk for a schedule. Art, MMU, will again be designing the Square’s interiors, seating areas and DJs furniture, working together with local In the Festival Pavilion, our hand-picked design and making agencies OH OK selection of DJs will be spinning tunes and . LTD Ferrious nightly from 10pm until late – all for free. Throughout MIF17, you can come to Along with residents Dave Haslam, Festival Square for great food and Justine Alderman, Hattie Pearson, drink, free live music, nightly DJs, the Greg Thorpe and Andrea Trout, there’ll Festival Box Office and free copies be one-off sets from Tim Burgess and of The Guardian’s MIF17 Guide – and other special guests. Check mif.co.uk admission is always free. and social media in the run-up to MIF17.

Festival Square will be open from noon till late, every day from Fri 30 June to Sun 16 July. Admission is always free.

‘MIF feels like you’re on holiday in your own city. Festival Square is extraordinary every night – it’s rammed and everyone just seems to be having a good time’ Maxine Peake, July 2015 © Monika Lukasik

60 61 Food & drink in Festival Square Four bars, four resident kitchens, four Supper Clubs and an ice cream wagon: you won’t go hungry or thirsty in Festival Square.

To drink, pick from wines, soft drinks Hispi and beers including exclusive Festival A unique take on fast food from Gary Ale and Festival Lager from great local Usher’s new and hugely acclaimed brewery JW Lees, the Square’s official Didsbury bistro beer supplier. Hungry? You’re in luck… Manjit’s Kitchen Paul Heathcote Gary Usher of Hispi Paul Heathcote & Co Superb vegetarian Indian street Lancashire legend with a signature food and snacks inspired by Manjit’s menu of reinvented British classics grandma’s home cooking

Honest Crust Ginger’s Comfort Emporium Terrific wood-fired pizzas plus salads Inventive, exotic and irresistible ice from the Altrincham Market favourite cream for grown-ups

MIF17 Supper Clubs with Paul Heathcote & friends Paul Heathcote has invited a quartet of close friends to each cook for one night only in the Glass House, giving you an exclusive chance to sample special menus by four chefs who have helped to define modern British cooking. Each Supper Club costs

£50, and includes a glass of fizz, three courses and coffee. Book online at mif.co.uk. Ginger’s Comfort Emporium Honest Crust

David Moore Date Owner of the Michelin-starred Pied à Terre in London Sun 2 July, 7pm

Steven Doherty Date First British chef to run a three-Michelin-starred restaurant Mon 3 July, 7pm

Carl Noller & Paul Heathcote Date Joining forces to relive their time at Simply Heathcotes Sun 9 July, 7pm

Mark Hix Date Owner of London’s hugely popular HIX restaurants and bars Mon 10 July, 7pm

62 63 Manjit’s Kitchen JW Lees Also in Festival Square…

MIF17 Opening Party: Drunk at to the future. All proceeds go to Vogue Presents… Night Life The Christie. Supported by Hull 2017, Manchester’s premier backstreet UK City of Culture. discotheque opens Festival Square Date Mon 10 July, 8pm Tickets £15 with an explosive party dedicated to the pleasures of dancing and nightclubs. John Robb with Jah Wobble, Youth & Cosey Fanni Tutti Date Fri 30 June, 11pm-3am Tickets £12 Ages 18+ John Robb talks life, music and the The Sunday Boys cosmos with three special guests – Manchester’s male voice sensation, this followed by a DJ set from Youth. inclusive choir emerges from their Gay Date Tue 11 July, 8pm Tickets £8 Village headquarters for a Pavilion show. Date Sun 9 July, 5.30pm Tickets Free MIF17 Closing Party: Friends & Family with special guests Qool Northern Substance Marv (NYC) & Dave Haslam With a panel discussion, a live act and On the last Saturday of MIF17, head to DJs, MIF17 celebrates Factory Records the Square for party anthems, hidden founder Tony Wilson, who died 10 years gems and rare grooves. ago – by looking not back but forward Date Sat 15 July, 11pm-3am Tickets £12 Ages 18+

MIF17 Tours Blue Badge guide Jonathan Schofield is leading a series of walking tours from Festival Square, three of them themed around MIF17 commissions. The tours take place throughout MIF17, and tickets cost £10. For details and to book, visit mif.co.uk.

Identity & the Fabric of the City Dates Exploring the city | inspired by What Is the City but the People? Fri 30 June – Sun 2 July, 3pm

The Guardian Tour: Media, Manchester & Culture Dates How the power of the word has shaped Manchester Tue 4 & Tue 11 July, 3pm

Migration & the UK’s Most Amazing Street Dates The secrets of Oxford Road | inspired by ToGather Wed 5 – Sun 9 July, 3pm

The Radical City Dates Wed 12 – Sun 16 July, 3pm From Peterloo to Pankhurst | inspired by Ceremony © Richard Tymon

64 65 Get involved

Join My Festival Festival in My House My Festival is MIF’s new creative Festival in My House offers you the community. It’s designed to bring you chance to present your very own closer to the Festival – and bring the micro-international festival in your Festival closer to you. home. We’ve helped local residents to present everything from a global dance By joining My Festival, you can get and food festival in Cheetham Hill to a involved with MIF in many different music festival in New Islington. If you’ve ways: taking part in major public events, got an idea for a festival in your house, providing a link between MIF and let us know at mif.co.uk/fimh. your community, and joining our new programme of training activities, Creative development workshops and other special events – From workshops and placements to all while connecting with like-minded artist bursaries, My Festival supports souls across the city. You can find out creative development in many ways. more and sign up for My Festival at For example, six Greater Manchester- mif.co.uk/my-festival. based creative professionals have been given special MIF17 Fellowships Take part through the generosity of the Jerwood At every Festival, MIF invites the people Charitable Foundation, giving them of Greater Manchester to join our valuable first-hand experience of how world-class artists in creating new work. MIF17 work is made. You can read MIF17 is no different, with members about their journeys and our other of My Festival and other people from creative development initiatives at across the city playing key roles in mif.co.uk/creativedevelopment. seven MIF commissions:

What Is the City but the People? (p8) Volunteer at MIF17 At every Festival, our volunteers bring Party Skills for the End of the World (p20) energy and enthusiasm to a wide variety Fatherland (p22) of roles, from helping in our office ToGather (p26) to greeting the public at our events. Manchester Street Poem (p42) You can join them, becoming part of Ceremony (p48) a diverse and supportive community Flexn Residency (p51) who are passionate about the arts, the To find out how you can join them, Festival and our city. To learn more and visit mif.co.uk/take-part. apply, visit mif.co.uk/volunteer. Nija Dalal-Small, who hosted My Festival is supported by Arts Council England’s Ambition for Excellence, Baring Foundation, Esmée Fairbairn the second Festival in My House Foundation and Paul Hamlyn Foundation. Jerwood Creative Fellows is supported by Jerwood Charitable Foundation. © Ray Chan

66 67 Commissioning & producing partners MIF17 team

MIF works closely with many venues, festivals and John McGrath Artistic Director & CEO Rachel Green Development Director Christine Cort Managing Director Emma Shiel Development Manager other cultural organisations around the world, who Fiona Gasper Executive Director Andrea Lowe Development Coordinator help us to create the new work that fills our Festival Gemma Saunders Executive Coordinator Louise Fox Development Account Manager programme. The financial and creative input from these Tracy Longdin Executive Assistant Ciaron Wilkinson Development Account Manager Connie Page Development Administrator partners helps to make many of our projects possible, Paul Clay Executive Producer Jo Paton Executive Producer Nadja Coyne Press & PR Director and guarantees they have a life after the Festival has Tracey Low Executive Producer Jamie-leigh Hargreaves Press Manager ended. During our first five Festivals (2007–2015), we Kate Mackonochie Senior Producer Janina Mundy Marketing Director Katie Vine Producer collaborated with 50 commissioning partners on 47 new Mandy Martinez Marketing Manager Kate Reynolds Producer Cathy Gallagher Marketing Consultant* shows, which have travelled as far afield as Los Angeles, Mark Carlin Producer* Ella Goel Marketing Assistant Shanghai and Abu Dhabi since their premieres at MIF. Kate Farrell Producer* Ben Turner Community Engagement Officer* Phoebe Greenwood Producer* Will Fulford-Jones Publications Editor* Shanaz Gulzar Producer* Katherine Jewkes Digital Producer** For MIF17, we’ve been working with a wide range of Tom Higham Producer* Caspar Stevens Digital Officer organisations around the world, and we would like to Jude Jagger Producer* Simon Proudfoot Digital Developer Kerenza McClarnan Producer* thank them all for their support and collaboration. Cathryn Ellis Senior Designer* Angela McSherry Producer* Jake Haslam Junior Designer Richard Morgan Producer* Lee Baxter Designer* Tricia Coleman Producer (Touring)* Lynda Kendall Designer* Karen Jupp Participant Coordinator* Billy Partridge Ticketing Manager Anne McNulty CDG Casting Associate* Ian Marriott Ticketing Officer** Tom Baker Music Programmer* Jennifer Cleary Creative Learning Director Festival Board Sarah Hiscock Creative Learning Manager Tom Bloxham MBE (Chair) | Cllr Luthfur Rahman | Rizwan Iqbal Community Producer Keith Black | Jeremy Deller | Steve Downes | Kate Houlton Community Coordinator Joyce Hytner OBE | David McKeith | Daniel Whitehouse Talent Development Manager Sir Brian McMaster CBE | Chris Oglesby | Richard Paver | Yinka Danmole Talent Development Manager Nancy Rothwell (Dame) | Peter Salmon | Kully Thiarai | Edward Pysden (Board Associate) | Jack Thompson Technical Director Anna Hassan (Board Observer) Helen Gorton Head of Technical Production* David Lawrence Technical Producer (Music)* Development Committee Sarah Rowland Production Manager* Keith Black (Chair) | Tom Bloxham MBE | Laura Carstensen | Christabel Fox Technical Administrator Jane Luca | Vanda Murray | Mike Perls Rachel Down Head of Artist Liaison Artistic Advisors Christopher Todd Deputy Head of Artist Liaison Matthias von Hartz* Jackie Thompson Head of Guest Liaison Mary Anne Hobbs* Henrietta Smith-Rolla Guest Liaison Coordinator Michael Morris* Danny Olsson-Lane Guest Liaison Officer Hans Ulrich Obrist* Emma Blauciak Guest Liaison Assistant Peter Saville* Hannah Thomas Festival Square Coordinator* Thanks Pakeezah Zahoor Festival Square Intern Pat Bartoli | Sir Howard Bernstein | Thom Hetherington | Vanda Hagan Head of Finance Sir Richard Leese | Gary McClarnan | Vicky Rosin | Nadia Balfe Finance Coordinator Sheona Southern | Sara Todd

David Fox Head of Administration Brochure published in March 2017. All information correct at time of Hannah Clapham-Clark Production Administrator going to press. MIF reserves the right to change performance details Chloe Foy Production Administrator in the event of unforeseen circumstances. Brochure printed in Greater Manchester on FSC-certified stock using vegetable inks. Marney Guy Office Administrator MIF is a registered charity no.1113902. Lee Ashworth Volunteer Manager Registered office: Blackfriars House, Parsonage, Manchester M3 2JA. Jacqueline Hall Volunteer Coordinator * Consultant ** Secondee 68 69 Join & support us

Over the past 10 years, more than a million people have experienced MIF projects around the city and beyond – everywhere from theatres and galleries to schools, churches and railway depots. Created by leading international artists, often working in collaboration with local residents, our works have thrilled visitors, impressed critics and inspired people all over Greater Manchester. As a charity, we rely on private backing, and our success would not be possible without the generosity of all our past, present and future supporters. Join us as a donor, sponsor or MIF Member to enjoy a range of benefits and special events, and help us continue creating unforgettable experiences for artists and audiences alike. Visit mif.co.uk/join-support-us or call 0161 817 4500 to speak to a member of the Development Team, donate or find out more.

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80 81 Plan your visit Booking information

Getting here By car Book tickets Fatherland By air For a wide choice of parking options, mif.co.uk royalexchange.co.uk There are flights to Manchester Airport use the NCP car park finder tool at 0843 208 1840 0161 833 9833 from more than 180 destinations ncp.co.uk. In person Last and First Men worldwide, and you can reach the city By bike The World Was Once All Miracle centre by rail, Metrolink and taxi. Quaytickets There are dedicated cycle lanes on bridgewater-hall.co.uk For more information, visit The Lowry many of Manchester’s roads. Visit 0161 907 9000 manchesterairport.co.uk. Pier 8, The Quays tfgm.com/cycling to plan your route. Salford M50 3AZ Returning to Reims By train On foot Ceremony film season Manchester has direct services running Visit Manchester Manchester city centre is easy to get homemcr.org between London and Manchester Manchester Visitor Information Centre around on foot. See the map on p81. every 20 minutes, and frequent services Piccadilly Gardens 0161 200 1500 Manchester M1 1RG from many other major UK towns and More information Available Light cities. Visit nationalrail.co.uk or phone Transport for Greater Manchester Festival Box Office atgtickets.com 08457 484950 for details. (TfGM) can help you plan your journey From Fri 30 June, noon until late: 0844 871 3019 online and can also provide you with Festival Square (Albert Square), By coach Bonobo up-to-date travel information about Manchester M2 5DB National Express and Megabus run alttickets.com coaches from major cities in the UK to local public transport and ticketing. Booking & transaction fees Manchester. Visit nationalexpress.com Visit tfgm.com or phone Traveline on Age restrictions All bookings are subject to a transaction and uk.megabus.com. 0871 200 2233. Minimum age restrictions will be in fee, which is set by the vendor. place for a number of MIF17 shows, and Where to stay Getting around You will not be charged a per-ticket fee are detailed on the relevant show pages By bus Check mif.co.uk/yourvisit for the latest when booking online at mif.co.uk, by in this brochure. In addition, several For bus service and timetable news and updates from Principal, phone on 0843 208 1840 or in person events require visitors below a certain information, visit tfgm.com. MIF’s Host Hotel, and CitySuites, MIF’s serviced apartment providers. at Quaytickets, Visit Manchester and age to be accompanied by an adult. By Metrolink the Festival Box Office. However, please The Welcoming Party: Metrolink is Manchester’s tram system, Tourist information note that such fees may apply when no unaccompanied children. offering easy travel into the city centre. For a full guide to Manchester, booking directly from Festival venues Trams run frequently, so you don’t need see visitmanchester.com. or other approved ticket agents rather New Order + Liam Gillick: So it goes.., a timetable. Go to metrolink.co.uk to than from MIF. Cotton Panic!, Arcade Fire & Live at the find out more. Some events may be subject to per- Pavilion Theatre: under-16s must be accompanied by an adult. By Metroshuttle customer ticket limits. Free buses link the main railway stations Tickets for the following shows can Dark Matter, Bonobo, Sampha & Ride: to locations around the city centre. also be booked at the relevant venues under-18s must be accompanied by For more, visit tfgm.com/metroshuttle. or through the following agents: an adult.

82 83 Booking information Accessibility

Concessions tickets are available. If you’re unable MIF aims to meet everyone’s Miracle at The Bridgewater Hall, MIF offers discounts to seniors to attend an event due to extenuating accessibility needs. We offer discounts call 0161 907 9000. For Returning to (60+), children (under-16s), full-time circumstances, email boxoffice@ for disabled patrons, create accessible Reims and the Ceremony film season students, jobseekers and registered mif.co.uk. We will deal with refund performances and work hard to ensure at HOME, call 0161 200 1500. For disabled. Discounted tickets are strictly requests on a case-by-case basis. our venues are accessible for all. Available Light at the Palace Theatre, limited and subject to availability. call 0800 912 6971. For Arcade Fire at This brochure lists all accessible For Fatherland, discounted tickets are Ticket reselling Castlefield Bowl, call 0844 811 0051. performances that were confirmed only available directly from the Royal At MIF, we believe that all customers by March 2017. As MIF is dedicated to Exchange Theatre. should be given an equal opportunity MIF17 brochure to buy tickets at face value, and we aim world premieres and special events, This brochure is available as a PDF Sending, collecting & lost tickets to stop the practice of reselling. Any often staged in unusual venues, many from mif.co.uk. For a large-print Paper tickets for reserved seated events tickets bought to be resold, whether projects were still in the planning stages version of the brochure, please email will be posted from April. E-tickets will at face value or at higher prices, will be when this brochure went to press. As [email protected]. be emailed at the time of booking. immediately cancelled. Anyone found our plans develop, we’ll announce more General admission event tickets may purchasing tickets for the purposes of accessible performances at mif.co.uk/ Types of accessible performance not be sent until two weeks in advance. resale will be refused tickets and entry access, where we'll also give updates on MIF stages four distinct types of accessibility at our events and venues. accessible performance. Tickets purchased within ten days of for all other MIF17 events. All our events any event must be collected on the will have security checks, and you may If you’d like to receive information by AD: Audio-described performance day from the venue box office near the be asked to provide proof of purchase email, sign up to our access newsletter Audio description offers a live entrance, by presenting the booking from an approved seller. at mif.co.uk/access. If you have any commentary of the action to assist specific access requests, please email blind and visually impaired patrons. confirmation and the card used to pay. MIF £12 Greater Manchester us at [email protected]. BSL: British Sign Language-interpreted If you haven’t received your tickets before resident tickets performance the event, or if you’ve lost your tickets, MIF runs a low-cost ticket scheme Booking tickets A British Sign Language-interpreter will please contact the vendor directly. designed to make more of MIF17 You can book tickets at mif.co.uk, or relay the spoken words for audiences more accessible to more local people. via the dedicated MIF accessibility who are deaf and hearing-impaired. Refunds & exchanges Around 10% of tickets are available at number on 0843 208 1849. If you make All MIF tickets are sold through £12 to residents of Greater Manchester CAP: Captioned performance an online booking, the MIF Box Office Quaytickets, our official ticketing on a lower wage – anything around or Captioning displays dialogue and some will be in touch to discuss your specific partner, and through other approved below an annual salary of £15,000 for sound effects as visible text to assist accessibility requirements. agents. Please read each agent’s terms full-time workers, roughly equivalent to deaf and hearing-impaired patrons. and conditions before purchase. Tickets the UK Living Wage. You can buy up to You can also contact several MIF17 REL: Relaxed performance booked directly from venues or other two £12 tickets per show at mif.co.uk or venues directly for more information Relaxed performances welcome all agents are strictly non-refundable. We on 0843 208 1840. Tickets are available about venue accessibility and to who may benefit from a more relaxed do not recommend purchasing tickets on a first-come, first-served, honesty book tickets. For Fatherland at performance environment, including from unauthorised ticket agents. basis – if you know you can afford to pay the Royal Exchange Theatre, call people with an Autism Spectrum Quaytickets will try to facilitate ticket full price, please leave the £12 tickets for 0161 833 9833. For Last and First Condition, sensory and communication exchanges between MIF events if those who can’t. Men and The World Was Once All disorders or a learning disability.

84 85 Free events MIF17 calendar & index June July Event Page Thur 29 Fri 30 Sat 1 Sun 2 Mon 3 Tue 4 Wed 5 Thur 6 Fri 7 Sat 8 Sun 9 Mon 10 Tue 11 Wed 12 Thur 13 Fri 14 Sat 15 Sun 16 What Is the City but the People? Piccadilly Gardens 8 6.30pm New Order + Liam Gillick: So it goes.. Stage 1, Old Granada Studios 10 8pm 8pm 8pm 8pm 8pm

True Faith 10am– 10am– 10am– 10am– 10am– 10am– 10am– 10am– 10am– 10am– 10am– 10am– 10am– 10am– 10am– 10am– 10am– Manchester Art Gallery 12 5pm 5pm 5pm 5pm 5pm 5pm 9pm 5pm 5pm 5pm 5pm 5pm 5pm 9pm 5pm 5pm 5pm What if Women Ruled the World? Mayfield 14 8pm 8pm 8pm 10000 Gestures Mayfield 16 8pm 8pm 8pm

Cotton Panic! time tbc Upper Campfield Market Hall 18 (preview) 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 9pm 9pm 9pm Party Skills for the End of the World 7.30pm 2.30pm & 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 2.30pm & 2.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 2.30pm & 2.30pm A secret venue 20 (preview) 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm Dinner Party at the End of the World A secret venue 20 5pm 5pm 5pm 5pm 5pm 5pm 5pm 5pm 5pm 5pm Fatherland 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 2.30pm & 7.30pm 2.30pm & 2.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 2.30pm & 7.30pm 2.30pm & Royal Exchange Theatre 22 (preview) (preview) (preview) 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm

Music for a Busy City 8am– 8am– 8am– 8am– 8am– 8am– 8am– 8am– 8am– 8am– 8am– 8am– 8am– 8am– 8am– 8am– 8am– Manchester city centre 24 8pm 8pm 8pm 8pm 8pm 8pm 8pm 8pm 8pm 8pm 8pm 8pm 8pm 8pm 8pm 8pm 8pm

ToGather 10am– 10am– 10am– 10am– 10am– 10am– 10am– 10am– 10am– 10am– 10am– 10am– 10am– 10am– 10am– 10am– 10am– The Whitworth & Whitworth Park 26 5pm 5pm 5pm 5pm 5pm 5pm 9pm 5pm 5pm 5pm 5pm 5pm 5pm 9pm 5pm 5pm 5pm Last and First Men The Bridgewater Hall 28 7.30pm

HOME1947 10am– 10am– 10am– 10am– 10am– 10am– 10am– 10am– 10am– The Lowry 30 7pm 7pm 7pm 7pm 7pm 7pm 7pm 7pm 7pm

Returning to Reims 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm HOME 32 (preview) (preview) (preview) 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm Available Light Palace Theatre 34 8pm 8pm 8pm The Welcoming Party 7pm 7pm 7pm 7pm 11.30am, 11.30am, 7pm 7pm 7pm 11.30am, 11.30am 1830 Warehouse, Museum of Science & Industry 36 (preview) 3pm, 7pm 3pm, 7pm 3pm, 7pm & 3pm

Dark Matter The Haxan Kojey Colin 38 LEVELZ Holly Paleman Clark SUNN O))) Gorilla & O2 Ritz Herndon Cloak Radical Stetson

No End to Enderby 10am– 10am– 10am– 10am– 10am– 10am– 10am– 10am– 10am– 10am– 10am– 10am– 10am– 10am– 10am– 10am– 10am– The Whitworth 40 5pm 5pm 5pm 5pm 5pm 5pm 9pm 5pm 5pm 5pm 5pm 5pm 5pm 9pm 5pm 5pm 5pm The World Was Once All Miracle The Bridgewater Hall 41 7.30pm

Manchester Street Poem times times times times times A city centre venue 42 tbc tbc tbc tbc tbc

BambinO Pavilion Theatre, Festival Square 1.30pm 10.30am & venues around Greater Manchester 44 (preview) & 1.30pm

One of Two Stories, or Both Low Four, Old Granada 10am– 10am– 10am– 10am– 10am– 10am– 10am– 10am– 10am– 10am– Studios & Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art 46 6.30pm 6.30pm 6.30pm 6.30pm 6.30pm 5pm 5pm 5pm 5pm 5pm 5pm 5pm 5pm 5pm 5pm Ceremony NCP Bridgewater Hall Car Park 48 6pm

Interdependence: We Need to Talk Hallé St Peter’s, 10.30am 10.30am 10.30am Stoller Hall at Chetham’s School of Music & Albert Hall 52 & 2pm & 2pm & 2pm

Machynlleth Comes to Manchester 7pm & 5pm, 7pm 5pm & 53Two & International Anthony Burgess Foundation 53 9pm & 9pm 7pm

Live music Albert Hall, Castlefield Bowl, The Lowry, Sampha Arcade 54 Evening of Bonobo Ride Manchester Cathedral & O2 Ritz Sufi Music + Pauli Fire Live at the Pavilion Theatre House Hook- Bokanté Chassol Stealing Kiran Portico La Mam- Flavia Spring Festival Square 56 LaSharVu Gospel worms Sheep Leonard Quartet banegra Coelho King

Festival Square 12pm– 12pm– 12pm– 12pm– 12pm– 12pm– 12pm– 12pm– 12pm– 12pm– 12pm– 12pm– 12pm– 12pm– 12pm– 12pm– 12pm– Albert Square 60 late late late late late late late late late late late late late late late late late

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