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Please complete the booking request form by Fri 12 – Sun 14 July 2019 Tuesday 7 May 2019 #MIF19 mif.co.uk Fri 12 July Also tonight at MIF19 From 5pm 6pm 7.30pm & 10pm 8pm 8pm Ticket & welcome pack collection WORLD PREMIERE WORLD PREMIERE WORLD PREMIERE WORLD PREMIERE The Principal Manchester, Oxford Street, Manchester M60 7HA RIMINI PROTOKOLL TRAJAL HARRELL A PRE-FACTORY EVENT CREATED BY UTOPOLIS MAGGIE THE CAT 59 PRODUCTIONS IDRIS ELBA & MANCHESTER The Dancehouse, 10 Oxford & RAMBERT KWAME KWEI-ARMAH 6.30pm Multiple locations, Road, Manchester M1 5QA INVISIBLE CITIES TREE Pre-show drinks Manchester city centre Tickets £20 (concs available) Approx 50mins Mayfield, Baring Street, Upper Campfield Market Hall, Pier Eight at The Lowry, The Quays, Salford M50 3AZ Tickets £20 (concs available) Manchester M1 2PZ Campfield Avenue Arcade, Approx 4hrs 30mins Troubled but tough, unloved but Tickets £35 (concs available) Manchester M3 4FN Join us for drinks and canapés, hosted with The Lowry, unbowed, Maggie the Cat is the Running time TBC Tickets £35 (concs available) before tonight’s performance of Re:Creating Europe. A visionary site-specific work that uses intricate tapestries of captivating focus of Tennessee Running time TBC Zenobia, a city of joy. Beersheba, sound and voices to transform Williams’ Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Standing performance a celestial city of gold. Isadora, our view of the city. Inspired by Now, acclaimed choreographer Trajal Harrell places Maggie a city of promise, seduction and An electrifying new blend of Thomas More’s Utopia, Utopolis 8pm centre stage in this provocative desire. City by unseen city, the drama, music and dance follows Manchester asks whether young explorer conjures from one man’s journey into the heart IVO VAN HOVE another society might exist, fusion of high art and pop culture, premiering at MIF19. the ether a vast and spectacular and soul of contemporary South RE:CREATING EUROPE if only for a utopian moment. empire – all for the benefit of its Africa – with the audience at the Set to a soundtrack ranging The Lowry (Lyric Theatre), The Quays, Salford M50 3AZ emperor, his master, who may centre of the action. from electro and pop to Tickets from £18 (concs available) / Approx 90mins never get to see it for himself… classical music, Maggie the Directed by Kwei-Armah Created by De Balie and Internationaal Theater Amsterdam, and Cat addresses power, gender, Leo Warner, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui with music inspired by Elba’s directed by Ivo van Hove (Network, All About Eve), Re:Creating rejection and inclusion. It’s and Lolita Chakrabarti bring album Mi Mandela, Tree is an Europe uses the words of artists, thinkers and political leaders challenging, tragic, entertaining to life a series of fantastical exhilarating show about identity, – from Shakespeare to Goethe, Churchill and Obama – to – and ultimately joyous. places in this world-premiere family and belonging, seen evoke the very notion of Europe. What is it? Is it a continent or a production. through the eyes of one young culture, a bygone dream or thriving reality – or all of the above? man on the toughest journey of his life. From 10pm FESTIVAL SQUARE Festival Square (Albert Square), Manchester M2 5DB Admission free Join us for drinks and a chat at the home of the Festival in the heart of the city, with free live music and DJs until late. Sat 13 July – daytime Also today at MIF19 10am–noon 1–4pm 10am–5pm 3pm INTERDEPENDENCE: INTERDEPENDENCE: WORLD PREMIERE WORLD PREMIERE FUTURE MYTHS Morning session FUTURE MYTHS Afternoon session A PRE-FACTORY EVENT CO-CREATED BY Albert Hall, 27 Peter Street, Manchester M2 5QJ / Tickets £8 Albert Hall, 27 Peter Street, Manchester M2 5QJ / Tickets £8 RAFAEL MAXINE PEAKE & LOZANO-HEMMER SARAH FRANKCOM Interdependence is our ideas programme, bringing together Interdependence is our ideas programme, bringing together audiences, artists and guest speakers to talk about themes and audiences, artists and guest speakers to talk about themes and ATMOSPHERIC THE NICO PROJECT questions inspired by MIF19. questions inspired by MIF19. MEMORY The Stoller Hall, Hunts Bank, Manchester M3 1DA What are the new stories we need in disunited times and who We live in an information age but no longer know who to trust, Science and Industry should tell them? Join Adam Thirlwell, John Collins, Hans Ulrich and we increasingly feel that our lives are inconsequential. What Tickets £35 (concs available) Museum, Liverpool Road, Approx 70mins Obrist and Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o (Studio Créole), artist Hardeep are the new stories we need and who should tell them? MIF19 is Manchester M3 4FP Pandhal (creator of the Interdependence artist commission), excited to be partnering with gal-dem, the pioneering new media Tickets £8 (concs available) From her debut with The Velvet Alex Evans (author of The Myth Gap and founder of the Collective publication run by women and non-binary people of colour, on Approx 60mins (please arrive Underground to her premature Psychology Project) and others to explore the power of memory, this afternoon session featuring speakers including Liv Little, 30mins before entry time) death two decades later, language and imagination to shape who we are. gal-dem founder, and Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff, writer and editor. Nico was one of pop culture’s At once a daring artwork and a most enigmatic figures. Now, sensory performance, Rafael Maxine Peake (performer) and 11–11.45am 2.30pm Lozano-Hemmer’s breathtaking Sarah Frankcom (director) immersive installation scours are conjuring Nico up from CURATED TOUR PREVIEW the atmosphere for the voices of the shadows with a theatrical IBRAHIM MAHAMA PHILIP GLASS & PHELIM McDERMOTT our past. Atmospheric Memory immersion into her sound, her explores the beautiful tumult identity and the world in which PARLIAMENT OF GHOSTS TAO OF GLASS of the air we breathe – and she fought to be heard. celebrates the transience of the Limited tickets – The Whitworth, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Royal Exchange Theatre, St Ann’s Square, Manchester M2 7DH sounds that live within it. Manchester M15 6ER Tickets from £13 (concs available) advance booking essential Admission free / Tour approx 45mins Approx 1hr 45mins Noon–8pm 3pm This major installation at the Whitworth reflects on the half- An exploration of life, loss and a single question: Where does DAVID LYNCH forgotten history of artist Ibrahim Mahama’s home country: true inspiration come from? Created by composer Philip Glass WORLD PREMIERE Ghana, whose journey from British colony to independent and performer-director Phelim McDermott (Improbable), AT HOME STUDIO ORKA nation was completed barely 60 years ago. Kwong Lee (MIF) and Tao of Glass is a storytelling tapestry, soundtracked by Glass’s HOME, 2 Tony Wilson Place, First Dominique Heyse-Moore (The Whitworth) lead a special tour of mesmerising music and shot through with Improbable’s Street, Manchester M15 4FN TUESDAY the installation. trademark theatricality. Admission free Saint Augustine’s Church, 380 Bolton Road, Pendlebury, David Lynch is taking over HOME Salford M27 8UX for MIF19 – and My Head Is 12.30–2pm 10am–5pm Disconnected is the first major See Saturday evening for details. LUNCH WITH MANCHESTER ARTISTS WORLD PREMIERE UK exhibition of his paintings, drawings and sculpture. The Glass House, Festival Square (Albert Square), TANIA BRUGUERA 4pm Manchester M2 5DB SCHOOL OF INTEGRATION TIMES TBC CREATED BY Admission free Manchester Art Gallery, Mosley Street, Manchester M2 3JL WORLD PREMIERE IDRIS ELBA & Meet some of the best emerging and independent artists Admission free (some events will require tickets) KWAME KWEI-ARMAH from Manchester at this informal lunch in Festival Square. CHIM↑POM Why is integration always the responsibility of the immigrant? TREE Inverting the status quo, Tania Bruguera’s powerful and A DRUNK provocative new work draws Manchester nearer to those who’ve PANDEMIC Upper Campfield Market Hall, made this city their home, inviting us to discover and embrace Campfield Avenue Arcade, the diversity in our midst. A secret city-centre location Manchester M3 4FN See Sunday for details. See Friday for details. Sat 13 July – evening Also tonight at MIF19 5.30–7.30pm 7.30pm 6pm 7.30pm LIGHT BITES WORLD PREMIERE WORLD PREMIERE WORLD PREMIERE The Principal Manchester, Oxford Street, Manchester M60 7HA STUDIO CRÉOLE RIMINI PROTOKOLL CO-CREATED BY Enjoy an informal dinner courtesy of The Principal Manchester, Manchester Academy 1, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PR UTOPOLIS MAXINE PEAKE & our host hotel partner. Tickets £25 (concs available) SARAH FRANKCOM Approx 1hr 45mins MANCHESTER Multiple locations, THE NICO PROJECT Seven leading writers from seven countries tell us seven new Manchester city centre stories – in seven different languages. In an intimate laboratory, The Stoller Hall, Hunts Bank, TIMES TBC Manchester M3 1DA PREVIEW we listen to them read: alone or together, in their original See Friday for details. language or in live translation. And as we do so, their stories and See Saturday daytime IN RESIDENCE: LAURIE ANDERSON languages fragment and fuse, leaving us to follow the narratives for details. wherever they might lead us. 7pm Limited tickets – The Studio, Royal Exchange Theatre, St Ann’s Square, WORLD PREMIERE advance booking essential Manchester M2 7DH Conceived and curated by Adam Thirlwell, co-curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist and featuring Patrick Chamoiseau, Sayaka Murata, STUDIO ORKA Fifty years after man first landed on the moon, Laurie Anderson Adania Shibli, Sjón, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, Dubravka Ugrešić and will be flying us all there with an expanded virtual reality work Alejandro Zambra, Studio Créole is a compelling exploration of TUESDAY 8pm she’s currently developing with the artist Hsin-Chien Huang.