A citywide festival of innovative performance, music and creative technology presented over two weekends in March.
A large-scale, immersive audiovisual installation marks the launch of a bold new manifesto for gender equality in music.
A shiny and sweaty peep into living with shame whilst bursting with pride; this is a show about care, intimacy, resilience, letting go and reclaiming yourself.
Dan Daw and Christopher Owen discuss the themes and topics explored in The Dan Daw Show.
A one-to-one performance investigating the politics of care, gender and coexistence through the act of breastfeeding.
A contemporary experimental concert celebrating queer identity, where classical piano meets new digital technologies.
A site-specific and temporary public lecture exploring disobedience, complicity and public resistance.
A giant latex pig gives birth to a litter of scrambling, human-sized piglets, desperate to suckle and feed.
A screening of the acclaimed documentary Queer Japan followed by a Q+A with one of the stars of the film, Saeborg.
Artist in residence Tammy Reynolds develops ideas related to their one-to-one performance encounter Get In Loser, We’re Going Shopping.
Artist in residence GÆRALD develops material for their new show X ! (un opéra fantastique) with Manchester practitioners, performers and activists.
Drag artist Lydia L’Scabies develops ideas for her new project; a haunted house of queer trauma.
A double bill of wild contemporary dance pieces from a visual-art inspired Italian choreographer and a surrealist dance-drag duo.
A ritual for our sickened times. Created by a Black queer ensemble, JUMBIE is part ritual, part sex club, part dance party – and fully WTF.
A light-hearted antidote to the rat-infested dystopia in which we currently find ourselves, combining a captivating stage performance with lacerating social commentary.
A three-day workshop on strategies for merging liveart and club performance, resulting in a live BDSM inspired performance at the festival closing party.
Toni-Dee Paul unwraps some of the key themes in Jamal Gerald’s Jumbie.
A late-night club show of hip-house and electronic dance music from Brooklyn’s Cakes Da Killa.
A workshop on Queer Theory, designed to demystify the terms and ideas that have influenced and fuelled queer art practice.
A liveart takeover of the Derek Jarman exhibition; Protest! This event features new durational performances from two of the UK’s most exciting artists.
Live electronic body music meets radical performance art with 2 Pigs under 1 Umbrella + GÆRALD.
Artists Tammy Reynolds and mentor Rosana Cade host a candid discussion about about Tammy’s ongoing project “Get in loser, we’re going shopping”
Artist in residence Lydia L’Scabies is joined by artist and mentor Joss Areté for an online conversation exploring Lydia’s ongoing project; “House of Trauma!”
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