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.
Dan Daw takes ownership of the beautiful mess that encompasses all that he is, and lets go of who he once was to make room for who he wants to be.
A one-to-one performance investigating the politics of care, gender and coexistence through the act of breastfeeding.
Pianist Zubin Kanga performs music celebrating queer identity in works 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.
Seeking queer, trans, non-binary and genderfluid young people to join Hot Bodies Choir.
A dance double bill consisting of works from Alessandro Sciarroni and Thick and Tight.
Part ritual, part sex club, part dance party – and fully WTF. Created by a Black queer ensemble, JUMBIE is a ritual for our sickened times.
Ten Commandments combines a captivating stage performance with lacerating social commentary.
2 Pigs Under 1 Umbrella host a three-day workshop on strategies for merging liveart and club performance.
Hot Bodies Choir Manchester perform a sensational live electronic + choral music concert.
Cakes Da Killa performs live at Yes during their upcoming UK tour.
Artist in residence Tammy Reynolds aka Midgitte Bardot develops ideas for their new one-to-one performance.
Jackie Stacey and Monica Pearl will guide this workshop that’s about creating a better understanding of the terms and theories that have influenced all of us.
Performance artists Jade Blackstock and Shrek666 create new durational liveart works at Manchester Art Gallery in response to the Derek Jarman exhibition; Protest!
Live BDSM body music meets contemporary performance art and drag with 2 Pigs under 1 Umbrella, Gerald Kurdian + Friends.
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