ynn Setterington is an internationally recognised artist working in the textiles arena. Her work explores contemporary issues in society and how stitch can be used to commemorate people and communities. […]

Jurriaan Benschop in conversation with Jenny Eden Jurriaan Benschop is a Dutch writer and curator who is based in Athens and Berlin. He is the author of Why Paintings Work […]

Emerging out of a series of workshops exploring the dialogical relationship between contemporary dance technique, improvisation and creative reflection, this choreography has been created by Rachel Rimmer-Piekarczyk in collaboration with […]

Amanda Beech x Adam Walker Amanda Beech is an artist and writer. In video, painting and other forms, her work apprehends structures that subtend and are coextensive with our lived […]

Ray Grewal is an award-winning writer who has worked across film, theatre, TV and radio. He has also worked as a Production and Development Executive at Creative England on a […]

MAFA presents a discussion on “Looking Back, Moving Forward - Creating, Collecting and Conserving Art in Manchester”. Contributors include Hannah Williamson, Curator of Fine Art at Manchester Art Gallery, Peter […]

Dr Lena Šimić is Liverpool-based transnational performance maker, local politician, activist, pedagogue and scholar researching contemporary performance and the maternal as well as arts responses to the climate crisis. Reader […]

This event is taking place as part of AHEAD x Bunker Talks series Zodwa Nyoni is a Zimbabwean-born playwright, librettist, screenwriter and director. Her debut play, BOI BOI IS DEAD […]

You are invited to a short, informal event sharing new work by artist/researchers from the Performance Research Group at Manchester School of Art. An opportunity to see new work in […]

Alex Kelly is a theatre & games maker, writer, performer and mentor. He creates performance and participatory projects that connect the territories of theatre, games, conversation, installation and digital media. […]

Mufaro Makubika is an award-winning writer of Zimbabwean descent from Nottingham. He won the Alfred Fagon Award for the best new play in 2017 with SHEBEEN which opened at Nottingham […]

Rachel Smith is a writer and performer living in the North West. She has written on many long running BBC TV series including DOCTORS, CASUALTY, FATHER BROWN, THE DUMPING GROUND, […]