Events

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 Davis, MAFA Archivist and Wendy Levy, Gallerist in Manchester for 40 years. Chairing the discussion will be Dr Fionna Barber, Reader in Art History in […]

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 in Drama at Edge Hill University. Lena was a co-organiser of the Institute for the Art and Practice of Dissent at Home between 2008 and […]

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 won the Channel 4 Playwrights’ Scheme in 2014. It was also a finalist for the international Susan Smith Blackburn Prize 2014/15. Since, her plays have […]

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 development and offer feedback towards its future. The line-up for our inaugural event includes Performance Research Group members: Rachel Rimmer-Piekarczyk, Kevin Egan, Joe Ward Munrow, […]

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. Since 2023 he has been making projects under the name Voyager 3. From 1995–2023 he was Co-Artistic Director of Sheffield-based, internationally acclaimed theatre company Third […]

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 Playhouse before transferring to Theatre Royal Stratford East in London. Other credits include MALINDADZIMU (Hampstead Theatre), THIS IS NOT A COUP (Paines Plough) and WE […]

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, and has created and written dramas for BBC Radio 4. She wrote 3 episodes of political spy thriller RED ELECTION, now streaming on Disney+. She […]

Unfortunately this event has been cancelled due to circumstances beyond our control. Asia Triennial Manchester (ATM) returns in 2025 with a bold new theme: Transvaluation. Developed by an international Curatorial Assembly, this sixth edition explores how we can rethink the idea of value—moving beyond profit, measurement, and norms to imagine more generous, inclusive, and creative […]

Roberto Sifuentes: In Permanent Process of Reinvention Presented by the Performance Research Group at Manchester Met University. This presentation will chronicle a history of Roberto Sifuentes' radical performances with La Pocha Nostra Performance group since the mid ‘90s, his radical performance pedagogy and recent collaborations with digital media artists including his most recent project #exsanguination.  Roberto Sifuentes […]

Tony Schumacher had one dream when he was a kid, and that was to be a writer.  Instead of becoming a writer he bombed out of school aged 16 with no qualifications and a sigh of relief. He worked his way around the world as a roofer, a jeweller, a bouncer, a barman, a binman, […]

estament is a writer, rapper, educator and world record breaking beatboxer. Testament is writer of awards nominated play Black Men Walking(Best Play UK Theatre Awards, Best New Play Writer’s Guild of Great Britain) and Orpheus In The Record Shop which was broadcast on BBC Four TV. As a poet Testament was Black Nature Writer-in Residence for the Yorkshire […]

Stage Fright: Staging the Ghost Story Ghost stories have long been associated with performance. Many of us have enjoyed the thrill of sharing the telling of spooky tales around the winter fireside, or the thrill of dressing up as a ghoul for Halloween. But what happens to the tales of the dead when they are […]