Podcasts about Manchester International Festival

The programme for the tenth biennial Manchester International Festival for 2025 was announced on 11 March at Aviva Studios. BTG Editor David Chadderton spoke to John McGrath, Factory International's Chief Executive and Artistic Director, and Creative Director Low Kee Hong, as well as Jonathan Watkins, director and choreographer of A Single Man, and the writer, Ntombizodwa Nyoni, and director, Monique Touko, of Liberation. The 2025 Manchester International Festival runs from Thursday 3 to Sunday 20 July. A Single Man, produced with The Royal Ballet and created by Jonathan Watkins from Christopher Isherwood's 1964 novel with new music by Jasmin Kent Rodgman and John Grant, will be at Aviva Studios from 2 to 6 July. Liberation, written by Ntombizodwa Nyoni and directed by Monique Touko, will be at the Royal Exchange Theatre from 27 June to 26 July. For more information about all of the events in the festival, see the Factory International web site.

As Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa's novel The Leopard is dramatised for television, director Tom Shankland and film critic Peter Bradshaw discuss the power of this classic Italian novel.Natasha Brown's first novel, Assembly, saw her favourably compared to Virginia Woolf and won a Betty Trask award. Her eagerly-awaited second novel Universality has just been published and she discusses leaving her career in finance to write fiction.Low Kee Hong, the new Creative Director of Manchester International Festival, shares his vision for the festival and talks about the 2025 programme which has been revealed today. Ceramicist Elizabeth Fritsch is the subject of a major retrospective at the Hepworth Wakefield. Curator, writer, and editor Natalie Baerselman le Gros, who specialises in contemporary ceramics, reflects on the work of an artist who describes herself as a painter who makes pots.Presenter: Nick Ahad Producer: Ekene Akalawu

In this episode Gary Mansfield speaks to Katy Baird (@thenewlookkatyb) As an artist Katy has performed at performance festivals and venues across Europe as well as squat parties, clubs and raves.Her debut studio-based performance Workshy, a show about work and the things we do for money, was a smash hit and toured internationally to over 30 cities.She has received commissions from Battersea Arts Centre, Wellcome Trust, The Yard Theatre, Camden People's Theatre and Duckie amongst others. Since 2016 she has been artist in residence at queer club night Knickerbocker.She is currently working on a new solo show entitled Get Off, due to be touring 2023/24As a Curator she founded and co-produces Steakhouse Live, a DIY platform in London for radical performance practices and is currently Artistic Director of Home Live Art, producers of live events across Hastings, the South East and beyond.Katy has also worked as an independent producer at Fierce Festival (Birmingham) and Manchester International Festival, as well as a guest lecturer at the University of Chichester, Central School of Speech and Drama, Rose Bruford College, Goldsmiths University, University of East London and University of Dundee.From 2012-2017 she worked as Coordinator at the Live Art Development Agency in London. For more information on the work of Katy Baird go tohttps://katybaird.com Thanks to Anna @abstraktpublicity for the connection*Cover Image via:@JMA.Photo To Support this podcast from as little as £3 per month: www.patreon/ministryofarts For full line up of confirmed artists go to https://www.ministryofarts.orgEmail: ministryofartsorg@gmail.comSocial Media: @ministryofartsorg Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hello and welcome to another episode of the Perception Podcast with me your host Caroline Partridge. In this episode, I talk to theatre director, puppet whisperer, author and Artistic Director of Theatre-Rites, Sue Buckmaster. Sue is often asked to speak about the high profile projects that she's working on but in this fascinating conversation we talk about all the things that have formed her, from her extraordinary family background, to her deep desire to better herself and the debilitating illness that changed the course of her career. Sue also shares what she thinks are the ingredients that make a good puppeteer, the place of politics in children's theatre and why we as humans respond so emotionally to puppets. Please join me as we look at life through a different lens.     KEY TAKEAWAYS Puppetry is a powerful art form that allows audiences to project their emotions onto objects, creating a deep connection and cathartic experience. Children's theatre is often undervalued but provides a unique opportunity to engage young minds, sparking their imagination and encouraging them to question the world around them. Embracing your personal struggles, such as illness or lack of education, can lead to a more profound understanding of yourself and ultimately enrich your artistic practice. The rehearsal process is a crucial part of creating theatre, allowing for experimentation, failure, and growth, which ultimately leads to a more authentic and impactful final product. Access to the arts, both for audiences and practitioners, is essential for fostering a more inclusive and understanding society. Spirituality, magic, and the feminine power are important elements in Sue's work, allowing her to explore deeper themes and connect with audiences on a more profound level. Process is often more important than the final product in theatre, as it allows for personal and artistic growth, as well as the development of meaningful relationships. Politics in children's theatre is about allowing young people to practice being political beings, questioning the world around them and forming their own opinions. BEST MOMENTS "I didn't have any energy. What energised me, what could I watch or do that made me feel like I had some? And then I gradually got some, and what did that really feel like?" "Children's theatre is young people practising to be political beings. They haven't decided yet. That's why I quite like hanging out with them." "It's human nature to connect. And, you know, it's important that we think of the earth as, and nature as this object, that this, this exchange of energy that it holds up." "I can proudly own many parts of myself. Um, but thankfully to women now who are doing what they're doing now, I love women now and artists now. I'm so grateful to them, and I would do anything to imbue them more with more power, um, for the good, for the good." "Rehearsals are just the tipping moment when you're sorting it out. It's like rehearsal. I think people tend to go, oh, it takes four weeks to make that show. And that's the wrong thing. So that's why I like to talk more about process, process as product."   ABOUT THE GUEST Dr Sue Buckmaster is the Artistic Director of Theatre-Rites, a puppetry expert and the fifth generation of theatre practitioners in her family. Since 1996 she has directed over 30 site-specific and theatre productions for Theatre-Rites including: the award-winning Mischief, a co-production with Sadler's Wells and the Dance Touring Partnership and The Welcoming Party  a co-production with Manchester International Festival and the Ruhrtriennale Festival. In 2023 Sue directed an adapted version of Zoe's Peculiar Journey Through Time (originally a co-production with Burgtheater Vienna); created Something In The Air, a co-production with Schauspeilhaus Bochum, and in 2024 she directed Journey of a Refugee for Croydon Borough of Culture (an adaptation of The Welcoming Party).     In 2021, with Dr Liam Jarvis, she co-authored the book Theatre-Rites Animating Puppets, Objects and Sites.  Theatre-Rites: Animating Puppets, Objects & Sites by Liam Jarvis     CONTACT METHOD FACEBOOK - https://www.facebook.com/caropartridge LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/caroline-partridge-03131520 Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/partridge_caroline

This week I'm chatting with a dear friend of mine Lourdes Faberes. You may have seen Lourdes in Sandman or The Power or No Time to Die or Good Omens or…I could go on!!!! She's an incredible actor. Lourdes is currently appearing in untitled f**k m*ss s**gon play at The Young Vic in London. Kimber Lee's hard-hitting, but hilarious play is running now until the 4th of November. The play had its initial run at the Manchester International Festival earlier this year and has garnered great notices since opening last month. It's a play that deals with generational trauma and enforced stereotypes amongst Asian cultures in popular entertainment - from Pucini to Boublil and Schoenberg.   Lourdes Twitter (X) Profile Lourdes Insta Profile www.youngvic.org  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For each and every performance the theater director, playwright, choreographer, and sound and lighting designer Robert Wilson creates, time isn't just of the essence—it is the essence. Perhaps best known as the director of the four-act opera Einstein on the Beach, which he composed with Philip Glass and debuted in 1976, Wilson now has nearly 200 stage productions to his name. These include Dorian, which premiered last year in Düsseldorf, and The Life and Death of Marina Abramović, which opened at the Manchester International Festival in 2011. What stands out about Wilson's work, among many things, is its rare ability to disorient viewers while also enchanting them. Duration is often another part of the equation: Some of the performances on Wilson's résumé have ranged from seven hours to an astonishing seven days. Many critics, writers, and scholars have agreed that Wilson has completely reshaped the landscape of theater, vastly expanding its vocabularies and horizons.On this episode, Wilson talks about his personal philosophies around silence and sound, the intersections of architecture and theater, and his enduring vision for the Watermill Center.Special thanks to our Season 8 sponsor, Van Cleef & Arpels.Show notes:[04:31] The King of Spain[04:32] The Life and Times of Sigmund Freud[04:34] Deafman Glance[04:59] John Cage[09:02] Madama Butterfly[13:51] “Time to Think”[14:34] Marina Abramović[16:37] The Ring[16:39] King Lear[16:41] Einstein on the Beach[16:43] Philip Glass[18:14] Parsifal[18:50] The Watermill Center[28:55] Dorian[32:09] Time Rocker[32:15] Lou Reed[34:27] Ka Mountain and Guardenia Terrace[39:28] Festival of Autumn in Paris[40:38] The Golden Windows[41:04] Pratt Institute[43:45] Medea[44:48] Edison[44:58] Dr. Faustus Lights the Lights[45:00] Relative Calm[46:32] H-100 Seconds to Midnight[52:27] The Life and Times of Joseph Stalin[52:40] A Letter for Queen Victoria

Having seen Alison Goldrapp at Manchester International Festival over the weekend at new venue Factory International. Graham gives his verdict on the £200m that it cost to prepare for his arrival as well the gig for solo Alison.Charles and Graham discuss how new albums are making a comeback this year or was it all the fault of HMV's stocking policy in the first place?Graham asks if Tom Cruise has saved Hollywood for the second year running or is it a mission impossible?

Kimber Lee's provocatively titled winner of the first International Award from the Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting in 2019, untitled f*ck m*ss s**gon play, opened in June 2023 at the Royal Exchange Theatre as part of the Manchester International Festival and will transfer to the Young Vic in London later in the year. In the lead role of Kim is Mei Mac, who was nominated for a Best Actress Olivier Award earlier this year for playing 4-year-old Mei Kusakabe in the Royal Shakespeare Company production of My Neighbour Totoro at the Barbican in London. BTG Editor David Chadderton spoke to Mei in the middle of the Manchester run and asked her about performing in this often physical and funny production and the serious questions it raises, as well as her experiences in Totoro with the RSC and director Phelim McDermott. untitled f*ck m*ss s**gon play is at the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester until 22 July 2023, then at the Young Vic in London from 18 September to 4 November 2023. (Photo of Mei Mac as Kim by Other Richard - Richard Davenport)

For this week's album review we check out the new album by J Hus. And we look back at our first ever live show at Manchester International Festival. Outro Song: J Hus - Common Sense Rahim's Recommendation: Kiana Lede - Grudges (Album) Paul's Recommendation: Raheem DeVaughn - The Summer of Love (Album) --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/two-stubborn-nigerians/message

Edinburgh International FIlm Festival is saved! This year's programme has been published with a new generation of film fans at the helm, Graham looks at what this means for its future existence and then reports on his meeting with Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves. Charles has dried off and lived to tell the tell of seeing the revitalised Pulp live at Scarborough Open Air Theatre. Graham is looking forward to his first visit to Factory International - or is that the name? The new multi-purpose venue in Mancheaster, as aprt of Manchester International Festival. Finally, Graham reports on the work of a talented young female Scottish artist who curated last year's Alan Davie exhibition in Edinburgh,  Siobhan McLaughlin.

Yayoi Kusama: You, Me & The Balloons is the inaugural show in Aviva Studios, the new headquarters for the Manchester International Festival. In a variety of ways Kusama's distinctive polka dots fill the new Warehouse space. Economics the Blockbuster – It's Not Business As Usual at The Whitworth is a very different kind of visual art show which asks artists to re-imagine that most topical of subjects, the economy. Art critic Laura Robertson and novelist Okechukwu Nzelu review. In his illustrious career Benji Reid has moved from the world of breakdancing, to contemporary dance, to physical theatre, to hiphop theatre. After pursuing his interest in photography, he has now created a new art form which he calls Choreo-Photolism. He talks to Nick about the importance of curiosity both for artists and the arts. Grammy award winning composer John Luther Adams and the composer Ailís Ní Ríain have been commissioned to create brand new work inspired by the environment as part of the Manchester International Festival. The premiere is Friday, we'll hear all about it on tonight's programme. Presenter: Nick Ahad Producer: Ekene Akalawu

Culture File's Senior Artball Correspondent, Orit Gat reports from Manchester International Festival, where this year artist, Tino Seghal and former Manchester United and Spain midfielder, Juan Mata, team up for a football-into-art performance work.

For this special bonus episode, we preview our upcoming performance at Manchester International Festival by Shortlisting 15 rappers to our top rappers all-time list before we cut it down to a final 10 live on stage. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/two-stubborn-nigerians/message

Dystopias are a longstanding staple of film and literature, particularly science fiction, but what can we learn from them? Do they simply entrench despair or act as a prompt to improve the world? And what do The Two Ronnies have to do with all this? As a stage adaptation of Kay Dick's 1977 novel 'They: A Sequence of Unease' opens at the Manchester International Festival - a work that imagines a Britain that has been purged of culture - Matthew Sweet is joined by writer Una McCormack and New Generation Thinkers Sarah Dillon and SJ Beard to trace the history of dystopias and what they tell us about the fears and preoccupations of successive generations. Producer: Torquil MacLeod Maxine Peake, Sarah Frankcom and Imogen Knight's adaptation of 'They: A Sequence of Unease' by Kay Dick is at John Rylands Library, Manchester 5th-9th July 2023.

This week: in the final episode of this season, James Goodwin, a specialist on the art market and its history, tells us about what high inflation and interest rates mean for the art market and what lies ahead. As Spain heads to the polls in July, we talk to Emilio Silva, president of the Association for the Recovery of Historical Memory in Madrid. What could the election mean for the controversial Spanish laws of Historical Memory and Democratic Memory relating to the Civil War of 1936 to 1939 and the period of Francisco Franco's fascist dictatorship? And this episode's Work of the Week is a project by the Swedish duo Goldin + Senneby. The work, called Quantitative Melencolia, involves recreating the lost plate for Albrecht Dürer's famous engraving Melencolia I. It is part of the exhibition Economics: The Blockbuster, which opens this week at the Whitworth Art Gallery in Manchester, UK.Economics the Blockbuster: It's not Business as Usual, Whitworth Art Gallery, until 22 October. The Manchester International Festival, until 16 July.The Week in Art is back on 1 September. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In 2019 Kimber Lee won the first International Award from the Bruntwood Prize, the UK's biggest national competition for playwriting, with her work - Untitled F*ck M*ss S**gon Play. As the play's world premiere production prepares to open this year's Manchester International Festival, Kimber joins Front Row to discuss how Groundhog Day helped her to take on a century of East Asian stereotypes. Finding queer musical stories: tenor and composer Elgan Llyr Thomas has been exploring LGBTQ+ representation in vocal music and performs live. Eric Broug, writer and artist specialising in Islamic geometric design and Annemarie O'Sullivan, basket-maker and artist, join Nick Ahad to discuss the nature of pattern in their respective fields and its fundamental presence in culture. Presenter: Nick Ahad Producer: Ekene Akalawu

Actor, activist, writer, director and all round general delight Maxine Peake joins us as our first guest on Dream Space. Born and raised in Bolton, Maxine has a long relationship with Manchester and is no stranger to Manchester International Festival where she has performed multiple times - including this year at MIF23 where she performs an adaptation of Kay Dick's dystopian novel ‘They'. Maxine takes us on a journey through bonfires, primal instruments and witchy rituals with a hope to make us all feel more connected.factoryinternational.org/dreamspaceProduced by Reduced Listening for Factory International. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

As the Royal Northern College of Music celebrates its 50th anniversary, Tom Service talks to current students at the college and former alumni - including the pianist Alexandra Dariescu and conductor Alpesh Chauhan. He meets the RNCM's Principal, Linda Merrick, as well as the college's archivist, Geoff Thomason, to learn more about the college's past, the role it currently plays in the city's musical life, and its aspirations for the future. Formed of present and former students of the college, Tom catches-up with three members of an all-female genre-defying string quartet, Vulva Voce, to hear how their approach to repertoire and performance is winning over audiences. With Manchester's leading classical ensembles descending on Bridgewater Hall for a weekend-long festival celebrating the city's rich musical heritage, Tom Service meets the Director of the BBC Philharmonic, Beth Wells; Chief Executive of the Hallé Orchestra, David Butcher; Creative Director of the Manchester Camerata, Samantha McShane; and Artistic Director & Chief Executive of the Manchester Collective, Adam Szabo. And, Music Matters hears from the composer John Luther Adams, whose new work 'Prophecies of Stone' is set to premiere next month at the Manchester International Festival. We chat too to the biennial festival's Director of Music, Jane Beese, about the ambitions for Manchester's new cultural venue - Aviva Studios.

Factory International announced the 2023 edition of the biannual Manchester International Festival at an event at New Century Hall in Manchester on 14 March. After the announcement, BTG Editor David Chadderton spoke to Manchester International Festival's Artistic Director and Chief Executive John McGrath, Adam Szabo from Manchester Collective about their co-production with Slung Low of Benjamin Britten's community opera Noah's Flood, Scottee about acting as dramaturg for a musical adaptation of Larry Mitchell and Ned Asta's cult 1977 book The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions and MIF's Creative Director, Low Kee Hong. Manchester International Festival 2023 runs from 29 June to 16 July at venues all around the city centre and beyond. (Images: John McGrath, credit Tarnish Vision; Low Kee Hong; Rakhi Singh and Adam Szabo, co-founders of Manchester Collective, photo by Robin Clewley.)

THE CAT CLUB (Classic Album Thursdays) presents a long playing vinyl record. THE VELVET UNDERGROUND & NICO with special guest Maxine Peake. This fascinating interview took place before and after we listened to the band's debut vinyl album. MAXINE PEAKE, the award winning actress, writer and director of television, film, radio and stage starred as Nico in The Nico Project which was featured at the Manchester International Festival to great critical acclaim in 2019. We were delighted to welcome Maxine to The CAT Club as our special guest. In the interviewer's chair was author and storyteller, IAN CLAYTON. It was a stormy night and the sign outside the venue can be audibly heard swinging in the wind, some wag compared it to John Cale's later work. This event took place on Thursday 24th February 2022 in the Pigeon Loft at The Robin Hood, Pontefract, West Yorkshire. To find out more about the CAT Club please visit: www.thecatclub.co.uk This podcast has been edited for content and for copyright reasons.

Graham Massey talks us through his early days with the formation of 808 State and improvising with electronic instruments, through to current collaborations and favourite creative tools.Chapters00:00 - Introduction02:02 - The Beginnings Of 808 State11:54 - Developing A Polished Production14:56 - Musicality And Arrangements17:29 - Incorporating Improvisation20:09 - Performing Live24:09 - Influencing Genres26:29 - Favourite Creative Tools30:16 - The Changing Access To The Arts35:46 - Other Projects41:47 - Future CollaborationsGraham Massey BiogGraham Massey is probably best known for the pioneering work of 808 State who took the energy of the early UK rave scene into the pop charts with several uncompromising top 10 singles and albums in the 1990s. 808 State returned to international touring in 2018 to celebrate their 30th anniversary with the release of a new critically acclaimed album 'Transmission Suite' in 2019. Graham trained as a sound engineer at Manchester's Spirit Studios in the mid 80s when he was producing records as Biting Tongues for Factory Records and working as a live sound engineer at the Boardwalk Club.Studio experience allowed him to work as a producer and remixer for people as diverse as Bjork , Quincy Jones , Primal Scream, David Bowie,The Stone Roses, Goldfrapp & Yellow Magic Orchestra. Graham has worked as a composer on many film soundtracks, music for commercials (agencies such as BBH in London & SYN in Tokyo) plus theatre pieces and public art events including being musical director for Jeremy Deller's 'What Is A City' for the opening of Manchester International Festival in 2017. Graham is also the leader of a number of other music projects in the city that might find him as a guitarist, keyboardist, wind player or drummer. Graham has DJ'd around the world and is a regular contributor to 'The Freakier Zone' on BBC Radio 6 as well as hosting his own monthly show on Reform Radio as well as guest slots on NTS radio.Graham is an Honorary Fellow of The University Of Central Lancashire and is a regular guest lecturer on the film course at Manchester School Of Digital Art (MMU). He is a regular participator at Music Tech Fest, an international forum for technologists, scientists and artists run from Stockholm University.http://www.808state.com/Caro C BiogCaro C is an artist, engineer and teacher specialising in electronic music. Her self-produced fourth album 'Electric Mountain' is out now. Described as a "one-woman electronic avalanche" (BBC), Caro started making music thanks to being laid up whilst living in a double decker bus and listening to the likes of Warp Records in the late 1990's. This 'sonic enchantress' (BBC Radio 3) has now played in most of the cultural hotspots of her current hometown of Manchester, UK. Caro is also the instigator and project manager of electronic music charity Delia Derbyshire Day.URL: http://carocsound.com/Twitter: @carocsoundInst: @carocsoundFB: https://www.facebook.com/carocsound/

In the first episode of the year, we look ahead at the next 12 months. Anny Shaw, the acting art market editor at The Art Newspaper, peers into her crystal ball and tries to predict the fortunes of the art market this year. Then, Jane Morris, one of our editors-at-large, José da Silva, our exhibitions editor, and host Ben Luke select the museum projects, biennales and exhibitions that they are most looking forward to in 2023.Events discussed:The Grand Egyptian Museum: no confirmed opening date. https://www.theartnewspaper.com/keywords/grand-egyptian-museumThe National Portrait Gallery reopens on 22 June. https://www.npg.org.uk/Factory International, Manchester, also opens in June. Yayoi Kusama's You Me and the Balloons opens there on 29 June, as does the Manchester International Festival. https://factoryinternational.org/The Sharjah Biennial: Thinking Historically in the Present opens on 7 February. https://sharjahart.org/biennial-15The Gwangju Biennial: Soft and Weak Like Water opens on 7 April. https://www.gwangjubiennale.org/gb/intro.doCelebration Picasso 1973-2023 https://celebracionpicasso.es/en/calendarioVermeer opens at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, on 10 February. https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/stories/themes/vermeerManet/Degas opens at the at the Musée d'Orsay, Paris, on 28 March and then at the Metropolitan Museum, New York, on 24 September https://www.musee-orsay.fr/en/whats-on/exhibitions/manet-degasJuan de Pareja: Afro-Hispanic Painter, opens at the Met on 3 April https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2023/juan-de-parejaSimone Leigh opens at the ICA, Boston, on 6 April, then at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C., on 3 November before travelling to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Californian African American Museum in 2024 https://www.icaboston.org/exhibitions/simone-leighBarkley Hendricks: Portraits at the Frick opens at Frick Madison, New York, on 21 September https://www.frick.org/sites/default/files/pdf/press/2022/Hendricks_Release_Final_07_13_22.pdfAlma Thomas: Composing Colour is at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, in D.C., from 15 September https://americanart.si.edu/exhibitions/alma-thomasThe Culture: Hip Hop and Contemporary Art in the 21st Century opens at the Baltimore Museum of Art on 5 April and the Saint Louis Art Museum on 25 August https://artbma.org/about/press/release/baltimore-museum-of-art-and-saint-louis-art-museum-co-organize-monumental-exhibition-exploring-the-global-significance-and-impact-of-hip-hopJaune Quick-to-See Smith opens at the Whitney Museum, New York, on 19 April https://whitney.org/exhibitions/jaune-quick-to-see-smithRemedios Varo: Science Fictions is at the Art Institute of Chicago from 29 July Hilma af Klint and Piet Mondrian: Forms of Life opens at Tate Modern in London on 20 April https://www.tate.org.uk/press/press-releases/hilma-af-klint-piet-mondrian-forms-of-lifeMarina Abramovic is at the Royal Academy in London from 23 September https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/exhibition/marina-abramovic Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On 29 September 2022, Manchester International Festival officially announced its plans for the opening of its new permanent performance venue, to be called Factory International, in the St John's area of Manchester city centre. BTG Editor David Chadderton spoke to John E McGrath, Artistic Director and Chief Executive of both Manchester International Festival and Factory International, about what the new building would provide for Manchester and the international arts scene, as well as about the opening production, Free Your Mind, a stage adaptation of the film The Matrix directed by Danny Boyle with a script by Sabrina Mahfouz, music by Mikey J Asante, choreography by Kenrick Sandy and design by Es Devlin. Following this, you can follow us on a tour of the building led by lead architect Ellen van Loon of OMA and Creative Director Low Key Hong. Free Your Mind will run from 18 October to 5 November 2023, and tickets are now on sale. (Photo of John E McGrath at the Factory International Launch, credit: James Speakman / PA Wire)

Vivienne Griffin (they/them) is an multi-disciplinary artist who uses sound, sculpture, drawing and text in various forms. Griffin works with the voice through digital post-processing and in a workshop format called Synthetic Voices. They work with sound alongside sculptures and installations. More recently they have used generative sound in videos of virtual worlds. Their current work looks at the opaque boundaries of human-computer relations; where does the mind end and the machine begin? Born in Dublin, Ireland and living in London, Griffin studied fine art at Hunter City University New York supported by a Fulbright Scholarship. They completed one year DPhil in visual art at the Royal College of Art, where they are now a visiting lecturer. They moved their research to the Sonic Arts Research Center, Queen's University, Belfast to pursue a PhD in Music with a focus on sound in an art context, noise, and the voice. Recent shows include Manchester International Festival, 2021, the AGM in Somerset House, 2021, for Montez Press Radio in NYC, Condo in London. They are represented by Bureau, in NYC. They won an Oram Award in 2021, they are a resident at Somerset House Studios, London. Still from Mercy, 2022, Digital video, sound. Still from Mercy, 2022, Digital video, sound. Mercy from Vivienne Griffin on Vimeo.

Helen has worked within and for theatres, arts organisations, museums, galleries, heritage sites and festivals across the UK for over 25 years. She was part of the team that set up and delivered Cultureshock (Commonwealth Games North West Cultural Programme), the inaugural Manchester International Festival and the Marketing Co-ordination Unit at Marketing Manchester and was Joint Head of Marketing at British Ceramics Biennial for 10 years. Helen was one of the founding directors of CTConsults for 10 years until 2021. She is currently Press & Comms Lead for Walk the Plank's Festival UK*2022 commission Green Space Dark Skies. Enjoy.

“When I go to a club and the music is great and it's full of  young people I think, this is the next revolution.” Dave Haslam is a legendary Manc, who helped to create the eclectic sound of the Hacienda through his weekly DJ sets during the late 80's and 90's and then at iconic Manchester club The Boardwalk. He played for the Hacienda crowds over 480 times and was even the last person to spin vinyl on the infamous decks. Undoubtedly Dave has cemented himself as a music veteran and has continued venturing into the world of arts and culture, curating bands for Manchester International Festival and writing books about music, artists, ideas and places, Dave's passion for his projects is evident and his desire to share them works its way into everything he does.  Join Lisa Morton as she hears about the time Dave cooked cauliflower cheese for Morrisey, how he came to part with all of his vinyl and why Tony Wilson wanted him dead. ------ Your host, Lisa Morton, started PR company Roland Dransfield in 1996, one month after the fateful IRA bomb that tore apart the city centre.  From that point, the business, and its team members, have been involved in helping to support the creation of Modern Manchester – across regeneration, business, charity, leisure and hospitality, sport and culture. To celebrate the 25 years that Roland Dransfield has spent creating these bonds, Lisa is gathering together some of her Greater Mancunian ‘family' and will be exploring how they have created their own purposeful relationships with the best place in the world. Connect with Lisa and Roland Dransfield:  Via our website On Instagram On Twitter On Spotify Connect with Dave Via his website On Instagram On Twitter

Paradox House presents… Episode 10 and the season finale of Scripted hosted by Daisy Lewis. For our final episode in season 1, we are treated with the presence of Lolita Chakrabarti OBE. Lolita carved some time out of her busy schedule to chat to Daisy about all things scripted - The process of writing, multi-hyphenates and representation in the stories she creates. Lolita Chakrabarti OBE is an award-winning actress and writer. She trained at RADA and has been working as an actor on stage and screen for over thirty years. Her writing work includes – Theatre HYMN, live-streamed and performed live at the Almeida Theatre, London 2021 Also shown on Sky Arts Adaptation of LIFE OF PI by Yann Martel World premiere at Crucible Theatre, Sheffield, July 2019. Transferred to Wyndhams, London in 2021. Awards: WhatsonStage Best New Play 2019, UK Theatre Award for Best New Play, Cameo Book to Stage 2020 Adaptation of INVISIBLE CITIES by Italo Calvino World premiere at Mayfields, Manchester International Festival and Brisbane Festival 2019 A collaboration with digital projectionist 59Productions, choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and twenty two dancers from Rambert. RED VELVET Tricycle Theatre, London 2012 and 2004 St Anne's Warehouse, New York 2014 Garrick Theatre, London 2016 To date there have been over 30 productions worldwide. Awards: Charles Wintour Evening Standard Award Most Promising Playwright Award 2012; Critics Circle Award in 2013 for Most Promising Playwright; AWA Award 2013 for Arts and Culture; Nominations for Whatsonstage Awards 2013 for London Newcomer of the Year & Best New Play; Nomination for an Olivier Award 2013 for Best Play in an Affiliate Theatre. THE GREATEST WEALTH – 2018 Old Vic Theatre, London Curated by Lolita. A series of 8 monologues celebrating the NHS' 70th birthday including SPEEDY GONZALEZ by Lolita Chakrabarti LAST SEEN – JOY – 2009 Almeida Theatre/Slung Low Dramaturg on MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE directed and choreographed by Kate Prince for ZooNation and Sadlers Wells Other Adrian Lester and Lolita Chakrabarti : A Working Diary published by Bloomsbury in 2020 Radio: PUT MY NAME IN LIGHTS – 2020 a monologue for BBC Radio 4 RED VELVET – 2014 Saturday drama BBC Radio 4 THE GODDESS – 2006 Woman's Hour serial BBC Radio 4 Film: Lolita produced OF MARY, a short film, directed by Adrian Lester Awards: Best Short Film at PAFF, Los Angeles 2012, nomination for Best Producers at Underwire 2012

“Cities are about the people who live in them, not the things and the buildings.” On December 1st Manchester City Council leader, Sir Richard Leese, is stepping down after 25 years. Released on the day he and his colleagues will be gathering to celebrate an incredible tenure, this special episode of We Built This City is reflecting on his career. Lisa Morton shares highlights from their first conversation back in June and hears what Sir Richard is looking forward to as they catch up in the final days of his position.   Sir Richard Leese started his tenure in May 1996 less than a month before the fateful IRA bomb; since that day he has worked around the clock to rebuild the city in a way that has given Mancs their “swagger” back. From The Commonwealth games to the regeneration of the city centre to Manchester International Festival there are so many tangible ways that Sir Richard's legacy has bettered the city.  Hear as Sir Richard tells Lisa about his new role leading the Greater Manchester Health and Care Board working to deliver better health prospects for the people of Greater Manchester and learn what lessons he will be taking forward with him from his time in civic leadership. ------ Your host, Lisa Morton, started PR company Roland Dransfield in 1996, one month after the fateful IRA bomb that tore apart the city centre.  From that point, the business, and its team members, have been involved in helping to support the creation of Modern Manchester – across regeneration, business, charity, leisure and hospitality, sport and culture. To celebrate the 25 years that Roland Dransfield has spent creating these bonds, Lisa is gathering together some of her Greater Mancunian ‘family' and will be exploring how they have created their own purposeful relationships with the best place in the world. Connect with Lisa and Roland Dransfield:  Via our website On Instagram On Twitter On Spotify Connect with Sir Richard: On Twitter

The world is opening up again and so is dance. It's nice to be working again. This week I talk about my experience dancing at the Manchester International Festival and choreographing a new pop up outdoor piece.  This will be the end of Season 1. I am taking a break to focus on work creation and we'll be back in the Winter. Subscribe to find out when I start releasing episodes again. 

This week's review is 'We Dwell in Possibility,' the new game by Robert Yang and Eleanor Davis commissioned for this year's Manchester International Festival. I write about pandemic horniness, public sex, Hieronymus Bosch and lockdown lifting. Not suitable for younger listeners. You can find the written version of this review here; and you can play the game for free here. Thank you for listening & thank you to our Patreon gang for supporting!!!

Lisa Mullen is joined by Imani Jacqueline Brown of Forensic Architecture, whose exhibition for the Manchester International Festival explores the links between power and the air we breathe; journalist James Nestor, whose best selling book traces his search for medical answers to his sleeping and breathing problems; jazz saxophonist and MC Soweto Kinch; and New Generation Thinker Tiffany Watt Smith, who has been considering the cultural history of sighing and book The Anatomy of Melancholy. Cloud Studies exhibits investigations by Forensic Architecture - part of Manchester International Festival, it runs at the Whitworth in Manchester 2 July-17 October and is online. Breathe: The New Science of a Lost Art by James Nestor is out in paperback. The Anatomy of Melancholy has been republished by Penguin. The Black Peril by Soweto Kinch is available now. Soweto Kinch will perform with the London Symphony Orchestra as part of the EFG London Jazz Festival on 19 Nov 2021 at the Barbican in London. Producer: Emma Wallace

With her new sound and light installation, Arcadia, Theatre and Opera director Deborah Warner has brought the feel of the field into The Factory – the new home for MIF. The Factory is still very much a building site open to the elements, but for one weekend only the festival is providing an opportunity for visitors, to see the new construction from the inside. And once inside the concrete shell, they will enter Arcadia, Deborah's subversive and challenging artwork to Manchester's spirit of progress. Deborah talks to Nick about the appeal of making an installation in an unfinished venue. One of Pakistan's most celebrated artists has used his MIF commission to explore his concept of Eart - his term to describe ways of thinking, being and acting creatively in real life. Under the title, A Manifesto of Possibilities, Rana presents an exhibition which interrogates new ways of living, and he makes real one of his ideas with the creation of his version of the essential corner shop. Nick Ahad pops in to the pop-up store to talk to producer Shanaz Gulzar about why ordering produce and stocking shelves is a new art frontier. The death of her father last June prompted the novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche to write a emotional essay, Notes On Grief, for the New Yorker. The essay expanded into a book earlier this year, and now courtesy of MIF it has been adapted for the stage. Nicky Byrne, Head of Clinical Services at Willow Wood Hospice and Nick Ahad attended the preview and discuss a play that meets a moment when many around the country are dealing with their own grief. Hayley Finn, aka Skyliner, has been leading what has been described as “anti-tours” around Manchester for almost a decade. Her urban tours not only seek to reveal new things about the city to its inhabitants as well as its visitors, but to empower those on her tours with a sense that a city is a place created by those who live and work within it and that they too can and should contribute to the never-ending project that is improving the city. Nick meets Hayley to discuss one of the tours she's leading for MIF, There Was A Bench Here Once. Presenter: Nick Ahad Producer: Ekene Akalawu

As the Manchester International Festival opens we celebrate aritsts working across media and creating hybrid forms. Heather Phillipson is a poet and a visual artist whose work appears in the new exhibition at the festival created by Hans Ulrich Obrist & Lemn Sissay, 'Poet Slash Artist'. The author of 'Grief is the thing with Feathers' and Lanny, Max Porter has written a new film starring Cillian Murphy which will premier at MIF. Paolo Chianta is the latest writer who has written us a short audio drama on the theme of 'Experiments in Living', in conjection with the BBC Writer's Room. 'Brighter Later' is directed by Lorna Newman. Malaika Kegode is a performance poet who has found herself pushed into new territory through her work with Prog-Folk band Jakabol, resulting in their autobiographical theatre-gig 'Outlier' Presenter: Ian McMillan Producer: Jessica Treen

‘All of this Unreal Time' is a new film installation made by a creative group for this year's Manchester International Festival. Written by Max Porter for actor Cillian Murphy, it explores our individual and collective fallibility as one man wanders through London at night addressing his failings. The film is directed by Aoife McArdle and the soundtrack composed by Aaron and Bryce Dessner of The National along with electronica artist, Jon Hopkins. Robert Bound is joined by Aoife, Jon and Max to talk about the collaborative process.

“Manchester had always been glinting on the horizon across the Lancashire plains.” Lemn Sissay, the world-renowned creative, grew up in the small villages of Lancashire, but always felt a magnetic pull drawing him to Manchester. In Manchester, Lemn found not only an oasis away from the deceit that tainted his childhood but discovered an opportunity to meet with fellow creatives that would inspire him to forge a new path for himself. Now a renowned poet, playwright, and speaker, Lemn has helped to shape a city that helped to shape him. As Chancellor of the University of Manchester and Artistic Advisor to the Manchester International Festival, Lemn champions our city and gives back to a community that he loves very much and that loves him back the same. Discover alongside Lisa Morton, the story of Lemn's resilience and passion, his connection with Greater Manchester and his brilliant value system that continues to act as a compass for all that he does.  Lemn's peers that he shared the stage with also went on to build this city with their work, like Comedian John Thomson and Property Developer Tom Bloxham who have both been on previous episodes of this podcast, find them in our feed Manc 03 and Manc 32. ----- Your host, Lisa Morton, started PR company Roland Dransfield in 1996, one month after the fateful IRA bomb that tore apart the city centre. From that point, the business, and its team members, have been involved in helping to support the creation of Modern Manchester – across regeneration, business, charity, leisure and hospitality, sport and culture.  To celebrate the 24 years that Roland Dransfield has spent creating these bonds, Lisa is gathering together some of her Greater Mancunian ‘family' and will be exploring how they have created their own purposeful relationships with the best place in the world.  Connect with Lisa and Roland Dransfield: Via Phone: 01612361122 Via our website On Instagram On Twitter  On Spotify  Connect with Lemn: On Twitter On Instagram  

Framework for Resilience is a three-part series of online conversations which bring together activists, artists, researchers and educators to think about the world we are creating, the world we are destroying, the systems which will fall, and those which should prevail.  In this third and final episode of the series, we discuss migration and adaptation. Host Kayt Hughes (Public Programme Producer at FACT) and mediator Maitreyi Maheshwari (Head of Programme at FACT) and joined by speakers Dr. Ali Meghji (Lecturer, Researcher), Jessica El Mal (Artist) and Niloo Sharifi (Multidisciplinary Artist). In 1990, the United Nations anticipated that ‘the greatest single impact of climate change could be on human migration’ with estimates predicting 200 million ‘climate refugees’ by 2050. While the scientific case for human-caused climate change has gained more certainty, the consequences for populations affected both by meteorological and political factors remain unpredictable. The disparity between countries and populations that had been a legacy of colonialism is becoming more pronounced as the effects of climate change are not contained within the borders of any single country. Whether motivated by need, opportunity or force, human mobility has been an inherent part of the human experience for millennia. As people move and adapt to new environments, how is our sense of self affected by the perspectives offered by distance away from a ‘home’ and across settled generations? Our sense of self is often located in ideas of place and narratives drawn from history and biology, creating a tension between our desire to assimilate and belong somewhere or to preserve our origins. How might digital spaces create alternative definitions of community and identities shaped by more fluid notions of belonging? And how can new technologies allow us to adapt to changing ecological conditions? The reading list for this conversation can be found here. ------ ABOUT FRAMEWORK FOR RESILIENCE This online conversation is part of The Living Planet, FACT’s year-long season which focuses on the non-human, and deals with themes such as climate change, ecology and communication, as well as the violence of ‘othering’. This series will inform our programme for the rest of the year which focuses on systems of knowledge and classification in the formation of identity and the exercise of power. They also form part of Artsformation, a research project which seeks to identify new ways of working, specifically at the intersection between art, society and technology, to overcome current social crises including justice, democracy and climate. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme. The title for these sessions is taken from the artwork, PESTS, by Shonagh Short. Commissioned by FACT in 2020 for FACT Together. ABOUT DR. ALI MEGHJI Dr Ali Meghji is a Lecturer in Social Inequalities in the department of sociology, Cambridge. He is the director for the MPhil in marginality and exclusion, the course organiser for SOC12 Empire, colonialism, imperialism, and the chair of 'Decolonising sociology’. Currently, Ali’s predominant research interests lie in bridging the epistemological, methodological, and empirical divergences between critical race theory and decolonial thought. Through this research, Ali intends to balance the study of national racialised social systems with the global process of coloniality. ABOUT JESSICA EL MAL Jessica El Mal is an English-Moroccan creative dedicated to valuing time, care and human connection in everything she works on. With a particular interest in ecology and migration, her work is both deeply personal and yet draws on the universality of the human experience through a balance of digital techniques, aesthetics and interaction. The work tends to address global structures of power through critical research, multidisciplinary projects, and speculative future imaginaries often centered around collaboration, co-curation and collective knowledge systems. Her current project ‘The Digital Forest’ commissioned by Signal Film and Media, Grizedale Arts and The Forestry Commission, explores how the online space can open up opportunities for sensory experiences of nature for black and brown communities. She also runs an art and nature group for migrant, asylum seeker and refugee artists called ‘This Garden Group’ which consists of workshops in a range of natural spaces, a peer support group and a public facing program to critique the role of botany in colonialism. Jessica's most recent exhibition Grounds for Concern exhibited at MAMA Rotterdam, challenged the authority of man-made borders through a digital installation and workshops, and her FACT Together digital commission has just gone live (see www.visionsofafuture.com). Previous projects have been with Manchester International Festival and Journey’s Festival International, as well as many collaborations with non-arts organisations such as the Collegium for Language in a Changing Society, Let’s Keep Growing Longsite, Furness Refugee Support. ABOUT NILOO SHARIFI Niloo Sharifi is a multidisciplinary artist from Liverpool, making collaborative works that facilitate polyphony. Her most recent work is the-magic-tree.co.uk, a digital piece that transforms by merging with pictures uploaded by visitors. The idea is to see what emerges when you let everyone speak; the same ethos informed the curation of the Liverpool chapter of the Goethe Institut’s Arrival City.

Melati Suryodarmo, (b. 1969, Solo, Indonesia) graduated from the Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunscheweig, Germany under the tutelage of Marina Abramović and Anzu Furukawa with a Meisterschüler qualification in Performance Art. Her practice is informed by Butoh, dance and history, among others. Her work is the result of ongoing research in the movements of the body and its relationship to the self and the world. These are enshrined in photography, translated into choreographed dances, enacted in video or executed in live performances. Suryodarmo is interested in the psychological and physical agitations that may be from the self or the world but somehow result in lasting change the individual. This belief in change or growth through bodily action belies her early induction in meditation, which she continues to practice. The body is the home for memories and the self, rather than the individual itself, and the body's system. The way the body translates internal and external ideas enriches the attitude and thoughts of the self. Meeting Furukawa, an accomplished Butoh practitioner, had opened her eyes on the expressive qualities of the body, a form of communication that transcends verbal language. This experience has motivated her lifelong studies into Butoh and other artistic forms concerned with the human body. As a trained performance artist, presence is integral to the accomplishment of Suryodarmo's work in all mediums. The senses picks up non-verbal inputs and receive them as communication of intent, emotion, energy or identity. These non-verbal inputs open the door to sensitive and individual perception and the creation of presence. However, everyone processes these inputs differently and interpret them differently based on their unique consciousness. By compiling, extracting, conceptualising and translating some of these factors of presence that she recognises into her work, she intends to tease open the fluid border between the body and its environment. These movements are understood through the metaphor of poets, who similarly assembles words and spaces to create their poetry. Suryodarmo draws inspiration from her real experiences in the world. The path of history informs her perception of the everyday and the now. Her works often reflect the process that lead to current events, be it political, global or highly personal. In her abstracted gestures and poetical acts, the presence of each work is brought to a concentrated level of intensity. In abstracting these acts from their common context, they are made to correspond with new associations and sometimes identify radically with different meanings. The works' abstract narrative throws the spotlight on the audience's bodily response. This often results in a level of factual absurdity in the work, which is acknowledged and welcome. Suryodarmo has presented her work in various international festivals and exhibitions, including Reanacting History: Collective Actions and Everyday Gestures (2017), National Museum of Contemporary Art Korea, Gwacheon, South Korea; SUNSHOWER: Contemporary Art from Southeast Asia 1980s to Now (2017), National Art Centre Tokyo & Mori Art Museum, travelled to Fukuoka Art Museum, Japan; AFTERWORK (2016), Para Site, Hong Kong, travelled to (2017) Ilham Gallery, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; East Asia Feminism: FANTasia (2015), Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea; 8th Asia Pacific Triennale (2015), Queensland Art Gallery & Gallery of Modern Art, Queensland, Australia; 5th Guangzhou Triennale (2015), Guangzhou, China; The Roving Eye: Contemporary Art from Southeast Asia (2014), Arter, Istanbul, Turkey; Medium at Large (2014), Singapore Art Museum, Singapore; Luminato Festival (2012), Toronto, Canada; Beyond the Self: Contemporary Portraiture from Asia (2011), National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, Australia; Marina Abramović Presents… (2009), Manchester International Festival, Manchester, U.K.; Incheon Women Artists' Biennale (2009), Incheon, South Korea; Manifesta 7 (2008), Bolzano, Italy; Wind from the East: Perspectives on Asian Contemporary Art (2007), Kiasma, Helsinki, Finland. Since 2007, Suryodarmo has been organizing an annual Performance Art Laboratory and Undisclosed Territory, a performance art festival, in Solo, Indonesia. In 2012, she founded “Studio Plesungan”, an art space for performance artists to use as a laboratory. In 2017, she served as Artistic Director for Jiwa, the 17th Jakarta Biennale. She currently lives and works between Gross Gleidingen, Germany and Solo, Indonesia.Artist StatementThe world that inspires me to move my thoughts is the world inside me. The body becomeslike a home which functions as container of memories, living organism. The systeminside the psychological body that changes all the time has enriched my idea to developnew structures of attitude and thoughts. I try to perceive my surroundings as the fact ofthe real presence of now, but considering the path of its history. I try to understand thelanguage that are not spoken, and opens the door of perceptions. I respect the freedom inour minds to perceive things coming through our individual sensory register system.Crossing the boundaries of cultural and political encounters has been a challenge thatstimulates me discovering new identification. An effort to find identity is yet a dangerousact of losing the ground of origin. For me, the process of making artwork is a life long researchthat never stops me to put myself inside the metamorphic constellation. I intend totouch the fluid border between the body and its environment through my art works. I aimto create a concentrated level of intensity without the use of narrative structures. Talkingabout politics, society or psychology makes no sense to me if the nerves are not able todigest the information. I love it when a performance reaches a level of factual absurdity.Melati Suryodarmo's performances have been dealing with the relationship between ahuman body, a culture in which it belongs to and a constellation where it lives. Through thepresence, she compiles, extracts, conceptualized and translates some phenomenon orsubjects into movement, actions, and gestures that are specified to her performance. MelatiSuryodarmo´s performances concern with cultural, social and political aspects, inwhich she articulates through her psychological and physical body. Her performances featureelements of physical presence and visual art to talk about identity, energy, politics andrelationships between the body and its environments.Melati Suryodarmo studied at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweig, Germanyunder Marina Abramovic.Suryodarmo has presented her works in various internationalfestivals and exhibitions since 1996, including the 50th Venice Biennale 2003, Marking theterritory, IMMA Dublin. e.t.c. In 2005, Melati Suryodarmo has performed at the Van GoghMuseum Amsterdam, during the Exhibition of the Life of Egon Schiele in 2005; VideobrasilSao Paolo (2005), Haus der Kulturen der Welt Berlin, 52nd Venice Biennale dance Festival(2007), KIASMA Helsinki (2007), Manifesta7, in Bolzano, Italy (2008),and In Transit festival,HKW Berlin (2009), Luminato festival of the arts, Toronto, (2012), Asia Pacific Triennale,Qagoma Brisbane (2015), Guangzhou Triennale, Guangdong, China (2015); SingaporeBiennale, Singapore, (2016). Since the last six years, Suryodarmo has been presenting herworks in Indonesia and other South East Asian countries. For the Padepokan Lemah PutihSolo Indonesia, she has been organizing an annual Performance Art Laboratory Projectand “undisclosed territory” performance art event in Solo Indonesia since 2007. In 2012,she founded “Studio Plesungan” an art space for performance art laboratory. She wasworking as the Artistic Director of the Jakarta Biennale 2017, one of the core visual artsbiennale in South east Asia.Melati Suryodarmo CV info@melatisuryodarmo.comMelati Suryodarmoinfo@melatisuryodarmo.comwww.melatisuryodarmo.comSTUDIO PLESUNGANDesa Plesungan RT03 RW02Plesungan, GondangrejoKaranganyar 57773Jawa TengahIndonesia--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Born 12. July 1969 in Surakarta IndonesiaLives and works in Surakarta, IndonesiaEducation2016 - PhD Candidate in Artistic Research / Art as Practice Phd. at the Institute of theArts Surakarta Indonesia2001 - 2002Postgraduate Program (Meisterschule) in Performance Art at the Hochschulefuer Bildende Kuenste, Braunschweig, Germany, under prof. Marina Abramovic1994- 2001Study of performance art and sculpture under Prof.Anzu Furukawa, and Prof.Marina Abramovic. Degree in Fine Art at the Hochschule fuer Bildende Kuenste,Braunschweig, Germany1993Degree in International Relations Studies, Faculty of Politic and Socio Sciences,UniversitasPadjadjaran Bandung, IndonesiaExhibitions and Festivals |selections|2020- Marina Abramović + MAI Akış / Flux, Akbank Sanat Exhibition Program, Istambulk,Turkey- “Why Let the Chicken Run?”, Solo Exhibition at Museum of Modern Art and ContemporaryArt Nusantara (MACAN), Jakarta2019- “Memento Mori”, Solo Exhibition at Singapore Tyler Print International (STPI)Singapore- “Gandari”an opera by Tony Prabowo, as director and choreographer, Graha BaktiBudaya, Taman Ismail Marzuk, Jakarta- “Contemporary World”, Naional Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australi- “Orfeus”, dance choreography, Komunitas Salihara, Jakarta- “Kontraksi: Pasca Traditionalisme”, pameran besar Nusantara, National Gallery ofIndonesia, Jakarta- “Arus Balik”, Centre of Contemporary Arts, Gilmann Barracks, Singapore- “All About Eve”, 2nd Women show at the Indonesia Luxury, Jakarta- “+63 / +62”, Silverlens Gallery, Manila, the Philippines2018- “Luminous Emptiness”, dance choreography in collaboration with Katsura Kan(Japan), Bo- robudur Writers and Cultural festival, Borobudur, Indonesia- “Sakhsat”, dance choreography, Solo International Performing Arts (SIPA) Festival,Solo, Indonesia- “Sweet Dreams Sweet”, performance, Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum for ContemporaryArts, Berlin, Germany- “I Love You”, Solo exhibition, Shanghart Gallery, Beijing, China- “Dance in Asia”, Osaka Creative Center, Osaka, Japan- “Timoribus” , Solo Exhibition, Shanghart Gallery , Singapore2017- “Amnesia” , Performance Klub, Europalia 2017, at S.M.A.K, Gent, BelgiumMelati Suryodarmo CV info@melatisuryodarmo.com- “Tomorrow As Purposed”, Dance Performance, Flammish Royal Theatre, KVS, Brussels,Belgium- “Self Portrait”, group exhibition, Mind Set Art Centre, MSAC, Taipei, Taiwan- “Re-enacting History: Collective Actions and Everyday estures”, National Museum ofModern and Contemporary Art (MMCA), Gwacheon Seoul, South Korea.- “First Sight” at Museum Museum, Jakarta- “Political Acts”, AsiaTopa, Melbourne Art Center, Melbourne, Australia- “Sunshower” - Contemporary Art in South East Asia - National Art Centre Tokyo, Japan- “Vertical Recall” dance performance, as choreographer at the Helatari, Salihara, Jakarta- “After Works”, Ilham Museum, Kuala Lumpur2016- “Behind the Light”, Singapore Biennale, SAM Singapore- “Transaction of Hollows”, Lilith Performance Studio Residency , Malmo, Sweden- “Your Otherness, I've never been so East”, dance piece, Hexentanz Festival, Sophiensale,Berlin- “Tomorrow as Purposed”, as choreorapher and director of dance production and researchinvolving dancers, musicians, at Indonesian Dance Festival, Jakarta- “Melati Suryodarmo” Solo Exhibition at Il Ponte Contemporanea, Rome, Italy- “undisclosed territory#10” as Facilitator at Studio Plesungan- “ In Silence”, a group exhibition at Pearl Lam Gallery in Singapore- “Amnesia” - Solo performance and exhibition, Galerie Ark, Jogyakarta, Indonesia- Paper Trail - South East Asia Works on Paper. Galery Sangkring, Jigyakarta, Indonesia- After Works, Para-Site, Hongkong- Costume National : Contemporary Art from Indonesia, Gallerie SAW Ottawa, Canada2015- Asia Pacific Trienial 8, Qagoma, Brisbane, Australia- I See You See Me, Treshold Gallery, New Delhi, Indiea- Sisyphus, a dance piece choerographed and directed by Melati Suryodarmo at DeSIngel, Antwerp, Belgium. Sisyphus, a dance piece choerographed and directed by Melati Suryodarmo at FrankfurtLab, Frankfurt, Germany- 5th Guangzhou Trienial and 1st Asia Bienial, Guanzhou, Guangdong, China- Oz Asia Festival , Adelaide, Australia- Melati Suryodarmo's Video Works, solo exhibition, Contemporary Art Centre of SouthAustralia (CACSA), Adelaide- FantAsia, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea- ArtJog 2015, In FLux, Yogjakarta, Indonesia- Tokyo International Performing Arts Meeting, Yokohama, Japan2014- “APBF Signature Award 2014 Exhibition” , Singapore Art Museum, Singapore- “Indonesian Dance Festival 2014”, Teater Kecil Taman ismail Marzuki, Jakarta- “Marina Abramovic Performance Exhibition”, Fondation Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland- “Rowing Eye- Contemporaray art from South East Asia”, Arter, Istanbul, Turkey- “Domestication”, Kayu, Lucie Fontane Foundation, Bali, Indonesia- “Sensorium 360°”, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore- - ArtJog 2014, Taman Budaya Yogyakarta- “Video Art at Loop”, Loop, Casa Asia, Barcelona- “ArtJog”, Taman Budaya Yogyakarta, Yogjakarta, Indonesia- “Fokus+Indonesia”, Muzeum Narodowe w Szczecinie, Szcezin, Poland- “K.R.O.P.P”, Uppsala Konsert & Kongress, Uppsala, Sweden- “China Festival”, Haus am Ufer HAU 2, Berlin- “Medium at Large”, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore- “Today and Tomorrow: Indonesia Contemporary Art”, Yallay Galery, HongkongMelati Suryodarmo CV info@melatisuryodarmo.com2013- Gambar idoep- video art exhibition, galeri Semarang, Semarang Indonesia- „development“ group exhibition, at TNS Foundation, Gdansk, Poland- ArtJog 2013, Taman Budaya Yogyakarta- „undisclosed territory #7“ padepokan Lemah Putih, Solo, Indonesia- „ Slapstick“, Performance Program, Kunst Museum Wolfsburg, Germany- re-act feminism #2, Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona, Spanien; Akademie der Künste,Berlin, Deutschland- „Die auf dem Boden Liegenden, liegen gelassen - The lying on the floor, abandoned tolie“, Künstlervereinigung MAERZ, Linz, Austria.- „Pressing“ Fondazzione @videoinsight, Turin, Italy- „Market Forces“, Osage Gallery, Hong Kong2012„I am a ghost in my own house“, Solo exhibition at Lawangwangi Art foundation, Bandung,Indonesia„Transart 2012 Festival“, performing John cage‘s Songs Books,in colaboration with NataliaPschenitschnikova, MAS Museum Ötztal, Bolzano, Italy„Homoludens“, group exhibition at Galeri Emmitan; Surabaya„Tai Ping Quo“, Parasite and Spring Workshop, Hongkong.„Performance Platform Lubiln 2012“, Galeria Labirynt, Lublin Poland„Insight“, Group exhibition at Kuntraum, Vaduz, Lichtenstein„Beethoven Marathon-in collaboration with Stewart Goddyear“, Luminato Festival, KoernerHall RCM, Toronto„Flow“, group exhibition, Gallery Michael Janssen, Berlin„domestic stuffs“, group exhibition at Galeri Salihara, Jakarta; Cemeti Art House Yogyakarta.„ZEITGEIST“- Galeri Seni Bataviasche Kunstkring, Jakarta„Reclaim.doc“, group exhibition at Jakarta National Gallery, Jakarta„re.act.feminism #2“ - a performing archive at the Galerija Miroslav Kraljević in Zagreb,Croatia, Museet for Samtidskunst Roskilde, Denmark; Galerija Miroslav Kraljević Zagreb,Croatia; Instytut Sztuki Wyspa Gdańsk, Poland; Tallinna Kunstihoone Tallinn, Estonia„Beyond the Self“,McClelland Gallery and Sculpture Garden, Langwarrin, Victoria; theAnne and Gordon Samstag Museum of Art, Adelaide, Australia„Acts of Indecency“, solo exhibition at Art Dept, VWFA Jakarta, Indonesia2011„Bienalle Jogja XI“, Jogjakarta, Indonesia„Beyond Pressure IV“ performance art festival; Yangoon and Mandalay, Myanmar„Beyond the East: Indonesian Contemporary Art“ Museo d‘arte Contemporanea Roma,Rome, Italy„Performance Hautnah“, Kunstlerforum, Bonn„Performance I Bibliotek“, Kunstbanken Hedmark Kunstsenter, Hamar, Norway„Kunst Hier und Jetzt“, Algemeine Konsumverein, Braunschweig„re.act Feminism vol. II“, 2011 -2013, Centro Cultural Montehermoso, Vitoria-Gasteiz,Spain„Between Sky and Sea III“ Hergla Island, Norway„hijacking TV“ video exhibition at Gallery Salihara, Jakarta„Beyond the Self“, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra; Australia“Passionate Pilgrim” for House Without Maid Project, curated by Jorge Leon and SimoneAughterlony, Villa Tobler, Zürich, Switzerland.„Absence“, Manila Contemporary, Manila, the Philippines„Almost There“, a dance choreography piece, World Dance Day Festival, at Teater BesarInstitut Seni Indonesia Surakarta, Indonesia„A Feather Fell down from the Silence“, at R.I.T.E.S, Substation, Singapore„Negotiating Home, History and Nation“ Two Decades of Contemporary Art from SouthEast Asia 1991 - 2010, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore„undisclosed territory#5“, Padepokan Lemah Putih, Solo IndonesiaMelati Suryodarmo CV info@melatisuryodarmo.com„Performance Art Laboratory (PALA) Project“, Padepokan Lemah Putih, Solo Indonesia2010“Passionate Pilgrim” for House Without Maid Project, curated by Jorge Leon and SimoneAughterlony, de Internationale Keueze, International Theater Festival, Rotterdam, theNetherlands“Passionate Pilgrim” for House Without Maid Project, curated by Jorge Leon and SimoneAughterlony, Bern Biennale, Haus der Universität, Bern, Switzerland„Ugo“ for One Night Stand, curated by Myriam Laplante, Fundazione Volume, Rome, Italy“Passionate Pilgrim” for House Without Maid Project, curated by Jorge Leon and SimoneAughterlony, Tanz Im August, Berlin“Passionate Pilgrim” for House Without Maid Project, curated by Jorge Leon and SimoneAughterlony, Alcantara Festival, Lisabon, Portugal"Lilith Performance event", Lilith Performance Studio, Malmoe, Sweden“Grenzart”, Kirschau, Germany“Exergie- butter dance – extended” , Asian Body festival, Moderna Dans Teatern, Stockholm“Passionate Pilgrim” for House Without Maid Project, curated by Jorge Leon and SimoneAughterlony, Maisson des Arts de Schaerbek, Brussels“trouble-festival”, Les Halles, Brussels„Indonesian Contemporary art Showcase“ Art Paris - Grand Palais, Paris“undisclosed territory #4”, Padepokan Lemah Putih, Solo, Indonesia“PALA Project 2010”, Padepokan Lemah Putih, Solo, Indonesia“Ugo” solo performance at „mobilized Performance Series“, Mobius, Boston, MA, USA2009“On the Way”, Artrend, Taipeh, Taitung (Dulan), Kaoshiung, Tainan; Taiwan“Asiatopia 11th”, Bangkok Center for Art and Culture, Bangkok, Thailand“Kunstbanken”, Kunsthalle, Hamar, Norway"International Incheon Women Artists Biennale", Incheon, South Korea“European Performance Art Festival”, Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw“Farewell Angel”, Lilith Performance Studio, Malmoe, Sweden“International Performance Art Festival”, Turbinen Halle, Giswill, Switzerland“East West Project via Belfast”, Platform Art, Bbeyond, Belfast, Northern Ireland“East West Project”, Kaskaden Kondensator,Basel, Switzerland"CUT - South East Asian Contemporary Photography", Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, Manila“Art of the Encountering”, Gebläser Halle, Ilsede and Hildesheim, Germany“Marina Abramovic Presents…”, Whitworth Gallery, Manchester International Art Festival,Manchester, UK“InTransit 09”, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany“Momentum”, Le Bain Connective, Brussel“Performance Art Laboratory Project” 2009, Bali, Indonesia“undisclosed territory#3- performance art event” Solo, Indonesia“Pathological Aesthetic” symposium at HAN, Nijmegen, Holland2008„Ex-teresa Arte Actual“, International Performance Art Festival, Mexico City, Mexico“Intimate Strangers”, with the Damaged Goods Company, Brussels.“Asiatopia 10 – international performance art festival” Bangkok“Future Of Imagination 5” Sculpture Square, Singapore“ZOOM” performance Art Festival, IPAH, St. Jacobi Kirsche, Hildesheim“Memorabilia”, performance project, TBS, Solo, Indonesia“Between Sky and Sea-II” Herdla Island, Norway“Tanz im August/sommer.bar,” Podewil, Berlin, Germany“Sincere Subject”, SIGIARTS Gallery, Jakarta, Indonesia“Emerging discourse- performance mimicry II”, Bodhiart, New York City“Manifesta7”, European Biennial, Ex-Alumix, Bolzano, Italy“Friktioner”, at City Gallery, Uppsala Art Museum, Uppsala, Sweden“MADE Festival”, Nordlandsoperan, Umea, Sweden“Solitaire”, Solo exhibition, Valentine Willie Fine Arts at Annexe, Kuala Lumpur, MalaysiaMelati Suryodarmo CV info@melatisuryodarmo.com“undisclosed territory#2”, Padepokan Lemah Putih Solo, Indonesia2007“Perception of Patterns in Timeless Influence”, Lilith Performance Studio, Malmö, Sweden.“eBent 07 Festival”, off*ample, Passage de la Paz, Barcelona“Insomnia”, Nuit Blanche, Le Gènerateur, ParisTravelogue “Flying Circuss Project”, Theatreworks, Singapore and Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam“Performance Intermedia”, Sczecin, Poland and Berlin“The Curtain Opens: Indonesian Women Artists”, National Gallery, Jakarta, Indonesia“Anti Aging”, Gaya Fusion Gallery, Bali, Indonesia“Erotic Body”, Venice Biennale Dance Festival, Venice, Italy“15th Performance art Conference”, Bali, Indonesia“undisclosed territory”, performance art event, Solo, Indonesia(N)ever Mind, Video Exhibition, Viavia, Jogjakarta, Indonesia“Wind from the East - Perspectives on Asian Contemporary Art”, National Gallery/Museumof Contemporary art, KIASMA, Finland2006“Disposal on Arrival- Indonesian Contemporary Arts”, Grace exhibition Space, New York,USA“Exergie-butter dance”, Performance Space, Sydney, Australia“Deformed Ethic of a Relationship 3.0 for DormArt” with Oliver Blomeier, Depot, Dortmund“Accione 06”, Madrid, Spain“Deformed Ethic of a Relationship 1.0”, with Oliver Blomeier, Galerieturm, HelmstedtGipfeltreff, Kaskaden Kondensator, Basel, Switzerland“Loneliness in the Boundaries”, Solo Exhibition, Cemeti Art House Jogjakarta, Indonesia.“Exegie – Butter Dance”, Goethe Institut, Jakarta, Indonesia2005“Räume und Schatten”, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin“Kunst Forum Berlin”, Art.es, Berlin“15th International Electronic Art Festival – Video Brasil”, Sao Paolo, Brasil“ 19th Festival Grad Teatar Budva”, Budva, Serbia and Montenegro“Navigate – live art”, BALTIC & Stubnitz, Gateshead Newcastle, UK“La Galleria dell'Amore”, Galleria Civica Trento, Italy“Gifted Generation”, HAU1 Hebbel Theater Berlin, Germany“International Performance Festival Salzau”, Schloss Salzau, Germany“Retrospective of the work of Egon Schiele – the SHELF” – in collaboration with MarinaAbramovic, Van Gogh Museum Amsterdam, Holland.“Der Sekundentraum – opening of Kunstmuseum Stuttgart”, Wüttembergischem KunstvereinStuttgart, Germany2004“Nude with skeleton”, MARTa Herford, Germany“Retrospective” Galerie der HBK Braunschweig, Germany“7a*11d”, International Performance Art Festival, Toronto, Canada“Leidenschaft Junge Kunst”, Allgemeine Konsum Verein, Braunschweig“FAXE KONDI- unzipped time”, Gallery Futura, Prague, Czech Republik“Cleaning The House -performance Loop”, NMAC Foundation, Jerez Dela Frontera, Spain“RISK”, Landesmuseum Braunschweig, Braunschweig2003„4th International Performance Festival Odense”, Odense“Live Art brrr”, Teatro Carlos Alberto/Teatro Nacional de São joão, Porto Portugal“Student Body”, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea, Galicia, Spain“Performance in der Kunsthalle”, Fridericianum , Kassel,“Performance art NRW 2003”, Healing Theater, Köln“Recycling the future”, group event, Venice Biennale 2003, ItalyMelati Suryodarmo CV info@melatisuryodarmo.com“As soon as possible” Performance and Exhibition, PAC Milano, Italy“Performance Art Nord Rhein Westfalen”, Maschinenhaus, Essen2002“Body Power Power Play“, Wüttenbergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart“The Promise“, Solo Exhibition, Gallerie Gedok, Stuttgart“Braunschweiger Kulturnacht“, LOT Theater, Braunschweig“Pret â Perform“, Gallery Via Farini, Milano, Italy“Body Basic“, Trans art 02, Franzenfestung, Brixen, Italy“Common Ground“, Landesvertretungshaus Niedersachsen –Schleswig Holstein, Berlin2001“Festa dell´arte“, Aquario diroma, Rome, Italy“Marking the territory“, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland“Get That Balance”, National Sculpture Factory, Opera House, Cork, Ireland“A little bit of History Repeated“, Kunst Werke, Berlin“Indonesian Live Art“, Gallerie Mein Blau, Berlin“Polysonneries, 2nd International Performance Festival“, Lyon, France “von weiß-rosa zurot“, Luther Turm, Cologne“Lullaby for the ancestors“, Solo Performance, LOT Theater, Braunschweig“Fingerspitzengefühle“, Group exhibition, Galerie der Stadt Sindelfingen2000“Performance Passing Through“, Gedok, Stuttgart“Anableps“, Group exhibition, Galery Miscetti, Rome, Italy“ins“, Maximillian Forum, Munich“Visible Differences - an event“, Hebbel Theater, Berlin“Spot + Places“, Performance Congress, Healing Theater, Cologne1999“Fresh Air“, Group-exhibition, E-Werk, Weimar“Performance Festival Odense“, Odense, Danmark“Cardiff Art in Time“, UWIC, Cardiff, Wales, GB“Unfinished Business“, Group exhibition, Gallery am Lützow Platz, Berlin“Der Sekundentraum“, Solo Performance, Healing Theater, Cologne“Braunschweiger Kulturnacht“, LOT Theater, Braunschweig1998“Finally“, Group exhibition, Kunstverein Hannover, Hannover1997“Braunschweiger Kulturnacht“, FBZ, Braunschweig1996Dance Performance “Kashya-kashya Muttiku“ with Yuko Negoro (Japan), FBZ, Braunschweig1988 -1995 various dance and theatre performances in Indonesia and GermanyUp COMING Project/Exhibition2019- If We Were XYZ, Creative Common Ground Project, Asia Society, New York City- Working as Director and choreographer for Opera Gandari by Tony Prabowo, GrahaBakti Budaya, Jakarta- Solo Exhiibition, Singapore Tyler Print International, Singapore- As Panelist at the Ubud Writer Festival, Ubud, BaliMelati Suryodarmo CV info@melatisuryodarmo.comHonors/ Grants2017 Art Stage Jakarta Award, Best Artist, Jakarta, Indonesia2015 Signature Art Prize Asia Pacific Brewery Foundation, Jurors ChoiceAwardVisual Artist of the Year 2015, Tempo Magazine's choice.Research Grant for the project “Sisyphus” from the Ministery of Cultureof South Korea2011 Icon of the Year 2011,in Arts and Culture; Gatra Media Indonesia2008 Grant for Innovative Art Project “Memorabilia” from Kelola Arts Foundation,Jakarta, Indonesia2008 Jahresstipendium der Niedersächsische Ministerium für Kultur und Wissenschaft,(Grant from the Ministry of Culture and Science NiedersachsenGermany)2006 Arbeitsstipendium Stiftung Kunsfonds, Bonn, Germany2002 - 2003 Graduierten Stipendium, Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweig2003 Arbeitsstipendium der Niedersächsische Ministerium für Kultur und Wissenschaft,Braunschweig (Grant from the Ministry of Culture and ScienceNiedersachsen Germany)Other Projects2019- As Jury for the Bandung Contemporary Art Competition, Lawangwangi Foundnation,Bandung-2018- Critical Responder for the Asia Dramaturgy Network (ADN), Jogjakarta, Indonesia- Facilitator for D-LAP II, Studio Plesungan, Karanganyar- Lecture at the Städelschule, Frankfurt.- Keynote Speaker at “Conversation” Art Basel Hongkong, Hongkong- Facilitator for Artists Platform, Goethe Insitute , Bangkok, Thailand- Facilitator for Platform for Women Artists, Kelola Foundation, Yogyakarta, Indonesia2017- Keynote speaker at Museum Summit, Asia Society, Manila, Philippines- Artistic Director of the Jakarta Biennale 2017, Jakarta, Indoensia- Guest Lecturer at the NAFA (Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts) Singapore2016Melati Suryodarmo CV info@melatisuryodarmo.com- Art Summit Indonesia , as performance workshop tutor, Padang, Indonesia- As Curator and facilitator of the “undisclosed territory #10” performance art event at theStudio Plesungan, Solo, Indonesia- Keynote Speaker at the International Seminar at the post Graduate Program IndonesianInstitute of the Arts, Padang Panjang- Keynote Speaker at Seminar on “Artistic reserach” at the Indonesian Institute of the ArtsSurakarta- Guest Lecturer at the Post Graduate Program, Indonesian Insitute of the Arts, Jogjakarta2015- Guest Lecturer at the Post Graduate Program, Indonesian Insitute of the Arts, Jogjakarta- As panel speaker at the Workshop for young curators in the performing arts at theSingapore International Festival of the Arts- As mentor for Double Dance, Dare! Workshop for dance and performance art, SaskiKirana Dance Camp, Bandung, Indonesia- Public Lecture at the PKKH, Universitas Gajah Mada, Yogyakarta- Public Lecture at the National Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia- Public Lecture at the Parliement House of Australia, Canberra- As Curator and facilitator of the “undisclosed territory #9” performance art event at theStudio Plesungan, Solo, Indonesia- As Instructure for Lab “Translate,Intertwine, Transgress” Symposium at Moderna Museet,Stockholm, Sweden- As Instructure for Workshop at Fort Rotterdam Makassar, South Sulawesi, indonesisa- As Instrcture for Workshop at the Oksigen Jawa, ITB Bandung, Indonesia- Project House Club, HAU3, Hebbel Am Ufer , Berlin2014- Project House Club, China Festival, HAU2, Hebbel Am Ufer , Berlin- As curator for „undisclosed territory #8“ performance art event atStudio Plesungan, Solo, Indonesia.2013- As curator for „undisclosed territory #7“ performance art event at Studio Plesungan,Solo, Indonesia.- „Pseudopartisipatif Project“, with Cemeti Art House, Jogjakarta, Indonesia- Performance Art Workshop „beetwen the space“ at the Bangkok Arts andCulture Centre, Bangkok, Thailand.- „D-Lap“ dance laboratory, as facilitator, collaboration between PadepokanLemah Putih and CCAP Stockholm.„between the space“, performance art class for graduate and post graduateprogram at Umea Konsthogskolan, Umea, Sweden2012- Curator for „undisclosed territory #6“ performance art event at Padepokan Lemah Putih,Solo, Indonesia.- Facilitator for P_LAP,a performance Laboratory Project, collaborative project betweenPadepokan Lemah Putih Solo Indonesia with Galeria Labirynt Lublin Poland; as curator- Performance art wokshop II at the Padepokan Lemah Putih, Solo, Indonesia2011- Residency at Manila Contemporary, Manila, the Philipines- Mentor for EUFRAD (the European Forum for Research Degrees in Art and Design,Stockholm, Sweden. Workshop for european Phd candidates in artistic research.- Lecture for the Master Program at University of Dance and Circus,Stockholm- Workshop in Mandalay School of Arts during the Beyond Pressure festival,Mandalay, MyanmarMelati Suryodarmo CV info@melatisuryodarmo.com- Performance art wokshop I at the Padepokan Lemah Putih, Solo, Indonesia2010- Lecture and Workshop at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, boston MA, USA- Workshop at the Academy of Fine Arts - University of Umeå, Sweden- Artist in Residence at IASPIS Residency in Umea and Saxnas, Sweden2009- Workshop at the Academy of Fine Arts - University of Umeå, Sweden- Panelist for Panel Discussion on Women artists in the era of Post_feminism; IncheonWomen Artists‘ Biennale 2009; at Chinese Center Incheon, South Korea- Lecture at the Chiangmai University, Faculty of Fine arts, Chiangmai, Thailand- Lecture at the WIlliam Waren Library, Jim Thompson Foundation, Bangkok, Thailand.- Lecture at the Dongmen Museum, Tainan, Taipei2008- “Is everything performance, is performance everything?”, panel member for Dans Biennal,Umea, Sweden- Workshop at the ZOOM Inetrnational performance art Festival Hildesheim, Germany- Lecture about Organizing Performance Art Labiratory Project, Asiatopia 10th, BangkokArt and Culture Centre, Bangkok, Thailandsince 2007- PALA (Performance Art Laboratory) Project, and “undisclosed territory #1 - #5, performanceart event”as Project manager, Padepokan Lemah Putih, in Tejakula, Bali, and Solo,Java,Indonesia.2007- Lecture at the Malmö School of Arts.- Artist in Studio, December 2007 at Lilith Performance Studio Malmö, Swedia- “Flying Circus Project” – Travelogue – Superintense- Singapore- Ho Chi Minh City, curatedby Ong Ken Seng, Theatreworks, Singapore- “15 International Performance Art Conference”, as project manager, in Bali, Indonesia2006- Faciilitator for the “Time_Place_Space 5”, at the Queensland University of technology(QUT) Brisbane, curated and organized by the Performance Space Sydney Australia- Residency at Grace exhibition Space, New York2005- “Focusing the day”, Project with youths in Berlin, HKW Berlin.Bibliographie |selected|- “Elements and Principles of 4D Art and Design”, Ellen Mueller, Oxford UniversityPress, New York, 2017; pg. 20-21- “Political Acts - Pioneers of Performance Art in South East Asia”, exh. Catalogue;Victorian Arts Centre Trust; Melbourne; 2017; pg. 26 -27- “Reenacting History” , exh. Catalogue, National Museum of Modern andContemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea, 2017; pg 78 - 81Melati Suryodarmo CV info@melatisuryodarmo.com- “Sunshower - Contemporary Art from South East Asia 1980s to Now “,exh. Catalogue; National Art Centre Tokyo, Mori Museum, Japan Foundation;Tokyo Japan; 2017; pg. 110 - 111- “Atlas of Mirrors”, Singapore Biennale 2016, exh. Catalogue, Singapore ArtMuseum; SIngapore; 2016; pg. 54 - 55- “Asia Pacific Triennale” Exh. Catalogue, CAGOMA, Brisbane, 2015- “GuangZhou Trienale”, Exh. Catalogue, Guang Dong Museum of Art, China2015- Rebecca Russo; „Pressing“ exh. Catalogue; Fondazzione @videoinsight,Turin, Italy; 2013- Dominique Lora, „Beyond the East“, Glocal Porject and MACRO, 2011- Serenella Ciclitira, „Indonesian Eye Contemporary Indonesian Art “ Saatchi,Thames and Hudson, London 2011- Prof. Achile Bonito Oliva, „Art Beyond the Year of Two Thousand“, BiasaArtSpace Little Library, Bali; 2010- Elin Lundgren + Petter Pettersson,“Lilith Performance Studio“, lilithperformancestudio,Malmö, 2010, pg: 82 - 85- Agung Hujanitkajennong + Enin Supriyanto,“The Grass Looks greenerwhere you water it“ Indonesian Contemporary art Showcase at Art Paris2010, exhibition Catalogue; Indonesian Platform/Dedy Kusuma, Jakarta2010; pg: 96, 97, 98, 144, 145, 146- Krisna Murti,“Essays on Video Art and New Media: Indonesia andbeyond“, Indonesian Visual Arts Archive (IVAA) Jogjakarta, 2009, pg. 185 -189- Paula Orrell (editor),“Marina Abramovic + The Future of performanceArt“,Prestel Munich-Berlin-London-New York, pg 125; pg 159- Dr. Yang Eunhee (editor),“2009 Incheon Women Artists‘ Biennale- mainexhibition“ , Exhibition Catalogue, Incheon Women Artis‘ Biennale OrganizingCommittee South Korea, 2009; pg: 184 - 185- Manifesta7, “The Rest Of Now”, Exhibition Catalogue, 2008- Carla Bianpoen, “Indonesian Women Artists: The Curtain Opens”, TheIndonesian Arts Foundation, 2007- “Loneliness in the Boundaries”, Works catalogue, Cemeti Art House forMelati Suryodarmo, Jogjakarta 2006- Räume und Schatten, exh. Catalogue, Haus der Kulturen der Welt Berlin,2005, pg 180, 192, 213.- 15th Festival internacional de arte electronica Video Brasil, Associacao,cultural videobrasil, Sao Paolo, 2005, pg.148-153, 170-175.- Emanuela Nobile Mino, “Faxe kondi”, exh. Catalogue, Futura o.s, Prague,2005.- Jane Kallir, “ Egon Schiele Love and Death”, Van Gogh Museum Amsterdam,Exh. Catalogue, Hatje Cantz Publishers Germany, 2005, pg 169 &171- Marina Abramovic, “Student Body”, Edizione Charta, Milan, Italy 2003,pg. 390 – 401- Else Jespersen, “4th Performance Festival Odense 2003“, exh. catalogue,International Performance Festival Odense, 2003, pg. 24- Francesco Bonami, “Dreams and Conflicts – the dictatorship of the viewer,50th International art exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia”, Exhibition catalo-Melati Suryodarmo CV info@melatisuryodarmo.comgue, Grafiche Peruzzo, Vegianno for Marsilio Editori s.p.a in Venice, pg.497- Jens Hoffmann, “ A little bit of history repeated”, exh. Catalogue, KunstWerke Berlin e.V, Berlin, 2001, pg.36,37- Boris Nieslony , “E.P.I Zentrum NRW”, ASA-European, Cologne- Michael Glasmeier und die Meisterschüler 2002,”Meisterschüler 2002 –Zeichnungen” exh. Catalogue, © Michael Glasmeier und die MeisterschülerHBK 2002, pg. 91-96- Mario Candia and Stefania Miscetti, “ANAPBLEPS“, exh. catalogue, GalleryMiscetti, Rome, 2000, pg. 38, 116- Else Jespersen, “Performance Festival Odense 1999“, exh. catalogue,Performance Festival Odense, 1999, pg. 44- Hannes Malte Mahler für Agora, “Fresh Air“, exh. catalogue ,Salon Verlag,Cologne, 1999, pg. 96-98Melati Suryodarmo CV info@melatisuryodarmo.comHier die von Melati im Podcast erwaehnten Künstlerinnen: Cindy Sherman:https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cindy_Sherman Hito Steyerl: https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hito_Steyerl

This weeks Kicking Back Podcast features Griot Gabriel. Griot Gabriel is a spoken word artist who shares his experiences and views through his poetry; exploring race, political discourse, Black youth culture in Britain infused with African history. Using hip hop influenced rhymes and story telling, Griot Gabriel seeks to take audiences on a journey that educates, challenges, and inspires. He has performed at the 2019 Manchester International Festival and opened for Robyn Travis' Freedom from the Streets' book launch. We go in depth into his creative process and discuss his experiences. Produced by RecRooms, The Kicking Back Podcast is an audio and video podcast hosted by video producer and musician Brad Ingham and co-hosted by guitarist and musician Matthew Campbell. It discusses Arts, Music and many other topics with a different Artist/ Creative in each episode.

“Some people are Mancunian by pure accident of birth. I chose to become one.”   Urban Splash founder Tom Bloxham MBE, was told his ambitious regeneration projects - from Britannia Mills to Timber Wharf - ‘would never work’.  Lisa Morton discovers how he went from selling posters and fire extinguishers, to championing Manchester’s creative industry, becoming one of the largest modular housing builders in the UK, and overseeing the creation of Manchester International Festival’s brand new home - jumbo jet-sized culture venue, The Factory.  We Built This City is a series of conversations with some of the amazing Mancunians - born, bred or adopted – who put the heart into modern Manchester. A celebration of the human grit, determination and love found throughout the city, these episodes will lift you up, make you laugh and inspire you to leave our city in a better place.  _ _ _ _ _  Your host, Lisa Morton, started PR company Roland Dransfield in 1996, one month after the fateful IRA bomb that tore apart the city centre. From that point, the business, and its team members, have been involved in helping to support the creation of Modern Manchester – across regeneration, business, charity, leisure and hospitality, sport and culture.   To celebrate the 24 years Roland Dransfield has spent creating these bonds, Lisa is gathering together some of her Greater Mancunian ‘family’ and will be exploring how they have created their own purposeful relationships with the best place in the world. Connect with Lisa and Roland Dransfield:  Via Phone: 01612361122  Via our website (http://www.rdpr.co.uk/)   On Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/roland_dransfield/)   On Twitter (https://twitter.com/RDPRtweets)   On Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0YW3lVDOWrE0QZlV6XjEtF?si=nEuISHWcRfCF8l3kHKRNSw)     Connect with Tom Bloxham:  Via Urban Splash’s website (https://www.urbansplash.co.uk/about/team/tom-bloxham)   On Twitter (https://twitter.com/TomBloxhamMBE?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor)   On LinkedIn (https://uk.linkedin.com/in/tom-bloxham-26055413)  

Gregory is the author of the 2020 International Dance Day message – which so poignantly addresses the fragility of the world and humankind.Gregory’s dance journey provides a powerful insight to the dance of dance as a political voice and his voice has carried across the world. His insightful, unflinching, International Dance Day message speaks to his empathy and insight as an activist and artist.Gregory became interested in dance in the late 1980s as a means to escape the political tensions growing in his place of birth. He started his formal dance training in 1990 at Moving Into Dance wherein 2002 he became the Associate Artistic Director. Maqoma has established himself as an internationally renowned dancer, choreographer, teacher and director. He founded Vuyani Dance Theatre (VDT) in 1999 when he was undertaking a scholarship at the Performing Arts Research and Training School (PARTS) in Belgium under the direction of Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker.Maqoma is respected for his collaborations with artists of his generation like Akram Khan, Vincent Mantsoe, Faustin Linyekula, Dada Masilo, Shanell Winlock, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Nhlanhla Mahlangu and Theatre Director James Ngcobo.Several works in his repertoire have won him accolades and international acclaim. This includes FNB Vita Choreographer of the Year in 1999, 2001 and 2002 for Rhythm 1.2.3, Rhythm Blues and Southern Comfort respectively. He received the Standard Bank Young Artist Award for Dance in 2002. Maqoma was a finalist in the Daimler Chrysler Choreography Award in 2002 and in the Rolex Mentorship Programme in 2003. He is the recipient of the 2012 Tunkie Award for Leadership in Dance. In 2014 he received a “Bessie”, New York City’s premier dance award for Exit/Exist for original music composition. He served as a nominator in the 2016–2017 Rolex Arts Initiative as well as curating the 2017 Main Dance Program for The National Arts Festival. His current works ‘Via Kanana’ and ‘Cion: Requiem of Ravel’s Bolero’ were touring in Africa and Europe when Covid colosed borders and dancers were forced to return to South Africa.In 2017 Maqoma was honoured by the French Government with the Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (Knight of the Arts & Literature) Award. In 2018 was honoured by the South African Department of Arts & Culture with the inaugural Usiba Award for dedication to dance teaching.In 2018 Maqoma collaborated with William Kentridge as a choreographer and performing in Kentridge’s opera ‘The Head And The Load’ toured to the UK, Germany, Austria, Holland and New York.In 2019 Maqoma Collaborated with Idris Elba and Kwame Kwei-Armah in the production “Tree” produced by Manchester International Festival and the Young Vic. He is also part of the selection committee for Dance Biennale Afrique Festival which was to take place in Marrakech in 2020.

A refugee girl's giant puppet will march from the Turkey-Syria border to the Manchester International Festival. The aim? Tell the story of children who are refugees. David Lan, Co-Producer of The Walk 00:33 #TheWalk #Puppet #Refugee

Art Director and Pop Culture Curator, Mat Bancroft shares his creative process by fighting for the art against tensions that counter it by curating and detailing the movements he’s inspired by and involved in by assembling, cataloguing, managing, and presenting their artistic and cultural importance.From Johnny Marr's Art Director to being part of the curation team that organized and realized True Faith - an exhibition of the artistic legacy and influence of Joy Division and New Order exhibit at the Manchester Art Gallery and Manchester International Festival in 2017. Spearheaded various pop culture archives including the archives of Factory Records, Tony Wilson and Rob Gretton, and his current work on Derek Jarman’s archive for Art Fund UK.Web: www.unknownorigins.comTwitter: UnknownOrigins9Instagram: unknownoriginsuo77

After the huge success of our Actor Awareness Q&A's over lockdown we have decided to start them up again!   Over lockdown we ran Q&A's with some incredible industry role models such as Vicky Mcclure, Danny Brocklehurst, Nickie Sault & Shane Meadows, alongside many more. We had over 1000 people attend virtually, so due to the success we are ready to run them again! Kicking us back off is John McGrath who is the Artistic Director of Manchester International Festival. We will be talking festival changes during a pandemic, creating new work, best way to stand out when applying for festivals & much more. Please send in any questions you want me to ask John to actorawareness1@gmail.com Here is John's Bio. John E. McGrath is Artistic Director and Chief Executive of Manchester International Festival. His first Festival in 2017 featured world premieres from leading international artists; a new digital direction for MIF; a series of participatory commissions in public spaces, and My Festival a year-round programme forging closer connections with Manchester communities. In 2019 John commissioned artists including Yoko Ono, Philip Glass, Laurie Anderson, Idris Elba and Tania Bruguera to make work for the largest ever edition of MIF. John was previously Artistic Director of National Theatre Wales, where he achieved a reputation for large-scale site-specific work, digital innovation and extraordinary community involvement. As Chief Executive of MIF John will also be responsible for The Factory, a flagship cultural space currently being built in the heart of Manchester, which will have a year-round programme of new work from the world’s greatest artists, offering a space to make, explore and experiment.

2019 gewann Gregor Erlers DER LETZTE MIETER den Preis für den besten Langfilm auf dem Manchester International Festival. Ob das gerechtfertigt ist und was der deutsche Entführungsfilm mit Wolfgang Packhäuser, Matthias Ziesing, Pegah Ferydoni und Mignon Remé draufhat, verrät Antje Wessels euch in ihrer Kritik.

Praised by the New York Times for his “genuine originality,” Rufus Wainwright has established himself as one of the great male vocalists and songwriters of his generation. The New York-born, Montreal-raised singer songwriter has released countless studio albums, three DVDs, and three live albums, including the fantastic Grammy nominated Rufus Does Judy at Carnegie Hall, which captured his celebrated Judy Garland tribute performance at the London Palladium in 2007, and the album Release The Stars which went Gold in Canada and the UK. His new album Unfollow the Rules – his ninth with original material — was released on 10 July 2020.Wainwright has received Juno Awards for Best Alternative Album in 1999 and 2002 for Rufus Wainwright and Poses, respectively, and nominations for his albums Want Two (2005)and Release the Stars (2008). He was nominated for Songwriter of the Year in 2008 for his Release the Stars album. He also composed the original music for choreographer Stephen Petronio’s work BLOOM which has toured across the country.Musically Rufus has collaborated with artists including Elton John, David Byrne, Boy George, Joni Mitchell, Pet Shop Boys and producer Mark Ronson among others. He collaborated on the title track of Robbie Williams’ latest album, Swings Both Ways, which was co-written with renowned musician and producer Guy Chambers and sung as a duet between Rufus and Robbie.In addition to being a celebrated contemporary pop singer, Rufus has made a name for himself in the classical world. His much acclaimed first opera, titled Prima Donna, premiered at the Manchester International Festival in July 2009. The opera was subsequently performed in London at Sadler’s Wells in April 2010, in Toronto at the Luminato Festival in June 2010 and at the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Howard Gilman Opera House in February 2012.Now fully established as a composer of operas, Rufus was commissioned by the Canadian Opera Company to write his second opera based on the story of the Roman Emperor Hadrian and Antinous. The new opera, Hadrian, premiered in Toronto on October 13, 2018.The music for the podcast is Twiggy's version of "Waterloo Sunset" by the Kinks and can be found on Apple Music at this link https://music.apple.com/gb/album/romantically-yours/693460953If you’ve enjoyed listening to “Tea With Twiggy” please give take a moment to give us a lovely 5 STAR rating on Apple Podcasts. It really helps other people to find the show.If you haven’t done so already please subscribe to this podcast so you auto-magically get the next episodes for free and do tell all your friends and family about it too. If you want to connect with me I’d love to hear from you.You can find me on Twitter @TwiggyOr you can find me on Instagram @Twiggy LawsonMy thanks go to all the people that have helped this podcast happen:● Many thanks to James Carrol and all the team at Northbank Talent Management● Thanks to all the team at Stripped Media including Ben Williams, who edits the show, my producer Kobi Omenaka and Executive Producers Tom Whalley and Dave CorkeryIf you want to know more about this podcast and other produced by Stripped Media please visit www.Stripped.media or email Producers@Stripped.Media to find out! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Kate Molleson hosts an online panel discussion on issues relating to race and equality within the classical music industry with contributions from performers, composers, artistic leaders and programmers. The panel considers past histories and looks to the future through the lenses of education, economics and programming and deliberates on the current impact Covid-19 is having on diversity within the arts. Kate Molleson is joined by Founder, Artistic and Executive Director of the Chineke! Foundation, Chi-chi Nwanoku; experimental vocalist, movement artist and composer, Elaine Mitchener; composer and Professor of American Music at Columbia University, George E. Lewis; Chair of UK Music Diversity Taskforce, Ammo Talwar; and Head of Music at Manchester International Festival, Jane Beese; with contributions from writer, Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason; Founder and Artistic Director of plainsightSOUND, Uchenna Ngwe and composer, Adolphus Hailstork.

A cultural conversation in partnership with Brunswick Arts.John Wilson, Presenter and Producer of BBC Radio 4 ‘Front Row', moderates a conversation on the future of live performance. He is joined by Tamara Rojo CBE, Artistic Director and Lead Principal Dancer of the English National Ballet, John McGrath, Artistic Director & Chief Executive of Manchester International Festival and The Factory, and Gillian Moore, Director of Music at the Southbank Centre. Together, they deliberate what the creative industries need to survive and thrive after the pandemic, explain why people need to become “lighter” on their feet to find new ways to express artistic freedom and spirit, and discuss whether we will see a cultural flourishing from the ‘underground'. 

Mark Ball is Creative Director of Manchester International Festival (MIF), where he is responsible for leading the artistic programme for The Factory, MIF’s new large-scale venue for arts and culture.. Enjoy Mark's discussion on nurturing bold ideas, convincing the sceptics, dancing with risk and building cultural spaces.

Russell and Robert chat to Maria Balshaw CBE, Director of Tate, a family of four art galleries in London, Liverpool and Cornwall known as Tate Modern, Tate Britain, Tate Liverpool and Tate St Ives. Balshaw is Tate’s first female Director.We discuss the effect of the lockdown on Tate museums, filming guided tours for their website of the on-hold blockbuster Andy Warhol and Aubrey Beardsley exhibitions for the public to access during lockdown, the increased global usage of their website during the pandemic in particular as a resource for children's art education, her passion for gardening, the lasting influence of Derek Jarman (and his music videos for Pet Shop Boys), the great news that Jarman’s house ‘Prospect Cottage’ has been saved for the nation by Artfund’s campaign and some inspiring lessons learned from collaborating with artist Marina Abramović.We learn of Maria's admiration for Steve McQueen's artwork and his recent epic portrait of London’s Year 3 school pupils (exhibited at Tate Britain), her love of Cornelia Parker's installation 'Cold Dark Matter' (which she first saw at Chisenhale gallery in 1991) and her longterm commitment to redressing the imbalance of representation for women artists, artists of colour and queer artists in museum collections and exhibition programmes. Recently a number of watercolours by Emmeline Pankhurst’s daughter Sylvia Pankhurst, best remembered as an activist/campaigner for the UK Suffragette movement, became part of Tate Collection. Finally we reminisce about Anne Imhof's now legendary live performance series at Tate's Tanks in 2019.We explore her years working as Director of the Whitworth, University of Manchester and Manchester City Galleries, when she oversaw the £17 million transformation of the Whitworth, which was subsequently awarded the Art Fund Museum of the Year award for 2015. She was also Director of Culture for Manchester City Council from 2013-2017, played a leading role in establishing the city as a leading cultural centre for the UK. She is currently a Board Member of Arts Council England, the Clore Leadership Programme and Manchester International Festival. Maria was awarded a CBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours for services to the arts in June 2015.Follow @MariaBalshaw on Instagram & @MBalshaw Twitter and @Tate on all social media platforms. Tate's website is: www.tate.org.uk For images of artworks discussed in this week's episode please visit @TalkArt and we are now on Twitter too @TalkArtPodcast. Thanks for listening! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Rhythmshawe was created by a group of young Mancunians for Manchester International Festival’s Festival In My Neighbourhood series and Manchester Libraries’ Creative Spaces programme, delivered with Reform Radio and Creative City, in partnership with Manchester Adult Education Service.

This week, not a whole lot in the way of news, but we make up for it with a review of a potential multi-time Oscar-winner, two more Rock-umentaries and an accidental Television Program review.  No, seriously.  We didn't mean to do the last one.  Tune in to find out how we screwed that up by giving you more stuff. www.cinemasavants.com

Dan Daw is an Australian dance artist based in Birmingham. Dan grew up in Whyalla, in country South Australia.  Starting dance at a young age, his grandmother was a callisthenics teacher, so was surrounded by dance and movement from a young age. "It gave me an outlet and a way to express myself, and to be in a space where I could see myself represented." Dan started dancing with Restless Dance Theatre in 2002, before dancing with a range of different companies including; Australian Dance Theatre, and Force Majeure (Australia), FRONTLINEdance, Scottish Dance Theatre, balletLORENT, Candoco Dance Company (UK), and with Skånes Dansteater (Sweden).Throughout his performance career Dan has worked with Kat Worth, Garry Stewart, Kate Champion, Janet Smith, Adam Benjamin, Wendy Houstoun, Sarah Michelson, Rachid Ouramdane, Nigel Charnock, Matthias Sperling, Marc Brew, Claire Cunningham, Martin Forsberg, Carl Olof Berg and Javier de Frutos.Dan left Australia to work with Candoco Dance Company, finding a lack of opportunities in Australia, depressed at the prospect of needing to go on the dole after significant performance opportunities. There are bigger conversations that need to be had about who can be considered a dancer within an Australian context and who is missing out on professional opportunities. Dan's work often blurs the lines between dance and theatre and can have a common theme related to time. Dan has created solo works – ‘Beast’ by Martin Forsberg and ‘On One Condition’ by Graham Adey, the latter receiving the Adelaide Fringe Best Theatre Award 2017. In 2020 Dan will premiere his new work The Dan Daw Show, which explores inspiration, porn and audiences expectations of disabled artists.  Dan was interviewed during a successful run of Thank You Very Much by Claire Cunningham during Manchester International Festival.  This is the first episode in a season looking at Australian dance artists working and living overseas.

From a young age this Strong Manchester Woman felt that she wasn’t accepted into society. She grew tired of the narrative that went along her identity as a South Asian, Muslim woman. To put it simply, she wasn't having it. So she decided to fight back and write her own narrative, by becoming a performance poet and producer. In this episode, your host Vic Elizabeth Turnbull speaks to Nasima Begum. When she’s not being a badass poet, Nasima works in youth development - with a focus on building the confidence and resilience of young Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic and Refugee girls. In early 2019, she was awarded a prestigious Jerwood Creative Fellowship to make new work for that year’s Manchester International Festival.  In this episode Nasima talks about, Pushing back against stereotypes  Being a cat mum What really spurred her to become a performance poet Learning the hard way about the importance of looking after yourself Battling with self-doubt and getting comfortable with being uncomfortable Life after loss Being the most unorganised woman in the world How she’s #NotHavingIt and standing up for herself Links and information Nasima’s on twitter (https://twitter.com/nasimabee) This is the Bangleshi Women’s Organisation (https://www.facebook.com/anannambwo/) where Nasima works There’s more info about her involvement with Manchester International Festival here  (https://jerwoodarts.org/projects/manchester-international-festival/) Nasima’s a board member for Young Identity (https://youngidentity.org/) , a spoken word collective for young people in Manchester Listen to other Strong Manchester Manchester Women podcast episodes visit, www.MICmedia.co.uk/StrongManchesterWomenPodcast (http://www.micmedia.co.uk/StrongManchesterWomenPodcast) Strong Manchester Women  The podcast is inspired by the annual Strong Women campaign. The 14 women profiled in this podcast were selected for the 2019 campaign. For more information about the women visit The Pankhurst Trust’s website (https://www.pankhursttrust.org/get-involved/events/strong-manchester-women-display) .  Credits  Produced, edited and artwork by MIC Media www.MICmedia.co.uk (http://www.micmedia.co.uk) @MICmediauk (http://www.twitter.com/micmediauk) Next Episode Released 2nd October

The final episode of MIF Originals explores if (and how) poetry and dance can combine to create something original. Isaiah Hull, our host for this series, was one of four poets that co-wrote the production Alphabus. Working with three dancers from the New York company Flexn and three dancers from Manchester they created a new show for MIF19 that combined poetry and movement to tell the story of a child rebelling against his father, based on the myth of Icarus and Daedalus. Enlisting the help of Billie Meredith, a fellow poet and Yandass Ndlovu, a dancer in the show, Isaiah breaks down some of the processes that they used and questions - were they successful at creating something original? Hosted by Isaiah Hull Music by Vicky Clarke and Epic B Produced by Rebecca Gaskell A Reduced Listening and Manchester International Festival production

Can you imagine a world in which animals of all kinds, including humans, live together as equals? For the final weekend of Manchester International Festival, a team of artists worked together with local children to create a zone of interspecies equality in Whitworth Park. Led by the child ambassadors, this podcast explores how we can live better alongside other animals and asks - what can we learn from them? This is a podcast for ALL animals. Featuring lead artist Sibylle Peters of Hamburg’s Theatre of Research and curator Lois Keidan from the Live Art Development Agency, plus contributions from artists Angela Bartram and Katharina Duve. This podcast could not have been made without the children and animals of Manchester - a big thank you to Jonas, Amar, Abdullah, Kitty, Willem, Tabrez, Awais, Mustafa, Grace, Emmett, Martha and Dexter, Dolly, George and Diane, Archie and Sami, Carly and Tricia, Petal the cow and Cheeseburger the budgie. Music by Martin Rach and Vicky Clarke. Hosted by Isaiah Hull. Produced by Katie Callin. A Reduced Listening and Manchester International Festival production.

Welcome to your first day at the School of Integration. This episode is all about sharing knowledge across cultural divides. When people arrive in a new country they are usually expected to learn the customs and languages of the host culture, but what if the tables were turned? Cuban artist Tania Bruguera acknowledges that integration is a two-way street and gives us the chance to learn from people who have moved to Manchester and made it their home. On the curriculum are lessons by the Congolese drummer and community leader Pat Mackela, who asks is marriage a topic for the 21st Century? Mei Yuk Wong, an artist from Hong Kong discusses the art of protest, and Iranian writer Shahireh Sharif shares the forward thinking insights of Shahnameh, an epic Persian poem written over a thousand years ago. Don’t forget your homework! Hosted by Isaiah Hull. Music by Vicky Clarke. Produced by Rebecca Gaskell. A Reduced Listening and Manchester International Festival production.

Sara Green is a dancer, choreographer, movement director and film-maker. She's collaborated with artists and other performers across theatre, film, fashion and dance. Her recent work includes Richard Ayoade’s vignette for Radiohead, short film The Entertainer starring Toby Jones, and Anita & Me, a world premiere for the Birmingham Rep. In this chat, Sara talks about the differences between working with dancers and non-dancers, and explains how she communicates movement to actors who don't have a dance background. We also ponder ways of embodying science through movement, discuss Sara's history and unique physicality, and talk in particular about the Manchester International Festival commission she's created, Superposition. This is a bit of a Manchester International Festival special. Sara's commission is a response to an MiF installation by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Atmospheric Memory.   Sara's website ​Superposition video Libsyn link iTunes link HC on Spotify HC on PlayerFM

Hip hop pioneer and art lover Fred Brathwaite, aka Fab 5 Freddy, hunts for the hidden black figures of Italian Renaissance art in a new BBC2 documentary, A Fresh Guide To Florence. He reveals some of the ground-breaking images he discovered of a multi-racial and multi-ethnic society that have slipped through the cracks of art history. Artist Laurie Anderson discusses her new VR artwork To the Moon, currently at the Manchester International Festival. The author of the bestselling Queenie, Candice Carty-Williams, makes her pick of paperbacks to take on holiday as great summer reads. With the release of the trailers for Cats and the new Top Gun film attracting so much attention on social media, Katie Popperwell considers the importance of the film trailer, and what makes a good one. Presenter John Wilson Producer Jerome Weatherald

What would you ask your hero? Phelim McDermott, director and co-founder of Improbable Theatre, is making a stage show with Philip Glass - his long-term hero and creative inspiration. After years of following Glass from afar Phelim now has the chance to meet him, and to ask whatever he wants. The only problem is that Phelim has no idea what to ask. In search of the perfect question, Phelim explores his dreams, dredges up memories and speaks to those who know him best, going to the very core of where ideas come from. Including contributions from Matilda McDermott, Ridley McDermott and co-director Kirsty Housley. Music by Philip Glass and Vicky Clarke. Hosted by Isaiah Hull. Produced by Eliza Lomas. A Reduced Listening and Manchester International Festival production. Tickets are still available for Tao of Glass, open at the Royal Exchange Theatre until Saturday 20 July.

American composer Philip Glass is often cited as one of the most influential composers alive, combining minimalist, spare music with the harmonic tradition of Bach, Schubert and Mozart. Now, for the Manchester International Festival, he's teamed up with British performer and director Phelim McDermott to produce a very personal work with ten new pieces of music and ten meditations on life, death and Taoist wisdom. In the month that Ravelry, a community site for knitters with over 6 million members, bans patterns that support US President Donald Trump, we consider the power of knitting as a political tool with Geraldine Warner, author of Protest Knits and crafter and haberdashery owner Rosie Fletcher. How far has the representation of black women on stage changed in recent years? Martina Laird shares her experiences as an actor and tutor ahead of her talk, Standing on Shoulders, at the National Theatre. A colossal statue of Ed Sheeran, relaxing on a green plinth in tight red shorts and shades, has been unveiled in Moscow’s Gorky Park ahead of his concert there this week. Travel writer Simon Calder reports on examples of statues of performers worldwide. Presenter: Shahidha Bari Producer: Hannah Robins

The Manchester International Festival is a biannual event, enveloping the city in a wide range of arts events across the genres. We'll be casting our critical net as wide as possible Film director David Lynch has curated a series of events at the venue Home, including an exhibition of his artwork and a series of concerts There's been controversy around the Idris ELba/ Kwame Kei Armah play Tree, but will our panel think it's any good? An exhibition by Ghanaian artist Ibrahim Mahama; Parliament of Ghosts at The Whitworth Gallery reclaims and repurposes everyday artefacts David Nicholls' new novel Sweet Sorrow is a tale of adolescent/early adult yearnings framed by a Shakespeare production British indie film Only You follows a largely-carefree couple who get together and decide to have a baby but it's not as easy as they'd hoped And (of course) much much more from MIF Tom Sutcliffe's guests are Sarah Crompton, Katie Popperwell and Chris Thorpe. The producer is Oliver Jones Podcast Extra recommendations Sarah: Marius Petipa, The Emperor's Ballet Master by Nadine Meisner Katie: Malcolm Gladwell's Revisionist History podcast Chris: Abomination by Divide and Dissolve Tom: Spiderman -Into the Spider-verse

Novelist and screenwriter Deborah Moggach whose eighteen novels include Heartbreak Hotel, Tulip Fever and These Foolish Things - made into the hit film The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel - talks to Stig Abell about her new novel The Carer, a poignant story about age, sibling rivalry and having to grow up – at last. Stig is joined by Jordan Erica Webber to play a new computer game based on the world of Hamlet. In Elsinore, released later this month, the player takes on the role of Ophelia and quests to save the lives of the characters and change the course of the story. We ask if an attempt to tell the story of the play in an interactive way bears fruit. The acclaimed Belgian theatre director Ivo van Hove talks about staging Ayn Rand’s 1943 novel The Fountainhead at Manchester International Festival. The adaptation, like the book, tells the story of Howard Roark, an architect who refuses to compromise on his “perfect” designs. US president Donald Trump is a fan of The Fountainhead and the home secretary Sajid Javid revealed during the Conservative leadership debates that he re-reads it once a year. We’ll ask what this production has to tell us about liberalism, politics and individualism today. Following reports that while watching The Voice Kids a woman’s window shattered when a competitor sang a high note, Trevor Cox, Professor of Acoustic Engineering at the University of Salford, tells Front Row whether the human voice really can break glass. Presenter: Stig Abell Producer: Hilary Dunn

As long as he's been a novelist, Adam Thirlwell has been thinking about translation. In Episode 1 of MIF Originals, a new podcast series from Manchester International Festival, Adam looks for answers to some of the questions that have troubled him. Is it possible for literature to be truly international? Who and where is your best reader? How much is endangered and risked when language is translated? What is the original, and what is the copy? And how could radio be made multilingual? We strongly recommend that you listen to this episode in headphones. Contributors include writer Alejandro Zambra and international lawyer Philippe Sands. With music from Vicky Clarke and Mira Calix. Hosted by Isaiah Hull. Produced by Jack Howson. A Reduced Listening and Manchester International Festival production.

Pianist Isata Kanneh-Mason talks about her love for the music of Clara Schumann, who in the 19th Century was famous as a virtuoso pianist but overshadowed as a composer by her husband Robert Schumann. Isata has recorded Clara's music for her debut album, Romance. Tree, a major production of the Manchester International Festival, is embroiled in controversy. The Festival states that Tree is a new work, based on a concept by Idris Elba with an original script by Kwame Kwei-Armah. But writers Tori Allen-Martin and Sarah Henley say that they spent 4 years working on the project, workshopping and writing drafts, and should be credited. Samira talks to Allen-Martin and Henley about this and why they have set up an organisation to help female playwrights. Jill Halfpenny and Babou Ceesay star in new BBC drama Dark Money as a parents who accept a huge pay off to keep quiet after finding out their child was sexually abused while shooting a film in Hollywood. The Radio Times's David Butcher reviews, Presenter: Samira Ahmed Producer: Timothy Prosser

We speak to the leading Ghanaian artist as he unveils a major new commission about the forgotten history of his homeland, on show at the Whitworth as part of the Manchester International Festival. Plus, we find out about the Picasso blockbuster at the UCCA Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

We last saw the work of the Cuban artist Tania Bruguera when she was commissioned for the turbine hall of Tate Modern. She’s known for facing down police interrogation of her work in her native Havana. Now she’s harnessed Manchester’s international community for what she calls a School of Integration. In May, Ibrahim Mahama was one of the six Ghanaian artists chosen to represent the country as it made its debut at the Venice Biennale. Now, he’s come to Manchester to create Parliament of Ghosts – an exhibition at the Whitworth Art Gallery which reflects both on Ghana’s time under British rule, and the years following the country’s independence. The Mexican-Canadian electronic artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer’s new work, Atmospheric Memory uses the very latest technology but is rooted in the story of the English mathematician and computer pioneer Charles Babbage. We’ll be asking why this very contemporary artist is seeking inspiration in the nineteenth century. Presenter: Samira Ahmed Producers: Ekene Akalawu and Olive Clancy

This week, Gilly Smith talks to food writer and social media queen, Alison Roman, rugby captain turned brewer, Alistair Hargreaves of Wolfpack lager, pioneer of New Zealand's biodynamic wines, James Milton, Raymond Blanc on 35 years at Belmond Le Manoir aux Quat' Saisons, Christine Cort on the Manchester International Festival and Ben Tish on the legacy of the food of the Moors. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In the third episode of Series 3, Clint Boon chats to co-founder and Managing Director of Manchester International Festival, Christine Cort.Ahead of this year’s launch, Christine talks to Clint about growing up in Blackburn, organising trips to gigs with her friends as a teenager, working in London, moving back up to Manchester and setting up Manchester International Festival.This series is sponsored by our friends at Safer Roads GM, helping us to keep ourselves and each other SAFE on the roads of Manchester.Don’t forget to subscribe to never miss an episode, and follow Humans Of XS Manchester on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook for exclusive content. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Is it still possible to be original? MIF Originals is a new podcast series where we invite artists developing new work for Manchester International Festival 2019 to design their own audio adventure, investigating what it means to be original. Hosted by the poet Isaiah Hull, MIF Originals kicks off on Wednesday 3 July with award-winning author Adam Thirlwell, exploring the creativity of translation. With a new episode released every Wednesday throughout July, join us each week to hear from Tania Bruguera, Phelim McDermott, Hardeep Pandhal and the artists behind Animals of Manchester (including HUMANZ). Commissioned by Manchester International Festival. Produced by Reduced Listening and Manchester International Festival. Music: Vicky Clarke, Ariel

The 2019 Manchester International Festival will take place at various venues around the city in July. An edited version of the main presentation at the MIF launch on 7 March can be heard in a previous British Theatre Guide podcast episode, but we also spoke directly to some of the artists involved. We asked MIF Artistic Director John McGrath for his highlights of the theatre programme and how Manchester has changed since he was head of the city's Contact Theatre. We also spoke to Leo Warner of 59 Productions about his collaboration with choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, writer Lolita Chakrabarti and Rambert Dance on an adaptation of Italo Calvino's novel Invisible Cities. Finally, we asked director Phelim McDermott about Tao of Glass, his collaboration with composer Philip Glass on a new stage performance featuring ten brand new pieces of music composed by Glass. Invisible Cities will be performed at Mayfield beside Piccadilly Station in Manchester from 4 to 14 July. Tao of Glass will be at the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester from 11 to 20 July. The Manchester International Festival 2019 will take place at various venues from 4 to 21 July. Photos: John McGrath, MIF Artistic Director and Chief Executive introduces the MIF19 programme. Image credit Tarnish Vision. Leo Warner, Lolita Chakrabarti, Benoit Swan Pouffer—Invisible Cities. Image credit Joel Chester Fildes. Philip Glass and Phelim McDermott. Image credit Rod Morata.

Highlights of the launch event for the Manchester International Festival 2019, held in Manchester on 7 March 2019. Introduced by MIF artistic director John McGrath, this episode also features announcements from festival participants including Phelim McDermott of Improbable Theatre, Kwame Kwei-Armah of Young Vic Theatre, actors Maxine Peake and Juliet Stevenson, Leo Warner of 59 Productions, writer Lolita Chakrabarti, choreographer Claire Cunningham, Mary Anne Hobbs of BBC 6 Music and grime artist Skepta. Other artists appearing at the festival include Philip Glass, Yoko Ono, Laurie Anderson and David Lynch. Image from MIF launch: Michael Symmons Roberts, Emily Howard, John McGrath, Maxine Peake, Grainne Flynn, Wesley Thistlewaite, Adam Ali, Kirsty Housley, Claire Cunningham, Leo Warner, Kwame Kwei-Armah, Isaiah Hull, Young identity poet, Reggie Gray, Animals of Manchester child-curators, Sibylle Peters, Karl Hyde, Lois Keidan, Adam Thirlwell, Danny Collins, Adania Shibli, Juliet Stevenson, Lolita Chakrabarti, Benoit Swan Pouffer, Christine Cort, Mark Ball

The director and writer reflect on their production of An Octoroon. Ned Bennett directed Pomona at the Orange Tree Theatre, National Theatre and Royal Exchange; The Crocodile at the Manchester International Festival and Yen at the Royal Court and the Royal Exchange. He won the UK Theatre Award for Best Director for Pomona and Yen Branden Jacobs-Jenkins won the 2014 Obie Award for Best New American Play for Appropriate and An Octoroon. He was a finalist for the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Gloria, and was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2016.

This week Gilly Smith and River Cottage's Steven Lamb explore the rise and rise of Manchester's food scene with Colin Woodall of Woodalls Charcuterie, Adam Reid, head chef at The French, Lee Frost, butcher to the city's best restaurants and Lucy Noone, greengrocer to the stars. Plus where and why to eat in Manchester with Christine Cort, chief executive of the biennial Manchester International Festival, Fodder podcaster, Matt White, food journalist, Louise Rhind-Tutt and restaurant consultant, Thom Hetherington. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Talking to John McGrath, Director of the Festival about his two years in charge, following on from Alex Poots, what he's planning for 2019, how the festival is expanding and its place in the city.

This week's guest is the Olivier and Tony Award-winning playwright Simon Stephens. A mainstay of London's new writing theatre, the Royal Court where he is now associate playwright, Stephens' work with the Sloane Square venue includes Bluebird, Herons, Nuclear War and Birdland. Elsewhere his critically acclaimed plays include Sea Wall, which premiered at the Bush in 2008, Heisenberg, which was seen in the West End last year, and a new adaptation of Brecht's The Threepenny Opera which premiered at the National Theatre in 2016 starring Rory Kinnear and Rosalie Craig. He's perhaps most well-known for penning the stage adaptation of Mark Haddon's bestselling novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time which ran in the West End for over 1,600 performances and on Broadway for almost two years – earning Stephens major accolades on both sides of the Atlantic. Last year his new piece with Frantic Assembly's Scott Graham and Underworld's Karl Hyde, Fatherland, premiered at the Manchester International Festival and it now transfers to the Lyric Hammersmith, running from 25 May to 23 June.

This week we delve into the world of old movie musicals brought to the stage. We take a look at the Broadway tour of An American in Paris. We also go in-depth with the classic Spanish drama, Yerma, staged by the Young Vic Theatre in London and shared with the world by National Theatre Live in London. An American in Paris, tells the thrilling story of a young American soldier, a beautiful French girl, and an indomitable European city, each yearning for a new beginning in the aftermath of war. Featuring a score including the songs “I Got Rhythm,” “‘S Wonderful,” “But Not for Me,” “Stairway to Paradise,” “They Can't Take That Away” and orchestral music including “Concerto in F,” “2nd Prelude,” “2nd Rhapsody” and “An American in Paris.” In Yerma, the incredible Billie Piper (Penny Dreadful, Great Britain) returns in her Evening Standard Best Actress award-winning role. A young woman is driven to the unthinkable by her desperate desire to have a child in Simon Stone's radical production of Lorca's achingly powerful masterpiece. The unmissable theatre phenomenon sold out at the Young Vic and critics call it ‘an extraordinary theatrical triumph' (The Times) and ‘stunning, searing, unmissable' (Mail on Sunday). Billie Piper's lead performance is described as ‘spellbinding' (The Evening Standard), ‘astonishing' (iNews) and ‘devastatingly powerful' (The Daily Telegraph). Set in contemporary London, Piper's portrayal of a woman in her thirties desperate to conceive builds with elemental force to a staggering, shocking, climax. _______ National Theatre Live launched in June 2009 with a broadcast of the National Theatre production of Phèdre with Helen Mirren. They've since broadcast more than forty other productions live, from both the National Theatre and from other theatres in the UK. Their broadcasts have now been experienced by over 5.5 million people in over 2,000 venues around the world, including over 650 venues in the UK alone. Past broadcasts from the National Theatre have included Danny Boyle's Frankenstein with Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller; War Horse; Man and Superman with Ralph Fiennes; and Everyman with Chiwetel Ejiofor. Broadcasts from other UK theatres include Coriolanus from the Donmar Warehouse; A View from the Bridge from the Young Vic; Macbeth from the Manchester International Festival; and Hangmen and The Audience from London's West End. Our biggest single broadcast to date is Hamlet with Benedict Cumberbatch at the Barbican, which has been seen by over 550,000 people. In 2014 the National Theatre recorded its first production on Broadway, Of Mice and Men with James Franco and Chris O'Dowd, captured at the Longacre Theatre. Though each broadcast is filmed in front of a live audience in the theatre, cameras are carefully positioned throughout the auditorium to ensure that cinema audiences get the ‘best seat in the house' view of each production. Where these cameras are placed is different for each broadcast, to make sure that cinema audiences enjoy the best possible experience every time.

HYC 036 welcomes a guest mix from Mumbai native Sandunes. One of the leading figures in Indias electronic music scene and a key figure amongst the creative community Sandunes has been actively playing a pivotal role in helping to develop the music scene and help bring the artists to a wider audience. She is a talented pianist and keyboard player and was recently asked to open up for Bonobo as part of the acclaimed Manchester International Festival earlier this year. She is also working alongside Warp Records, Boileroom & Actress to bring to life the Different Trains 1947 project that takes place later this year to honour 70 years of Indian independence. For her mix she shines a light on a number of Indian electronic producers and it shows the diversity and talent coming out of the region, with tracks taking in soul, electronica, hip hop, beats and bass music. leading into this Jonny dub brings 20 minutes featuring a number of Indian artists and a couple of new UK flavours

As the summer recess sits uneasily with the potential of nuclear winter, Tories are writing confused think-pieces, while Corbyn is sticking to what he knows, heading off on another campaign tour. We ask what the Conservatives should do next, whether Moggmentum will give the Tories any impetus, and discus nuclear war – Good or Bad? We also head to the Manchester International Festival to hear about whether the youth vote rocked the election. Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.

Qool Marv LIVE at Manchester International Festival '17 Closing Party: Featuring Friends & Family with special guest Dave Haslam (Yellow) We're hoping there is a recording of the entire night that includes MC Kwasi. If that comes along, will let you know. The 1st 15mins of my set is dedicated to the whole city of Manchester...then it was like, ok, let's go! (Ending of) Living For The City - Stevie Wonder Time Has Come Today - The Chambers Brothers Are You Gonna Go My Way - Lenny Kravitz Higher Ground - Stevie Wonder Manchester Is The Place (Interlude) - Qool DJ Marv Make It Clap - Will The Funkboss Spread Love - Doug Willis Fight The Power - Isley Brothers Put Our Heads Together - O'Jays Hot Head Disco - Psychemagik Nassau - Levantine Blind Disco - Jun Kamoda Mirror Dance (Yoruba Soul Remix Featuring Oveous Maximus) - Afefe Iku Find Your Rhythm (feat Paul Joseph) - 6th Borough Project Revolution Is Here - Re-Tide Move Your Body - Marshall Jefferson You Are The Message - Planet Asia One Nation Under A Groove -Parliament Funkadelic Deep Inside (Low Steppa Remix) - Hardrive Love Story/Finally - L&B! Julie McKnight Photo by Al Baker: https://www.facebook.com/pg/MischiefMakerPhotoTaker-164531820284106/photos/?tab=album&album_id=1576767762393831 More Friends & Family photos by Al: http://albakerphotography.com/gallery-5-from-the-archive Thanks, Dave Haslam for bringing us back together: http://www.davehaslam.com/ + https://www.facebook.com/dave.haslam http://mif.co.uk/mif17-events/also-in-festival-square/mif17-closing-party-friends-family-with-special-guests-quool-marv-nyc-dave-haslam/ "The Festival draws to a close with a one-off special from the much-loved Friends & Family crew, who lit up the early part of the millennium in Manchester with many memorable evenings of eclectic party tunes, anthems, hidden gems and rare grooves. For their first outing since the closure of the Roadhouse, their former home, resident DJs Il Bosco, Darren Laws, Matt Triggs, Martin Brew and Peter Jay will be joined by MC Kwasi and two very special guests. Produced by Manchester International Festival."

Series 3 is coming soon but in the meantime here's a little bit of what happened at the Vice Census Live at Manchester International Festival See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Sarah Hall's short story Mrs Fox won her the BBC National Short Story Award. Now it forms part of her new collection of short stories, Madame Zero, and she talks to John Wilson about depicting extraordinary transformations and where human behaviour meets the animal.For our Queer Icons series, actor Sir Antony Sher chooses the play and film Torch Song Trilogy by Harvey Fierstein, which tells the story of a New York drag queen's search for love and a family. As Fatherland, a play exploring relationships between fathers and sons, premieres at the Manchester International Festival, Front Row invites filmmaker Josh Appignanesi and Jeremy Davies of the Fatherhood Institute to discuss contemporary portrayals of fatherhood.And as world leaders at G20 settle down to a performance of Beethoven's 9th Symphony conducted by Kent Nagano in Hamburg tonight, Tom Service talks about what he thinks is the most dangerous piece of music ever composed.Presenter: John Wilson Producer: Sarah Johnson.

For the first time the opening event of the Manchester International Festival isn't a big show or concert, instead it's a large-scale public event, What Is The City But The People, starring Mancunians. We hear from some of those selected to represent their city, and Jeremy Deller, the artist behind the commission, discusses making art for the public with the public. A Man Called Ove was a surprise international bestseller in 2014. The book, which depicts the effect of new neighbours on a grumpy middle aged man called Ove, has now been made into a film in the book's original language, Swedish. Briony Hanson reviews.In 2015 Kenneth Steven, a poet known for writing about the wilds of Scotland and the distant past, started writing a novel set five years hence. His story revolves around terrorist atrocity, retaliation from the far right and a fractured society. He talks to Samira Ahmed about his prescient book, called 2020.The Art Fund Museum of the Year is the world's biggest museum prize and back in April we revealed the finalists in a special programme from The British Museum. The overall winner will be announced next Wednesday but on the run up to the ceremony Front Row will be looking at each of the five shortlisted finalists. Tonight, photographer Martin Parr and art collector Tim Sayer share their appreciation for The Hepworth Wakefield.

Highlights of the launch event for the Manchester International Festival 2017, held in Manchester on 9 March 2017. Introduced by new MIF artistic director John McGrath, this episode also features announcements from festival participants including actress Jane Horrocks, playwright Simon Stephens, Underworld’s Karl Hyde, Frantic Assembly’s Scott Graham, artists Yael Bartana and Phil Collins and New Order’s Bernard Sumner, amongst others. MIF 2017 will take place from 29 June to 16 July 2017 at locations all over Manchester. Image from MIF launch: L - R, Karl Hyde, Scott Graham, Simon Stephens, Yael Bartana, John McGrath, Phil Collins, Stephen Mallinder, Nick Vivian, Jane Horrocks, Bernard Sumner, Raymond Yiu, Sue Buckmaster, Joe Duddell, Tom Chapman, Graham Massey Credit Joel Chester Fildes

Rebecca Atkinson-Lord talks to artistic directors about the idea of legacy and leaving a permanent mark in the ephemeral world of theatre. In this episode, Rebecca speaks to John McGrath, artistic director of the Manchester International Festival, about networks, ethics and nationality. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

www.Wonder.land is Damon Albarn's re-imagining of Lewis Carol's tales of Alice, the White rabbit et al, transferred from The Manchester International Festival to London's National Theatre. Lily Tomlin plays the feisty Grandma who has to help her granddaughter find the money needed for an abortion Nureyev - Dance to Freedom, is a BBC4 drama-documentary which tells the story of the famous dancer's dramatic defection to The West in 1961 Adam Roberts' novel The Thing Itself deals with Emmanuel Kant, the search for extra-terrestrial life, time-hopping and so much more London's V+A Museum has reopened refurbished European Galleries. With an embarrassment of riches from which to choose, how have they updated the display? Tom Sutcliffe's guests are John Tusa, Louise Doughty and Lynn Nead. The producer is Oliver Jones.

If the witches in Shakespeare's Macbeth need a lot of space to cook up their double helping of toil and trouble, they've got it at the Park Avenue Armory. That’s where the latest New York staging of Macbeth is being presented. The lavish and action-packed production is a joint effort between the Armory and the Manchester International Festival. It is also the New York stage debut of acclaimed actor and director Kenneth Branagh, who takes the title role (he is co-director here, with Rob Ashford). So, with plenty of room for not only prophesying witches but battles, murder and intrigue, how does this Shakespeare production come off? We have a report from New York Times theater critic Charles Isherwood.

Highlights of the 2014 Manchester Theatre Awards at the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester on 7 March 2014 hosted by Justin Moorhouse, celebrating the best theatre seen in Manchester throughout 2013. Speakers, presenters and award winners who can be heard on the podcast include: Kevin Bourke, Sue Jenkins, David Crellin, Andrew Wright, Kathryn Davies, Richard Mantle, Ray Fearon, Julian Glover, Lisa Maxwell, Catherine Kinsella, Paula Wilcox, Christine Cort, Christopher Villiers, Isla Blair, Shirley Darroch, Julie Hesmondhalgh, Alistair McDowall, Sir Richard Leese, Matthew Forbes, LipService, Graeme Hawley, Colin Connor, Lisa Connor, Rachel Austin, Ian Kershaw, Eric Potts, Charlotte Keatley, Rob Ward, Martin Jameson, Wyllie Longmore, Freya Sutton, Caroline Clegg, John Henshaw, Joyce Branagh, Suranne Jones, Cush Jumbo, Alex Poots and Chris Honer. Plus other representatives of the Michael Clark Company, Singin' in the Rain production team, Opera North, Manchester International Festival, National Theatre's War Horse and the ensemble of Chicago at Oldham Coliseum.

From the Manchester International Festival: a review of Kenneth Branagh's Macbeth and an interview with the xx. Josie Rourke and Matt Charman on the play Deep Blue and Adam Curtis from Massive Attack on how they launched this year's festival. Composer Murray Gold discusses his music for Doctor Who and author Rachel Joyce talks about her new book, Perfect. John Wilson interviews ballet star Sergei Polunin and comedian David Baddiel on his return to stand-up.

With Mark Lawson. Sir Kenneth Branagh returns to performing and directing Shakespeare, taking the title role in a new production of Macbeth at the Manchester International Festival. This follows a decade-long hiatus in his long relationship with Shakespeare - from his RSC years, through the Renaissance Theatre Company and films including Henry V, Hamlet and Love's Labours Lost. Dramatist Charlotte Keatley reviews. Monsters University is a prequel to Monsters, Inc, the 2001 film from the animation studio Pixar. The film sees Mike and Sulley (voiced by Billy Crystal and John Goodman) attend the classes of Dean Abigail Hardscrabble (Helen Mirren), to learn how to scare children. Mark Eccleston reviews. When the South London band The xx released their debut album in 2009, its quiet ambience gained critical acclaim, became the soundtrack for several TV programmes and won the Mercury Music Prize. Its follow up, Coexist, topped the UK charts. As they prepare for start of their Manchester International Festival residency, Romy Madley Croft and Oliver Sim of The xx discuss playing in a small secret venue. For Cultural Exchange, in which creative minds share a favourite art-work or design, Penelope Curtis, Director at Tate Britain, chooses buildings designed by Chamberlin, Powell and Bon at the University of Leeds. Created in the 1960s and 70s, and including the Grade II* listed Roger Stevens Building, the designs are seen as key examples of modernist architecture. Producer Nicki Paxman.

With Mark Lawson at the Manchester International Festival. Film-maker Adam Curtis and the band Massive Attack are the co-creators of the event that launched this year's Manchester International Festival. Adam Curtis discusses his approach to directing a film which works with the live music, to create an experience that he and the band hope will redefine the idea of the gig. During the 1980s and 1990s, Garry Kasparov dominated the world of chess. His much-publicised match against the IBM computer, Deep Blue, is the inspiration for a new play by Matt Charman, called The Machine. Matt and the play's director Josie Rourke discuss dramatizing a game of chess with only one human player. At 4am this morning Mark arrived at the Whitworth Gallery for the start of a show which will last about 65 hours. In the Gallery, the performance artist Nikhil Chopra aims to connect his native India with Manchester through a variety of personal and political explorations. Just before sunrise, he reflected on becoming a live artwork, and Mark also returned to the Gallery during the afternoon to find out how the show is progressing. Producer Ekene Akalawu.

At the Manchester International Festival, Alexander Vlahos talks about playing Malcolm in Macbeth, a production that sees Kenneth Branagh return to the stage in the title role opposite Alex Kingston as Lady Macbeth, directed by Rob Ashford and performed in a deconsecrated church at a secret location in Manchester. Also, Hadley Fraser talks about playing chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov in The Machine by Matt Charman directed by Donmar Warehouse artistic director Josie Rourke who, despite being Salford-born, has never directed in Manchester before. The 2013 Manchester International Festival runs from 4 to 21 July. For information about all MIF productions and other events, see www.mif.co.uk.

Omar - Nothing Like This ft Pino Palladino Chic - Savoir Faire Raphael Saadiq - Sky's the Limit Change - Let's Go Together Melba More - Standing Right Here Brainstorm - journey to the light Womack & Womack - Baby I'm Scared Of You Ty - Let's Start Jeremy Ellis - Lotus Donald Byrd - Love Has Come Around Elektrons - Joy Bonobo - Cirrus Neneh Cherry - Manchild Andrea's summer selection for Groovement, all vinyl and all live. Catch her at the Manchester International Festival in the bar (DJing - not just drinking) on Sunday 7th and Tuesday 9th July Details: https://www.facebook.com/events/131885067007173/?fref=ts Andrea on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/andreatroutdj Twitter: http://twitter.com/andreaac More Andrea Trout podcasts here: http://www.mixcloud.com/tag/andrea-trout/

Announcements of the theatre events in the 2013 programme for the Manchester International Festival from Festival director Alex Poots and some of the artists involved. Featured on the podcast are actor Maxine Peake, director Josie Rourke, Belgian director Inne Goris, actor Kenneth Branagh and director Rob Ashford.

If a newspaper could talk, what might it sound like? To celebrate the 2011 Manchester festival, Francesca Panetta and Tim Hinman create unique soundscapes from four historic editions of the Guardian and Observer. Programme one: Peterloo and the founding of the Guardian