WHAT'S ON AT CONTACT, MANCHESTER
What's On at Contact, Manchester
Most Popular Shows and Events at Contact, Manchester
Wed 1 May - Wed 24 Jul 2024
What's On at Contact, Manchester
Music Drop
Wednesday 1 May - Wednesday 24 July 2024
Beatmakers, rappers, singers or anyone interested in making music, Music Drop is the perfect project for you. Whatever your musical background is this project will teach you key music skills and support your musical journey. Music Drop offe...
SICK Festival: North Manchester Film Festival: Your Voice
Friday 3 - Saturday 4 May 2024
In colloboration with The Miners - The North Manchester Film Festival is an essential part of SICK Festival 2024. Bringing together filmmakers, artists, and community members through accessible workshops and screenings, attendees can expres...
SICK Festival: SMASH OPEN - GROW/Planting Good Intentions
Saturday 4 May 2024
Join ecotherapist Steph Wild for an immersive nature-connection experience. Together, we'll explore the conditions that contribute to a plant's health, wellbeing and growth; while guided to find parallels within our own lives. Through sowin...
RENT
Tuesday 7 - Saturday 11 May 2024
**SICK! FESTIVAL**North West Theatre Arts Company present RENT. A story about struggling artists living in poverty, trying to pursue their dreams while facing the challenges of love, loss, and the HIV/AIDS crisis in late 1980s/early 90s in ...
SICK Festival: RENT
Tuesday 7 - Saturday 11 May 2024
**SICK! FESTIVAL**North West Theatre Arts Company present RENT. A story about struggling artists living in poverty, trying to pursue their dreams while facing the challenges of love, loss, and the HIV/AIDS crisis in late 1980s/early 90s in ...
SICK Festival: SMASH OPEN - OCD
Friday 10 May 2024
Discover the journey behind Lauren Yvonne Townsend's, debut play OBSESSED, presented as a work-in-programme at SICK! Festival 2024, as she shares her personal experience of navigating life with OCD and making the move from theatre producer ...
SICK Festival: Mindgames: Online and IRL (In Real Life)
Saturday 11 May 2024
Mindgames: Online and IRL (In Real Life) explores if gaming can make you feel better. In this we will launch ?Never, Forever Always? a game exploring mental health, created by young men from North Manchester and Finland with developer Eetu ...
SICK Festival: Dementia Street
Thursday 16 - Saturday 18 May 2024
When his mums battle with dementia ended Smug Roberts wanted to contribute something to the fight against it, so he wrote a play about the seven stages of her cognitive decline. Dementia Street tells her story in reverse, starting at stage ...
SICK Festival: Obsessed
Friday 17 May 2024
Following Meghan, who knows pretty much everything about Beyonce and BTS finding that other ?obsessions? make their way to the surface. Obsessed is the debut play by Lauren Yvonne Townsend based on her experiences living with OCD. Looking a...
SICK Festival: SMASH OPEN - Create Your Own Access Rider
Friday 17 May 2024
Vjay Patel of Brotherly, Otherly, Disorderly leads this workshop on creating access riders (a document that communicates your access requirements). This session is open to all, including d/Deaf, disabled and neurodivergent people. Anyone wh...
SICK Festival: For the Mandem
Saturday 18 May 2024
?Mandem Meetup? offers space at the Miners to explore how we can support each other as a community and learn what true brotherhood feels like. Battling stigma around men?s mental health, join us for an introduction to their work (open to al...
SICK Festival: Benched
Wednesday 22 May 2024
Benched asks, ?why do we treat strangers better than our friends and family??, confronting issues of class, gender, neurodivergence and marginalisation. Prepare for a tender, spontaneous and uncompromising insight told through mementos, sto...
SICK Festival: Famehungry
Thursday 23 May 2024
**SICK! Festival**A nose-dive into the TikTok world, fusing dance and performance exploring fame and if social media is distracting us from the apocalypse. With TikTok star Jaxon Valentine, artist Louise Orwin asks what the future might loo...
SICK Festival: Tones: A Hip-Hop Opera
Friday 24 - Saturday 25 May 2024
**SICK! Festival**A journey through Black British culture, Tones combines underground Hip-Hop, Grime and Drill with the drama of Opera as Jerome, aka The Professor, goes on a treacherous path to self-discovery, asking ?what happens if you'r...
TONES: A HIP-HOP OPERA
Friday 24 - Saturday 25 May 2024
**SICK! Festival**A journey through Black British culture, Tones combines underground Hip-Hop, Grime and Drill with the drama of Opera as Jerome, aka The Professor, goes on a treacherous path to self-discovery, asking ?what happens if you'r...
SICK Festival: SMASH OPEN - Let's Talk About Cough: One in Ten
Saturday 25 May 2024
A listening experience and discussion exploring chronic cough conditions. Let?s Talk About Cough: One in Ten shares moving personal stories with a fascinating journey into the mysteries of the human body. You will be gently guided through a...
SICK Festival: Brotherly Otherly Disorderly
Wednesday 29 May 2024
Brotherly, Otherly, Disorderly (B.O.D) is a new performance work by Vijay Patel, which centres the expertise and lived experiences of two neurodivergent brothers, whilst exploring care, access, and allyship in navigating a neurotypical worl...
SICK Festival: CAttS
Thursday 30 May 2024
**SICK! Festival**From ?acclaimed clown? and self-described ?emerging idiot? Frankie Thompson, CAttS is a one-woman lip-sync ballet through the distractions and obsessions that help us cope with an increasingly dystopian reality. Because af...
SICK Festival: SMASH OPEN - Hoarding/Landfill of Memories
Friday 31 May 2024
Susana Amato?s Landfill of Memories workshop challenges misconceptions about hoarding and tackles her own struggles armed with a shredder. Susanna, a self- described hoarder since the age of 8 has kept a shrine of memories after she experie...
Sofie Hagen
Saturday 15 June 2024
Edinburgh Comedy Award winner Sofie Hagen is bringing her brand new stand-up show and her brand new book on tour. The book, out in May 2024, 'Will I Ever Have Sex Again?' is a candid, hilarious and disarming attempt to explore our se...
Diva of the Decades
Saturday 27 July 2024
Embark on a sensational journey through the ages and celebrate the powerhouse voices and iconic performances of the biggest divas in music history, singing along and dancing to the timeless hits of incredible divas such as Tina Turner, Are...
Most Popular Shows and Events at Contact, Manchester
Wed 1 May - Wed 24 Jul 2024
