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31 Aug - 2 Sep 2023

The Bartholomew Fair Midnight Run

The Midnight Run is a walking, arts-filled, night-time cultural journey through urban spaces. It gathers strangers and local artists together to explore, play and create, whilst the city sleeps. The Midnight Run aims to break down social barriers and provide a platform for...
24 - 28 Jul 2023

When All Is Said

What secrets would you tell a complete stranger? When All Is Said is a collection of 5 short plays, written by five Black trans people, in their own voices, delivered over the phone. Curated by Travis Alabanza and directed by Emily...
7 - 27 May 2023

BLUE NOW

WeTransfer presents If I lose half my sight, will my vision be halved? BLUE was Derek Jarman's final film. Completed in May 1993, just months before his death, it is his testament. For 74 minutes, an unchanging screen of celestial...
1 Mar - 25 Nov 2023

The Day I Fell Into A Book

Welcome to The Institute. We conduct experiments into  the power of imagination. We want to know what happens to your mind when you read. We want to get inside your heads. It is all perfectly safe. Trust us   Using...
25 Feb 2023

Love Letters Straight From Your Heart

Let's raise our glasses to long lost loves and current lovers, to mums, to dads and to absent friends. Uninvited Guests staged an event that is somewhere between a wedding reception and a radio dedication show. Audiences spoke of their...
13 - 17 Feb 2023

When All Is Said – Contact Manchester

What secrets would you tell a complete stranger?  A long taxi ride becomes a winding long journey into the past and the histories that shape us…a phone call conversation opens up a powerful set of revelations about incarceration and the...