Music that leaps from Lahore to Longsight. Boundary-breaking theatre fresh from the Fringe. Orchestral dreams come true, and others shattered by revolution. New commissions rooted in India, Hong Kong and Turkey – Art, in fact, in all its diversity and vibrancy. Explore our new Autumn Winter season…
In this season
Explore Our Autumn-Winter Season
Music that leaps from Lahore to Longsight. Boundary-breaking theatre fresh from the Fringe. Orchestral dreams come true, and others shattered by revolution. New commissions rooted…
Blogs
Aziz Ibrahim A Story of Identity
Ahead of a great season of live music at HOME, Anne Louise Kershaw catches up with Manchester music legend Aziz Ibrahim and folk pioneer Jon…
News
One Film Wonders
Our Artistic Director: Film, Jason Wood, tells us more about his passion for One Film Wonders, the subject of a new film season screening at…
Previously in this season
Cinema
Meet Me in St. Louis
A sparkling musical with stellar performances from Minnelli’s ensemble cast. In one of her finest displays, Set in 1903 suburban, mid-western St. Louis this classic…
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HOME Artist Film Weekender 2017
Our annual celebration of the alt-wonderful world of artist film is crammed with special guests, premieres and discussions.
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Melville: Essays in Existentialism
Taking in a career that encompassed wartime dramas - Melville fought in the French army and then in the Resistance - and a Cocteau collaboration,…
Cinema
Candy Mountain
A co-production that begins in New York before meandering cross country and concluding in Canada, Candy Mountain tracks the personal odyssey of ambitious but untalented…
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HOME Weekend: National Theatre’s River Stage Festival
River Stage returns to London’s National Theatre in Summer 2017, for five long weekends of live music, dance, performances, DJs and workshops on the outdoor…
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Queer Media Festival 2017
After last year’s sell-out event, Queer Media Festival returns for the festival’s fourth year celebrating the amazing range of LGBT+ stories in all forms of…
Exhibition
Noor Afshan Mirza & Brad Butler: The Scar
This exhibition and its central new commission The Scar explore an extraordinary conspiracy with global implications.
Theatre
The Tiger Lillies: A Cold Night in Soho
For this very special show, the Grammy nominated Godfathers of alternative cabaret The Tiger Lillies return to Manchester to perform their new album, A Cold…
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Robert Webb: How Not To Be A Boy + Book Signing
Robert Webb joins us to talk about his heartbreakingly funny new book, How Not to be a Boy. Looking back over his life, from schoolboy…
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A Revolution Betrayed? Film Season
As part of the A Revolution Betrayed? season, we present a weekend of films from the early days of the Soviet Union when artists and…
Cinema
The Motorcycle Diaries
Based on the journals of both Alberto Granado and Ernesto Guevara (The Motorcycle Diaries), Brazilian director Walter Salles follows a journey of self-discovery and traces…
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Jack Rosenthal on Jack Rosenthal Street
As our building stands next to Jack Rosenthal Street, who better to celebrate in our on-going January seasons devoted to British screenwriters than the man…
Exhibition
The Return of Memory
This major group exhibition seeks to redress the legacy of the Russian Revolution on its centenary by exploring how artists are responding to the state…
Theatre
Manchester School of Theatre presentsThe Suicide
Marking the Centenary of the year of the Russian Revolution, Manchester School of Theatre present Nikolai Erdman’s The Suicide, considered one of the finest plays…
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Road Movies
From the earliest days of American cinema, the road movie has been synonymous with American culture and the image America has presented to the world.…
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Upclose: Manchester Camerata at HOME / Aziz Ibrahim: Lahore to Longsight
Theatre 1 will be home to the pioneering Desi-guitar sound of Aziz Ibrahim, backed by the Camerata and featuring South East Asian musicians.
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Upclose: Manchester Camerata at HOME / Sven Helbig: Pocket Symphonies
Join us in the gallery to hear some pop classical perfection. Sven Helbig loves contemporary music and knows what it takes to make a great…
Cinema
The Last Detail
Hal Ashby’s follow-up to 1971’s Harold and Maude is a similarly anti-authoritarian fable.
Cinema
Batman Returns
When a corrupt businessman and the grotesque Penguin plot to take control of Gotham City, only Batman can stop them, while the Catwoman has her…
Cinema
Halloween at HOME Hocus Pocus
After three centuries, three witches are resurrected on Halloween night, and it’s up to two teenagers, a young girl, and an immortal cat to put…
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Triple Bill/ A Voyage with Wim
Wim Wenders is synonymous with the road movie. One of the first of the New German cinema movement to achieve international recognition, the director forged…
Theatre
Winter Solstice
Family, betrayal and the inescapable presence of the past reverberate through the UK premiere of Roland Schimmelpfennig’s razor-sharp comedy about the rise of the new…
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Journey’s Festival International
Journeys Festival International is back celebrating the creative talent of exceptional refugee and asylum seeker artists, and sharing refugee experiences through great art and culture.
Theatre
HOME and Contact presentsForced Entertainment: Real Magic
To the sound of looped applause and canned laughter, a group of performers take part in an impossible illusion – part mind-reading feat, part cabaret…
Cinema
Edward Scissorhands
A reinterpretation on the Frankenstein story, Edward’s inventor unfortunately dies before he finishes his creation leaving him to grow up all alone in an eerie…
Theatre
Gecko presentsThe Wedding
In a blur of wedding dresses and contractual obligations, Gecko's extraordinary ensemble guides us through the struggle between love and anger, creation and destruction, community…
Theatre
HOME presentsUncle Vanya
Taking Russia's past as inspiration in this historic year, Walter Meierjohann's production explores the deeply tragic and deeply comic spirit of Chekhov's late masterpiece with…
Theatre
Headlong, National Theatre, HOME & Exeter Northcott presentsPeople, Places & Things
An intoxicating play about surviving in the modern world. Following a critically-acclaimed, sold-out season at the National Theatre and in London's West End, People, Places…
Theatre
Hofesh Shechter Company presentsGrand Finale
If you were one of the unlucky people who missed it the first time around, internationally-celebrated choreographer Hofesh Shechter’s spectacular Grand Finale is back for…
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Orbit 2017
Orbit 2017 brings together innovative new work from theatre makers across the globe who want to explore our place in the world with you.
Theatre
Briefs Factory presentsHot Brown Honey
Hot Brown Honey is taking the heat up a notch and bringing the temperature to fever pitch – delivering lashings of sass and a hot…
Theatre
Little Angel Theatre presentsRed Riding Hood and the Wolf
You all loved Wow! Said the Owl so much last Christmas that we’ve invited Little Angel Theatre to come back to celebrate with us this…
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Manchester Folk Festival 2017
Manchester Folk Festival is a major new festival celebrating the best of English folk and acoustic roots music. It is an urban festival. A gathering…
Cinema
Kubo and the Two Strings
A young boy named Kubo embarks on a magical quest to locate a suit of armour worn by his late father, so he can defeat…
Cinema
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
When a down-on-his-luck inventor restores a broken-down car for him and his children, they end up on a magical fantasy adventure to save their grandfather…
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Disability Film Season
The second Disability Film Season is part of a programme of events planned for December to mark UK Disability History Month 2017.
Cinema
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Based on a Tim Burton story and characters, Henry Selick’s brilliant animated film sees Jack Skellington, the king of Halloween Town, discovering Christmas Town. When…
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Spike is 60
Spike Lee, one of the most prominent and prolific directors of the 21st century, celebrated his 60th birthday in early 2017, and to celebrate, We…
Theatre
Pen:Chant Protest & Revolution
For this protest & revolution Pen:Chant special, we’ll be presenting a special line-up of acts whose art is not a mirror, but a hammer -…
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Manchester Animation Festival 2017
Join us this November for an international celebration of all things animated. Manchester Animation Festival returns for its third year with special guests, previews, an…
Cinema
Leningrad Cowboys Go America
This hilarious road movie from Finnish director Aki Kaurismäki follows the misadventures of the worst rock and roll band in the world, the Leningrad Cowboys.
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One Film Wonders
From Phase IV, The Widow, One-Eyed Jacks, Nil By Mouth and Barbara Loden’s astonishing Wanda there is a whole series of remarkable films by filmmakers…
Cinema
Vanishing Point
A vintage road movie that’s considered one of the masterpieces of the genre, Vanishing Point is a symbolically charged work that bridges the gap between…
Theatre
Meow Meow: Feline Intimate
International singing sensation and purr-fect post, post post-modern showgirl and star of the Olivier award winning show La Clique, Australia’s Meow Meow descends upon HOME…
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A Revolution Betrayed?
We embark on a major new season of theatre, visual art and film, inspired by the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution.
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Creative Visions: Hong Kong Cinema 1997 – 2017
2017 marks twenty years since Hong Kong was handed back to China. Timed with this anniversary, we are pleased to collaborate with Create Hong Kong…
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This is Human
This distinctive and ambitious series of events will challenge your expectations of HOME through a programme of unique and unusual happenings in our galleries, cinemas…
Cinema
Landscape in the Mist
The final film in Angelopoulos’ Trilogy of Silence, Landscape in the Mist continued the Greek director’s attempts to capture the human toll of the tragic…
Cinema
Road Movie
Two long-haul truckers encounter highway hooker Janice who decides she’s had just about enough of men.