Our new Autumn Winter Season

Our Artistic Director: Film, Jason Wood, tells us more about his passion for One Film Wonders, the subject...

Hofesh Shechter Company presents:
Grand Finale

Today 19.30; Tomorrow 19.30; Fri 19.30; Sat 19.30

If you were one of the unlucky people who missed it the first time around, internationally-celebrated choreographer Hofe

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Articles in this season

News

One Film Wonders

Wed 14 Jun 2017

News

Aziz Ibrahim A Story of Identity

Wed 14 Jun 2017

Ahead of a great season of live music at HOME, Anne Louise Kershaw catches up with Manchester music...

Theatre

Winter Solstice

Last session: Sat 17 Feb 2018 at 19.45

Family, betrayal and the inescapable presence of the past reverberate through the UK premiere of Roland Schimmelpfennig’s razor-sharp...

Little Angel Theatre presents:
Red Riding Hood and the Wolf

Last session: Sat 30 Dec 2017 at 13.30

You all loved Wow! Said the Owl so much last Christmas that we’ve invited Little Angel Theatre to...

Briefs Factory presents:
Hot Brown Honey

Last session: Sat 23 Dec 2017 at 20.00

Hot Brown Honey is taking the heat up a notch and bringing the temperature to fever pitch –...

The Tiger Lillies: A Cold Night in Soho

Last session: Thu 7 Dec 2017 at 20.00

For this very special show, the Grammy nominated Godfathers of alternative cabaret The Tiger Lillies return to Manchester...

Meow Meow: Feline Intimate

Last session: Wed 6 Dec 2017 at 20.00

International singing sensation and purr-fect post, post post-modern showgirl and star of the Olivier award winning show La...

HOME and Contact presents:
Forced Entertainment: Real Magic

Last session: Fri 1 Dec 2017 at 19.30

To the sound of looped applause and canned laughter, a group of performers take part in an impossible...

Pen:Chant Protest & Revolution

Last session: Sat 25 Nov 2017 at 21.00

For this protest & revolution Pen:Chant special, we’ll be presenting a special line-up of acts whose art is...

HOME presents:
Uncle Vanya

Last session: Sat 25 Nov 2017 at 19.30

Taking Russia's past as inspiration in this historic year, Walter Meierjohann's production explores the deeply tragic and deeply...

Manchester School of Theatre presents:
The Suicide

Last session: Sat 4 Nov 2017 at 19.15

Marking the Centenary of the year of the Russian Revolution, Manchester School of Theatre present Nikolai Erdman’s The...

Motionhouse presents:
Charge

Last session: Wed 18 Oct 2017 at 19.30

Motionhouse’s electrifying new multi-media production explores themes of energy, using the company’s renowned fusion of thrilling dance-circus, enthralling...

Headlong, National Theatre, HOME & Exeter Northcott presents:
People, Places & Things

Last session: Sat 7 Oct 2017 at 19.30

An intoxicating play about surviving in the modern world. Following a critically-acclaimed, sold-out season at the National Theatre...

Gecko presents:
The Wedding

Last session: Sat 16 Sep 2017 at 19.30

In a blur of wedding dresses and contractual obligations, Gecko's extraordinary ensemble guides us through the struggle between...

Exhibitions

Exhibition

Noor Afshan Mirza & Brad Butler: The Scar

Ended Mon 2 Apr 2018

This exhibition and its central new commission The Scar explore an extraordinary conspiracy with global implications.

Exhibition

The Return of Memory

Ended Sun 7 Jan 2018

This major group exhibition seeks to redress the legacy of the Russian Revolution on its centenary by exploring...

Events

Not Just Bollywood

Tue 11 Sep 2018 – Sun 30 Sep 2018

Not Just Bollywood, a season of Indian films hits our screens this autumn. In 2014, The Lunchbox was...

Strand

One Film Wonders

Sat 3 - Sun 25 March

From Phase IV, The Widow, One-Eyed Jacks, Nil By Mouth and Barbara Loden’s astonishing Wanda there is a...

Jack Rosenthal on Jack Rosenthal Street

Sun 7 - Sat 27 January

As our building stands next to Jack Rosenthal Street, who better to celebrate in our on-going January seasons...

PUSH 2018

Fri 12 - Sat 27 Jan

Join us for two weeks of inspiring, creative experiences fresh from the North West when we will be...

Disability Film Season

Mon 4 & Wed 6 December

The second Disability Film Season is part of a programme of events planned for December to mark UK...

HOME Artist Film Weekender 2017

Thurs 30th Nov - Sat 2nd Dec

Our annual celebration of the alt-wonderful world of artist film is crammed with special guests, premieres and discussions.

Spike is 60

Wed 1 Nov 2017 – Thu 30 Nov 2017

Spike Lee, one of the most prominent and prolific directors of the 21st century, celebrated his 60th birthday...

A Revolution Betrayed?

Thu 12 Oct - Sat 25 Nov

We embark on a major new season of theatre, visual art and film, inspired by the 100th anniversary...

Queer Media Festival 2017

Sat 18 Nov 2017

After last year’s sell-out event, Queer Media Festival returns for the festival’s fourth year celebrating the amazing range...

Manchester Animation Festival 2017

Tue 14 Nov 2017 – Thu 16 Nov 2017

Join us this November for an international celebration of all things animated. Manchester Animation Festival returns for its...

Creative Visions: Hong Kong Cinema 1997 – 2017

Sat 7 - Thu 26 Oct

2017 marks twenty years since Hong Kong was handed back to China. Timed with this anniversary, we are...

Manchester Folk Festival 2017

Thu 19 - Sat 22 October

Manchester Folk Festival is a major new festival celebrating the best of English folk and acoustic roots music....

Orbit 2017

Thu 28 Sep 2017 – Sun 15 Oct 2017

Orbit 2017 brings together innovative new work from theatre makers across the globe who want to explore our...

Journey’s Festival International

Mon 2 - Sun 15 October

Journeys Festival International is back celebrating the creative talent of exceptional refugee and asylum seeker artists, and sharing...

A Revolution Betrayed? Film Season

Thu 12 Oct 2017 – Sun 15 Oct 2017

As part of the A Revolution Betrayed? season, we present a weekend of films from the early days...

Upclose: Manchester Camerata at HOME / Aziz Ibrahim: Lahore to Longsight

Wed 11 Oct 2017

Theatre 1 will be home to the pioneering Desi-guitar sound of Aziz Ibrahim, backed by the Camerata and...

Melville: Essays in Existentialism

Sat 12 Aug 2017 – Mon 11 Sep 2017

Taking in a career that encompassed wartime dramas - Melville fought in the French army and then in...

Upclose: Manchester Camerata at HOME / Sven Helbig: Pocket Symphonies

Sat 9 Sep 2017

Join us in the gallery to hear some pop classical perfection. Sven Helbig loves contemporary music and knows...

Discussion

Robert Webb: How Not To Be A Boy + Book Signing

Fri 1 Sep 2017

Robert Webb joins us to talk about his heartbreakingly funny new book, How Not to be a Boy....

This is Human

Thu 3 - Thu 31 Aug

This distinctive and ambitious series of events will challenge your expectations of HOME through a programme of unique...

Road Movies

Sat 22 Jul 2017 – Wed 23 Aug 2017

From the earliest days of American cinema, the road movie has been synonymous with American culture and the...

Triple Bill/ A Voyage with Wim

Sun 13 Aug 2017

Wim Wenders is synonymous with the road movie. One of the first of the New German cinema movement...

HOME Weekend: National Theatre’s River Stage Festival

Fri 4 - Sun 6 August

River Stage returns to London’s National Theatre in Summer 2017, for five long weekends of live music, dance,...

Cinema

Meet Me in St. Louis (U)

Last session: Sat 23 Dec 2017 at 17.50

A sparkling musical with stellar performances from Minnelli’s ensemble cast. In one of her finest displays, Set in...

The Muppet Christmas Carol (PG)

Last session: Thu 21 Dec 2017 at 18.20

An all singing, all dancing take on the classic Christmas tale, starring Michael Caine in the role of...

Batman Returns (15)

Last session: Mon 18 Dec 2017 at 20.10

When a corrupt businessman and the grotesque Penguin plot to take control of Gotham City, only Batman can...

The Nightmare Before Christmas (PG)

Last session: Wed 13 Dec 2017 at 20.40

Based on a Tim Burton story and characters, Henry Selick’s brilliant animated film sees Jack Skellington, the king...

Edward Scissorhands (12A)

Last session: Fri 8 Dec 2017 at 18.10

A reinterpretation on the Frankenstein story, Edward’s inventor unfortunately dies before he finishes his creation leaving him to...

Kubo and the Two Strings (PG)

Last session: Sun 26 Nov 2017 at 11.00

A young boy named Kubo embarks on a magical quest to locate a suit of armour worn by...

Halloween at HOME Hocus Pocus (PG)

Last session: Sun 29 Oct 2017 at 11.00

After three centuries, three witches are resurrected on Halloween night, and it’s up to two teenagers, a young...

Hook (U)

Last session: Sun 24 Sep 2017 at 11.00

Captain Hook kidnaps his children so an adult Peter Pan (Robin Williams) must return to Neverland and reclaim...

Leningrad Cowboys Go America (15)

Last session: Wed 23 Aug 2017 at 18.20

This hilarious road movie from Finnish director Aki Kaurismäki follows the misadventures of the worst rock and roll...

Landscape in the Mist (15)

Last session: Sat 19 Aug 2017 at 17.40

The final film in Angelopoulos’ Trilogy of Silence, Landscape in the Mist continued the Greek director’s attempts to...

Vanishing Point (18)

Last session: Wed 16 Aug 2017 at 18.10

A vintage road movie that’s considered one of the masterpieces of the genre, Vanishing Point is a symbolically...

The Motorcycle Diaries (15)

Last session: Wed 9 Aug 2017 at 13.00

Based on the journals of both Alberto Granado and Ernesto Guevara (The Motorcycle Diaries), Brazilian director Walter Salles...

Candy Mountain (15)

Last session: Sat 5 Aug 2017 at 18.00

A co-production that begins in New York before meandering cross country and concluding in Canada, Candy Mountain tracks...

The Last Detail (18)

Last session: Wed 26 Jul 2017 at 13.00

Hal Ashby’s follow-up to 1971’s Harold and Maude is a similarly anti-authoritarian fable.

Road Movie + ROAD... (18)

Last session: Sat 22 Jul 2017 at 18.10

Two long-haul truckers encounter highway hooker Janice who decides she’s had just about enough of men.