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…
Our new Autumn Winter Season
Articles in this season
News
One Film Wonders
Wed 14 Jun 2017
Our Artistic Director: Film, Jason Wood, tells us more about his passion for One Film Wonders, the subject...
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...
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Theatre
Theatre
Hofesh Shechter Company presents:
Grand Finale
Last session:
Sat 25 May 2019 at 19.30
If you were one of the unlucky people who missed it the first time around, internationally-celebrated choreographer Hofe
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...
Theatre
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...
Theatre
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 –...
Theatre
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...
Theatre
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...
Theatre
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...
Theatre
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...
Theatre
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...
Theatre
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...
Theatre
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...
Theatre
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...
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
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...
Season
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...
Event
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...
Season
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...
Season
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.
Season
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...
Festival
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...
Event
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...
Festival
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...
Season
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...
Festival
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....
Festival
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...
Festival
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...
Season
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...
Event
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...
Season
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...
Event
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....
Festival
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...
Season
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...
Season
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...
Event
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
Film
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...
Film
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...
Film
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...
Film
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...
Film
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...
Film
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...
Film
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...
Film
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...
Film
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...
Film
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...
Film
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...
Film
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...
Film
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...
Film
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.
Film
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.
Film
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (U)
Last session:
Sun 25 Jun 2017 at 11.00
When a down-on-his-luck inventor restores a broken-down car for him and his children, they end up on a...
