Our new Oct &#8211; Mar season

Vertigo (PG)

Fri 17.40; Sat 15.30; Sun 12.45; Mon 20.10 + more times

A former detective with a fear of heights is hired to follow a woman apparently possessed by the...

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Exhibitions

Victoria Lucas: Lay of the Land (and other such myths)

Ended Sun 2 Apr 2017

Co-commissioned and curated by Mark Devereux Projects. Lay of the Land (and other such myths) is a new project...

John Hyatt: Rock Art

Ended Wed 29 Mar 2017

John Hyatt is an artist, musician, scientist and irrepressible explorer. His latest exhibition brings the findings, objects and...

Mark Leeming: Bearded Brutes

Fri 11 Nov - Sun 22 Jan

Bearded Brutes is a collection of vivid photographic portraits bursting with colour, sparkle and, perhaps unsurprisingly, beards.

Rachel Maclean: Wot u :-) about?

Ended Sun 8 Jan 2017

Wot u :-) about? is a major solo exhibition of entirely new work by acclaimed Scottish artist Rachel...

Jeroen Erosie: Yuck Print House

Ended Sun 6 Nov 2016

See and buy works from Dutch graffiti artist Jeroen Erosie.

Theatre

Box of Tricks presents:
Narvik

Last session: Sat 4 Feb 2017 at 19.45

Inspired by the tales of navy veterans, this is a play where music and words meet, a powerful...

WOW! Said the Owl

Last session: Fri 30 Dec 2016 at 13.30

Based on the acclaimed children’s book by writer Tim Hopgood, Wow! Said the Owl explores the wow-wow world...

Yule be Sorry – A Christmas Cabaret

Last session: Fri 16 Dec 2016 at 20.00

An unmissable evening of high comedy, sound, vision, paint and song from Manchester’s own David Hoyle, London’s award-winning...

World Factory

Last session: Sat 10 Dec 2016 at 19.30

Made in China. Sold in Britain. Worn by you. From the factory floor to the catwalk, fresh from...

Ghosts

Last session: Sat 3 Dec 2016 at 19.30

Polly Findlay directs Ibsen's classic with Niamh Cusack as Helen Alving, a widow trying to exorcise the ghosts...

Muttis Kinder

Last session: Sat 5 Nov 2016 at 21.00

Fresh from sold-out performances in Germany, Singapore, Bucharest and Moscow, award-winning a-cappella wunderkinds Claudia Gray, Marcus Melzwig and...

Portraits in Motion

Last session: Sat 5 Nov 2016 at 19.00

Volker Gerling is a master of flipbooks. In this enchanting and intimate show, he brings his favourite portraits...

Staged Reading: The Blue Blue Sea

Last session: Sat 5 Nov 2016 at 14.00

Darko drinks – just like everyone else in the council block. And then Motte arrives. 19 years old,...

Alexander Geist: Swansong

Last session: Thu 3 Nov 2016 at 21.00

Alexander Geist combines the dry wit of Morrissey with the soundscape of Moroder and the sensibilities of Manet....

946: The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips

Last session: Sat 29 Oct 2016 at 19.30

Based on Michael Morpurgo’s The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips, 946 explodes everything we thought we knew about...

Institute...

Last session: Sat 22 Oct 2016 at 19.30

Gecko's latest production fuses movement, imagery and a range of choreographic styles to create an incisive look at...

Sleepwalk Collective presents:
Domestica

Last session: Sat 15 Oct 2016 at 19.45

Part narcoleptic beauty pageant, part dizzying tableau vivant, part psychosexual fever dream, Domestica is a self-conscious pseudo-epic in...

Soho Theatre presents:
Pajama Men: 2 Man 3 Musketeers

Last session: Sat 15 Oct 2016 at 19.30

The shape-shifting Pajama Men are back with a live, comic existential meltdown.

Riotous Company presents:
Scherzo for piano and stick

Last session: Thu 13 Oct 2016 at 21.00

Following in the footsteps of Insomnia, composer Nikola Kodjabashia performs on prepared piano, as well as using voice...

RashDash presents:
Two Man Show

Last session: Thu 13 Oct 2016 at 19.00

Men have all the power. John and John keep hearing people say that men have all the power,...

Rhum and Clay Theatre presents:
64 Squares

Last session: Wed 12 Oct 2016 at 19.00

A story about memory, free will and how the choices of our past define who we are in...

Walrus Theatre presents:
Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons

Last session: Sat 8 Oct 2016 at 21.00

Walrus’ award-winning debut imagines a world where we’re forced to say less; examining how we express ourselves, personally...

The Emperor

Last session: Sat 8 Oct 2016 at 19.30

A world premiere based on the astonishing book by legendary journalist Ryszard Kapuściński, from the team that brought...

Gary McNair presents:
A Gambler’s Guide To Dying

Last session: Sat 8 Oct 2016 at 19.00

The story of one boy’s granddad who won a fortune betting on the 1966 football World Cup and,...

Jamie Wood presents:
O No!

Last session: Wed 5 Oct 2016 at 19.00

A psychedelic ride, and a wonky homage to the woman damned for destroying The Beatles, O No! borrows...

Fidget Theatre presents:
Molly’s Marvellous Moustache

Last session: Sun 2 Oct 2016 at 14.00

A new theatrical adaptation of the original storybook, featuring an original music score, playful interaction and lots of...

Jamal Harewood presents:
The Privileged

Last session: Sat 1 Oct 2016 at 21.00

Have you ever seen a polar bear in the flesh? Been close enough to notice just how white...

Sh!t Theatre presents:
Women’s Hour

Last session: Sat 1 Oct 2016 at 19.00

A cabaret piece about what happens when women are given just one hour a day to think about what it is to...

Cinema

ROH Live: Madama Butterfly (Live)

Last session: Thu 30 Mar 2017 at 19.15

Puccini’s Madama Butterfly is one of the most popular of all operas, with ravishing music and a heartbreaking...

Met Opera Live: Idomeneo (Live)

Last session: Sat 25 Mar 2017 at 16.40

Mozart’s first operatic masterpiece returns to the Met in the classic Jean-Pierre Ponnelle production, conducted by James Levine.

The Inner Life of Martin Frost (12A)

Last session: Sun 19 Mar 2017 at 15.30

Having completed his fourth novel, Martin Frost accepts the invitation of friends to spend a few weeks in...

Blind Chance (15)

Last session: Wed 15 Mar 2017 at 18.00

Banned for years for getting too close to the political knuckle, Kieślowski's three-part narrative hinges on whether medical...

Met Opera Live: La Traviata (Live)

Last session: Sat 11 Mar 2017 at 17.40

Sonya Yoncheva sings one of opera’s most beloved heroines, the tragic courtesan Violetta, opposite Michael Fabiano as her...

The Conversation (15)

Last session: Wed 8 Mar 2017 at 18.00

Another classic Coppola, in which Hackman’s isolated, private life is built on other peoples’ private lives and conversations,...

Blue in the Face (15)

Last session: Sun 5 Mar 2017 at 15.30

The Brooklyn cigar store owned by Augie Wren (Harvey Keitel) is a drop-in centre for all manner of...

Met Opera Live: Rusalka (Live)

Last session: Sat 25 Feb 2017 at 17.40

Director Mary Zimmerman brings her wondrous theatrical imagination to Dvořák’s fairytale of love and longing, rejection and redemption...

ROH Live: Il Trovatore (Live)

Last session: Tue 31 Jan 2017 at 19.15

International superstars Vitaliy Bilyy, Anita Rachvelishvili, Lianna Haroutounian and Gregory Kunde lead a superb cast of world-class singers...

Met Opera Live: Roméo et Juliette (Live)

Last session: Sat 21 Jan 2017 at 17.40

Bartlett Sher’s new production of Gounod’s lush Shakespeare adaptation has won acclaim for its vivid 18th century milieu and stunning...

RSC Live: The Tempest (12A)

Last session: Wed 11 Jan 2017 at 18.45

Simon Russell Beale returns to the RSC after 20 years to play Prospero in this groundbreaking production directed by Artistic Director...

Met Opera Live: Nabucco (Live)

Last session: Sat 7 Jan 2017 at 17.40

The legendary Plácido Domingo brings another new baritone role to the Met under the baton of his longtime...

Santa Claus: The Movie (U)

Last session: Thu 22 Dec 2016 at 17.50

Complications surface when Santa Claus meets Patch, a misguided elf who gets mixed up with a business tycoon’s...

Scrooged (PG)

Last session: Wed 21 Dec 2016 at 18.00

A hilarious 1980s comedy variation on the classic Christmas tale, starring Bill Murray.

The Princess Bride (PG)

Last session: Mon 19 Dec 2016 at 20.40

A grandfather reads his sick grandson a story of swashbuckling swordsmen, dread pirates and true love in this...

The Thing (18)

Last session: Fri 16 Dec 2016 at 20.30

John Carpenter's classic sees Kurt Russell face off against a shape-shifting monster.

Little Shop of Horrors (PG)

Last session: Wed 14 Dec 2016 at 20.40

Feed me, Seymour! Feed me! Rick Moranis stars in Frank Oz's oddball musical about a man-eating plant from...

The Saddest Music in the World (15)

Last session: Tue 13 Dec 2016 at 18.20

Guy Maddin's new film starring Isabella Rossellini. Part of the Guy Maddin season

Met Opera Live: L’Amour de Loin (Live)

Last session: Sat 10 Dec 2016 at 17.40

Kaija Saariaho’s breakthrough opera has its Metropolitan Opera premiere in a dazzling new production with Eric Owens as the...

The Dark Crystal (PG)

Last session: Sat 10 Dec 2016 at 12.45

On another planet in the distant past, a Gelfling embarks on a quest to find the missing shard...

Back to the Future (PG)

Last session: Fri 9 Dec 2016 at 18.15

"You built a time machine, out of a DeLorean?" Marty McFly needs to get back to the future...

ROH Live: The Nutcracker (Live)

Last session: Thu 8 Dec 2016 at 19.15

The Royal Ballet's glorious production of The Nutcracker, created by Peter Wright in 1984, is the production par...

Feed Me + Intro... (18)

Last session: Mon 5 Dec 2016 at 18.30

Feed Me is a parable of the pleasures and perils of indulgence, a waspish skit on a world...

Alice (PG)

Last session: Sat 3 Dec 2016 at 18.20

A darkly surreal adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s classic tale combining live action with stop-motion animation.

Ernest & Celestine (U)

Last session: Sun 27 Nov 2016 at 11.00

The story of an unlikely friendship between a bear, Ernest, and a young mouse named Celestine, this a...

Escape From Tomorrow (15)

Last session: Thu 24 Nov 2016 at 18.20

Made by smuggling cameras into Disneyland, this disturbing satire is guerrilla filmmaking at its best.

The Irish Film Institute Presents George Best: Football As Never Before (CTBA)

Last session: Tue 22 Nov 2016 at 18.30

It’s hard to imagine a filmmaker focusing on a single player for an entire game or match, but...

ROH Live: Les Contes d’Hoffmann (Live)

Last session: Sun 20 Nov 2016 at 14.00

The Royal Opera's lavish production of Les Contes d'Hoffmann (The Tales of Hoffmann), Offenbach's masterpiece, is a favourite...

The Company of Wolves (18)

Last session: Mon 7 Nov 2016 at 20.40

A teenage heroine begins to discover her sexuality and its dark, unsettling power.

Yella (12A)

Last session: Mon 7 Nov 2016 at 18.20

An effective metaphysical thriller. A young woman leaves her old life - and possessive husband - to start...

Christiane F. (18)

Last session: Sun 6 Nov 2016 at 17.30

A gritty drama based on the true confessions of 13-year-old Christiane who becomes embroiled in the 1970s West...

A Coffee in Berlin (15)

Last session: Fri 4 Nov 2016 at 18.20

A love-letter to the city of Berlin and Generation Y, depicting a day-in-the-life of twenty-something law school dropout...

The Innocents (12A)

Last session: Thu 3 Nov 2016 at 18.20

One of the great British Gothic chillers, based on The Turn of the Screw.

Victoria (15)

Last session: Wed 2 Nov 2016 at 20.05

Victoria, a young Spanish woman, dances through the Berlin scene with abandon. She meets four outsiders and forms...

¡Viva! Spanish and Latin American Festival presents Drácula (PG)

Last session: Mon 31 Oct 2016 at 18.10

Filmed at night on the sets being used by the better-known version starring Bela Lugosi, this Spanish language...

Nosferatu + Live musical score... (PG)

Last session: Sun 30 Oct 2016 at 13.30

Nosferatu marked the first appearance on screen of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, and it remains the eeriest of the...

Battling Butler (U)

Last session: Sun 30 Oct 2016 at 11.00

Based on the Broadway play, the story revolves around a case of mistaken identity between two Alfred Butlers...

Manchester Science Festival presents: Scanning the Horizon (12A)

Last session: Wed 26 Oct 2016 at 16.00

The BBC’s Horizon documentary series has examined scientific ideas for five decades. But how many of its predictions...

Met Opera Live: Don Giovani (Live)

Last session: Sat 22 Oct 2016 at 17.40

The charismatic baritone Simon Keenlyside plays the title hero, opera’s ultimate cad, who goes to hell in a...

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (PG)

Last session: Tue 18 Oct 2016 at 18.20

Dr. Strangelove is the classic, biting satire on the threat of total nuclear annihilation starring Peter Sellers. Based...

ROH Live: Così fan tutte (Live)

Last session: Mon 17 Oct 2016 at 18.30

Mozart’s classic opera Così fan tutte puts two pairs of lovers to the test – with great music...

RSC Live: King Lear (12A)

Last session: Wed 12 Oct 2016 at 18.45

Lear has ruled for many years. As age begins to overtake him, he decides to divide his kingdom...

Met Opera Live: Tristan und Isolde (Live)

Last session: Sat 8 Oct 2016 at 16.45

Opening the new Met Opera Live season, Tristan und Isolde features a cast of outstanding Wagnerians: Nina Stemme as Isolde,...

Events

No Boundaries 2017

Tue 28 - Wed 29 Mar 2017

The national conference for the arts and culture sector returns, hosted by ourselves and Hull Truck Theatre.

Forgotten TV Drama

Sat 18 - Wed 29 March

Our Forgotten season highlights a few of the many productions that have survived being junked or wiped, including...

Paul Auster: Man of Cinema

Sun 5 Mar - Sun 19 Mar

Paul Auster is the best-selling author of Winter Journal, Sunset Park, Man in the Dark, The Brooklyn Follies,...

TEDxManchester 2017

Sun 19 Feb 2017, 11:00 - 17:30

After last year's sell-out, we are delighted to announce that TEDxManchester is returning to HOME in February. Fancy a mix...

Manchester Camerata: UpClose – The Next Generation

Thu 2 Feb 2017

Outstanding young Italian pianist Emanuel Rimoldi joins Manchester Camerata for an exploration of music and the mind. In...

Neville Smith: A Retrospective

Sun 8 Jan 2017 – Sun 29 Jan 2017

In January we continue our annual retrospective of overlooked British screenwriters. This time we dust off the work...

PUSH Festival 2017

Sat 14 Jan 2017 – Sat 28 Jan 2017

PUSH is our annual festival dedicated to supporting emerging North West-based artists, filmmakers and theatre makers to help...

Preview

Preview: Lay of the Land

Fri 27 Jan 2017

Join us for the preview of Lay of the land (and other such myths) the new project and...

A Very 80s Christmas

Fri 9 – Thu 22 Dec

The festive season comes alive with big hair, dodgy fashion and the best of 80s cinema.

Workshop

WOW! Said The Owl: Access Workshop

Fri 16 Dec 2016

A fantastic opportunity for children to get a close-up experience of WOW! Said The Owl. This multi-sensory workshop...

I’m Too Happy

Sat 29 Oct 2016 – Tue 13 Dec 2016

Selected by artist Rachel Maclean and curator Bren O’Callaghan, our season of films expands upon themes within the...

Daydreaming in the City

Sun 27 Nov, from 13:30

This micro-festival explores daydreaming and poetic states of mind, and features an eclectic programme of spoken word performance,...

Manchester Animation Festival 2016

Tue 15 Nov 2016 – Thu 17 Nov 2016

Manchester Animation Festival returns to HOME with special guests, screenings, workshops, retrospectives, masterclasses and more. Guests include Aardman...

BERLIN NOW

Wed 2 Nov 2016 – Mon 7 Nov 2016

Artists, writers, musicians, filmmakers and entrepreneurs from around the world have moved to Berlin for inspiration, experimentation and...

Berlin Now Film Season

Wed 2 Nov 2016 – Mon 7 Nov 2016

For pioneering filmmakers, Berlin has long been a source of fascination and inspiration. The films we’ve chosen for...

Discussion

Discussion: The Berlin art scene NOW...

Sat 5 Nov 2016

Thirty years after the film, is Berlin (still) the cultural capital of Europe? Is it (still) about the...

Queer Media Festival 2016

Sat 5 Nov from 12:00

Returning to Manchester for its third year, the Queer Media Festival celebrates the stories of lesbian, gay, bisexual...

Dracula Intro

Mon 31 Oct 2016

Introduced by Andy Willis, Reader in Film Studies at the University of Salford and HOME Film Senior Visiting...

FilmFear 2016

Thu 27 Oct 2016 – Mon 31 Oct 2016

Put a dark mark in your diary and head HOME this Halloween as we join forces with Film4...

Workshop

Director’s Workshop with Lily Sykes

Fri 28 - Sun 30 Oct 10:00 - 17:00

Taking award-winning playwright Ronald Schimmelpfennig’s play, The Woman Before, Berlin-based theatre director Lily Sykes leads this three-day workshop...

Feed Me Intro

Sat 29 Oct 2016

The screening on Sat 29 October will be introduced by artist and director Rachel Maclean.

Preview

Preview: Wot u :-) about?

Fri 28 Oct 2016

Join us for a preview and gallery tour of Visual Artist Rachel Maclean's new show Wot u :-)...

DM16: Design City

Sun 16 Oct 2016 – Sun 23 Oct 2016

DM16, Manchester’s fourth annual festival that celebrates design in all its forms, returns - with HOME hosting a...

Dr. Strangelove Intro

Tue 18 Oct 2016

This screening will be introduced by Sir Christopher Frayling, one of the world’s foremost experts in film culture.

Vertigo Intro

Mon 17 Oct 2016

This screening will be introduced by design writer Alice Rawsthorn, who will talk about Saul Bass and his...

Orbit 2016

Sat 24 Sep 2016 – Sat 15 Oct 2016

Welcome to our inaugural Orbit Festival, showcasing 10 of the most exciting and critically acclaimed productions from the Edinburgh...

Paradoxparadox by Protovoulia

Mon 10 - Thu 13 Oct 12:00 - 20:00, Fri 14 Oct 12:00 - 18:00

Over five days, Brazilian duo Rafael Abdala and Jessica Goes will keep eight artists from Greater Manchester in...

Instigate Arts: Identity

Sat 8 Oct 2016

'Identity' considers the anxiety between the hand we are dealt in life and the prizes we strive for....

Dave Haslam with Lemn Sissay: Gold from the Stone book launch

Sun 2 Oct 2016

Hosted by Dave Haslam, this event marks the publication of Lemn Sissay’s new book of poetry – Gold...