Event Online Talent Development Surgeries Ongoing While HOME is closed due to the coronavirus outbreak, we are still here for Talent Development Surgeries, now...
HOME Presents Festival Homemakers Online now Homemakers is series of new commissions inviting theatre and live art makers to create new works at home,...
Exhibition Nick Burton: Our Plague Year Webcomic Online now Let us take you back to 1665. A plague creeps ever towards a rural English village, Eyam, in...
HOME Presents Festival Push Festival 2021 Throughout 2021 Push Festival is our annual celebration of the North West’s creative talents.
What's On Donate to HOME Until we can reopen again, all our seats are now empty. Please consider a donation, if you are...
Festival Dibby’s Pick and Mix Dibby's Pick and Mix is a series of online workshops delivered by a diverse group of LGBTQ+ playmakers...
Exhibition Sarah-Joy Ford: Archives and Amazons Today 11.00 - 20.00 until Sun 11 Jul 2021 Sarah- Joy Ford presents a new body of work following several years of research in the Lesbian Archive...
Festival The Bruntwood Stage at Homeground Fri 28 May 2021 – Thu 26 Aug 2021 Find out what's on at the Bruntwood Stage at Homeground, including DJ Slots, local artist takeovers alongside our...
Exhibition David Bailey: The Busiest Bus Route in Europe Mon – Thu 5pm – 10pm, Fri 5pm – 11pm, Sat 12pm – 11pm, Sun 12pm – 10pm HOME commissioned local artist and illustrator, David Bailey, to create a new poster series for our Homeground outdoor performance site.
Exhibition Venessa Scott: Together We Are Thu 3 June 2021 - Ongoing Venessa Scott presents a brand-new mural reflecting on the strength of Manchester and its people. Head to Whitworth...
Exhibition We Cannot Walk Alone Sat 12 Jun 2021 – Sat 14 Aug 2021 Presented as part of Horizons Festival 2021, this exhibition responds to the festival theme; We Cannot Walk Alone,...
Event Manchester Open 2022: MAKE Packs Wed 16 Jun 2021 – Fri 17 Sep 2021 As part of this year’s open call for the Manchester Open Exhibition 2022, we have invited an amazing...
Film Short: The Very Last Boy Alive (15) Watch online Sam is scared, sinking and stuck in a pub toilet. How he got there is a conversation he...
Film Treasure City (18) Watch Online Dropped into a web of family, sexual, political and romantic relationships where nothing is quite what it seems....
Film Chaos Collective Presents Manchester School of Art Filmmaking Graduate Showcase (15) Watch Online Fri 18 Jun 6pm - Fri 25 Jun 6pm Celebrate the work and resilience of Manchester School of Art Filmmaking Graduate students despite a challenging year, presenting...
Event DJ Paulette Presents TOGETHER 21 – 25 Jun Mon 21 Jun 2021 – Fri 25 Jun 2021 Curated by DJ Paulette, this week's DJ lineup at Homeground between 5.30 - 7.30pm includes Jenna G, David...
Film In the Earth (15) Today 12.25, 14.45, 17.30, 20.30; Tomorrow 13.05, 14.40, 18.00, 20.30; Fri 12.30, 17.30 + more times Shot during lockdown, Wheatley’s return to A Field in England territory is inventive filmmaking of the highest order,...
Film After Love (12A) Today 12.35, 20.15; Tomorrow 15.35; Fri 15.00, 20.40; Sat 12.40; Sun 17.15; Mon 15.35; Tue 12.45 + more times In this knockout feature debut from BAFTA-nominated short filmmaker Aleem Khan, Joanna Scanlan is superb as a woman...
Film The Father (12A) Today 12.55, 17.45; Tomorrow 15.15, 20.40; Sat 15.15; Sun 13.30; Mon 12.45; Tue 18.00 + more times Adapted by Florian Zeller from his own award-winning play, The Father features an Oscar-winning performance from Hopkins as...
Film It Must Be Heaven (15) Today 13.10, 17.00; Tomorrow 14.20, 19.45; Fri 13.30, 17.55; Sat 17.15; Sun 17.45; Mon 20.15 + more times From award-winning director Elia Suleiman, a comic saga exploring identity, nationality and belonging, in which Suleiman asks the...
Film Nomadland (15) Today 14.20; Tomorrow 17.00; Fri 14.45, 20.15; Sat 12.50, 18.05; Sun 12.40, 19.45; Mon 12.55, 17.30 + more times Frances McDormand illuminates Chloé Zhao’s follow up to The Rider, a humane and lyrical film about people living...
Film In The Heights (PG) Today 14.55, 17.15, 20.00; Tomorrow 14.55, 17.10, 20.00; Fri 15.15, 20.00; Sat 15.00, 20.00 + more times The creator of Hamilton and the director of Crazy Rich Asians invite you to the event of the...
Film Minari (12A) Mon 17 May 2021 – Thu 24 Jun 2021 Minari follows a Korean-American family that moves to a tiny Arkansas farm in search of their own American...
Film The Reason I Jump (12A) Today 15.30, 20.40; Tomorrow 12.30, 17.45; Fri 12.40; Sat 19.45; Sun 12.50; Mon 15.20; Tue 17.45 + more times Based on the bestselling book by Naoki Higashida, Jerry Rothwell’s BIFA-winning documentary is an immersive cinematic exploration of...
Film Not Just Bollywood/ Round Figure + Introduction (15) Today 18.00 Sudheer, a washed-up character actor from the heyday of Bollywood, comes out of retirement aged 63 after her...
Theatre A Midsummer Night’s Dream Today 19.30; Tomorrow 19.30; Fri 19.30; Sat 19.30 Young lovers and warring fairies cross paths in this irreverent adaptation of one of Shakespeare’s best-loved plays
Film A Quiet Place Part II (15) Today 19.45 Following the deadly events at home, the Abbott family must now face the terrors of the outside world...
Discussion Dolemite is My Name Introduction This screening of Dolemite is My Name will be introduced by Karen Gabay, radio presenter, TV & podcast producer.
Film Gunda (PG) Tomorrow 12.40 Set on a farm and shot in natural light, featuring long takes and no score, Gunda invites you...
Film Dolemite is My Name (15) Tomorrow 20.15 The story of Rudy Ray Moore, a struggling singer & comedian working in a record store in early-1970s...
Film Sweat (15) Fri 12.50, 18.15; Sat 14.50, 20.30; Sun 14.50, 17.30; Mon 12.30, 20.40; Tue 15.35, 17.10 + more times Pumping music & bursting energy are the outer layers of this captivating human drama about fame, loneliness and...
Film Supernova (15) Fri 13.15, 15.30, 18.00, 20.30; Sat 15.35, 17.50, 20.15; Sun 13.00, 15.45, 18.00, 20.40 + more times Driven by two beautiful performances from Firth and Tucci as a couple with a long history and an...
Film The Filmmaker’s House (12A) Fri 15.50, 17.45; Sat 14.30, 20.40; Sun 12.30, 20.15; Mon 15.05, 17.15; Tue 12.30, 19.45 + more times Blending documentary with fiction, and a wry humour with emotional intensity, acclaimed filmmaker Marc Isaacs unfolds a story...
Discussion Supernova Q&A Fri 25 Jun 2021 The screening on Fri 25 Jun at 18:00 will be followed by a Q&A with director Harry Macqueen.
Film Nashville (15) Fri 19.45; Sat 17.00; Sun 14.25; Mon 19.45; Tue 14.25 + more times Altman’s magnum opus is a witty, illuminating and exhilarating portrait of modern America - now gloriously restored in...
Event Brighter Sound Bruntwood Stage Takeover Sat 26 Jun 2021 – Sun 27 Jun 2021 Brighter Sound is a pioneering creative music charity based in Manchester, join them for this takeover of the...
Event The Lost Colour Sat 12.00 Join Malcolm Brushell, professional painter and amateur alchemist, on his quest to find the pinky-est pink paint on...
Film Man with a Movie Camera (U) Sat 13.00 Man with a Movie Camera is one of the most ground-breakingly inventive and influential films ever made. A...
Event Sunday Barrel of Laughs – MC Stephen Bailey, Lloyd Griffiths and Rachel Fairburn Sun 27 Jun 2021 The Frog and Bucket brings its flagship Barrel of Laughs show to Homeground on Sun 27 Jun, with...
Event Sunday Barrel of Laughs Sun 18.30; Sun 11 Jul 18.00; Sun 1 Aug 18.30 Manchester's Oldest Legendary Comedy Club, The Frog and Bucket brings its flagship Barrel of Laughs show to Homeground...
Event DJ Paulette Presents TOGETHER 28 Jun – 2 Jul Mon 28 Jun 2021 – Fri 2 Jul 2021 Curated by DJ Paulette, this week's DJ lineup at Homeground 5.30-7.30pm includes Sharples, Levi Love, Rina Ladybeige, Claud...
Showcase Filmed Up Jun 2021 (18) Mon 28 Jun, 18:15 Discover short films from all genre that are being produced in our region.
Event Take Back Our Future: Ten Takes On How To Be An Ally Mon 19.30 Entertaining and enriching takes on how to stand together against injustice, and how we can make space for...
Festival Filmed Up, the last online edition? Until our next screening in person Until we can watch films together inthe cinema , get your fix of short films from the region in small regular doses!
Film One Cut of the Dead (15) Tue 20.40 Beginning with an almost 40-minute single-take set piece that sets the tone for what’s to come, this cult...
Theatre HOME x Manchester Camerata presents: Renew Online now Designed to calm, centre, refresh and renew, this specially-filmed concert will provide an opportunity to take time for...
Exhibition Poet Slash Artist Fri 2 Jul 2021 – Fri 16 Jul 2021 From gallery walls to city streets, poets and visual artists connect words and images in this multifaceted group...
Theatre Cyclical Sat 3 Jul 2021 On 3 July join artist Michael Pinchbeck via zoom for a 15 min one to one chat. You...
Event How I Hacked My Way Into Space Sat 3 Jul 14.00 A hilarious and moving storytelling show about one man’s mission to hack his way into space.
Event Gals Aloud Sat 3 Jul 19.30 Fierce, funny, fabulous! Gals Aloud is the 5-Star Smash hit, ultimate drag tribute to the best girl band...
Event James O’Brien In Conversation Sun 4 Jul 17.00 An intimate conversation with James O’Brien, award-winning writer and broadcaster whose journalism has appeared everywhere from the TLS...
Event An Evening with Ria Jones Fri 9 Jul 19.30 Join West End star Ria Jones at Homeground for an evening of song and laughter from her career...
Event Shlomo’s Beatbox Adventure For Kids Sat 10 Jul 12.00 Join world record-breaking beatboxer SK Shlomo in a world of funny sounds, brilliant noises and cool music whether...
Event Trans Vegas Live Sat 10 Jul 19.30 Trans Vegas Festival returns to the stage in our beloved home town of Manchester with a night of...
Theatre Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland Fri 16 Jul 2021 – Sat 7 Aug 2021 Follow Alice down the rabbit hole in this joyful outdoor show for all the family.
Event Jackie Kay presents: Poetry, Music, Cheese and Wine Mon 19 Jul 19.30; Mon 2 Aug 19.30; Mon 9 Aug 19.30 Award-winning poet Jackie Kay is joined by a series of guests for three intimate evenings of poetry, music,...
Event David Hoyle: Rebellion Fri 23 Jul 19.30 Out of the darkness and loneliness of life in lock-down David Hoyle returns to the stage lights of...
Theatre Hot Brown Honey & Quiet RIOT presents: Don’t Touch My Hair Available Online A defiant musical blast that’s equal parts social activism and earworm
Theatre David Ellington presents: Liberty Available Online David Ellington brings to life his poignant and political BSL poem, Liberty, in a new short film
Theatre Matty Gurney presents: Dr Voxoff’s Sign Language School for Hearing Children Available Online A dark, acerbic and witty dystopian vision of a world in which the roles are reversed – where...
Theatre Hester Chillingworth presents: Them’s the Rules Available Online Video calls can feel so void of life. But in this landscape of distance and isolation, they also...
Theatre Wait I’m From Wuhan Available Online Wait I’m From Wuhan is the story of a Chinese adoptee struggling to decide whether or not to...
Theatre Toreh O’Garro presents: Memories of a Moss Sidian Available Online Imaginative, escape, poetic
Theatre Music Theatre Wales and London Sinfonietta presents: AMAZON Available Online Reflective, poetic, soundscape
Theatre Ad Infinitum presents: A Small Gathering Available Online Three characters find different ways of managing as the days tick over and thoughts turn into visions of...
Theatre Bryony Kimmings presents: I am falling in love with you and it’s making me do stupid things Available Online Performance Artist Bryony Kimmings is single in lockdown and it’s smarting somewhat.
Theatre The Javaad Alipoor Company presents: A Series of Metaphors About A Plague Available Online Artists have always been fascinated by plague, interpreting what it means to society and art in today’s world.
Theatre Hot Coals presents: My Darling Christopher Available Online Theatrical, history, heart-warming
Theatre Chad Taylor presents: Lost Online Available Online Choreographer Chad Taylor allows dance to move between people who are physically apart, so they can dance together
Theatre Leaphia Darko/The London Rep presents: The Very Error Of The Moon Available Online Solitude, Shakespeare, inequality
Theatre Anna Brownsted presents: Week Nine Available Online Week Nine is lockdown escapism for you and your headphones…a story within a story within a surreal reality.
Theatre Tin Can presents: A Manual of Fantastical Zoology Available Online Imaginative, intimate, live
Theatre METIS presents: Love Letters to a Liveable Future: The Postcards Available via the Post What do you dream of, out there on the other side of crisis?
Theatre Ella Otomewo presents: I Don’t Love You Anymore, But I Don’t Love You Any Less Available Online Reflection, poetic, connection
Theatre Hannah Jane Walker presents: You Know It Knows Available Online A podcast asking how do we live under threat, and stay well?
Theatre Ugly Bucket presents: ABC (Anything But Covid) Available Online A mix of self-help video and disturbing twisted fable
Theatre Naomi Sampson presents: They keep telling me that my house is on fire Available Online Political, reflection, thought-provoking
Event Brainiac Live! Science Abuse Mon 9 Aug 13.00, 16.00 Strap on your safety goggles boys and girls: WE’RE BACK !!! Due to popular demand Science’s greatest and...
Event A Celebration of Musical Theatre Tue 10 Aug 19.30 The Award winning Hope Mill Theatre produces a new show celebrating the history of Musical Theatre, which will...
Event Look At Me Don’t Look At Me Fri 13 Aug 19.30 RashDash return to HOME following Don’t Go Back To Sleep: The Lockdown Album and make their Homeground debut...
Event The Cocoa Butter Club Sat 14 Aug 19.30 The award winning cabaret collective of colour are coming to Manchester! Boasting Burlesque, Circus, Drag, Dance and more,...
Theatre Superhero Alter Ego Online from 1 March until 31 August Take a surreal, escapist journey into the world of comic books
Theatre Ode to Bedroom Dancing Mon 21 Jun 2021 – Tue 31 Aug 2021 Ode to Bedroom Dancing is a piece of digital theatre celebrating the inner sanctum of women’s bedrooms.
Event storytime-sessions... Watch Online Now This series of three family friendly storytime sessions will creatively explore mortality through handmade puppetry and mythical gods.
HOME Presents Theatre HOME presents: The Earth Asleep: with live score Fri 10 Sep 2021 – Sat 11 Sep 2021 Clara Casian and Robin Richards' haunting follow-up to Birdsong (2016)
Event The Ripples of Hope Festival – Day One Fri 17 Sep 2021: 10.00-18.30 You’ll hear from speakers including human rights barrister Baroness Helena Kennedy QC; journalist Amelia Gentleman; CEO of In...
Event The Ripples of Hope Festival – Day Two Sat 18 Sep 2021: 10.00-18.00 The day begins with conversations exploring the theme of Equity & Equality, we then dive into the stories...
Event The Ripples of Hope Festival – Day Three Sun 19 Sep 2021: 10.00-18.00 We dedicate the final day of The Ripples of Hope Festival to a theme that has a massive...
Theatre Mark Thomas: 50 Things About Us Wed 13 Oct 2021 Mark Thomas' 50 Things About Us is a show about songs, gongs, loot, tradition, wigs, nicking, statues, art...
Theatre Fane presents: An Evening with Armistead Maupin Fri 15 Oct 2021 Don’t miss the chance to join America’s ultimate storyteller, as he recounts his favourite tales from the past...
Event Manchester Folk Festival 2021/ Spiers & Boden plus supports Janice Burns & Jon Doran and Dalinda Thu 21 Oct 19.00 Described by The Guardian as ‘the finest instrumental duo on the traditional scene’, the multi award-winning duo of...
Film Censor (15) Wed 30 Jun 2021 1985. After viewing a strangely familiar "video nasty", Enid, a film censor, sets out to solve the past...
Event + Q&A... Wed 30 Jun 2021 This special preview screening of Censor will be followed by a Q&A with director Prano Bailey-Bond.
Film Another Round (12A) In cinemas from Fri 2 Jul A boisterous and sobering comedy about how men deal (and don’t deal) with aging — though underlying it...
Film Last Man Standing (18) From Fri 2 Jul Nick Broomfield’s film takes a look at Death Row and how L.A.’s street gang culture had come to...
Film WITCH: We Intend To Cause Havoc (12) From Fri 2 Jul WITCH: We Intend To Cause Havoc follows the formation of Zambia’s most popular rock band of the 1970s,...
Film Don’t Go Gentle: A Film About IDLES (CTBA) From Fri 2 Jul Mark Archer's raucous, uncompromising film follows Bristol-born rock outfit IDLES as they fight for a place in a...
Film Lady Boss: The Jackie Collins Story (15) From Fri 2 Jul Lady Boss reveals the private struggles of Jackie Collins - a woman who became an icon of 1980s...
Event NIAMOS Bruntwood Stage Takeover Sat 3 Jul 2021 – Sun 4 Jul 2021 N.I.A.M.O.S is a Radical Arts and Cultural Centre in the heart of Hulme, Manchester. Join them at the...
Film Bhaji on the Beach (15) Sun 4 Jul, 15:30 Gurinder Chadha’s Bhaji on the Beach is an empowering and cultured comedy about the bond between women regardless...
Event DJ Paulette Presents TOGETHER 5 – 9 Jul Mon 5 Jul 2021 – Fri 9 Jul 2021 Curated by DJ Paulette, this week's evening DJ lineup at Homeground includes Dom Kozubik, Mix-Stress, Kirby, Stu Richards,...
Film My Beautiful Laundrette (15) Mon 5 Jul 18:15 A classic of 80's British cinema, that gives a cheeky portrait of being British, Asian and gay in...
Preview Quarantine open rehearsals: 12 Last Songs Wed 7 Jul 2021 – Sun 11 Jul 2021 For one week this July, HOME’s Associate Company Quarantine are inviting you into the rehearsal room. Come and...
Event Showstopper! The Improvised Musical Thu 8 Jul 2021 The Olivier-Award winning Showstopper! The Improvised Musical sees a brand-new musical comedy created from scratch from audience suggestions, with unpredictable and...
Film The Truffle Hunters (12A) From Fri 9 Jul Deep in the forests of Piedmont, Italy, a handful of men hunt for the rare and expensive white...
Film Martin Eden (15) From Fri 9 Jul Director Pietro Marcello brilliantly captures the circular nature of the perpetual expanse between the working class and the...
Film Tove (12A) From Fri 9 Jul The bohemian life of artist and writer Tove Jansson is wondrously brought to life in this timely and...
Film The Surrogate (CTBA) From Fri 9 Jul Jess is ecstatic to be the surrogate and egg-donor for her best friend Josh and his husband Aaron,...
Film Lost and Beautiful (CTBA) From Fri 9 Jul The debut fiction feature from Marcello. A profound journey through a lost Italy shot on expired 16mm stock....
Film Jumbo (CTBA) From Fri 9 Jul Writer-director Zoé Wittock brings gleeful energy, buoyant humour and surrealistic style to an unusual love story in her...
Event Untold Orchestra Bruntwood Stage Takeover Sat 10 Jul 2021 – Sun 11 Jul 2021 The Untold Orchestra is a Manchester based collaborative orchestra aiming to redefine the role of an orchestra in...
