Future Flares Festival

Full Programme

Alongside our public performances, Future Flares Festival includes a public panel discussion, as well as a presentation and some creative workshops for Manchester Metropolitan University students.

Wednesday 24 January 2024

• Festival Launch
  6.30 – 7pm, Grosvenor East Building Foyer
• Working Method – Enkidu Khaled
  7pm, Grosvenor East Studio Theatre (GF.11)

Thursday 25 January 2024

• Theatre for Social Change Workshop – Common Wealth
  10 – 12.30pm, Grosvenor East Studio Theatre (GF.11)
• Feldenkrais Wellbeing Workshop – Teresa Brayshaw
  10 – 12pm, Grosvenor East Building (Studio 1.10)
• Another Way of Telling – Michael Pinchbeck
  1 – 2pm, Grosvenor East Building (Studio 1.09)
• A String Section – Reckless Sleepers (external performance, unticketed)
  1 – 1.45pm, Brooks building Spanish Steps, 53 Bonsall St, Hulme, Manchester M15 6GX
• Submerge Festival Presentation – Mike Pony
  2 – 3.30pm, Grosvenor East Theatre (GF.17)
• Curating Contemporary Theatre Panel Discussion with Kate Craddock (Horizon/GIFT), Richard Jordan (Richard Jordan Productions), Mike Pony (Submerge Festival) and Pelin Basaran (Battersea Arts Centre)
  4 – 5.30pm, Grosvenor East Studio Theatre (GF.11)
• Nerve in the Bone – Gillian Dyson
  6.30 – 7pm, Grosvenor East Performance Studio (GE1.04)
• A String Section – Reckless Sleepers
  7.30 – 8.15pm, Grosvenor East Theatre (GF.17)

Friday 26 January 2024

• A String Section – Performance Workshop
  10am – 12pm, Grosvenor East Performance Studio (GE1.04)
• Feldenkrais Wellbeing Workshop – Teresa Brayshaw
  10am – 12pm, Grosvenor East Building (Studio 1.10)
• An image is an act not a thing – Arts and Humanities students, Jenny Baines, Brigid McLeer
  12pm – 2pm, Grosvenor East Theatre (GF.17)
• Working Method – Enkidu Khaled
  2 – 3.30pm, Grosvenor East Studio Theatre (GF.11)
• Performance Research Group Reception
  3.30 – 5pm, Grosvenor East Performance Studio (GE1.04)

Festival Venue

Manchester Metropolitan University

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