Future Flares Festival

Full Programme

Alongside our public performances, Future Flares Festival includes workshops, presentations/talks and a panel discussion.

Wednesday 21 January 2026

• Performance Lecture: Affective Dramaturgy of Voice by Patrick Campbell
  2 – 3pm, Theatre
• Creative Workshop: Quarantine Performance Company
  3 – 5.30pm, Studio 1 (1.09)
• Performance: What Am I Doing This For? by WilL Dickie
  6 – 7pm, Performance Studio 1.04
• Performance: The Ego by Verona Verbakel & Anemone Valcke
  7.30 – 8.30pm, Studio Theatre GF.11

Thursday 22 January 2026

• Workshop project session 1: by WilL Dickie
  10am – 1pm, Studio 1 (1.09)
• Performance installation: Failure (terror at night) by Brigitte Jurack
  12 – 2pm, Studio 2 (1.10)
• Panel Discussion: Developing Theatre Artists
  2 – 3.30pm, GE 3.12
• Performance: Visibility of Possibility by Peader Kirk
  6 – 6.35pm, Studio 1 (1.09)
• Performance: Burning by Patrick Campbell & Andrea Maciel
  7 – 7.15pm, Performance Studio (1.04)
• Performance: Imperceptible by Jérémie Cyr-Cooke / Cuisle Productions
  7.30 – 8.30pm, Studio Theatre

Friday 23 January 2026

• Workshop project session 2: by WilL Dickie
  10am – 1pm, Performance Studio (1.04)
• Performance installation: An image is an act not a thing
  12 – 2pm, Theatre
• Performance: Exit Music by Pinchbeck & Smith
  12.30 – 1pm, Dressing Room
• Performance: Exit Music by Pinchbeck & Smith
  1.30 – 2pm, Dressing Room
• Workshop performance sharing: by WilL Dickie and group
  2 – 2.30pm, Performance Studio (1.04)

Festival Venue

Manchester Metropolitan University

Grosvenor East Building
Cavendish Street
Manchester
M15 6BG

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