Manchester Literature Festival presents an evening of poetry celebrating the launch of When Black is Red, a comprehensive anthology of contemporary Black British poetry. [more…]

TEN looks at the meeting place between the red dot on the Hindu forehead and the red cross on the English flag. Negotiating multiple and overlapping identities in Britain today, Hetain Patel’s TEN asks what is behind this need to belong? [more…]

With Forkbeard Fantasy’s famed mix of visual trickery, film and outlandish story-lines, The Colour of Nonsense is an exuberant satire on an art and theatre world always in search of ‘the new’. [more…]

Working at the forefront of Bharata Natyam (the oldest form of Indian classical dance), Sankalpam presents Corpo-realities: an intimate triple bill with choreography by Stephanie Schober, Luca Silvestrini & Stella Uppal Subbiah. [more…]

Dave Haslam, journalist, author, academic and legendary Haçienda DJ, returns with Close Up With… a series of opportunities to get up close and personal with musicians, writers and actors, to discuss their life and work. His second guest this autumn is Terry Hall, The Specials front-man. [more…]