Manchester International Festival returns this summer

Florence Lockheart
Friday, June 13, 2025

The biennial festival returns to Manchester for its first edition hosted in Aviva Studios, and its first under new creative director Low Kee Hong

Over 70 life-sized puppet animals will open the festival, passing through Manchester on their 20,000km journey from the Congo basin to the Arctic Circle to depict the displacement caused by climate change © David Levene
Over 70 life-sized puppet animals will open the festival, passing through Manchester on their 20,000km journey from the Congo basin to the Arctic Circle to depict the displacement caused by climate change © David Levene

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