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IT started with a kiss and finished off with a feast. In between the intriguing and scary first event It Felt Like A Kiss and last weekend’s closing celebration with Festival Feast, this year’s Manchester International Festival has, measured by both critical acclaim and actual bums on seats, been a huge success.
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WELL, another Manchester International Festival is over and for 18 days it really did put our fair city on the world map.
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FUCHSIA Dunlop is the award-winning Chinese cook book and travel writer who has created a dumpling course for the Manchester International Festival’s final event, Feast. She tells Neil Sowerby why she is so proud to have been asked. Just don't call her a foodie!
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To close the 2009 Manchester International Festival on Sunday, July 19,, MIF will be offering 2,000 people a Feast. Renowned culinary experts will be working with local chefs to create five special dishes, which will then be served to diners at four sittings. Claudia Roden has created the soup
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To close the 2009 Manchester International Festival on Sunday, July 19,, MIF will be offering 2,000 people a Feast. Renowned culinary experts will be working with local chefs to create five special dishes, which will then be served to diners at four sittings. Camellia Panjabi has created the chicken curry.
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To close the 2009 Manchester International Festival on Sunday, July 19,, MIF will be offering 2,000 people a Feast. Renowned culinary experts will be working with local chefs to create five special dishes, which will then be served to diners at four sittings.Fuxchsia Dunlop has created the Chinese dumplings course.
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To close the 2009 Manchester International Festival on Sunday, July 19,, MIF will be offering 2,000 people a Feast. Renowned culinary experts will be working with local chefs to create five special dishes, which will then be served to diners at four sittings. Levi Roots reated the (whate else?) Jerk Chicken.
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To close the 2009 Manchester International Festival on Sunday, July 19,, MIF will be offering 2,000 people a Feast. Renowned culinary experts will be working with local chefs to create five special dishes, which will then be served to diners at four sittings. Paul Heathcote has created the pudding...
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An opera in French, the composer attending the first night of this Manchester International Festival highlight dressed as Verdi (or Puccini). It could only be Rufus Wainwright's Prima Donna at The Palace.
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NOTHING I’d heard about Marina Abramovic’s extraordinary, provocative and often downright dangerous performance-art creations could have prepared me for the calm, funny, reflective, extraordinarily young-looking woman I’m talking to about the new MIF show she’s curating.
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EXCITEMENT is mounting ahead of the world premiere of Rufus Wainwright’s debut opera, Prima Donna, on Friday night as part of the continuing Manchester International Festival.
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THERE are a couple of things that their musical director Bob Cilman wants to make clear to me about the Massachusetts-based Young @ Heart Chorus, made up of amateur singers aged from 73-90 years of age.
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THE ONLY thing that wasn’t Manchester was the weather as a procession celebrating the region waltzed down Deansgate.
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POET Lemn Sissay joins Scottish-Nigerian writer Jackie Kay on July 14 for an evening's conversation with DJ and writer Dave Haslam as part True Faith series for the Manchester International Festival.
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DAVE Haslam has been entrusted with running a series of Manchester International Festival events, entitled True Faith, will see Guy Garvey, John Thomson, Jackie Kay and a range of up and coming musical acts appearing at the Festival Pavilion in Albert Square.
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Gareth McCann wrote: 10 months 4 weeks ago
Hi, MIFs alright but it's not the only show in town. The Not Part Of Festival is Manchester's fresh, edgy, alternative, (yes, original and modern), arts festival that occurs in Manchester at the same time as MIF. The closing date to be involved is 1st May. Get in touch. Not Part Of
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