Manchester International Festival 2025
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- Date
- 3 - 20 Jul 2025
- Venue
- At Aviva Studios, across the city and beyond
Accessibility features available for this event: Captioning Audio Description Relaxed Performance BSL Interpreting Wheelchair Access
Dream Differently at Manchester International Festival this summer
MIF is back – inviting you to leap into the unknown with some of the most exciting creative minds of our generation.
Taking over Aviva Studios and spreading across the city and beyond, experience art that pushes boundaries, addresses the big questions of our time and creates hope for the future.
With lots of free events, take a chance and try something new. Gather your friends and family, find your joy – and Dream Differently
Aviva £10 Tickets are available across the festival. What will you discover?
Events
Festival Square
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"It has been an incredible journey building the MIF25 programme with such a diverse range of artists from around the world whose voices are ever more critical in these challenging times. They encourage us to lean into visions of other possible futures, encounter cosmologies unfamiliar to our own, and enter into worlds that propose a re-enchantment of dreaming to rediscover our ability for joy, hope and belief in each other and our communities to build these tomorrows we want to be part of."
Low Kee Hong, Creative Director, Factory International
Become a member
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Official MIF25 programme
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International Residencies
Meet the international artists taking up residency in Manchester for MIF25. Get to know them here.
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