MIF Daily | Sunday 13 July – Factory International

Manchester International Festival is back and so is MIF Daily – our curated guide to the festival! We’ll tell you what to read, watch, listen to and do to make the most of MIF25.

MIF Daily is filled with top tips, recommendations and free events to help you navigate the busy festival. Head behind the scenes with interviews, studio visits and editorials, taking you out into the city and far beyond.

Look out for MIF Daily on Factory+ from Tuesday to Sunday throughout the festival.

Come rain or shine, we’ll see you on Festival Square!

Read: Rose Wylie and Lotte Wubben-Moy

Rose Wylie Woman Footballer 2019 © Rose Wylie Photo Anna Arca Courtesy the artist and David Zwirner

England play Wales tonight in the UEFA Women's Euro. Who are you cheering on?
Ahead of today’s match, we’re reading about British artist Rose Wylie and Arsenal and England national defender Lotte Wubben-Moy’s collaboration in Football City, Art United.
The paintings and drawings began as an image diary – Wubben-Moy’s behind-the-scenes photos from training, match days and daily life. In Wylie’s hands, they become a series of sharp, playful reinterpretations.
Known for her distinctive visual language that reimagines pop culture and daily life, Wylie focuses on details others might miss – a pair of legs in mid-stride, a contorted pose or the thoughts that go behind planning each move on the pitch. The result gives an insight into a footballer’s daily life through the eyes of a painter.
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Watch: Cooking with Mary-Ellen McTague | Manchester Urban Diggers

Earlier this year, we visited our Community Partner Manchester Urban Diggers (MUD) – a community of urban market gardeners – with local chef and restaurateur Mary-Ellen McTague. Founded in 2019, MUD creates space for people to connect over growing, cooking and eating sustainable food. Watch this video to find out all about MUD and their work.

Later today, a new film by our other Community Partners REELMCR and the Salford Lads and Girls Club Film Crew premieres at Aviva Studios. Joy as Resistance is a new community film exploring the importance of joy and third spaces in times of challenge and social fraction. It features interviews and footage of our brilliant Community Partners and other familiar faces from our wider community network.

Listen: Lex Amor

We’re looking ahead to next week when a series of gigs take over the South Warehouse. On Friday, Sounds From the Other City – Salford’s legendary independent music festival – presents Surround Sounds with WU LYF, Lex Amor, AFRODEUTSCHE and many more.

Give the multitalented London rapper, singer and producer Lex Amor a listen here.

Snaps – Juliet Ellis: A Symphony of Flesh and Bones

The set of A Symphony of Flesh and Bones in the Warehouse, showing projections on large screens and pieces of fabric

The set of A Symphony of Flesh and Bones in the Warehouse, showing projections on large screens and pieces of fabric. The screens show her brother and dad with their eyes closed.

The set of A Symphony of Flesh and Bones in the Warehouse, showing projections on large screens and pieces of fabric. The screens show her father and the lighting is red.

DO: Hop between films and continents

Today, enjoy a series of films from across the globe – spotlighting stories from Aotearoa New Zealand, Ukraine, Peru and Greater Manchester.

At HOME, watch Diaspora Rendered – a collection of short films by FAFSWAG reflecting on identity, place and representations of Moana ocean people. At Aviva Studios, watch Joy as Resistance followed by Balmy Ukraine: This is also Ukraine – an extraordinary short film by young people directly impacted by the full-scale invasion.

Finish the day with El Canto de las Mariposas (The Song of the Butterflies). Presented in tandem with Santiago Yahuarcani: The Beginning of Knowledge at the Whitworth, this poetic film focuses on Rember Yahuarcani, an Indigenous painter from the White Heron clan of the Uitoto Nation in Peru.

Fancy a screen break? There’s live music and family activities all day on Festival Square!

Festival Square line-up →