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MIF Daily | Sunday 6 July

Meet Michael Beard and the Venture Arts artists – and spend your Sunday exhibition hopping across the city

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: VENTURE ARTS – MEET THE ARTISTS

  • Colourful painting on canvas by Maureen Callaghan

    Today marks the first live performance from Michael Beard in collaboration with Company Chameleon and Manchester Camerata in the Lab!

    Michael Beard: Venture Arts is a pop-up open studio featuring a series of performances and workshops throughout the festival. We’ve got everything from porcelain flower making to accessible leadership training – all facilitated by the artists at Venture Arts.

    You can find out more about Venture Arts, artist-in-residence Michael Beard and his fellow Venture Arts artists with our introduction.

    Read now

Watch: IN THE STUDIO WITH JULIET ELLIS

It’s Sunday so we’re looking ahead to next week and the opening of Juliet Ellis: A Symphony of Flesh and Bones – a deeply personal meditation on the nature of self told through the stories of Juliet's father Lloyd, a world champion body builder, and her brother Anthony, a former cage fighter.

Juliet Ellis is an award-winning artist, theatre and filmmaker. In our studio visit, she talks about the importance of authenticity and honesty in filmmaking, the influences of David Lynch and the philosophy behind her work.

Juliet Ellis taking a photo sat on the floor, in a blue-lit, smoky environment.

Juliet Ellis | In the Studio | Factory+

Snaps: A Single Man

A photo of two ballerinas doing arabesques
A photo of singer/musician John Grant in a structure shaped like the outline of a human head
A photo of two ballerinas, one lying on the ground the other leaning over him

LISTEN: DEBUSSY

Debussy is the soundtrack to our Sunday ahead of Sounds of The East at Bridgewater Hall tonight!

The evening’s programme includes the European premiere of Cambodian-American composer Chinary Ung’s Grand Spiral (Desert Flowers Bloom), Debussy’s La mer and Mussorgsky’s masterful Pictures At An Exhibition. Kahchun Wong conducts the Hallé and musicians from the Singapore Chinese Orchestra.

DO: EXHIBITION HOPPING

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