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Our Queer Contact Festival is Back!

In February, we're back with a full and fabulous Queer festival line-up for you. Find your people here at Contact by connecting with the queer community and having some serious fun along the way.

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Inspiring creativity in young people and audiences since 1972, Contact is a charity, arts venue and theatre based in the centre of Manchester that puts young people at the heart of everything we do.

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  1. Coram Shakespeare Schools Festival

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    Coram Shakespeare Schools Foundation is proud to present the world’s largest youth drama festival. Join us this March for an exhilarating evening of live theatre, featuring a series of unique abridged Shakespeare productions by local…
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  2. TURN 2026

    Fluidly lyrical, effervescently acrobatic, or eccentrically innovative, let Turn 2026 transport you into a frenzy of dance…Our annual whirlwind of new North West dance returns to the building.

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  3. Trompe l'Oeil

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    A hilarious circus and musical romp - combining queer theatre, cabaret, circus and illusion.Trompe l'Oeil is an American drag queen's journey through a surreal Wizard of Oz / 2016 American landscape - with drag kings and queens,…
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