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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.
We are contact
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.
COMING UP
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.Co-Production
Sleeping Beauty Pantomime
–We're thrilled to be welcoming The Big Tiny back to Contact's castle for another year of Pantomime fun following their hilarious (and critically acclaimed) 2025 show Rumpelstiltskin. Get ready for even more magic, mirth and mischief, as we…Contact Presents
Social Experiment
–Social Experiment is a gathering at Contact for anyone interested in Live Art and contemporary performance to meet, chat, and try ideas out…A free and informal, semi-regular evening event with the next on; Thursday 27 November, with 2026…
