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The Nello James Centre: A Documentary Screening
The Nello James Centre was established during the 1970s by members of Manchester’s Caribbean community and named after celebrated Trinidadian activist and author Cyril Lionel Robert James, known by many as C. L. R or Nello James. This…
Robert Macfarlane
One of our most beloved chroniclers of nature, Robert Macfarlane joins us to discuss his thought-provoking new book, Is a River Alive? At its heart is a single, transformative idea: that rivers are not mere matter for human use, but…
Works Ahead 2025
–Our annual sampler evening of new performance returns to Contact on Thursday 15 and Friday 16 May at 7.30pm with a double bill of new works-in-development from Adèle Le Gallez and Martha Pailing…
Social Experiment
–Social Experiment is a new 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 22 May from 6pm to…Co-Production
Steel
Two lads. Twelve hours. One million pounds. On the wet West Cumbrian coast, James and Kamran have been mates for more than a decade. At seventeen, the world should be theirs but Workington’s a ghost town – an unemployment blackspot where…
Miss Brexit
–A satirical musical parody of a beauty pageant. Hosted by a sexy, flamboyant, and unforgiving MC, five exotic Europeans compete to assimilate into English culture. YOU will eliminate impostors and crown the ultimate queen. Who will YOU…
180⁰ Chord
You’re the pride of the police force but fate intervenes and suddenly you're in the same prison you sent your scalps to. News of your arrival spreads, the riot starts and they come looking for you. A fellow inmate hides you and you flee…
Twisted! The Musical
–Set in the heart of Victorian London, "Twisted! The Musical" follows Oliver Brownlow, now a young man, as he becomes entangled with Jane, a working-class flower girl facing adversity.
