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Cillian Murphy, a Big Ben sculpture and dancers on Deansgate head up Manchester International Festival 2021 programme The festivals full programme for this summer has been revealed Updated Festival Square will move to Cathedral Gardens (Image: LOUIS REYNOLDS) Sign up for our Whats On newsletter to keep your finger on the pulse of an ever-changing Manchester Invalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Subscribe When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you...

Manchester international festival 2021 to feature work reflecting on pandemic Lanre Bakare Arts and culture correspondent © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Elvis Gonzalez/EPA A 42-metre sculpture of Big Ben made out of political books, a new film featuring Cillian Murphy and a theatrical performance of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s essay about grief are among the standout works at this year’s Manchester international festival, which will take place throughout July. The ...

Manchester International Festival has unveiled its line-up for 2021. Running from 1 to 18 July 2021, the festival will take place both indoors and outdoors, with audiences able to watch live shows, films and engage in public works taking over the streets of the city. Artistic director and chief executive John McGrath said: "MIF has always been a Festival like no other – with almost all the work being created especially for us in the months and years leading up to each Festival edition. But wh...

Edmund de Waal: ‘If I need to forget every­thing, I read Lee Child. Honestly’ The artist, potter and author on his middle-of-the-night anxiety reading, wanting to be a poet, and the Japanese classic he wishes he had read ‘Much of my ceramic work is a conversation with the poetry of Paul Celan’ … Edmund de Waal. Photograph: Tristan Fewings/Getty Images ‘Much of my ceramic work is a conversation with the poetry of Paul Celan’ … Edmund de Waal. Photograph...

In the Premier Division five teams recorded opening day victories.  Astwood Bank occupy top spot after the beating Pershore at Sambourne Lane. Captain Tom Underhill (71) helped the Bank overhaul the visitors first innings total for the loss of just five wickets to gain a maximum-points win and top spot. Meanwhile Ryan Derrick’s (6-23) second innings return ensured Stourport kept up with the pace as he helped the visitors dismiss Redditch cheaply in the second innings at Bromsgrove Roa...

In the Instagram age, you actually can judge a book by its cover Ellie Violet Bramley Last week’s big literary event was not the publication of a new book, the million-pound signing of a celebrity author or the announcement of a prestigious prize. Instead, it was the unveiling of a cover: the jacket of the forthcoming novel by Sally Rooney. “It’s quite rare that a publisher will reveal a jacket and make such a big deal about who designed it, or even mention who designed it...

Max Porter ( The Death of Francis Bacon, Lanny, Grief is the Thing with Feathers) bemoans not being able to hang out in Galway during the upcoming Cúirt International Festival of Literature. He also acknowledges that setting himself the challenge of writing about specific paintings and the final days of Francis Bacon may have also proven to be something of a challenge to some readers, and he yearns for the day he can buy a book he has no use for in a musty second hand bookshop. Dr Aoife Bhreat...

… are you reading now? Luster by Raven Leilani — a novel about a young black woman trying to navigate the worlds of work and love and relationships.  It manages to capture a modern landscape of sexual and racial politics, while also being very funny. I love reading books with a vivid heroine at the centre — and by that I dont mean she has to be perfect, or some stereotype of a strong woman, but just a woman who is unique, complicated and dealing with the business of being alive. Tracey T...

Luke Turner , April 1st, 2021 13:00 Spirituality, masculinity, death rituals, music and the power of language – we go deep with Max Porter and his love of Georgian singer Hamlet Gonashvili in the latest edition of the Quietus Low Culture podcast. “Music is god to me,” Max Porter tells us in this, the latest episode of the Low Culture podcast. We almost lost Max when he turned around to show us the innermost details of the dolls house in the room behind him and nearly vanished into the Zo...

The Mahogany Pod; One Thousand Days and One Cup of Tea; Good Grief – reviews Jill Hopper and Arif in Wales: ‘As their love affair began, it was already ending.’ Photograph: Jill Hopper Jill Hopper and Arif in Wales: ‘As their love affair began, it was already ending.’ Photograph: Jill Hopper Three very different accounts of bereavement – by Jill Hopper, Vanessa Moore, and Catherine Mayer and Anne Mayer Bird – are by turns heart-rending, compassionate and fo...