Cillian Murphy, a Big Ben sculpture and dancers on Deansgate head up Manchester International Festival 2021 programme
The festival s full programme for this summer has been revealed
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Festival Square will move to Cathedral Gardens (Image: LOUIS REYNOLDS)
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The full programme of events for this year s Manchester International Festival has been revealed, including new work from Cillian Murphy and a giant sculpture of Big Ben in Piccadilly Gardens.
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 who would have guessed two years ago what a changed world the artists making work for our 2021 Festival would be working in?
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