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30th October 2021 | By Tyrese King

Home celebrate Black History Month 2021 while pushing the narrative

Home  put on numerous events to celebrate Black History Month this year. Events included live and online theatre, a specially curated film programme and a...

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5th February 2020 | By dave porter

Chaplin and Laurel cross the ocean to seek fame and fortune in the States

Perhaps more slapschtik than slapstick, the Strange Tale of Charlie Chaplin and Oliver Hardy recounts the early careers of Chaplin and Laurel as they traverse across the...

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22nd January 2020 | By Elena Richards Coldicutt

Open art exhibition at HOME showcases new crop of talent from Manchester and beyond

The Manchester Open Exhibition at HOME opened its doors to the public at the weekend. The exhibition displays 543 works from across Greater Manchester, including...

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5th November 2019 | By Daniel Mardle

Review: Reasons To Stay Alive by Matt Haig is a reason to visit Home

It’s a tough premise to sell.  A play based on a book of someone’s real battle with depression and thoughts of suicide.  Sorry, I did...

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9th May 2019 | By Matt Hartless

Connecting Lagos and the Scottish Highlands with Manchester in the middle: Jackie Kay’s Red Dust Road comes to HOME this September

One week ago, I was tasked with reading Jackie Kay’s Red Dust Road in preparation to interview her. Shortly after picking the book up, I...

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21st March 2019 | By Matt Hartless

¡Viva! Spanish and Latin American festival launches at HOME

The ¡Viva! festival which celebrates Spanish speaking cinema and theatre launches at HOME on Friday in its 25th year. The festival will include a number of events...

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4th February 2019 | By Sophia Khan

See My Dunya: central library exhibition shines spotlight on Manchester’s Somali community

See My Dunya exhibition showcases what it's like to be a Somali living in Manchester

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27th December 2018 | By Matt Hartless

12 Days of Manchester: Three is the number of different types of events at PUSH festival

PUSH Festival returns to HOME from Friday 11th to Saturday 26th of January 2019. The festival is a programme of performances, films and exhibitions at...

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23rd November 2018 | By nq_admin

Review: The Maids cast use their raw energy to keep audiences guessing how real the play is

Self-described as a ‘deadly game of ritual, role-play and rubber gloves’, The Maids is a performance well ahead of its time as it toys around...

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30th October 2018 | By Matt Hartless

Review: Videoman – Out of time with not much to define it

Videoman is a 2018 Swedish horror-drama film directed by Kristian A. Söderström and starring Stefan Sauk and Lena Nilsson. It is part of the FilmFear horror...

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28th October 2017 | By dave porter

Review: Manchester Theatre School performs The Suicide at Home

Some people need a reason to live. Semyon Smeyonovich needs a reason to die. Or at least a reason to take his own life. Luckily...

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16th March 2017 | By nq_admin

Exhibition Review: John Hyatt: Rock Art at HOME review

When you think of curating an art exhibition, you associate a well-dressed, Andy Warhol style spectacles wearing artsy type, meticulously arranging and rearranging works for...

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3rd March 2016 | By nq_admin

Beckett’s Endgame thrills at Home

Endgame is one of Samuel Beckett’s many masterpieces, it’s a play about the end and the thoughts and feelings of four people as the end...