Future Flares Festival 2026

Future Flares Festival returns in 2026 with more innovative and impactful performances, presentations, discussions and workshops. Bringing some of the most important new voices in contemporary European performance making together in Manchester, Future Flares encourages creative discourse about just how the art-form is responding to our changing world.

New performance, for here and now

21 – 23 January 2026

Future Flares Festival returns in 2026 with more innovative and impactful performances, presentations, discussions and workshops. Bringing some of the most important new voices in contemporary European performance making together in Manchester, Future Flares encourages creative discourse about just how the art-form is responding to our changing world.

The performances are open to all. Please see the individual event pages for ticketing and booking details.

Testament Tuesday 20 January 2026, 5:30pm Bunker Talk #159 – pre-festival event

Event TypeShowDate & TimeCost
Wednesday
PerformanceThe Affective Dramaturgy of Voice, Patrick Campbell
Free no booking required
Wed 21 Jan
2pm
Free
WorkshopQuarantine – a creative workshop introductionWed 21 Jan
3:00-5:30pm
Free
PerformanceWhat Am I Doing This For? Will DickieWed 21 Jan
6:00-7:00pm
Free
PerformanceThe Ego, Anemone Valcke and Verona VerbakelWed 21 Jan
7.30-8.35pm
£7/£4
Thursday
WorkshopMovements, Sounds, Words, Feelings & Meanings workshopThu 22 Jan
10am—1:00pm
Free
PerformanceFailure (Terror at Night), Brigitte Jurack
Free no booking required
Thu 22 Jan
12—2pm
Free
PerformanceThe Visibility of Possibility, Peader KirkThu 22 Jan
6pm—6.35pm
Free
Promenade
Performance
Burning, Cross PollinationThu 22 Jan
7pm—7.15pm
Free
PerformanceImperceptible, Jérémie Cyr-CookeThu 22 Jan
7.30pm—9:00pm
£7/£4
Friday
PerformanceAn Image is an Act Not a Thing, Jenny Baines and Brigid McLeer
Free no booking required
Fri 23 Jan
12pm—2pm
Free
PerformanceExit Music Remixed, Pinchbeck and SmithFri 23 Jan
12:30—1:00pm
Free
PerformanceExit Music, Pinchbeck and SmithFri 23 Jan
1:30—2:00pm
Free
WorkshopWilL Dickie workshop and performance sharingFri 23 Jan
2:00—2:30pm
Free