Contact In The City Part Three

Kristy Stott, Theatre Editor

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Contact In The City Part Three

1 February-13 June 2019

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Contact in the City Part Three
Dean Chalkley
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Since the building redevelopment for Manchester’s Contact Theatre started – we’ve seen trail-blazing and progressive programming spilling out across Manchester. As work advances in transforming the iconic building on Oxford Road, Contact continues to delight with the next installment of their programme – Contact In The City Part Three. Bringing radical, ambitious and urgent work from around the globe to the city of Manchester – we couldn’t be more excited about this diverse and entertaining line-up.

Contact In The City Part Three, which runs from February to June 2019, will seek to examine pressing intercultural debates around politics, protest and community.

We’re absolutely thrilled that this season sees Contact presenting a major show from their regular collaborator, writer and poet Inua Ellams. The critically acclaimed Barber Shop Chronicles will run at the Royal Exchange Theatre this March.

Contact will be staging a compact weekender of their annual Queer Contact Festival in February, presenting many of the best-loved elements of the festival. Most pleasingly, the multi-award winning Bristol-based Ad Infinitum will be kicking off the Queer Contact weekender and launching In The City Part Three with their most recent show, No Kids. Hilarious and utterly absorbing, No Kids explores the chaotic social anxieties relating to same-sex parenting.

The brilliant Contact Young Company will be presenting two shows this season, the first – Ramping Up – in partnership with Battersea Arts Centre, will explore some of the issues faced in a post-Brexit society; the second, Old Tools >New Masters ≠New Futures is a collaboration with Manchester spoken word collective, Young Identity.

ColetivA Ocupação will bring this phenomenal season of art and activism to a climactic head with When It Breaks It Burns – a sensational show devised by a group of young activist-performers from Brazil, created as a reaction to their protests about cuts to education.

In the City Part Three showcases the best of Contact, its produced work, partner artists and the award-winning Contact Young Company.

Check out our listings for In the City Part Three.

Where to go near Contact In The City Part Three

Hern Food
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Hern

This produce-driven bistro in Chapel Allerton, Leeds, prides itself on cooking with the only finest ingredients and his headed up by Cordon Bleu-trained chef Rab Adams.

Indie Makers
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Indie Makers

Indie Makers, located in Leads’ corn exchange, trades in art and gifts from independent makers across the UK.

Plant Point
Leeds
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Plant Point

Plant Point is designed to help you bring the jungle into your urban or suburban space. The home of beautiful plants in Leeds.

Leeds
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Eat Your Greens

Eat Your Greens is a vibrant, organic restaurant bringing a hint of European flair to the city’s plant-based dining scene.

Sela opened in 2004 with an idea to provide quality imported beers from around the world, fun cocktails to compliment the beer selections and a stage for the region’s finest and most talented musicians to play on.Over ten years later, we’re still all about the beer, cocktails, live music and pizza!We carry over a selection of over thirty different beers spanning the globe from Pickering with The Great Yorkshire Brewery’s Yorkshire Blackout, to New York with a selection from Brooklyn Brewery, and Belgium with longtime Sela favourite, Vedett.Our cocktails change regularly too. Our best-sellers are joined by fun, new offerings and our pizza menu is regarded as one of the best the city of Leeds has to offer.As for the live music, Sela has had not only the great and the good from the region. Local funksters, The New Mastersounds are regular visitors and we stage the amazing Mojah Reggae Band for their weekly Wednesday residency.  Our other long running programming incl
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Sela Bar & Pizzeria

Sela Bar is a cosy Leeds basement spot with live music, great drinks, and a cool, laid-back, atmospheric vibe.

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Leeds Beckett Student Union

Leeds Beckett Student Union hosts big-name artists and supports students through events, live music, and a vibrant campus venue.

Located on Cardigan Fields Leisure Park, Vue Leeds Kirkstall is a nine screen cinema with almost 2000 seats. There's ample parking and the cinema is surrounded by various restaurants and entertainment facilities, making for a great evening out!

Watch the latest film releases and enjoy the industry-leading Sony 4K Digital screens, boasting spectacular picture quality, along with enhanced audio quality courtesy of Dolby 'Profound Sound'. Stepped SuperVue seating means you will never miss a second of the action while VIP seating guarantees you an extra touch of luxury whenever you want to upgrade.

Three of the nine screens showcase the newest 3D releases while Vue Classical brings the latest stage sensations to the big screen, and parents can save as they go with Family Tickets and Kids AM screenings offering great value for money.
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Vue Cinema – Leeds Kirkstall Road

Located on Cardigan Fields Leisure Park, Vue Leeds Kirkstall is a nine screen cinema with almost 2000 seats. There’s ample parking and the cinema is surrounded by various restaurants and

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Empire Café

Empire Café is located in Leeds’ ‘home of day dining’- Fish street!

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Phranakhon

Phranakhon Thai Tapas is a revolutionised Thai dining restaurant with a combination of European indulgence and authentic Thai tastes.

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Wen’s

Wen’s is a family owned Chinese restaurant specialising in authentic, home cooked cuisine.

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