MIF23: Each Tiny Drop at Mayfield Park

Each Tiny Drop at Mayfield Park, Manchester, 29 June 2023, free entry - Find Out More

Celebrate the start of Manchester International Festival 2023 with Each Tiny Drop, a joyful gathering on the banks of the River Medlock at Mayfield Park, highlighting togetherness, cycles and connection, with ourselves, each other, water and nature.

Drawing on ancient practices and river rituals from South Asian culture, this restorative event from artist Risham Syed and director Angie Bual invites you to collect water specially transported from the Soan River in Pakistan and steward it into the River Medlock. You can also join in with singing led by a chorus, or if singing isn’t for you, just take a moment to relax and reflect while bathing in the beautiful melodies.

Just as rivers from all over the world flow into our seas and oceans, in true MIF spirit, This Tiny Drop will celebrate how people all over the world flow and join together too, not only with one another, but with the water that makes up 71 percent of our planet.

Speaking about the event, artist Risham Syed says:

“Each Tiny Drop is a coming together of ideas, emotions and thoughts as rivers Soan and Medlock meet. It is an introspection to evoke from our collective memory, the experience of togetherness with nature and with the rest of the world. To experience togetherness with ourselves, our surroundings, and the earth is to know that life is inextricably connected, resilient and is one, wherever it may exist.”