Summary

  • Thank you for joining us this last 18 days and for making the festival a success. Scroll back to remember some of the higlights of MIF 2017 and see you in 2019!

  • Manchester International Festival ran from 29 June and 16 July 2017

  • Talk to us @mifestival on twitter & mcrintfestival on Facebook

  1. Bringing comedy to politicspublished at 14:38 BST 15 July 2017

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    You can't take politics too seriously, because if you can't laugh about it, you'd cry. It's a shambles right now - and if you took it too seriously, you'd never sleep

    Rants N Bants

  2. VICE Census: on-stage right nowpublished at 14:31 BST 15 July 2017

    Who you're listening to...

    Learn a bit more about our VICE panellists:

    Rants N Bants

    Rants N Bants is a bona fide UK social media sensation, and host of Vice's general election show.

    Michael Bruter

    Michael Bruter is Professor of political science and leads the world’s largest initiative focusing on the study electoral psychology. He's conducted two in-depth studies of the votes of young people in both the 2016 EU membership referendum and the 2017 general election, including their turnout, the motivations of their votes and the emotions they associate with voting. He has also been advising a number of International Organisations and Governments on how to increase youth turnout.

    Beth Foster-Ogg

    Beth is a Momentum campaigner played a crucial role in getting out the youth vote for Labour and pioneered the "My Nearest Marginal" site to target campaigning more effectively.

    James Frith

    James Frith is Labour MP for Bury North. He won his seat in 2017 with a 12.5% increase on Labour’s 2015 vote share. Before being elected to Parliament, he was CEO and Founder of All Together, a social enterprise providing careers education and guidance services to young people to help them get into work. Long before that, he was lead singer in rock band Finka and later the Fusileers.

  3. What phase to you regret the most?published at 14:24 BST 15 July 2017

    VICE asks the audience

    Answers so far include Christian rock, evangelicalism, and believing Insane Clown Posse were clever.

  4. Welcome, VICE!published at 14:04 BST 15 July 2017

    We're about to go live with the VICE team

    Has this election made you feel like change is possible? Do you want to talk about the sort of Britain we live in? The VICE Census will be discussing the youth turn out at the last general election alongside some super special guests.

    We'll be live again in 5 minutes!

  5. Thanks to all of our morning speakers!published at 13:00 BST 15 July 2017

    Interdependence: We Need To Talk About Truth

    We've had a morning filled with the connection between dance and public space, the fluidity of gender, fake news and pizza-gate - join us at 2pm, where VICE will be taking over , externalto talk about change.

  6. Audience reactionspublished at 12:58 BST 15 July 2017

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  7. Want to know more about Pizza-Gate?published at 12:50 BST 15 July 2017

    Take a look at the full conspiracy theory and its consequences

  8. Where does the popularity for fake news come from?published at 12:44 BST 15 July 2017

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    Fake stuff is what happens when there is a big audience that is alienated by the majority of the mainstream media - in America, that was the Trump supporters.

    James Ball

  9. Why Fake News isn't necessarily the problempublished at 12:34 BST 15 July 2017

    James Ball talks about the current state of the news

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    The problem we want to have is one of fake news - we can all agree that's bad, there should be regulation agains it. The problem is, we have something else to worry about. The thing that's dangerous, the thing that sweeps up is hyper-partisan narrative - something fake with a kernel of truth in it.

    James Ball

  10. Do refugees have to 'prove' they are not a problem?published at 12:19 BST 15 July 2017

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    Yes, you feel like you’re in a constant test. With terror attacks happening in Europe (such as in Berlin and Ansbach last year, and recent attacks in London and Manchester) it puts even more pressure on refugees. You feel guilty until proven innocent. It pushes the button for us to work harder and prove that we think it’s wrong, too.

    Nujeen Mustafa

    From What Nujeen Mustafa Did Next, external

  11. Nujeen Mustafa 'I'm just the nerd in class'published at 12:13 BST 15 July 2017

    Nujeen tells us how she splits her life into two sections - her public facing figure who fights to have her incredible story told, and trying to be just another girl who wants to go to school, to have fun, to have a normal life.

  12. Meet our speakers: Christina Lambpublished at 12:10 BST 15 July 2017

    Best-selling author Christina Lamb is one of Britain’s leading foreign correspondents. Since starting out in Peshawar, she has won many awards, including Prix Bayeux, Europe’s most prestigious award for war correspondents, and has been given an OBE.

    She is the co-author with Nujeen Mustafa of The Girl from Aleppo: Nujeen’s Escape from War to Freedom, co-author of I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban with Malala Yousafazi, and the author of Farewell Kabul: From Afghanistant to a More Dangerous World and The Africa House: The True Story of an English Gentleman and His African Dream.

  13. Meet our speakers: James Ballpublished at 12:05 BST 15 July 2017

    James Ball is an author and journalist who has worked in political, data and investigative journalism across the world.

    His reporting has won the Pulitzer Prize for public service, the Scripps Howard Prize, the British Journalism Award for investigative reporting, the Royal Statistical Society Award and the Laurence Stern Fellowship, among others.

  14. Meet our speakers: Nujeen Mustafapublished at 12:03 BST 15 July 2017

    Nujeen Mustafa did not let her cerebral palsy stop her braving inconceivable odds to travel in her wheelchair from Syria in search of a new life.

    Trapped in a fifth-floor apartment in Aleppo and unable to go to school, she taught herself to speak English by watching us television. As civil war broke out around them, Nujeen and her family fled first to her native Kobane, then Turkey, before joining thousands of displaced persons in a journey to Europe and asylum. Nujeen’s is the story of our times told through the incredible bravery of a remarkable person.

  15. Next up! Who to trust in the post-truth age?published at 11:54 BST 15 July 2017

    We talk to some fearless truthsayers...

    We'll be talking about the 'post-truth' age with Nujeen Mustafa, James Ball, Christina Lamb and Joanna Natasegara - we'll be back in 5!

  16. Fashion In Motion - videopublished at 11:40 BST 15 July 2017

    Film for the V&A

    Take a look at highlights of Wales Bonner’s collections to date, which took inspiration from black visual culture and mix couture techniques with African craft.

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  17. Intrigued about Grace Wales Bonner's designs?published at 11:37 BST 15 July 2017

    You can read a lot more about it, as well as see photos from her shows right here, external.

  18. Meet our speakers: Grace Wales Bonnerpublished at 11:30 BST 15 July 2017

    'The future of men's fashion'

    She launched her first men's wear collection at London Fashion Week in 2015, and three months later she was showing at the V&A Museum. She an award-winning designer, and you can take a look at her designs , externalas well as learn more about here right here, external.

    Informed by broad research that encompasses critical theory, composition, literature, and historical sources, Wales Bonner explores a distinctive notion of luxury via a hybrid of European and African approaches.

  19. For those wondering what 10,000 Gestures looks like...published at 11:30 BST 15 July 2017

    An audience perspective on the 'non-dance' spectacular, set in Mayfield Depot.

    Learn more about 10,000 Gestures, external

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  20. Take a look at our beautiful setpublished at 11:07 BST 15 July 2017

    (plus a sneak peek at Boris's truly fantastic jumper)

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