The second Manchester Intenational Festival came to a close on Sunday 19 July.
Click here to visit the gallery of photographs of this year’s events. More images are being added frequently.
Some of the Festival’s commissions are still open for visitors. Click here to view our programme and to read about our events, both continuing and finished.
What the press had to say about the 2009 Manchester International Festival:
| ‘18 utterly exhilarating days’ Manchester Evening News ‘Beguiling match-ups galore’ ‘A terrific festival’ |
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‘A bumper package of daring new work’ Financial Times ‘A month-long programme of spellbinding events’ ‘An ambitious and exciting programme’ |
| ‘A jewel in Britain’s cultural crown’ Classic FM – The Magazine ‘Exciting and electrifying’ ‘Manchester International Festival upsets the status quo by exclusively staging original work — and only letting in the very coolest of cool kids’ |
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