As the place where the spinning jenny and the computer were invented, Manchester is often touted as the world’s first modern city, and with the advent of the Manchester International Festival (MIF), it seems to be drawing on that spirit of innovation once more.
The Festival is being billed as ‘the world’s first festival of original, new work’, and it is pulling out all the stops to live up to that name: introducing the concept of ‘trailblazer events’, mixing genres and producing the Manchester Firsts, premieres of new work created and performed by Manchester cultural organisations.
