It’s still July 2 in the UK, and therefore there’s still time to make a announcement of the launch of Manchester’s very own arts biennale – Manchester International Festival 2009.
This means that Manchester International Festival label is back and will be updated with reviews of whatever events I get to attend. One of them is Rufus Wainwright’s Prima Donna, and I am very much looking forward to it. Here’s a video from MIF’s website of Rufus introducing his tour de force.
You can check the festival’s programme here, and if you want to download a calendar, there’s a .pdf version to your service.
And I will also be updating the MIF09 Flickr set, as well as posting other photos of events and venues that I find elsewhere. Again, you may want to check a few photos from the first festival, MIF07.
Something I keep forgetting to mention… yes, the abbreviation of the festival is MIF, and if you read it as one word, it’ll sound as the Russian for “myth”. I don’t know how this phonetic similarity plays out in this year’s festival, but perhaps this is something that the festival organisers decide to explore in 2011.
As to why I chose this photo… everyone who walked or sat in Albert Square this afternoon knows that the Festival Pavilion wasn’t yet open. The photo thus reflects the “nascence” of the festival… or to play on the above mentioned linguistic peculiarity, “the emergence of the myth”. So, let’s welcome the second biannual artistic phantasmagoria to our busy hive.