I've been very excited for quite a while about this year's Manchester International Festival. We're lucky to have such an incredibly ambitious and creative set of events just on our doorstep.
I bought tickets for It Felt Like a Kiss the day they came out, and am really looking forward to Jeremy Deller's Procession on July 5th.
And as if that weren't enough, this amazing woven badge of an invite dropped through my letterbox. I get a lot exhibition preview invites and don't make very many but there's no way on Earth I'm missing this one. Jeremey Deller (Turner Prize Winner whose work is actually interesting...), as part of Manchester International Festival, at my second home of Cornerhouse, with a textiles based invite? You betcha I'll be there! I'm quite intrigued too as to how you turn a live procession event into an exhibition. By the way you can be part of the Procession if you're quick - more *here*
Oh and whilst on full Festival excitement mode, I was caught out hook line and sinker by the marketing gimmicks and bought one of their bags made from the publicity banners, recycled into all sorts of designs.
