page_title: Manchester International Festival
section_title: MIF 09
hierarchical_section_title: Manchester International Festival / MIF 09
caption_attribution_description: English: Kraftwerk with special guest Steve Reich playing at Manchester Velodrome
context_page_description: The Manchester International Festival is a biennial international arts festival, with a specific focus on original new work, held in the English city of Manchester. The festival is a biennial event, first taking place in June–July 2007, and subsequently recurring in the summers of 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017 and 2019. MIF19 took place from 4 to 21 July 2019. The organisation is based in Blackfriars House, adjacent to Blackfriars Bridge but is due to move to a new £110 million new home, The Factory, by the beginning of 2020.
context_section_description: The 2009 Manchester International Festival took place between 2–19 July 2009; in October 2008, a press release announced the first three commissions for 2009. These werePrima Donna, Rufus Wainwright's debut opera, Everybody Loves a Winner, a "new theatrical experience" by director Neil Bartlett, and a "unique environment within Manchester Art Gallery" for solo piano, violin and cello JS Bach works called the JS Bach Chamber Music Hall, created by Zaha Hadid Architects.
  The entire festival programme featuring more than 20 commissions was announced in March 2009. It included a Kraftwerk and Steve Reich commission performed at the Manchester Velodrome, performance art by Marina Abramović at the Whitworth Art Gallery, a procession along Deansgate organised by Jeremy Deller and a collaboration between Elbow and The Hallé orchestra. Manchester alternative rock band Epiphany are also appearing as part of the procession. The festival also featured It Felt Like A Kiss, a multimedia production created by documentary-maker Adam Curtis, Damon Albarn and Punchdrunk theatre company.
  Other artists included De La Soul, Lou Reed and Laurie Anderson, Antony and the Johnsons with the Manchester Camerata, Carlos Acosta and The Durutti Column, performing a tribute to the late Tony Wilson.
  Finance for MIF 09
  
          
  
          
  
          
  
          
  
          
  
          
  
          
  
          
  
          
  
          
  
          
  
          
  
          
  
          
  
          
  
          
  
          
  
          
  
          
  
          
  
          
  
          
  
          
  
          
  
          
  
   
  
  
          
  
          
  
          
  
          
  
          
  
          
  
          
  
          
  
          
  
          
  
          
  
          
  
          
  
          
  
          
  
          
  
          
  
          
  
          
  
          
  
          
  
          
  
          
  
          
  
          
  
          
  
          
  
   
  
  The 2009 festival made a £0.2m profit (£9.5m worth of funding minus £9.3m expenditure), which made up the £0.2m deficit incurred by the 2007 festival.
  The economic impact to the region was £35.9m.
caption: Kraftwerk with special guest Steve Reich playing at Manchester Velodrome
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