Mantis Manchester

MANTIS Festival is this weekend 💫

Join us in the John Thaw Studio at the Martin Harris Centre, for a weekend of electroacoustic music on our 44-speaker surround sound system.

The programme and event details are now up online at http://mantisfestival.com

Free entry - first come, first served

And with that MANTIS March 2025 comes to an end.

Thank you everybody who attended, and made the festival so special, including our postgraduate community, for performing their works, and rigging the system, as well as Kelly Jayne Jones who held a fantastic guided meditation as well as a stunning live performance.

Stay tuned for more photos over the two days, and we will see you in October!

(📸 by Wenxin Zhou)

The 20 Years of MANTIS Festival has come to an end.

We were overwhelmed by the support and attendance over this past weekend. It was great to see (and hear!) so many of the MANTIS alumni over the course of the event, and each composer demonstrated an incredibly high calibre of work.

A huge thank you is in order to those of you who submitted, presented, and made the festival what it was. There was a humbling amount of support and enthusiasm throughout the entire weekend, and an extra thank you to those postgraduates and alumni that stuck around to assist with the setup and de-rigging over the course of the event - we couldn't have done it without you!