The Guardian Debates - Do art and politics mix?

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Manchester International Festival and the Guardian form a partnership to present a collection of leading social and political commentators. Art, faith and modern Britain all come under the spotlight in a series of engaging debates that bring contemporary issues, and urgent stories of our time, to the fore.

• Everybody Loves a Winner
  Neil Bartlett, Simon Deacon & Struan Leslie
• Hakawati: A storytelling event
  Alia Al Zougbi, Abu Dhabi Music & Arts Foundation
• Festival Feast
• Young@Heart
  in End of the Road
  by No Theater
• Laurie Anderson and Lou Reed
  The Yellow Pony and Other Songs and Stories
• Elbow & The Hallé
  Big Screen Relay
• Something in the Air
• The Manchester Report
• International Talent Campus
• The Difference Engine…a steampunk adventure
• Procession
  Jeremy Deller
• Rufus Wainwright – Solo Gig
• Festival Pavilion
• The Great Indoors
• Antony and the Johnsons
  Manchester Camerata, Paul Normandale
• Elbow and The Hallé
  Orchestrated and conducted by Joe Duddell
• The Durutti Column
  A Paean to Wilson
• Carlos Acosta
• Kraftwerk
  Special guest Steve Reich
• Same Teens
• De La Soul
• Trainee Producers
• Amadou & Mariam and
  The Beating Wing Orchestra
• JS Bach / Zaha Hadid Architects
• Flailing Trees
  Gustav Metzger
• Procession: An Exhibition
• It Felt Like a Kiss
  Punchdrunk, Adam Curtis, Damon Albarn
• True Faith
  A Celebration of Manchester-Made Talent
• Prima Donna
  Rufus Wainwright
• Marina Abramović Presents…

• The Assembly
• Monster
• The Guardian Debates - Do art and politics mix?
• Manchester Dines
• Interiors
• The Future of Journalism
• Slavery In Our Time Symposium
• Queen and Country
• The Fall & Perverted by Language
• Manchester: Peripheral – Futuresonic
• Heston Blumenthal Chilled Summer Treats
• For All the Wrong Reasons
• The Ground Beneath Her Feet
• Smokey Robinson
• Rusholme Project – Shisha
• The Future of the Planet
• Festival Futures - The Future of the Body
• Kanye West
• Il Tempo del Postino
  A Group Show
• Monkey: Journey to the West
• Lou Reed: Berlin
• To the Left of the Rising Sun
• The Great Indoors
• Kapital
• The Guardian Debates - Is religion a force for good in the modern world?
• Dead Wedding
• Unknown Pleasures at the Quays
• The Pianist
  Based on the memoirs of Wladyslaw Szpilman
• Industrial Resolution
• The Blue Nile
• PJ Harvey
• The Manchester Debate: Is TV good for society?
• Ojos de Brujo
• Bert Jansch with Beth Orton & Bernard Butler
• Orchestral Suite by
William Orbit
• The Guardian Debates - Is London bad for Britain?
• Exodus Live Special
• The Cunning Little Vixen & Alphabicycle
• Happy Mondays and special guests