Viewpoints

Viewpoints is designed to encourage debate and insight into the themes and work featured in the festival. From interviews, articles to podcasts and immersive content, you can browse via watch, listen, immerse or read.
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Virtual Factory, our new series, launches with Your Progress Will Be Saved, an online experience created by avatar artist LaTurbo Avedon that reimagines The Factory as a space within the hugely popular videogame Fortnite Creative. Head to Virtual Factory to experience now.
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June 30, 2020
Your Progress Will Be Saved | LaTurbo Avedon | Virtual Factory
Your Progress Will Be Saved, an online experience created by avatar artist LaTurbo Avedon that reimagines The Factory as a space within the hugely popular videogame Fortnite Creative. Join MIF and LaTurbo today for a glimpse of the future – and of The Factory.
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The Virtual Factory as a Metaverse

Salford Uni Students Go Digital

Virtual Factory launches with LaTurbo Avedon in Fortnite Creative

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Manchester Artists who made MIF19

MIF x NOWNESS present Icaria

Spotlight on: Manchester International Festival’s music legacy
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MIF Originals: Alphabus
The final episode of MIF Originals explores if (and how) poetry and dance can combine to create something original.
ListenMIF Originals: A Podcast for All Animals
Can you imagine a world in which animals of all kinds, including humans, live together as equals? This episode explores how we can live better alongside other animals and asks - what can we learn from them?
ListenMIF Originals: The School of Integration
Welcome to your first day at the School of Integration. This episode is all about sharing knowledge across cultural divides. When people arrive in a new country they are usually expected to learn the customs and languages of the host culture, but what if the tables were turned?
ListenMIF Originals: Chasing Philip Glass
After years of following Philip Glass from afar, Phelim McDermott now has the chance to meet him, and to ask whatever he wants. The only problem is that Phelim has no idea what to ask.
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