Home

By making a donation today you can...

Help us empower young people to develop the confidence and creativity needed to forge their own positive futures.

Support Us

We are contact

Inspiring creativity in young people and audiences since 1972, Contact is a charity, arts venue and theatre based in the heart of Manchester that that puts young people at the heart of everything we do.

COMING UP

  1. Social Experiment

    –
    Social Experiment is a new gathering at Contact for anyone interested in Live Art and contemporary performance to meet, chat, and try ideas out… A free and informal, semi-regular evening event with the next on Thursday 22 May from 6pm to…

    Co-Production

    Info

  2. Works Ahead 2025

    –
    Our annual sampler evening of new performance returns to Contact on Thursday 15 and Friday 16 May at 7.30pm with a double bill of new works-in-development from Adèle Le Gallez and Martha Pailing…
    InfoBook now
  3. image shows a man sat down looking to the side of the camera and on the right a green book called 'is a river alive?'

    Robert Macfarlane

    One of our most beloved chroniclers of nature, Robert Macfarlane joins us to discuss his thought-provoking new book, Is a River Alive? At its heart is a single, transformative idea: that rivers are not mere matter for human use, but…
    InfoBook now
An image of the Contact building at dusk lit up in rainbow colours

The Pinch Ticket

Three people sat at the Box Office, smiling.

Free Creative Projects

the stage and auditorium with red seats with a couple standing on the stage facing eachother holding hands in white dresses

Hire Us

A young person stands in a skatepark adorned with graffiti and bunting, looking up and smiling at a lit lighter in their hand

Support Us