We’ve been visiting as many arts venues and seeing as much art as we could manage across Summer 2025, focusing mainly on the Manchester theatre, queer performance & drag, visual and music scenes. But also with a small adventure to watch some Edinburgh Fringe work!

We wanted to understand the journey of making emerging work and surviving on the fringes - where are the support and platforming opportunities found? How are artists growing their voice post-pandemic? We’ve had our listeners write blog posts about what they discovered.

Check out our Instagram for all the shows we visited and how they made us pause for thought.

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