Creative Tourist talk to Walter Meierjohann
Kevin Bourke had a chat recently with HOME’s Artistic Director for Theatre, Walter Meierjohann. You can read the article here.
View ArticleElegant, intimate and a great place to see a play
Chris Honer, the Library Theatre Company’s Artistic Director, talks about developing HOME’s theatres It’s a great thing to be part of creating a new theatre: great, but also daunting because, if you...
View ArticleThe story so far
Dave Moutrey explains how the move to First Street came about In 2005 Chris Honer, Artistic Director of the Library Theatre Company (LTC) and Adrian Morgan, who at that time was General Manager of the...
View ArticleHOME win as Arts Council awards £5.5m to new centre
HOME box office concept. Image: Mecanoo International Arts Council England has awarded Manchester City Council £5.5 million in funding for HOME, the new production centre for international...
View ArticleMeet the HOME Digital Reporters
In less than two years’ time the doors will swing open on HOME, the new.. home of Cornerhouse and The Library Theatre. HOME will be a state-of-the-art one-stop centre for contemporary art, theatre,...
View ArticleDesigning HOME
Aerial view of HOME. Image: Mecanoo International The design team for HOME is led by Mecanoo, an internationally recognised architectural practice based in the Netherlands, known also for the design of...
View ArticlePlaying with HOME data
As a new organisation we’re really excited about experimenting with the data we produce. So at this early stage we thought it would be interesting to hand some of it over to local developer Dan Hett to...
View ArticleThis will be somewhere to…
During June and July 2012, we spoke to over 150 audience members, stakeholders, artists and staff about what they wanted from HOME. We got some amazing stuff from them that’s really helped us to shape...
View ArticleHOMEmakers
Steve Connor from Creative Concern on his experience of talking to audiences about their hopes and ideas for HOME. HOME is a new venue that’s bringing artists and audiences closer together and so it’s...
View ArticleAn insight into our programme
So what can you expect from our HOME programme? We caught up with Artistic Directors Sarah Perks (Visual Art & Film) and Walter Meierjohann (Theatre) to hear about their approach and get a little...
View ArticleWhat HOME means to us
Some of the young people who have taken part in our recent projects, including Creative Stars, the BFI Film Academy and the Library Theatre’s Young Company, got together to make a short film about what...
View ArticleTake a peek on site
If you’ve walked along Whitworth Street recently you would have noticed the buzz of activity on the site of our new building. Things are taking shape nicely so we thought it was about time you got a...
View ArticleDanny Boyle to be Patron of HOME
Danny Boyle was today announced as a Patron of HOME, our new cultural hub and social space for Manchester, opening in Spring 2015, which will produce and present an ambitious programme of bold...
View ArticleIn conversation with Danny Boyle
Danny Boyle speaks exclusively to Creative Tourist’s Susie Stubbs about art, the economy, being a patron of HOME and plain speaking. Danny Boyle isn’t one to mince his words. The architect of...
View Article2014 across the city
At the start of the year, Polly Checkland-Harding runs through the things we’ve got to look forward to across the city in 2014. The usual preparations for a move are far from glamorous: rooms become...
View ArticleThe Road HOME
HOME Ground Floor building plan. Image: Mecanoo Andrew Anderson talks to Ernst ter Horst, the architect responsible for turning the new, £25m HOME from blueprint into a reality. After years of...
View ArticleFusing art and film: Cornerhouse (and HOME) Artist Film
The latest film in the Cornerhouse Artist Film (CAF) – Jamie Shovlin’s Rough Cut – may be newly released, but Kevin Bourke finds that there are already plans for more. “Rough Cut is an extension of...
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