• Culture, Entertainment, Manchester, Review

    Review: Invisible Cities | Manchester International Festival

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    By Louis Manchester Mayfield Railway Depot was a fitting space for this hugely ambitious project, which took two and a half years to go from inception to realisation. Once abandoned for over fifty years, Mayfield depot represents the lingering vestiges of Manchester’s renowned industrial past – now crumbling; iron rusting, water seeping through fissures. The…

  • Culture

    Review: TORUK – The First Flight

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    By Mike Hingston For years I personally believed that James Cameron had a near spotless record of productions with one exception being the 2009 film Avatar. I was left feeling disappointed with this film despite its amazing and awe inspiring graphics due to what felt like a lack of substantial narrative. For years the name…

  • Culture

    Interview: The Cast of TORUK

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    By Mike Hingston TORUK – The First Flight is a show inspired by James Cameron’s AVATAR, and created by Cirque du Soleil. The world premiere was held in Montreal in December 2015 and the show has been touring the world ever since. Following our preview earlier this month, aAh! were given the opportunity to speak…

  • Creative, Culture, Interview, Manchester

    Laureate’s Choice Anthology showcases a cohort of poets to watch

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    By Hayley Targett The Laureate’s Choice Anthology was launched in Manchester on Friday 10th May, welcoming readings from some of the new poetic voices it has championed, including David Borrot, Tom Sastry, Natalie Burdett and Yvonne Reddick. The Laureate’s Choice Anthology brings together substantial selections from each of the twenty poets chosen by the Manchester…

  • Culture, Entertainment

    Preview: Toruk – The First Flight

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    By Mike Hingston On the beautiful and exotic exoplanetary moon known as Pandora, there are stories told by the Na’avi people, spoken by the worshippers of their goddess Eywa to the chiefs of each tribe. They speak about the great Leonopteryx that, unlike the lesser Ikran that the Na’avi fly by melding together, flies with…

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