AND Festival resurfaces for 2021 between 27 May – 11 July, taking you on an extraordinary journey responding to the Manchester Ship Canal and River Mersey. The programme follows the flows of shipping, energy and political power structures, from container ports on our doorsteps to the depths of the ocean floor; through ecosystems bound up with industrial chemicals, minerals and microplastics, to their effects on our planet, human and non-human bodies. Please find below a lit of easy links to tickets and calendar reminders for our events programme.
If you have any questions about our ticketed events, email us at info@andfestival.org.uk or call Ticket Quarter Monday and Friday, 10am – 5pm on 0344 8000 410 to assist with your booking.
If you’d like to speak to a member of the team about access requirements, email access@
Coming up
Week 7 \\ Thu 8 – Thu 11 July
Thu 8 July 7 – 8pm
Deeper: Kate Davies \\ No booking needed, add to your calendar
Fri 9 July 8 – 9pm
Weedweavers Performance \\ New Emergences \\ No booking needed, add to your calendar
Fri 9 – Sun 11 July
By the Sound of Things on board the Daniel Adamson \\ Kate Davies
£30 – £24 Book your cruise ticket \\ £8 – £10 Book your static ticket
Sat 10 July 8 – 9pm
The Grief Interval \\ Aura Satz and Sarah Davachi \\ No booking needed, add to your calendar
Catch up with previous AND Festival 2021 events
Week 1 \\ Thu 27 – Sun 30 May
Thu 27 May 7 – 8 pm
Deeper: One-Fifth of the Earth’s Surface
Sun 30 May 6 – 8pm
Resurface: Abandon Normal Gathering
Week 2 \\ Thu 3 – Sun 6 June
Thu 3 June 7 – 8 pm
Deeper: Toxicity’s Reach
Fri 4 June from 7pm
New Cinema Shorts with guest curator Natasha Thembiso Ruwona
Sat 5 June 11am – 1.30pm
Workshop: Queering Consumerism with Mary Maggic
Sun 6 June 6 – 7pm
Resurface: Suzanne Dhaliwal
Week 3 \\ Thu 10 – Sun 13 June
Thu 10 June 7 – 8 pm
Deeper: WetLab
Fri 11 June from 7pm
New Cinema Shorts with guest curator Matt Turner
Fri 11 – Sun 13 June 10am – 4pm daily
WetLab at National Waterways Museum
Sat 12 June 8 – 9pm
Beginningless Mind, Marija Bozinovska Jones
Sun 13 June 6 – 7pm
Resurface: Countercontrol – A reading group with Black Swan
Week 4 \\ Wed 16 – Sun 20 June
Wed 16 June 7 – 8.30pm
Headwaters: Show and Flow
Thu 17 June 7 – 8pm
Deeper: Weedweavers
Fri 18 June 6 – 8pm
Weedweavers – New Emergences Gathering
Fri 18 June from 7pm
New Cinema Shorts with Tulapop Saenjaroen
Sat 19 June 8 – 9pm
Radio Ensemble broadcast via Domes FM
Sun 20 June 6 – 7pm
Resurface: Hypericum: A Code of Practice
Week 5 \\ Wed 23 – Sun 27 June
Wed 23 June
Headwaters \\ Turbulent Flow
Thu 24 – Sun 17 June
The Blue Violet River on board Mersey Ferries \\ Anita Fontaine
Thu 24 June 7 – 8pm
Deeper: Anita Fontaine
Fri 25 June 6 – 8pm
Weedweavers – New Emergences Gathering
Fri 25 June from 7 pm
Riot. Strike. Protest. by Guest Curator Tendai John Mutambu
Sat 26 June 8 – 9pm
YaYa Bones x aio0o0o0
Sun 27 June 6 – 7pm
Resurface: THE WORLD HAS CHANGED: YOU WILL BE JUDGED
Week 6 \\ Thu 1 – Sun 4 July
Thu 1 July – Sun 4 July 12 – 6pm daily
Does Spring Hides Its Joy at Hydraulic Tower, Birkenhead \\ Kali Malone
Thu 1 July 7 – 8pm
Deeper: Ignatia Nilu \\ Radio Ensemble
Fri 2 July 4 – 6pm
Observatory Cinema: Song of the Sea at Bidston Observatory, Birkenhead
Fri 2 July 7.30 – 10pm
Observatory Cinema: All Light, Everywhere at Bidston Observatory, Birkenhead
Fri 2 July from 7pm
New Cinema Shorts with Guest Curator Angela Chan
Sat 3 July 6.30 – 10pm
Observatory Cinema: The Fog at Bidston Observatory, Birkenhead
Sun 4 July 6.30 – 10pm
Observatory Cinema: The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou at Bidston Observatory, Birkenhead
Sun 4 July 6 – 7pm
Resurface: Sustaining Uncertainty