Factory International is the organisation behind Manchester International Festival and the city’s landmark cultural space, Aviva Studios. Factory International commissions, produces and presents a year-round programme of original creative work and special events at Aviva Studios, online, and internationally through its network of co-commissioners and partners. It also stages the city-wide Manchester International Festival (MIF) every other year.

MIF is one of the world’s leading arts festivals, and the first to be entirely focused on the commissioning and producing of ambitious new work in spaces across Greater Manchester.

Aviva Studios was designed by the world-leading practice Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA), with Ellen van Loon as lead architect – their first major public building in the UK.

Streetwise Opera delivers weekly singing and creative workshops at Aviva Studios, in partnership with Factory International.