Tucked away in the window of a city café, something curious is stirring. All across the city, in a moment of wider social and cultural upheaval, curious hidden worlds are shifting and revealing their secrets. A bespoke new kinetic sculpture artwalk with dates in Edinburgh, Aberdeen and Glasgow.

Experience boundary-pushing visually led performance, broadcast direct to your home. For the first time in 2021, MANIPULATE presents a digital performance programme spanning visual and physical theatre, animation, puppetry, aerial and contortion, alongside workshops, social events and discussions.

In this playful and sensitive exploration of everyday objects as symbolic communication, metaphors such as a cup half full or treading on eggshells are brought from the page to the stage.

A funny, sensitive and scary fantasy about a lonely man trying to get in touch with himself and the world. The long piece is based on the celebrated live work Boxed by Israeli puppeteer Ariel Doron, in which he goes another step into minimalism, creating a fascinating short story using only a shoebox.

The Yellow Canary is both an epic true story and a leap into the imagination of a young child desperate to escape the horrors of war, exploring love, loss and what it means to flee your home.

tank is a one-woman show combining live performance, UV light, and digital animation, about choosing loneliness, becoming trapped by your own mind, and how trying to stay in control means you can soon spiral out of it.

Come together with MANIPULATE artists, audiences and staff for a virtual kick-off event to celebrate the opening of MANIPULATE Festival #14.

Anchored on stories of dissolving, shifting and stillness: far out to sea, where land-based networks begin to crackle and skip on the boundaries of their limited existence, our lonesome sailor sits, moderate at first, then rising slowly. A unique digital collaboration for the Covid-19 between leading South African animators, puppeteers and theatre-makers.

A physical theatre performative lecture about connections, inheritance and loss. A cooking show that is an attempt to understand what holds us apart and what brings us together. An intimate psycho-magical documentary.