Executive Producer of the Traverse Theatre Linda Crooks, discusses the theatre’s involvement with the festival, and why it’s important to practitioners and audiences to have a festival that supports visual theatre.

An idea that came to them during a workshop at Manipulate Festival, Club Adelphi was an outlet for Molly Barrett and Verity Quinn to explore visual theatre in a way that they hadn’t previously seen demonstrated anywhere else. Utilising their …

Estonian cartoonist and animator Priit Pärn talks to us about his work over the past 30 years, and his involvement with Manipulate Festival and Edinburgh College of Art. Pärn’s work has been met with critical acclaim from all over the …

Glasgow based animator filmmaker Ross Hogg talks about his work, including his short film Spectators, and the support that festivals such as Manipulate can offer to people who want to show their work to an audience. Find out more about …