The Manchester International Festival is a biennial international arts festival, with a specific focus on original new work, held in the English city of Manchester. The festival is a biennial event, first taking place in June–July 2007, and subsequently recurring in the summers of 2009 and 2011; the festival is scheduled to return for 2013, running from 4–21 July. It has also inspired a fringe festival, the Not Part Of Festival - formerly the Not Part Of Manchester International Festival.
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