A Man Called Adam The Power of Three | Opening Night Performance

By Middlesbrough Art Week 2025

Join us for the Opening Night of Middlesbrough Art Week 2025

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Location

The Auxiliary

31 Station Street Middlesbrough TS1 1SR United Kingdom

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Highlights

5 hours, 30 minutes
ALL AGES
In person
Paid venue parking
Doors at 5:15 PM

About this event

📍 Middlesbrough Town Hall 🗓 Thursday 25th Sep | 5:30pm - 6:30pm (doors 5:15)

Join us for the launch of Middlesbrough Art Week 2025 with an opening night trail through the town starting off with an exclusive performance of A Man Called Adam - The Power of Three (A Turbine Symphony)

A Man Called Adam will debut an uplifting audio visual work and live performance at a gala concert at Middlesbrough Town Hall on the opening night of the festival 2025.

Inspired by Redcar's offshore wind farm the work celebrates the turbines’ sculptural beauty and presence as a bridge between Teesside’s industrial past and its sustainable futures.

Featuring an ensemble of live musicians and a triptych of lyrical HD video, the symphonic composition will transpose the wind farm's inherent patterns into musical rhythms and motifs in three distinct movements that weave community narratives, serialist composition and pulsing electronic beats.

🔗 For more information about this year's programme visit: www.middlesbroughartweek.com

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Middlesbrough Art Week 2025

Middlesbrough Art Week 2025, the North East’s leading contemporary art festival, returns for its eighth edition with an ambitious program of artist and community exhibitions, performances, workshops, talks, and public interventions happening across the town from September 25th to October 4th.

Middlesbrough Art Week is built on collaboration, support, and the nurturing of creative practices. This year, it weaves together diverse artistic voices and community perspectives into a collective expression of solidarity. Under the evocative theme In All Possible Worlds, the festival dares to imagine a future shaped by creativity, resilience, and hope. MAW25 embraces this uncertainty, offering a space where we see and feel through one another’s eyes. By providing space for mutual support and creative nourishment, the festival becomes a platform for new ideas, new perspectives, and the possibility of new worlds, In All Possible Worlds.

Middlesbrough Art Week was born in 2017 as an artist-led festival powered by The Auxiliary Project Space, a small growing team of artists, curators and coordinators, and fueled by wide reaching partnerships. MAW supports artist ecologies in the North East, connecting artistic practice and ideas with like-minded peers nationally and internationally, and is committed to practice and not just preach principles of fair work and social justice.

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