ABOUT

NightGarden is an immersive celebration of audiovisual delights. Set in the industrial hinterlands of Greater Manchester on an ex-garden centre, the festival presents a programme of eclectic sonic and visual artists exploring themes of biodiversity, human resilience and radical futures.

The first edition of Nightgarden was launched in 2021, and has since grown organically from 50 to 250 participants by its fourth edition last year. We have programmed over 70 sculptural and interactive installations, live performances and workshops from the likes of outsider pop artists Stealing Sheep, nature-sourced electronic musician Wildforms, live analogue VJ hellocatfood, post-internet video artist Mishka Henner, light sculptor Jenny McNamara and landscape storyteller Lotte Djikstra.

More than a one-day event, this project has become a live testbed for interdisciplinary working. There’s a focus on inclusive and multi-generational co-creation with our core-team and over 40 volunteers. Our ongoing ambition of fostering a healthy commercial and organisational model, meaning ecosystems of people, money, power and time, echoes the curatorial interest in ecologies which underpins NightGarden.