Manchester International Festival (MIF) has announced its first event for the 2021 edition of the Festival. The festival will take place between July 1-18, 2021. It’ll begin with The Walk, the journey from Gaziantep in Turkey to Manchester of nine-year-old refugee girl, Little Amal in the form of a giant living artwork. The Walk will see Little Amal – a 3.5 metre tall puppet and an emblem of the millions of displaced refugee children separated from their families - travel 8,000km across Turkey, Greece, Italy, France, Switzerland, Germany, Belgium and the UK in search of her mother. It will embody the urgent message ‘Don’t forget about us’ and Little Amal will go around 70 cities, towns and villages with art between April and July 2021.
