Gothic Manchester Festival V; Gothic Styles

After the great success of last year’s Gothic Manchester Festival on ‘The Gothic North’, our attention turns this year to the topic of Gothic Style(s).

At the start of the 21st century, the Gothic is everywhere. Fiction and film, television and graphic novels - full of vampires, zombies and their hunters - have brought the Gothic into the mainstream.

As Victorian Gothic architecture looms large over cities such as Manchester, Goth fashion and music reference the mode whist enlivening our streets, bars, clubs and homes with new Gothic styles of their own.

This year’s Festival will be full of such delights, offering everything from body-beautiful horror in The Neon Demon to real North West street style in a catwalk devoted to extraordinary goths and steampunks.  As usual, our thrilling series of events will centre on a one-day conference of accessible papers delivered by an egalitarian mix of students, seasoned academics, experts and enthusiasts. All the ‘extra’ events are free, with the conference costing just £10 for the full day.

We very much look forward to welcoming you, and your style, to the mix!

See the full schedule of events here.