‘Audacious’ festival hits Manchester

Next Monday, an expected 1,000 young people will arrive in Manchester to take part in the Audacious 09 summer youth festival.

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The week-long Christian festival takes place at Manchester Central (formerly G-MEX) and is a mix of conference-style worship and teaching, community action projects across the city and a day-long city centre ‘expo’ event taking place in Spinningfields and Cathedral Gardens.

On Thursday 6 and Friday 7 August, the young people will suit up and ship out to 25 locally-based community projects across the city in an initiative the festival organisers are calling ’10,000 Hours of Hope’. Each project is designed to clean up and improve local areas through clearing rubbish, painting railings, cleaning graffiti and planting gardens.

The Audacious festival will culminate in a massive free public event in Manchester’s Cathedral Gardens and Spinningfields on Saturday 8 August. The event will feature outdoor sports, live music, street theatre and, for the first time ever in the centre of Manchester, a bungee crane. The day starts at 1pm and everyone is welcome.