A NEW FESTIVAL FOR INTERDISCIPLINARY ART AND CULTURE IN LONDON'S LARGEST INDUSTRIAL DISTRICT

Presented through exhibitions, installations, site-specific interventions, performances, food, open studios, talks, workshops and participatory events, Manufactory invites audiences into the hidden spaces of production that shape the city. Unfolding across workshops, warehouses, studios and industrial sites, the festival opens up environments that are rarely accessible to the public, foregrounding Park Royal as a distinctive destination for contemporary interdisciplinary practice.

DANCÆ - Chasing Nothing

PERFORMANCE
Across Friday and Saturday, Berlin-based dance company DANCÆ presents a ballet set to electronic music featuring Dominic Kießling's life-size installation The Cloud, bringing sculpture, choreography, sound and architecture into direct dialogue within the industrial spaces of 57 Gorst Road.
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SITE CONDITIONS - Donald Baugh, Ocean Baulcombe-Toppin, Jo Chate, Jermaine Francis, Esther Kehinde Ajayi, Henry Krokatsis, Dan Mauz, Fernando M. Romero, Linn Phyllis Seeger & Sharon Walters

MAIN EXHIBITION
Site Conditions brings together artists whose practices explore the ways in which space is produced, organised, inhabited and understood.
Moving across sculpture, installation, moving image and sound, the exhibition considers architecture, infrastructure, memory and social relations as forces that shape our experience of place. The works approach space not as a neutral backdrop but as something continually constructed through physical systems, human activity and collective imagination.
PENCIL FOILING - Absolute Beginners × London Centre for Book Arts

WORKSHOP
Using reclaimed carpenter's pencils donated by a Park Royal workshop that produces furniture and interiors for leading international fashion houses, participants will learn to sand, finish and personalise their own pencil using hand tools and a traditional foil-blocking press. The workshop explores how everyday materials can be reimagined through design and making, revealing the creative potential of reuse, craftsmanship and sustainable production.
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MUSIC TAKEOVER - Meet In The MIDI

Local music collective Meet In The MIDI brings its distinctive programme of live performance, resident DJs and late-night sets to two of Park Royal’s industrial spaces.
The takeover begins at Queensrollahouse on Friday night, before moving to 57 Gorst Road on Saturday, where Abbas Zahedi and Bill Daggs perform live, followed by Meet In The MIDI residents until late.
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REFLECTING MOVEMENT - LUCY ALGAR, CHIHIRO KAWASAKI & ANTONELLO SANGIRARDI

PERFORMANCE
Reflecting Movement is a site-responsive performance installation by Lucy Algar, Chihiro Kawasaki and Antonello Sangirardi, developed in direct response to the architecture of Queensrollahouse.
Occupying the full height of the atrium, the work unfolds through movement, drawing, live projection and light. Dynamic lighting systems connect performers to the building itself, activating the vertical volume of the space and transforming the atrium into a living drawing.
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Impressions of Nature: Plant-Based Printing in The Darkroom - Dako Darkroom

WORKSHOP
Join Leanne Wiggers at Dako Darkroom, Park Royal's new independent drop-in darkroom, to create unique photographic prints using plants, light and alternative darkroom processes.
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RUSSELL MALIPHANT - ON LIGHT & MOVEMENT

TALK
Join acclaimed choreographer Russell Maliphant OBE in conversation at his Park Royal studio as he reflects on the relationship between light, movement and form, and the ways these elements have shaped his choreographic practice.
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ABBAS ZAHEDI & BILL DAGGS - LIVE SET

PERFORMANCE
Abbas Zahedi and bill daggs perform a live electronic and vocal set, as part of their longstanding sonic collaboration, ahead of their debut record release on DBL (Drowned By Locals) early next year (2027).
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Manufactory takes place across Park Royal, London's largest industrial district. The festival is easily reached via North Acton (Central Line, 0-minute walk), Acton Main Line (Elizabeth Line, 15-minute walk) and Willesden Junction (Bakerloo Line & London Overground, 20-minute walk), placing the district within easy reach from central London and beyond.