Bookings
Tickets and event entry
For missing confirmations, booking changes, refunds under the ticket terms, companion tickets and event-entry questions.
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Contact Afterlight
Choose the route that best matches your question. Including an event name, date and booking reference helps us send your enquiry to the right person.
We aim to reply within three working days, or one working day during the festival. Access enquiries and issues affecting an event in the next 48 hours are prioritized.
Useful contact routes
Assistance
Accessibility and adjustments
For venue access details, alternative formats, performance provisions, companion tickets and reasonable adjustments.
Creative programme
Artists and participation
For published open calls, artist administration and existing project conversations. We cannot review unsolicited large attachments or return physical portfolios.
Newsroom
Press and media
For interview requests, accreditation, listings information and approved festival assets. Include your outlet and deadline.
Collaboration
Partnerships
For values-aligned cultural, community, access, media and commercial partnership conversations.
Everything else
General enquiries
For visitor information, feedback, lost property after an event and questions that do not fit another route.
Provisional contact shell: these addresses and telephone numbers use reserved example details until canonical festival contacts are confirmed. They demonstrate complete, accessible contact routes but must be normalized before public launch.
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Post and in-person help
Afterlight Arts FestivalFestival Office
18 Lantern Yard
Manchester M1 4AF
United Kingdom
Please do not send cash, original documents or unsolicited artwork. The office is not a public ticket desk. During festival opening hours, in-person ticket and visitor support is available at the Welcome Hub listed on the visit page.