Carmel Smickersgill

Have a go at designing your own jewellery with Wonderhaus’ Carve and Cast kits. You’re given the tools to carve your own designs in jeweller’s wax which will then be professionally finished and cast at Wonderhaus.

Embark on a short story exploration of your own writing with Désirée Reynolds to help guide you on your way. Learn technique, structure and other writing ‘tools’ that will allow your stories to come to life.

Professor Kim Reynolds will be exploring the world of children’s literature that Elizabeth Gaskell may have read to her own four daughters and the influence this may have had on her own writings. From £4

Mothers who Make welcomes all types of mothers who work in creative worlds, to gather and share their experiences of balancing motherhood and creative exploits.

Expand your culinary repertoire with online cookery classes from chefs who’ve migrated to the UK from all over the world.

Experience the breadth of creativity in Manchester’s beer scene from your sofa, with craft beer tasting from Craft Beer Tour Manchester.

To celebrate the arrival of the Year of the Ox, Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art has teamed up with artist Stephanie Jong to create a lantern making workshop that you can take part in from home.

Ray Woolford recounts the activism and awesome power of LGBT activist Kath Duncan, and other prominent working class LGBT+ women.

The Working Class Movement Library will be live streaming Matthew Kidd discussing his most recent book The Renewal of Radicalism.

Composers Michael Betteridge and Joe Steele lead a musical exploration into the archives, with new songs written by this eclectic group every fortnight.

Capturing Dance on Film is a multidisciplinary workshop designed to inspire, and encourage young dancers and film-makers to broaden their practise.

As part of HOME’s Creative Careers workshop series, young artists will be encouraged to find way of developing their practise for a locked down world and finding motivation.