Johnny James

After recently finding a new home in Cheetham Hill, texture 2.0 hosts its second show, fittingly themed around transience and impermanence.

This free exhibition brings 1980s posters that survived against the odds, from when Manchester was becoming a global music city.

Folklore wraps around human anxiety in this new PINK exhibition, where the dragons and giants of Lake Bala become placeholders for fear itself.

Manchester’s premier concert hall celebrates 30 years with the debut of a new orchestra and guest artists drawn from Manchester’s grime, dancehall, drag and jazz scenes.

An exhibition uses an elusive creature from Chinese folklore to think about what it means to be an artist.

Three actors tear through 40 characters in Le Navet Bete’s chaotic, costume-swapping mythological farce.

Greg Freeman mines local history for character-driven tales of violence, loss and epiphany on his second album, Burnover.

For fans of early Black Country New Road, Champion Trees render stalled lives and small defeats in exacting, wry and self-deprecating detail.

British-French singer-songwriter Lauren Auder brings her second, post-industrial love album to YES Basement.

Gothic country ballads, psych-folk drones and pedal steel drawn long and slow. Ora Cogan brings her witchy country to Now Wave’s new (old) pub.

Sarah Frankcom returns to the Royal Exchange with a Tony Award-winning musical about queer lives and the costs of keeping family secrets.