The Northern Quarter gallery marks its tenth birthday and brand re-launch with a specially commissioned zombie film. This week, the Chinese Arts Centre turns ten. For a decade, the gallery...
As part of this year’s Manchester Weekender, the gallery stages Wu Chi-Tsung’s first UK solo exhibition. “The images were created by scrunching rice paper for over half an hour,” says...
No longer the preserve of American teenagers, roller derby is the latest sporting craze to sweep the nation. To the uneducated eye, roller derby seems pretty easy to understand. Ten...
What do you do after running a Manchester music venue for 15 years? Open a restaurant, of course. Those who have walked the streets of the Northern Quarter or watched...
The international performance artist makes a rare trip home and takes inspiration from family, community – & a crisis of faith. La John Joseph is the Merseyside-born, self-confessed “fallen Catholic”,...
The Walker Art Gallery celebrates feel good politics with its latest Obama-inspired exhibition. Last year was pretty full-on, what with the Diamond Jubilee, all that rain, the tortuous lead up...
We talk to New York artist Christine Wong Yap about her pop-up art shop and why Mancunians like to play things down The New York-based artist Christine Wong Yap has...
As the next instalment of live art festival Emergency returns to Manchester, Oly Bliss speaks to its organiser, Tamsin Drury. Tamsin Drury is the powerhouse behind much of the live...
