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Two-time Academy Award-winning filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy reflects on the experiences of people who left their homes during the Partition of British India in 1947, the largest mass migration ever witnessed, in this world premiere at The Lowry.

The Lowry’s Lyric Theatre is set to be taken over by a stunning spectacle of lasers, light, sound and colour from leading creative studio Marshmallow Laser Feast. Audiences will experience IRIS – a unique digital art installation created using laser technology.

This exhibition sees Liverpool’s FACT transformed into an observatory for the 21st century, with a 40ft watchtower in the main atrium alongside a diverse range of works by international artists. Free entry

The artists and choreographers in this exhibition have combined ideas on bodily communication with the latest research in neuroscience to investigate how movement is felt, observed, and how we reveal and conceal thought in physicality

Treasures Revealed features 40 inspirational objects, collections and ideas from the National Arts Education Archive, chosen by an eclectic range of authors, politicians, artists and critics as part of Yorkshire Sculpture Park’s 40th anniversary in 2017.

Multi award-winning literature organisers Bad Language present an immersive evening of storytelling in the beautifully-restored surrounds of Elizabeth Gaskell’s House for Manchester After Hours 2017.

The Museum of Science and Industry and the Engine House Collective team up to explore ideas of surveillance through projections and audio installations on and around the huge Avro Shackleton in the museum’s Air and Space Hall for Manchester After Hours.

Head over to The John Rylands Library for an enlightening, invigorating evening which celebrates an unsung heroine of electronic music as part of Manchester After Hours 2017.

A multi discipline art exhibition inspired by the work of Oscar winning composer Alan Menken and featuring artists, musicians and performers from around the North West for Manchester After Hours 2017.

Get in early and celebrate the opening of two new exhibitions as part of Manchester After Hours 2017; one featuring photography by Shirley Baker, the other packed with three centuries of South Asian design.

Two new works Written specially for Central Library’s Reading Room, featuring extracts from letters sent between Frank Merrick, pianist and tutor at RNCM, and his wife Hope Squires throughout Merrick’s imprisonment during WWI.

Cult online radio station NTS Radio brings DJs and visual artists to the Whitworth for a night of left-field music and off-kilter video projections as part of Manchester After Hours 2017.