Polly Checkland Harding

For Manchester After Hours 2017, Manchester Museum keeps its doors open late for an exclusive look at Object Lessons, a showcase of over 200 outstanding and rare artefacts on public display for the first time.

Experience contemporary music inside the city centre’s oldest building as Manchester’s award-winning venue Soup Kitchen take over Chetham’s for one night only as part of Manchester After Hours 2017.

Party like Pelé with an after-hours peek at the National Football Museum’s new exhibition, featuring live Samba music and Caiprinha cocktails until late in an celebration of football’s most inspiring individual.

MadLab and Fred Aldous are joining forces to host an evening of DIY digital innovation, art and craft. Join their evening of free workshops and activities as part of Manchester After Hours 2017.

A Chinese tea tasting proceeds this screening of a short film by Ho Fan, one of Asia’s most renowned street photographers and nicknamed ‘the great master’ for his work.

This walking tour for Manchester After Hours and TfGM’s Walking Festival is a unique chance to experience three of the city’s top exhibitions in a new way.

Diverse representations of gardens in art – including an early work by Stanley Spencer – come together to form this botanical exhibition at Sheffield’s Graves Gallery.

Fixing a Hole, a spectacular mural at Liverpool’s Stanley Dock as part of a city-wide celebration of the Beatles Sgt. Pepper album, will be the largest painting to date by iconic, feminist artist Judy Chicago.

LOOK/17, the largest photography festival in the North, returns in its 10th year to explore Cities of exchange – themes of urbanism, social housing, architecture and commerce – through new works from artists based in the UK and Hong Kong.

[Re]construct at Yorkshire Sculpture Park sets out to complicate our ideas of materiality and permanence, using melted brick walls, manipulated surfaces and rawlplugs made from semi-precious materials.

The Lesbian Immigration Support Group (LISG) are a group of women in Greater Manchester who are lesbian and bisexual asylum seekers and refugees and their supporters. They have created this moving exhibition to mark their 10th anniversary.

Rarely seen archive material features in this exhibition, documenting how queer club culture and music-makers in Greater Manchester have impacted on attitudes towards sexuality – in the city, and beyond.