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Enter our competition to win tickets to the UK premiere of renowned Polish composer Kryzysztof Penderecki’s powerful Seventh Symphony. How often do you get the opportunity to see the UK...

Castlefield Gallery’s latest exhibition looks at painting in a new way – here, we’ve captured just some of the details from a modern, forward-looking show. There are no images in...

Next up at HOME is the return of a critically-acclaimed play that looks deep into the divisions between humans and animals. Following on from The Funfair, Artistic Director for Theatre...

We list Manchester, Salford and Liverpool’s upcoming degree shows – for a summer stuffed with creative talent. Manchester School of Art counts artist Ryan Gander amongst its alumni, while two...

Coming to Burrs Country Park for a total of four nights, The Lost Carnival proves a delight for kids. Writing a review of a family event isn’t easy as an...

All eyes have been on the opening of Manchester’s new arts space HOME – so has its first ever production, The Funfair, proved a high striker? Manchester’s arts scene – and HOME...

Over 300 years of portraiture come together for this exhibition – with a newly-acquired Van Dyck painting the highlight. Born in 1599 to illustrious silk merchants in Antwerp, by most reckonings...

Venice-based siblings Laura de Santillana and Alessandro Diaz de Santillana bring their incredible glass work to YSP for their first ever UK exhibition. I remember going to the pastel-housed islands of...

Featuring Grace Jones, Belle & Sebastian, torchlight processions, banquets and one of the UK’s most unusual villages, Festival Number 6 can’t help being extraordinary. Portmeirion, from the expanse of Castell...

Enter our competition to WIN one of two pairs of tickets to the Liverpool Craft Beer Expo 2015. Liverpool Craft Beer Expo – the hugely popular “game-changing” beer festival –...

Manchester theatre company Kill the Beast brings its macabre brilliance back to The Lowry for two nights only. “It’s a werewolf detective mystery…yeah, you know, that genre!” jokes Kill the...

Brighter Sound’s one-off event brings together sound sculptures, spoken word and literary canapés from five libraries. Echo Trace is a truly lovely name for a project. It brings to mind...