What better way to spend a bank holiday weekend than with tightrope walkers, performers, mermaids and more at this family festival. It’s becoming increasingly difficult for festivals to stand out...
From darts in an art gallery to music on steam train platforms – we’ve got the Manchester After Hours 2016 highlights wrapped up. We’ve already announced the full listings for Manchester...
Be sure not to miss this groundbreaking performance, which sees the theatre itself becoming a major part of the story. An Anatomie in Four Quarters was first presented at Sadler’s Wells Theatre in...
The Two Eyes Are Not Brothers is Ben Rivers’ most ambitious work so far – and it’s coming to the Whitworth. Ben Rivers’ practice as a filmmaker falls between documentary...
Following a successful inauguration last year, Manchester Film Festival returns – extending across the city to venues including HOME. The Manchester Film Festival will open with the international premiere of...
It’s that time again: the dreaded February half term. Fortunately, there’s a great deal of help at hand. We round up the best activities for children aged up to 11....
As winter draws to a close and we start to glimpse some greenery again, Italian artist Nico Vascellari takes over the Whitworth’s landscape gallery. From the 25 February, visitors to the...
This retrospective celebrates the centenary of Tibor Reich, a pioneering post-war textile designer, who brought modernity into British textiles. It can be easy to overlook the extent to which fabrics and...
KAWS comes to the UK: here’s our preview of the artist’s major solo exhibition at Yorkshire Sculpture Park. Brooklyn-based KAWS has been working within the Pop Art tradition since the...
HOME presents a visionary exhibition by artist and filmmaker duo AL and AL, which asks “what is there beyond the universe?” It’s been quite a journey for AL and AL,...
Eight days of music by 100 living composers at the RNCM. The Royal Northern College of Music presents the UK’s largest festival of new British music. New Music North West...
Early in his career, Charlie Chaplin spent a lot of time performing in Manchester – this new exhibition uses this fact as a reason to revisit a lost age. Burgess and...
