A Lovely Day Comedy Festival

Wonderful Japanese street food vendor, often found at Grub and other street food events in and around Manchester and the North.

Join the Gin renaissance with Manchester Three Rivers, a gin distillery situated in the heart of the Green Quarter making some fantastic gin as well as inviting people to get up close to the distillation process.

An exciting young Brewery on the Stockport scene, Runaway are creating a whole host of drinkable delights.

Fairfield Social Club is a multi-purpose site next to Angel Meadows Park in the Green Quarter, ran by the team behind the much-loved Grub,.

Independently-run coffee shop and bike repair shop on the edge of the Green Quarter in Manchester.

Partisan is a Manchester-based collective and volunteer-run space for independent, community led, DIY and cultural based projects. They have two floors for events, meetings, office space, live music, club nights, and art.

1520 Studios is bigger than a film and photography studio, also functioning as an event space and community hub.

Angel Meadow is a green space just north of the city centre and a stone’s throw from trendy Ancoats, where an immersive theatre piece of the same name introduced audiences to the future work of HOME.

New creative hub The Yard is home to a great little music venue, which tends to attract future-leaning electronic artists.

Housed in the oldest synagogue in the city, Manchester Jewish Museum is the only museum of its type outside London.

The Pilcrow is now Sadler’s Cat, a contemporary community pub at the heart of the NOMA neighbourhood. Overlooking Sadler’s Yard.

A modernist, high-rise delight.