Always double check opening hours with the venue before making a special visit.
Featuring one fresco, one rainbow, gold dust, mp4, mp3, watercolour and more, Salford-based independent art label Caustic Coastal presents Couture Secession.
Part of Salford Makers, 7 Spot is a 360 square foot ceramics studio offering classes and workshops as well as studio space for members.
Salford Makers are a collective of artists, designers, educators and makers based at Islington Mill in Salford.
A former cotton spinning mill, Islington Mill in Manchester now houses artists’ studios, galleries, a recording studio, a nightclub, cafe and B&B.
This warehouse located behind Islington Mill is being brought into creative use by Manchester’s underground music scene.
Taste the ultimate in authentic Italian cuisine at Vero Moderno.
Middlewood Locks is a new 24 acre mixed use opportunity in an attractive waterside setting centred around 3 canal basins.
This Chapel Street gallery and tea room hosts 8-12 week long exhibitions giving emerging artists a chance to showcase their work.
One of Salford’s finest churches and also, unusually, a live music venue
This lively spot could be considered a jack of all trades – pub, restaurant, events space and live music venue.
A great little cafe where you’ll find good food and excellent Jazz.
Small, perfectly formed, the newly-reopened New Oxford packs a real-ale punch.
Hot Bed Press, based at the Casket Works in Salford, is a not-for-profit printmakers’ studio, is now the largest open-access print workshop in the region.
Delve into the Echos exhibition at Portico Library through the filter of a Folk Life Drawing workshop with HappeningInManchester.
From £5.00
Get involved in this artistic and ambitious takeover of PINK’s three-storey venue, weaving together live performance, video, sculpture and sound.
Free entry
Manchester Museum explores the concept of ‘wild’ nature as a means of tackling the climate and biodiversity crisis in a new exhibition.
Free entry
The Whitworth presents ‘Women in Revolt! Art and Activism in the UK 1970-1990’, a landmark show about women’s rebellion and creativity.
Free entry
Ceremony, religion and symbolism are the focus of the Baltic’s new exhibition from Newcastle-based artist Mani Kambo.
Free entry
The Mill Gallery invites aspiring art collectors to ‘Start with One’, an exhibition of affordable original artworks.
Free entry
‘A Riot In Three Acts’ uses film, installation and sound to explore themes of civil unrest and the social inequalities that trigger it.
Free entry
Threshold presents Hannah Platt: Playing Out, a humorous blend of photography and sculpture in the form of an outdoor installation.
Free entry
There's a lot of experimentation going on in our Literature guide, from poets playing with form to short story writers looking long.
Live scores, midnight movies and the latest from Wes Anderson are just some of our upcoming film highlights.
Eclectic as ever. You'll find inventive reworkings, world-class contemporary dance and Greater Manchester's inaugural Improv Festival in our guide.
Gigs are coming in hot this spring – from long-awaited returns to one-off happenings you’ll blink and miss if you're not careful.
The sun is shining in the North, so use our guide to get out there and eat, drink and be merry in it.
From city-wide art festivals to open-air sculptural installations, we have exhibitions from all around the North, both indoors and out.
With these lighter, brighter days and warmer temperatures, it's really starting to feel like summer here in the North West!
Books, beer and burlesque. Dive into a glorious tangle of joyful happenings.