La Movida at HOME
Polly Checkland HardingVisit now
Group exhibition: La Movida
Always double check opening hours with the venue before making a special visit.
					Always double check opening hours with the venue before making a special visit.
					
			This Christmas, A Christmas Carol gets a spine-tingling makeover at HOME Manchester. See The Book of Darkness & Light and their ghostly adaption.
			Our favourite cult queer cabaret collective crash back into HOME this December with an unmissable festive spectacular.
From £21.20
			HOME’s Christmas show Freaky Friday makes its UK stage premiere. A funny, heartfelt Disney musical offering a body-swappingly brilliant alternative to panto.
From £27.70
			Manchester Animation Festival returns with a sprawling programme designed to appeal to animation professionals, enthusiasts and fans alike.
From £8
			HOME presents ‘Roots in the Sky’, a group exhibition and curatorial project by British-Nigerian artist Tunji Adeniyi-Jones.
			HOME’s in-house restaurant has a nicely varied, with a large pizza section and an impressive but not unexpected array of vegetarian and vegan dishes.
			Contemporary architecture, avant-garde British style and a dash of Spanish warmth and friendliness combine at INNSiDE by Meliã.
			Junkyard Golf Club Manchester features three funkily decorated nine-hole golf courses, along with a bar and food stand.
			Indian Tiffin Room is a restaurant specialising in Indian street food, with branches in Cheadle and Manchester. This is the information for the Manchester venue.
			Late-night dive bar in Manchester’s fast-growing First Street neighbourhood.
			The Ritz was originally a dance hall, built in 1928, has hosted The Beatles, Frank Sinatra and The Smiths and is still going strong as a gig venue now.
			Homeground is HOME’s brand new outdoor venue, providing an open-air space for theatre, food, film, music, comedy and more.
			Small but perfectly-formed café – which also serves as the in-house bookstore, stocking all manner of Burgess-related works, along with recordings of his music. It’s a welcoming space, with huge glass windows making for a bright, welcoming atmosphere.
			The International Anthony Burgess Foundation in Manchester was established in 2003 by the A Clockwork Orange writer’s wife, Lianne Burgess.
			This huge three-floor pub, formerly a Victorian warehouse, then an umbrella factory (hence the name), has one of the city centre’s largest beer gardens. The two-tier terrace overlooks the Rochdale canal and what used to be the back of the Hacienda, providing an unusual, historic view of the city.
			Standing on the corner of a junction opposite The Bridgewater Hall, The Briton’s Protection is Manchester’s oldest pub. It has occupied the same spot since 1795, going under the equally
			The influential Castlefield Gallery sits at the edge of Manchester’s exciting Castlefield district, an ideal home for thought-provoking contemporary art.
			Open Eye Gallery presents ‘Firehawks’, an exhibition of photography by Stephen King about children who set fires.
Free entry
			Social neglect and digital alienation are closely examined in FACT’s new show from artists Helen Anna Flanagan & Gavin Gayagoy.
Free entry
			Experience the sights, smells and sounds of the engine-driven ideas and industry that started in Manchester and went on to change the world.
Free entry
			A sense-sational exhibition returns to Manchester in 2025.
From £10.00
			Santiago Yahuarcani’s otherworldly visions come to the Whitworth, in the artist’s first international solo show as part of MIF25.
Free entry
			Experience the work of David Hockney like never before in Bigger and Closer (not smaller and further away) at Aviva Studios.
From £11.50
			Marcos Kueh explores labour diasporas and Manchester’s industrial history at his first institutional solo show.
Free entry
	
	From New York’s experimental underground to the most exciting sounds coming from local scenes, we're lining up a noisy autumn of gigs.
	
	Picks this month include bold visual art, wondrous opera and cinematic dance - plus a touch of ghostly storytelling for the Halloween season.
	
	One to add to your TBR pile, our latest round-up is a bumper edition and features some amazing events in Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds and beyond...
	
	It's busy month across the cinemas of the north as Halloween programming leads into two of the region's biggest film festivals.
	
	Step away from the usual. Tours and activities that spark curiosity, inspire creativity and offer something refreshingly different.
	
	In galleries around the North this autumn, you'll find tactile sculptures, Treasures with a capital 'T' and plant magic.
	
	Get ready for a suitably spooky October, with Pumpkin delight, theatre, workshops and all sorts of hair-raising fun!