Inside Out: This is Manchester at Aviva Studios

See through the eyes of an astronaut in this epic concert and visual experience, Space Station Earth at Aviva Studios. .

The Hallé invites audiences to a year of classical masterpieces, world premieres and appearances by some electrifying artists and composers.

In a live, 24-hour performance, Ai Weiwei will place himself back inside a room that once governed every aspect of his daily life.

A major new dance work brings Sinéad O’Connor’s uncompromising voice back into the room, responding to a life lived against the grain.

10 editions in, and Manchester Histories Festival is still finding stories that official records have skirted over.

With a miniature steam railway, working engines and a percussion group inspired by industry, the Science and Industry Museum brings play with a point.

Lowry presents an exhibition on group communion, featuring artists who capture the energy and anticipation of live audiences.

Saul Hay celebrates its 10th anniversary with an exhibition that gives 100 artists just 10 centimetres to work with.

Creativity, making and innovation have long shaped Salford. City of Making traces that legacy from industrial roots to today’s artists, designers and creative technologists.

Fans of the world-famous and still-anonymous street artist Banksy, gather round. Spring 2026 sees The Mystery of Banksy – A Genius Mind take over Depot Mayfield.

Out Here at Castlefield Gallery shifts environmental questions out of the abstract and back into the natural materials beneath our feet.

For the four artists in texture’s reopening show, redaction is not absence but method – a way of exploring things that have been officially ignored, coded, buried or suppressed.