Northern Art Carbooty 2018 at Sadlers Yard

Creative Tourist

Visit now

Northern Art Carbooty 2018

Sadler's Yard, City Centre
26 August 2018

Always double check opening hours with the venue before making a special visit.

Northern Art Carbooty 2018 at Sadlers Yard
Northern Art Carbooty
Book now

We can’t think of many finer ways to spend a Bank Holiday summer Sunday than pottering around Carbooty. Vying for the title of most fun pop-up arts event in the North it also has the contendor of one of the best mottos of all time “Seek and ye shall find wonderful things to open your mind!”

A traditional car boot fair turned on its head with local artists and makers at its heart, hunt down quality treasures and pieces at affordable prices. This art-sale, art-festival hybrid encompasses live art commissions, DJs, music and performance, family-friendly workshops and food stalls galore.

Anyway, back to the shopping.

There aren’t many (or any) places which bring together top notch local artistic talent, established cultural venues and pioneering community arts into one glorious wonderland.

Shadowbright
Shadowbright

Look out for the nature-inspired work of Aimee Mac Illustrations and artist Nicola Dale who makes delicate sculptures from paper and other ephemeral and natural materials. Highlights announced so far also include Saatchi Art recommended abstract artist  Mila Raczkowska,  Salford printmakers’ studio Hot Bed Press, Manchester artist and illustrator Camille Smithwick and Islington Mill’s Team Trident Press and Marc The Printers.

 

Aimee Mac Illustration
Aimee Mac Illustration

 

We love that Ancoats’ over 60s art group the Many Hands Craft Collective gets equal billing with Manchester’s internationally renowned Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art.

More artists, food vendors and performers will be released each week on the Carbooty facebook page. You can definitely count us in.

Where to go near Northern Art Carbooty 2018 at Sadlers Yard

City Centre
Restaurant
Allpress

Allpress at NOMA is a home to all things coffee, with a café and seasonal menu incorporating locally sourced ingredients.

Manchester
Event venue
Federation House

Federation House in Manchester is a pop-up project space that provides opportunities for artists, artist groups and artist development agencies.

Manchester
Restaurant
Skof by Tom Barnes

We visit Skof, Manchester’s most raved-about new restaurants, mere hours before 2025’s Michelin Guide announcement.

Manchester
Event venue
Old Bank Residency

The Old Bank Residency is a twelve-month occupation of a disused bank, allowing a space for creative practices to experiment, collaborate and grow. This project is funded and supported by NOMA to make Manchester an even more interesting place to be.

Manchester
Music venue
New Century

Following a £10m transformation project, Manchester’s iconic New Century Hall has returned as a live music, performance and events space.

Cathedral Quarter
Restaurant
Mamucium

High-class restaurant next to Victoria Station in Manchester, and attached to Hotel Indigo. Famed for steaks.

Chetham’s Library in Long Millgate in Manchester
Manchester
Library
Chetham’s Library

Chetham’s Library is one of the must-sees of any visit to Manchester. The library was founded in 1653, and is the oldest public library in the world – but the building dates back even further, to 1421.

What's on: Visual Arts

Encounter Festival in Preston
FestivalsLancashire
Encounter Festival in Preston

Preston comes alive with outdoor theatre, live music and family-friendly creativity in one of the North West’s most joyful festivals.

Free entry
Until
Visual ArtsManchester
To See and Be Seen at HOME

A major new exhibition by Manchester-based artist Conor Collins is on display at HOME, responding to the newly created Queer Up North archive.

ExhibitionsManchester
UN SEEN ME at SEESAW

Dr Shanali Perera’s paintings explore the space between what can be seen and what is experienced when it comes to illness.

Free entry

Culture Guides

Woodhill by LUNG Theatre.
Theatre

Contemporary performance, verbatim theatre, dark comedy and a bold vision of Gaza - an eclectic mix for the start of autumn.

Matt Spratt.
Music

Aphex Twin-endorsed electronica, an eight-hour organ marathon and the most exciting band in Ireland's current folk revival all feature this month.

Food and Drink in the North

Step into autumn safe in the knowledge that you have the North's very best mid-September guide to food and drink in Manchester and beyond.

Exhibitions

Our latest exhibition picks include a lost recording of the Strangeways protest, Manchester's first sound art festival, and queer archives revisited.

Emily Lloyd-Saini as Grace in Space and Harrie Hayes as Lieutenant Strong in Horrible Science
Family things to do in the North

Whether you’re after storybook theatre, museum wanderings or illusion-bending play spaces, there’s plenty to keep curiosity ticking through winter and beyond.

A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night
Cinema in the North

There's no shortage of great films out at the moment, whether you're looking for the latest blockbuster, that hot arthouse flick fresh from Cannes or a cosy classic.