Always double check opening hours with the venue before making a special visit.
White Lies are celebrating the 10th anniversary of To Lose My Life with a unique tour, during which they’ll perform the album in its entirety. Don’t miss them at Manchester Academy this October.
This 18-acre park opposite the Manchester Royal Infirmary provides a welcome patch of green in an otherwise densely populated and heavily used part of the city.
Basement venue at the University of Manchester Students’ Union building.
Built in the late 19th centure, the Holy Name sites in the middle of the University of Manchester.
Brilliant venue for catching a touring band on the rise. The boringly titled Academy 3 or more interesting Hop and Grape, as it was once known, is a self contained…
Manchester Museum’s cafe is run by the people behind award-winning cafe Teacup Kitchen. The menu features home-baked cakes, the finest loose leaf teas and breakfast, as well as a wide selection of mains and meals for kids.
Rarely-opened neo-Gothic gem that’s part of the University of Manchester.
The Martin Harris Centre is a performance space off Manchester’s Oxford Road
Want Not Waste is a student-run, not-for-profit zero waste shop operating out of Academy 1 at the University of Manchester Students’ Union.
Celebrating its 200th year in 2024, The University of Manchester is the largest single-site university in the UK, and boasts come incredible cultural institutions, found on campus, across Manchester and…
Big Hands is the one-time haunt of legendary Manchester band Elbow; it’s shabby, loud and dark, with a jukebox and excellent roof terrace.
Kro Bar, Manchester is an independent pub and music venue housed (somewhat ironically) in the former Temperance Society building.
Jonny Greenwood’s love of strings takes centre stage as the Hallé performs his new Violin Concerto, shaped by uncertainty.
From £23.50
Voka Gentle return to Manchester with a headline show in YES Basement, bringing new material that pushes their already elastic sound into darker, stranger territory.
From £14.50
English National Opera takes its first ever bow at The Bridgewater Hall with two semi-staged concert performances of a Mozart classic.
From £25.00
Kathy Hinde’s Magnetic Resonance brings magnetism into sound art through illuminated sonic pendulums.
From £5.00
Alisa Weilerstein joins Marin Alsop and the Philharmonia for a concert featuring Gabriela Ortiz’s 2026 GRAMMY-winning cello concerto, Dzonot.
From £25.00
Connecting scenes, sounds and spaces across Manchester, Keep Walking brings a three-day programme of gigs, club nights and workshops.
From £5.00
The National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine present a programme that pays homage to our nations’ bonds, alongside two Beethoven landmarks.
From £25.00
A river, abused and neglected, speaks back through an interactive sound installation and sound walk by Maya Chowdhry.
Free entry
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