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The best places to get your retail kicks in the city – our guide to shopping in Liverpool includes retail behemoths like Liverpool ONE, but has a penchant for the smaller, more unusual outlets the city has to offer.

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Independent Shops in Liverpool

The best service-heavy, knowledgeable and cheerfully independent shops in Liverpool.

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Culture Guides

IOU Theatre: Rear View

Theatre

The spring/ summer theatre season is in full swing, we’ve got the pick of the performative crop. Read it, pick it and book in.

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Cinema

It’s festival season at the cinemas of the North this month and we’ve got the low-down.

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©Viviane Sassen, Ra, series Mud and Lotus 2017. Courtesy of Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa. Viviane Sassen: Hot Mirror at The Hepworth Wakefield

Exhibitions

Featuring a giant ‘art hammock’, the mesmerising photographs of Vivian Sassen, and a unique exploration into the use of digital technology by indigenous communities in north east Brazil; check out or latest exhibition highlights from across the North West.

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Families

Out of this world free festivals of making, magical dance experiences and theatrical adventures for all the family.

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Luke Allan, Carcanet New Poetries.

Literature

It’s raining poetry and prose this April in the Rainy City, and there’s plenty to catch from both established and emerging writers. Fill your wellie boots – and your mornings, afternoons and evenings, weekdays and weekends.

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Music

From death-themed musicals to day-long explorations of the current freakscene, via rising country stars and a fresh look at an art gallery’s collection, the musical calendar for Manchester and the North is packed to the rafters.

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Things to do right now

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Music 20 January–29 April 2018, from £8

New North and South at Band on the Wall

NOW: A dialogue on female Chinese contemporary artists
Exhibitions 16 February–29 April 2018, FREE

NOW: A Dialogue On Female Chinese Contemporary Artists

Exhibitions 9 March–29 April 2018, FREE

Ruth Barker & Hannah Leighton-Boyce at Castlefield Gallery

Mario Popham and Tom Baskeyfield: Of Flesh and Stone. HOME, Manchester
Exhibitions 9 March–29 April 2018, FREE

Mario Popham and Tom Baskeyfield: Of Flesh and Stone

Spring Awakening at Hope Mill Theatre
Theatre 29 March–3 May 2018, from £16.00

Spring Awakening at Hope Mill Theatre

¡Viva! Spanish & Latin American Festival at HOME
Cinema 12 April–5 May 2018,

¡Viva! Spanish & Latin American Festival at HOME

The Tiger Lillies Corrido de la Sangre at HOME
Music 20 April–5 May 2018, from £10

The Tiger Lillies: Corrido de la Sangre at HOME

Relatively Speaking at Oldham Coliseum
Theatre 20 April–5 May 2018, from £16.00

Relatively Speaking at Oldham Coliseum

In So Many Words: Roget’s Thesaurus and the Power of Language at The Portico Library, Manchester
Exhibitions 2 April–12 May 2018, FREE

In So Many Words: Roget’s Thesaurus and the Power of Language at The Portico Library

Breathe at MCDC
Exhibitions 9 February–12 May 2018, FREE

Breathe at Manchester Craft & Design Centre

Merry-Go-Round Broke Down, AIR Gallery, Altrincham
Exhibitions 17 April–12 May 2018, FREE

Merry-Go-Round Broke Down at AIR Gallery, Altrincham

Exhibitions 16 September 2017–13 May 2018, FREE

Savage Ink: The Cartoon & The Caricature at People’s History Museum

Soyuz TMA-19M: Tim Peake’s Spacecraft at the Museum of Science And Industry
Exhibitions 10 March–13 May 2018, FREE

Soyuz TMA-19M: Tim Peake’s Spacecraft at the Museum of Science and Industry

Uplift, 2017, Mary Griffiths, The Turnpike, Leigh
Exhibitions 14 April–26 May 2018, FREE

Mary Griffiths: Wild Honey at The Turnpike, Leigh

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