1520 Studios is bigger than a film and photography studio. Also functioning as an event space and community hub, fostering talented artists from the local area and building a kind support network.
Ember & the Vixens bring their creepiest cabaret yet to Fairfield Social Club just in time for spooky season.
From £18.00
Following its acclaimed debut in 2024, Star Nhà Ease, the UK’s only curated season celebrating Vietnamese cinema, arrives at Manchester’s Cultplex.
From £7.50
A glittering night of cabaret, circus and fairytales from Ember & the Vixens – part escapist fantasy, part empowering spectacle.
From £18.00
Thirteen movies to get to know the United States of America. Cultplex presents a season of film exploring America through its own lens.
From £7.50
Runaway Brewery Tour & Tasting is a chance to enjoy one of Stockport’s breweries in the flesh and, of course, sample the end product.
From £18.00
Join an access-all-areas guided tour of Chetham’s Library and the surrounding school – among the most venerable buildings in the North West.
From £20.00
Transforming Cathedral Gardens into Little Italy, Festa Italiana Manchester is back for the eighth year in a row.
Free entry
With sardonic wit, towering hooks and distortion dialled high, Blondshell lands at New Century this September, armed with album number two.
From £24.00
Partisan is a Manchester-based collective and volunteer-run space for independent, community led, DIY and cultural based projects. They have two floors for events, meetings, office space, live music, club nights, and art.
Fairfield Social Club is a multi-purpose site next to Angel Meadows Park in the Green Quarter, ran by the team behind the much-loved Grub,.
The Mezz is the new VIP area at the AO Arena, offering high-end food and drinks with great views of the stage.
Join the Gin renaissance with Manchester Three Rivers, a gin distillery situated in the heart of the Green Quarter making some fantastic gin as well as inviting people to get up close to the distillation process.
Manchester Arena is one of the busiest venues in the world and the largest indoor arena in Europe.
Independently-run coffee shop and bike repair shop on the edge of the Green Quarter in Manchester.
The Virgin Red Room is a new private members space located at Manchester’s AO Arena, with VIP access to some of the city’s biggest gigs.
Wonderful Japanese street food vendor, often found at Grub and other street food events in and around Manchester and the North.
Billing itself as Manchester’s home of cult films, video games and cool nerd stuff, Cultplex is a small cinema offshoot of indie street food destination Grub Manchester.
The baby in the family of Manchester’s concert halls, The Stoller Hall greatly enhances the city’s already enviable live music provision.
SLOE Gallery is an artist-led exhibition space, co-founded by a small team of postgraduate students from the Manchester School of Art.
Bunker Gallery is an artist-led space in Manchester curated by Catflap Collective.
From tongue-twisters to twisty page-turners, we have all kinds of spoken word surprises in the latest literature round-up.
August brings a huge LGBTQ+ film festival, plus a reggae classic and a spotlight on Japanese animation.
Summer signals theatre festivals, world premieres and open-air spectacle - from MIF25 to comedy, outdoor circus and beyond, here’s what we’re looking forward to.
Here’s our summertime guide to great food and drinks across the North.
The summer holidays are here and what a packed programme of events we have in store for you!
From Lyra Pramuk’s sacred synths to the sugar rush of YAANG, our latest music picks bring ritual, rebellion and ridiculous levels of fun.
Monumental sculptures, charcoal confessions and a show of two paintings only - all this and more in this month's exhibition picks.
