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
A month-long horror extravaganza this October. Nobody does Halloween quite like CULTPLEX.
From £8.00
UrbanArtistry head to Brazil with the latest in a series of global street art documentary screenings.
From £7.50
Manchester Collective and The Marian Consort make peace with the short, crisp days and long, dark nights of winter, with a concert that ushers in the solstice.
From £24.50
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
Perfume Genius brings Glory to New Century – another transformation from a shapeshifter who’s made unpredictability a signature.
From £30
Marking the anniversary of the Christmas Blitz, this walking tour explores Manchester’s history of conflict, from the English Civil Wars to the World Wars and beyond.
From £20.00
Marcos Kueh explores labour diasporas and Manchester’s industrial history at his first institutional solo show.
Free entry
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.
If Manchester had a shrine to all things cult cinema, CULTPLEX would be it. Now running the whole building at 50 Red Bank.
The baby in the family of Manchester’s concert halls, The Stoller Hall greatly enhances the city’s already enviable live music provision.
PAPER is an artist-led, commercial gallery based in Manchester and represents a range of emerging and mid-career artists whose practice is based around the medium of paper.
SLOE Gallery is an artist-led exhibition space, co-founded by a small team of postgraduate students from the Manchester School of Art.
From New York’s experimental underground to the most exciting sounds coming from local scenes, we're lining up a noisy autumn of gigs.
Picks this month include bold visual art, wondrous opera and cinematic dance - plus a touch of ghostly storytelling for the Halloween season.
Get ready for a suitably spooky October, with Pumpkin delight, theatre, workshops and all sorts of hair-raising fun!
Galleries in the North are far from spooky this October - instead you'll find tactile sculptures, plant magic and curatorial experiments.
Step away from the usual. Tours and activities that spark curiosity, inspire creativity and offer something refreshingly different.
One to add to your TBR pile, our latest round-up is a bumper edition and features some amazing events in Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds and beyond...
It's busy month across the cinemas of the north as Halloween programming leads into two of the region's biggest film festivals.
