Every weekend in Liverpool’s buzzing Baltic Triangle, Love Lane Brewery invites visitors behind the scenes for an hour-long tour through its striking, industrial space. Housed in a converted rubber factory,
From £25.00
Merry Manarchy welcomes holiday heartthrobs for a festive drag king cabaret – expect a ridiculously fabulous camped-out search for what Christmas is all about.
From £7.00
Unity Theatre is once again hosting their anything but ordinary, outright bonkers festive production, Unity Christmas Cabaret.
From £7.00
FACT’s new exhibition probes how our entanglement with AI is reshaping behaviour, identity and the fragile idea of human choice.
Free entry
Check out the ways you can get hands on creatively with workshops at FACT in Liverpool, as well as taking their daily guided tour.
Free entry
Bassam Issa Al-Sabah works across digital animation, painting, sculpture, and textiles to create environments that offer visions of resistance.
Free entry
Waiting for Godot – Samuel Beckett’s revolutionary play that changed modern theatre forever – comes to Liverpool Everyman in spring 2026.
From £13.00
Please DO touch – Bluecoat’s new exhibition ‘Just Browsing’ allows audiences to get closer to the artworks and engage beyond looking.
Free entry
The Cains Brewery closed in 2013 and is now the site of the Cains Brewery Village project.
Red Brick Vintage is a cavernous warehouse of vintage, antiques, retro, salvage, hand-crafted, brocante, collectables, vinyl and more.
Hinterlands is a multi-purpose venue in Liverpool where events can come to life.
The Royal Standard is a gallery, studios and social workspace in Liverpool, established in 2006 by four Liverpool-based artists.
A ‘bicycle café’ set in Northern Lights within the Baltic Triangle, serving up great food and coffee to leave you… spinning.
A hub for local artists and businesses in the heart of the Baltic Triangle.
Elevator Studios is a hub of creativity, open for work and play.
The vast Liverpool Anglican Cathedral sits on Liverpool’s famous Hope Street, a rare example of a street with two cathedrals.
A highlight of Baltic Triangle’s speciality coffee scene, don’t miss Parliament Square Coffee’s fresh brunch options and excellent brews.
The Botanical Gin Garden is a seasonal outdoor gin bar, open six months a year, serving a wide selection of delicious gin drinks.
Winter brings a huge haul of seasonal shows, as well as productions that resolutely veer away from the fairy lights.
Manchester’s closing out the year – and looking to the new one – with a run of gigs from some of the country’s best underground exports.
This season, exhibitions across the North West feel attuned to the world beneath the world – the forces and stories shaping how we see, feel and imagine.
Step away from the usual. Tours and activities that spark curiosity, inspire creativity and offer something refreshingly different.
Whether you’re after storybook theatre, museum wanderings or illusion-bending play spaces, there’s plenty to keep curiosity ticking through winter and beyond.
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.
Hear ye, hear ye. Take some eating-out tips from our wintertime guide to food and drink in Manchester and the North.