What's on near Mish Mash
What counts as as waste and who decides? 21 craft artists from Design Nation challenge our perceptions of material value.
Free entry
12 contemporary jewellers show new work across metal and glass, as part of Manchester’s very first Jewellery Week.
Free entry
Lowry celebrates its 25th anniversary with a spectacular splash of colour from internationally renowned French artist Camille Walala.
Free entry
Live video puts the audience right on stage in this Ontroerend Goed show, creating a self-generating game of perspective at Lowry.
Painting becomes music, and music becomes theatre, in this playful new performance inspired by L.S. Lowry and a 1978 chart hit.
From £2.00
LUNG turns real testimony into an unflinching piece of theatre about loss, accountability and the crisis facing Britain’s prisons.
From £13.00
Two Berlin circus artists turn years of discarded ideas into one gloriously unclassifiable hour of live performance.
Paintings, installations and 500 years of Sikh wisdom are brought together in the service of personal and collective healing.
Free entryWhere to go near Mish Mash
Pub on the corner of Chorlton’s Beech Road with a good selection of ales and an excellent beer garden.
The Jane Eyre Chorlton is a charming independent venue, serving up superb cocktails and small plates in South Manchester.
97 is a smart new cocktail bar from the team behind Tariff & Dale and The Lead Station, based on Beech Road in Chorlton.
The Laundrette specialises in pizzas, carbs, cocktails and more carbs.
A small green space on Chorlton’s popular Beech Road with children’s play area.
A volunteer-run cafe with all profits going to causes to dedicated to world peace.
This cornerstone of Chorlton life is a Carnegie library, listed building and the second busiest library in the city.
The Dressing Room Cafe is an award-winning cafe bar and arts space based at The Edge Theatre in Chorlton.
Based in a former Red Cross Hospital in Chorlton. South Manchester, The Edge is a little theatre with big aspirations.
A tiny, carefully curated independent store in Chorlton.
The Yoga rooms in Chorlton offers a broad range of in-person and online classes, catering to every level and goal.
A family-run bookshop in Manchester’s bohemian suburb, Chorlton Bookshop is a haven of great titles and unknown gems.
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Contemporary performance, verbatim theatre, dark comedy and a bold vision of Gaza - an eclectic mix for the start of autumn.
Aphex Twin-endorsed electronica, an eight-hour organ marathon and the most exciting band in Ireland's current folk revival all feature this month.
Step into autumn safe in the knowledge that you have the North's very best mid-September guide to food and drink in Manchester and beyond.
Our latest exhibition picks include a lost recording of the Strangeways protest, Manchester's first sound art festival, and queer archives revisited.
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.
Step away from the usual. Tours and activities that spark curiosity, inspire creativity and offer something refreshingly different.