What's on near MMU Business School
Explore the incredible history behind one of Britain’s grandest and most storied commercial buildings: Manchester’s Grade II listed Kimpton Clocktower Hotel.
From £25.00
Manchester’s debut sound art festival brings three days of installation, performance and soundwalks across the city centre.
From £12.50
Dr Shanali Perera’s paintings explore the space between what can be seen and what is experienced when it comes to illness.
Free entry
Jen Heyes and Kit Green breathe thrilling new life into Virginia Woolf’s modernist classic with an inventive theatrical reimagining.
From £16.20
A major new exhibition by Manchester-based artist Conor Collins is on display at HOME, responding to the newly created Queer Up North archive.
This free exhibition brings 1980s posters that survived against the odds, from when Manchester was becoming a global music city.
Free entry
Jonathan Schofield’s new walking tour exploring the treasures and famous landmarks of Manchester’s Oxford road.
From £20.00
Nine centuries of music, one incredible local story, and a Wagner opera that the composer feared would drive people mad.
From £8Where to go near MMU Business School
Formerly the Sir Kenneth Green Library, All Saints Library is part of Manchester Metropolitan University.
The home of Arts & Humanities, the Manchester Writing School, Manchester School of Theatre and Manchester Poetry Library at Manchester Metropolitan University – off All Saints Park (Grosvenor Square)
Eighth Day is a co-operative shop that sells ethically-sourced food, wine and cosmetics. There’s also café that serves hearty, healthy meals in the basement.
Find Peter and his Christiania cargo bike around All Saints Park, a hop, skip and a bunnyhop from Manchester Poetry Library.
Buffeted by fried chicken outlets, legendary musical instrument emporium Johnny Roadhouse has been serving the local music community for over 50 years.
Based in the heart of Manchester on Sidney Street, The Proud Place houses The Proud Trust and serves as a community hub for the wider LGBT+ population across Greater Manchester and beyond.
Pavement Gallery is a window space on a street corner providing a highly visible stage for the display of international contemporary art.
Top class Filipino cuisine currently based at pop-up central, Hatch.
They claim to sell the ‘best chicken and vegan chicken sandwich in Manchester’ and they’re absolutely right.
A nano brewery and keg bar, Ol is a meeting of minds between Takk and Byrne The Cake brewery.
Panchos Burritos is a Mexican street food vendor in the Arndale Market.
Manchester has more than one top-tier Indian restaurant, but Zouk is right up there with the best, and counts Drake as a fan.
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Our latest exhibition picks include a lost recording of the Strangeways protest, Manchester's first sound art festival, and queer archives revisited.
Aphex Twin-endorsed electronica, an eight-hour organ marathon and the most exciting band in Ireland's current folk revival all feature this month.
Squeeze the most out of these final weeks of summer thanks to our mid-August guide to food and drink in Manchester and the North.
Contemporary performance, verbatim theatre, dark comedy and a bold vision of Gaza - an eclectic mix for the start of autumn.
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.