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.
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
A glittering night of cabaret, circus and fairytales from Ember & the Vixens – part escapist fantasy, part empowering spectacle.
From £18.00
UrbanArtistry is back for a second season starting with a behind the scenes account of Rome’s most wanted street artist in The Art of Disobedience.
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
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
esea contemporary presents the first UK institutional solo show by Slavs and Tatars with ‘The Contest of the Fruits’.
Free entry
Paradise Works presents ‘Coming Soon’, a new solo show of evocative collaged paintings from Joseph O’Rourke.
Free entry
1520 Studios is bigger than a film and photography studio, also functioning as an event space and community hub.
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.
Galleries around the North are gearing up for a new season of exhibitions - from iconic art prizes to smaller, artist-led gems.
This month we recommend a season of Film noir, cult Australian movies and a huge celebration of DIY community cinema.
This season’s theatre is gloriously eclectic: from radical cabaret and reinvented classics to new musicals and boundary-pushing performance.
From corrupted shoegaze to experimental electronica, post-hardcore to Indian classical, these are the shows that should be on your radar.
"Tours, tours, tours!" If this month's Tours and Activities guide were a sentient speaking person, this is what it would say.
Take some eating-out tips from our August guide to food and drink in Manchester and the North.
September and beyond brings culture, theatre, disgusting history and loads of fun.
