A feat of urban architecture, Projekts MCR Skatepark sits below the Mancunian Way. With open skating as well as lessons for kids and adults alike, this informal environment welcomes you to embrace the technical skill and creativity of skateboarding.
Open-air club Progress scales up to 5000 capacity and launches a spring/summer season of forward-thinking electronic music and grassroots culture.
From £0.00
Happening as part of MIF25, Blackhaine’s world premiere performance promises to be one of the most compelling and emotionally charged experiences of the festival.
From £10.00
Cloudwater’s very first print and zine fair featuring artists, illustrators and zine makers from across the North.
Free entry
Cloudwater is a jewel in Manchester’s local brewery crown. Join them for a brewery tour and tasting at the Unit 9 Taproom.
From £25.00
Now in its 20th year, Manchester Literature Festival is presenting a special programme of spring events.
From £8.00
Explore the incredible history behind one of Britain’s grandest and most storied commercial buildings: Manchester’s Grade II listed Kimpton Clocktower Hotel.
From £20
Join Joe Feeley a Mancunian through and through, who guides you into Manchester’s two pillars of cultural excellence with his Rock and Goal tour.
From £9.99
One of the most arresting offerings at MIF25 – a haunting, meditative journey through abstraction, perception and performance.
From £10.00
The in-house spa at the Marriott Hotel Piccadilly is a sanctuary away from the city outside on its doorstep.
The Marriott Hotel Piccadilly delivers four star luxury in the heart of Manchester.
Mayfield is about to be reborn. Innovation, audacity and imagination are in the air, as energy, ideas and life return to this neglected part of Manchester city centre.
Join Good Life Skates at Freight Island every week from Thursday to Sunday, to roll through the weekend.
Seconds is the new carvery at Freight Island, based around hearty Sunday roast dinners.
Spirit Studios now houses 10 unique studios, an on-site live venue, DJ booths, editing suites and more. Recently, kitting out many of its studios with new state-of-the-art Audient desks and it soon will welcome its very own radio station.
Huge outside drinking space, designed for groups of people to enjoy that Irish pub atmosphere in the open air.
After serving two summers of temporary parties, Progress Centre was reinvented into a new permanent outdoor club in 2024, before adding two new permanent spaces – Square One and Cakebread…
The Star and Garter is a legendary Manchester pub and music venue located in a grade II listed building on Fairfield Street.
A former railway station now acting as a multi-purpose event space and home to various pop-up events
Manchester has a new green heart: The 6.5 acre Mayfield Park, complete with the largest public playground in the city.
Freight Island is back for its fifth season, with a sparkling new line-up of events and happenings.
The sun is shining in the North, so use our guide to get out there and eat, drink and be merry in it.
Gigs are coming in hot this spring – from long-awaited returns to one-off happenings you’ll blink and miss if you're not careful.
This month's guide is truly eclectic - from free family festivals, to food events, circus school and more!
From environmental to experimental, our poetry and prose picks from around the North are focused on the unusual and the fun.
Outdoor cinema announcements, a major retrospective at HOME, and the best of indie cinema.
Experimental performance, thought-provoking new writing and our picks of Manchester International Festival - here’s what’s taking centre stage this summer.
From city-wide art festivals to open-air sculptural installations, we have exhibitions from all around the North, both indoors and out.
Books, beer and burlesque. Dive into a glorious tangle of joyful happenings.
