What's on near Rola Wala Leeds
We’re thrilled to be welcoming the award winning The Big Tiny back to Contact’s castle for another year of Pantomime fun following their hilarious 2025 show Rumpelstiltskin. Get ready for
From £25.00
Celebrate the iconic musical moments of Vini Reilly and The Durutti Column, with the band’s collaborators Keir Stewart and Bruce Mitchell
From £35.00
A new, free exhibition takes over HOME’s main gallery as internationally acclaimed artist Florence Peake reveals her first solo show in the North West.
Have your very own Night at the Museum moment in this adults-only evening of cosmic cabaret, scary surprises and galactic games.
From £6.00
Pigeon fanciers, posties and NHS workers join a 1553-strong cast in an art film projected at monumental scale onto Salford’s buildings.
Free entry
Two conductors battle for status, pride and the spotlight in Double Booking, a fast-paced and farcical dance-theatre show coming to Lowry.
Anonymous stories gathered across continents ask how love and work shape each other, through performance, music and live art.
An absurdist comedy the Guardian dubbed ‘waitering for Godot’ takes a single scene and fractures it into a kaleidoscope of perspectives.
Where to go near Rola Wala Leeds
Gigi is a lavish Italian restaurant just off Deansgate, with 1950s décor and a menu that sticks to the classics.
Pentonbridge Inn is a Michelin-starred restaurant with rooms in north Cumbria. Eight courses of bunkum-free fine dining from head chef Chris Archer.
Dahlia Stereo is a Latin American-inspired open-fire kitchen and bar off the Northern Quarter’s Stevenson Square, with a pitch perfect soundsystem.
Manchester’s new 509-bed Fusion Students building on Deansgate opens for 2026/27 with roof terraces, a gym and karaoke booth included.
Manchester has a glut of taprooms, and Balance Brewing’s is far and away the best. Drinks, decor, service – all a cut above.
A Georgian front room in Rusholme houses Moon Grove, an independent gallery with an unusually ambitious international programme.
New Adelphi Exhibition Gallery opened in 2016, providing a permanent space to showcase the University of Salford Art Collection within the New Adelphi School of Arts and Media.
1863 offers a seven-course Lake District tasting menu that overdelivers at every turn. Cumbrian ingredients, clever ideas and classical cooking techniques.
Schofield’s could be Manchester’s most grown-up bar. Very precise drinks in an upmarket city centre venue. It’s not cheap, hey, but true class costs.
Sampa’s underground space is the perfect place to learn about both her new mind-expanding dishes and vintage sherries, reimagined for the late 2020s.
at Aviva Studios
An Ai Weiwei-inspired menu at Aviva Studios’ dining space The Social, balancing East Asian small plates with a teahouse-style atmosphere.
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