Always double check opening hours with the venue before making a special visit.
Signal Film & Media is an award-winning charity based at the grade II listed Cooke’s Studios in Barrow-in-Furness, Lancashire. It creates opportunities for all to take part in film and digital art activity.
Step into the majestic Blackpool Tower Ballroom for an experience like no other. With stunning architecture, live music and treats galore, Afternoon Tea here is highly recommended.
From £60.00
The White Hotel’s Blackpool takeover places The Caretaker, Blackhaine and A Guy Called Gerald inside the town’s most iconic spaces.
From £150.00
Come face to face with SEA LIFE Blackpool’s hungriest resident. This unique experience gives you the chance to feed Phoenix the green sea turtle and learn about this endangered species.
From £75.00
Bringing music, laughter and a welcome dose of festive cheer, a brand-new adaptation of the Dickensian classic is the perfect festive treat for families this Christmas.
From £15.00
Three sisters, one bitter-sweet reunion – grief, whisky and buried truths collide in a sharply funny Northern family reckoning.
From £15.00
Mrs Claus needs your help with a festive Bake-Off like no other in this interactive children’s theatre show at The Octagon.
From £11.00
A heartwarming festive treat for all ages, this brand-new musical adaptation of A Christmas Carol brings Bolton’s stage to life with music, magic and Dickensian spirit.
From £15.00
The John Moores Painting Prize is back, and bigger than ever! Head to Liverpool’s Walker Gallery to see the best of contemporary painting.
Free entry
Piel Island is a half mile off the southern tip of the Furness Peninsular.
One of Cumbria’s finest historical sites, Holker Hall and Garden offers a gloriously asymmetrical pile of rambling galleries and green spaces.
Sister restaurant to Simon Rogan’s two Michellin starred L’Enclume – more low key but just as tasty.
At low tide, the exposed bed of the Irish Sea connects the Lancashire coast with the Cumbrian hills across Morecambe Bay, allowing crossings over the sands.
The Royal at Heysham began life in the 16th century as a grain store, and has undergone a multi-million pound restoration and transformation into 11 en-suite rooms, a restaurant and bar.
Independent restaurant, cafe, baker, and deli in the Lake District.
Edgelands Gallery in Morecambe is a beautiful studio and gallery, regularly displaying high quality artwork.
Award winning music and education charity housed in a building with a varied, interesting history and a year-round programme of events. More Music work throughout Lancashire, the North West and internationally.
This technicolour mural along the Morecambe pier brings local artists’ talent to the forefront of the seaside town.
Music, comedy, dance, drama and children’s shows in an Edwardian railway station, opposite The Midland Hotel.
Step away from the usual. Tours and activities that spark curiosity, inspire creativity and offer something refreshingly different.
Theatre across the North West splits between festive escape and sharp, urgent work exploring politics, power and resistance.
Manchester’s closing out the year – and looking to the new one – with a run of gigs from some of the country’s best underground exports.
Whether you’re after storybook theatre, museum wanderings or illusion-bending play spaces, there’s plenty to keep curiosity ticking through winter and beyond.
This season, exhibitions across the North West feel attuned to the world beneath the world – the forces and stories shaping how we see, feel and imagine.
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.
Hear ye, hear ye. Take some eating-out tips from our wintertime guide to food and drink in Manchester and the North.
