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.
One of the oldest literature festivals in the country, Litfest returns to Lancaster with a programme focused on the rights of the natural world.
From £3.00
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
Throughout this extended walking tour, fans can trace the Shelby family’s rise through the streets that doubled as smoky post war Britain.
From £42.40
‘Treasure: History Unearthed’ gathers the largest collection of archaeological Treasure ever shown in the region.
From £5.00
Get ready to dive right into the most disgusting parts of history!
From £18.00
Learn through doing with a packed programme of hands-one workshops at Bluecoat, including crafts, family friendly arts and printing socials.
From £70.00
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.
This month’s live music picks move between ambitious new work, grassroots celebrations and a few memorable settings.
Spring has arrived, bringing with it al fresco dining and a rush of high-profile food and drink-related events in Manchester.
This month’s theatre highlights span dystopian classics, political thrillers and bold new opera.
Across Manchester and Salford, exhibitions are thinking hard about how things are made – and how materials carry stories.
Step away from the usual. Tours and activities that spark curiosity, inspire creativity and offer something refreshingly different.
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.
