10 editions in, and Manchester Histories Festival is still finding stories that official records have skirted over.

The guided tour offers a behind-the-scenes look at the brewhouse and state-of-the-art packaging plant, giving visitors a full sense of what “real Yorkshire beer” means today.

See through the eyes of an astronaut in this epic concert and visual experience, Space Station Earth at Aviva Studios. .

With a miniature steam railway, working engines and a percussion group inspired by industry, the Science and Industry Museum brings play with a point.

Music leads We Invented the Weekend, with ENO’s mass Nessun Dorma and Afriquoi’s kora-fuelled electronic sound.

Explore green spaces, striking architecture, and fascinating stories at Angel Meadow and the Irk Valley, which has a dark past but bright future.

Julia Cranney’s one-woman show takes a hard look at adoption, the care system, and our assumptions about those who adopt.

A key name in a local music scene increasingly coming to national attention, SILVERWINGKILLER bring their maximalist electronic punk to The White Hotel.

The Untold Orchestra bring musical theatre hits to RNCM’s Young Explorers, opening orchestral music into something looser, more collective and fun.

30 years after the IRA bomb, a new Royal Exchange play traces three centuries of Manchester history as it plays out through individual lives.

The RNCM launches its second Inspirational Artists series, spotlighting a huge range of touring musicians and ensembles, each bringing something unique to the stage.

This Lankum offshoot treats Irish mythology not as inspiration but as raw material for drone and industrial noise.