Belle Chen drifts through imagined landscapes, blending piano, electronics and improvisation into something at once precise and mysterious.

Olga Kaleta’s surreal dark comedy explores mental health, identity and recovery in the context of aworld where fear is starting to look like common sense.

A solo show where a Belfast childhood collides with adult life, balancing humour, care and the long shadow of political conflict.

Sir Stephen Hough returns to Manchester, where his musical life began, with a recital built around a deceptively simple idea: the piano miniature.

Alan Jones’s photography exhibition in Chorlton explores fragments of impossibly large systems through images of discarded objects with long afterlives.

Marking its 40th anniversary, esea contemporary looks forward rather than back with a group exhibition that probes ideas of transition.

Pulitzer Prize-winning opera Angel’s Bone brings a dark contemporary parable about exploitation, coercion and the abuse of power.

This brand new comedy drops us into a world of overstimulated kids, underslept adults and some of the more absurd truths of parenting.

Painfully true and often painfully funny, Funeral Teeth explores grief’s quieter losses – the moments that slip away before you realise they’re gone.

A new live staging of Bronski Beat’s The Age of Consent revisits a landmark queer pop album through contemporary voices.

Back for its second year, the May Makers Market sees People’s History Museum hand its Edwardian Engine Hall over to an even bigger mix of local craft makers.

Hidden gardens, re-wilded viaducts, and endless canals – explore Manchester’s softer side on this guided walking tour.