From a hamlet on a road to nowhere to one of Manchester’s most desirable suburbs. What’s the story behind Chorlton-cum-Hardy?

The UK’s biggest celebration of African music and culture returns to Sefton Park this summer with a line-up including Malian singer and guitarist Fatoumata Diawara.

Now Wave’s newly revived Hulme pub opens its doors with an ‘art pop picnic’ from London’s 1000 Rabbits.

A major new dance work brings Sinéad O’Connor’s uncompromising voice back into the room, responding to a life lived against the grain.

The Hallé invites audiences to a year of classical masterpieces, world premieres and appearances by some electrifying artists and composers.

Saul Hay celebrates its 10th anniversary with an exhibition that gives 100 artists just 10 centimetres to work with.

Day tickets are now on sale for the White Hotel’s Blackpool takeover, placing The Caretaker, Blackhaine and A Guy Called Gerald inside the town’s most iconic spaces.

Four of contemporary music’s most exciting female composers come together in Manchester Collective’s latest daring programme.

Heavy music stripped to its essence, SUNN O))) arrive in Leeds with doom metal drones, monk robes and overwhelming physical force.

Creativity, making and innovation have long shaped Salford. City of Making traces that legacy from industrial roots to today’s artists, designers and creative technologists.

In a live, 24-hour performance, Ai Weiwei will place himself back inside a room that once governed every aspect of his daily life.

RNCM students perform new music inspired by Manchester’s protest history, after hours at the national museum of democracy.