Silenced for 157 years after scandalising Paris, Offenbach’s political satire Barkouf finally gets its UK premiere in Manchester.

This Irish folk six-piece released a stark and often beautiful debut EP that gives little hint of their “feral, snarling” live show.

Live video puts the audience right on stage in this Ontroerend Goed show, creating a self-generating game of perspective at Lowry.

Jonathan Schofield’s new walking tour exploring the treasures and famous landmarks of Manchester’s Oxford road.

Satire, hope and political commentary come together in a bold new drama imagining Gaza as host of the 2048 Olympic Games.

Explore the Suffragettes’ epic fight for equal rights on this guided tour around significant buildings and landmarks.

Manchester’s debut sound art festival brings three days of installation, performance and soundwalks across the city centre.

LUNG turns real testimony into an unflinching piece of theatre about loss, accountability and the crisis facing Britain’s prisons.

Michaela Yearwood-Dan’s first UK institutional exhibition layers painting, ceramics and sound to explore liberation across personal and institutional histories.

200+ hand-picked makers transform the spectacular Victoria Baths into a shopping and cultural experience unlike any other in Manchester.

What counts as as waste and who decides? 21 craft artists from Design Nation challenge our perceptions of material value.

A major new exhibition by Manchester-based artist Conor Collins is on display at HOME, responding to the newly created Queer Up North archive.