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.

Two Berlin circus artists turn years of discarded ideas into one gloriously unclassifiable hour of live performance.

West African folksong and storytelling meet British classical and folk music as percussionist Sidiki Dembélé joins Manchester Collective.

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.

Pigeon fanciers, posties and NHS workers join a 1553-strong cast in an art film projected at monumental scale onto Salford’s buildings.

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.

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

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