Manchester Folk Festival is back to present an imaginative programme of folk and acoustic including Kate Rusby, The Breath, Grace Petrie, Sam Kelly & The Lost Boys and a rare staging of The Unthanks’ latest project: The Unthanks Sing Emily Brontë. Manchester Folk Festival: 16 – 20 October 2019…
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It welcomed Queen Victoria in 1851 and was a hit with L.S. Lowry – Peel Park is a place rich with historic wonder and interesting goings-on, tucked down on the Salford Flood Plain. Now it has its own Writer in Residence: Adam Farrer. Adam is no stranger to uncovering strange and surprising stories…
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Birmingham Royal Ballet return with David Bintley’s acclaimed fairytale ballet, Beauty and the Beast. The production marks the Director’s final tour with the company and, as Carmel Thomason discovers, his work behind the scenes has been equally magical. After 24-years leading Birmingham Royal…
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HOME is Manchester’s centre for international contemporary culture. This includes film, theatre and the visual arts in an open, welcoming and purpose-built complex. HOME may have opened in 2015 but its roots go much further back. It was the merger of two very well-loved Manchester institutions…
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Manchester: a radical overview So, what do we mean when we talk about radical Manchester? We’ve all heard ‘radical’ as a surfing cliché but Manchester is better known as radical in the progressive political sense. And over the years, Manchester has been pretty rad, dude. “Radical: Advocating […]…
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Hidden cemeteries, grisly ghost walks and haunted halls – Manchester and Salford certainly stand out for their connections to the unnerving and unusual. Now it seems the cityscape has connections to other dimensions too – or at least in the most enjoyable sense – as the UK’s first official Doctor…
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2019 is a year that will see Manchester become home to a parliament of ghosts, pushing the boundaries of immersive performance and providing a portal into fantastical, invisible cities. These are just some of the elements that will form part of the seventh biennial Manchester International Festival…
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Galleries, theatres and museums are a big reason to visit Manchester. Permanent collections, temporary exhibitions, famous names, well-loved plays and local or global artefacts offer a window to the world. But wouldn’t it be nice to do more than just look out of a window? Even Da Vinci needed…
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We all think we know what design means, but do we really? Design is everywhere. Good and bad. It’s in our cities, our homes, our cars, our phones. Steve Jobs said that design is “not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works”. If we think of design in this way, we understand how…
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By Dr Hannah Priest, Associate Lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University Bailey’s Wood and Boggart Hole Clough are two green spaces in Blackley, North Manchester. These two areas of are in many ways quite different, though they are only separated by a single road (Charlestown Road), which was…
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