Manchester’s biggest artists and DJs are uniting for a second street art festival celebrating the city’s creative talents. The Mancunian Spray will see over 50 street and graffiti artists, including local talent, battle against artists from around the country. The one-day, free festival is being…
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A horror and fantastic film festival that is taking place for four thrill-packed days (3-6 October) in Manchester’s Odeon Great Northern Warehouse – that’s Grimmfest! One of the top ‘30 Bloody Best Genre Festivals in the World’ according to Movie Maker magazine, it is now offering even more…
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It is 40 years since Joy Division’s Unknown Pleasures was released – a debut LP from four young lads who came together in 1970s Manchester as the punk movement started to take hold. Now the band name and LP cover – actually the image of signals from a dying star– seem showered over popular culture…
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Lancashire Cricket Club have returned to Specsavers County Championship Division One at the first time of asking after beating Derbyshire at Emirates Old Trafford. Lancashire’s bowlers wrapped up an innings win inside three days, earning promotion with two games to spare and maintaining their…
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Celebrating innovation and creativity matters to HAUNT Manchester. That is why the website and network has been the subject of study for a group of Creative Advertising Masters students at Manchester Metropolitan University – with this eye-catching logo being one of the recommendations to come from…
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From delving into sandstone caves in Stockport to travelling far beneath Trafford Town Hall, Hayley Flynn – creator of the award-winning Manchester-based site Skyliner – certainly has an adventurous approach to interacting with the places around us and sharing them with others. See whole new angles…
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On walking into the theatre, six young men are already sitting there on a stripped-back stage. They stare blankly, even coldly, into the assembling audience. In that moment, I am suddenly struck by a feeling of discomfort, a kind of isolation, of being ‘monitored’. It hit home the human impact of…
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Body dysmorphia, gym culture and masculinity are central features of Dorian – a fascinating new stage version of Oscar Wilde’s 1890 classic novel The Picture of Dorian Gray. The man behind the re-writing is the award-winning Andrew McMillan, currently senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at The…
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A thought-provoking piece of theatre uniquely created in collaboration with inmates at HMP Wandsworth and seeking to crack open the hidden human stories of life in prison, written by Luke Barnes, is coming to Manchester’s HOME from 10-14 September 2019. The Jumper Factory is a play that doesn’t shy…
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Just over 32 miles long and running across the Pennines between Manchester and the West Yorkshire town of Sowerby Bridge, the Rochdale Canal is a waterway infused with fascinating heritage – from its difficult beginnings to its time of trade, temporary closure and even tales of folklore and urban…
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