New exhibition highlights Manchester’s musical heritage
A exhibition at Piccadilly Station Metrolink stop is paying tribute to some of Manchester’s most iconic music artists.
Still Lives: Music in Manchester, 1976-1992’, ...
Relics-Paintings and drawings by David Lunt
Gothic romanticism and the bizarre nature of the Uncanny portrayed as an eerie, dystopian world of distant lands strewn with the strange ruins of...
Aida and La Boheme head to Manchester
Two of Opera's epic productions are coming to Manchester at the beginning of March, courtesy of award winning producer Ellen Kent.
Jealousy, revenge, hopeless romance,...
Encounter with the Holocaust – Personal Reflections by Gary Spicer – Manchester Jewish Museum
An exhibition of drawings, photographs and writing by Manchester artist Gary Spicer in response to his visits to Auschwitz-Birkenau and Plaszow concentration camps in...
Join Manchester’s Urban Sketchers
A quick what's one for the weekend.
As part of International Urban Sketching Day and the 42nd Worldwide Sketch Crawl, Manchester's Urban Sketching Group...
Northern College Music students go for world piano record
It's a new Year and therefore it must be time for a new world record.
On Thursday 23rd January sixteen students from the Royal Northern...
Trafford Victoria Warehouse to stage inaugural Music festival
Victoria Warehouse in Trafford Park is set to hold the first BBC Radio 6 Music Festival at the end of February.
BBC 6 Music has...
Welcome the Year of the Horse
As Manchester prepares to celebrate the Chinese New Year at the end of this month, here at About Manchester we couldn't help but love...
Flares and flare-ups: youth gangs, fashion and violence in late Victorian Manchester and Salford
Andrew Davies, author of The Gangs of Manchester will be giving a free talk at Manchester Art Gallery on Thursday 23rd January at 7pm.
Between...
The adventures of Annie Wilde
It is February 1918, and after several decades of protest and four years of bloody war Parliament is poised to grant what the suffragettes...