Chorlton’s Arts Festival returns for its fourteenth year

Chorlton Arts Festival returns this week promising ten days of music, visual arts, comedy and performance in over forty venues across Chorlton-cum-Hardy. The Festival...

Are the old stealing the young’s future? Discuss

While Britons are living longer lives and working into their pensionable years, their children are struggling to get jobs, buy houses and save for...

The Rise, Fall and Resurrection of 19th Century Town Halls

The Friends of the Manchester Centre for Regional History are giving their final talk of the year, given by Dr John Garrard, on The...

Manchester celebrates Museums at Night

This Thursday evening sees the Museums at Night initiative taking place across many locations in the region. It is all part of an annual UK...

Last chance to visit the Timperley garden of Mary Eastwood.

One of the best examples of how much you can do with a small garden will be open to the public for the last...

Simon Armitage’s Trojan War Drama Premieres in Manchester

Acclaimed poet and novelist Simon Armitage interprets Homer's and Virgil's Greek Classics to continue the current Spring / Summer Season at The Royal...

Local writers and actors get together for cancer charity

Seven short plays written by some of Manchester's most renowned playwrights are being performed at the Lowry Theatre this weekend in aid of the...

Free photography event this weekend for Manchester

Fancy some free photography? This bank holiday weekend, EyeEm is bringing its photography Masterclass Meetup day to Manchester. As part of a coordinated global...

The Fifth Annual Frow Lecture

John Hilary will be giving the annual Frow Lecture at The Working Class Movement Library in Salford this Saturday. His topic is ‘Taking the Fight...

First World War sounds echo through Imperial War museum (North) artwork

The roar of a First World War biplane and the echoes of a field gun from the trenches will greet visitors to IWM North...