Poems offer unique opportunity to spend time in the company of insects

Award-winning poet Fiona Benson and sound artists Mair Bosworth and Eliza Lomas release their new collection of poetry sound pieces called In the Company of...

DigiFest 2020 – Celebrating Alf’s Act, 50 Years of Disabled People’s Rights

Manchester Histories is taking its festival digital this year, with the announcement of its first ever DigiFest. Running across two days, Friday 4 September and Saturday 5 September, DigiFest...

How LS Lowry’s hometown endured lockdown: New online exhibition will share Salford stories from...

The Lowry in Salford has today announced plans for a major online exhibition exploring how LS Lowry’s hometown endured lockdown. Days Like These will give...

Elusive bird to inspire new works

New and exclusive works from award-winning writers and artists will be launched every day this week, inspired by a mysterious nocturnal bird. The University of...

New works by Manchester artists supported by MIF goes live

With the impact of Covid-19 on artists and the creative community still ongoing, Manchester International Festival (MIF) continues to develop its activities aimed at...

Five new Homemakers works to go on sale on Thursday

Details of five new Homemakers works that will go on sale on Thursday, June 4, have been announced. Homemakers is a series of works presented...

Not the Proms as we know them, the Proms as we need them

125 years on from its creation, the Proms will once again provide a remarkable summer of music, fulfilling founder-conductor Sir Henry Wood’s vision to...

HOME announces Our Plague Year weekly comic strip by illustrator Nick Burton

A WEEKLY comic strip by artist and illustrator Nick Burton, and distributed by Manchester arts centre HOME, will explore self-isolation and human behaviour through...

Professor Brian Cox launches The University of Manchester’s ‘Lockdown Lectures’ series

While in lockdown are you looking for something more than your next Netflix boxset binge or Spotify top 100 of whatever playlist? Then why not...

Students collaborate virtually to create a dancefloor track for lockdown

Dancefloors across the globe may currently lie empty but that hasn’t prevented a group of music production students from Chester from releasing their new...