Manchester’s already buzzing cultural scene is going to get a whole lot buzzier next month when the city’s annual after-hours festival of arts, culture and heritage returns for Manchester After Hours 2016.
Part of the bi-annual and UK wide celebration of nocturnal culture – Museums at Night – hundreds of museums, galleries and historic spaces all over the UK open their doors after dark to put on an impressive and diverse array of special and unique events. Manchester After Hours will take northern culture buffs on a night-time adventure around the city for one night only on Thursday May 12th to enjoy a strange mixology of cultural combos, odd couplings and unexpected partnerships.
Among the events on that night, you can join the D’Arts and the art along Oxford Road as Engine invites you to experience art in an extraordinary context as darts teams battle it out in the Whitworth’s Grand Hall. Complete with compere and all the trappings, our players will throw their darts at specially commissioned oches designed and made by artists, Jai Redman, Mary Griffiths, Joe Hartley & Rob Bailey.
While Polar Bears, Peppered Moths and tropical frogs are all present in this new exhibition exploring climate change. Visitors are challenged to ask what kind of future they hope for, and what it would take to help make it a reality at the Manchester Museum
Then you can circle around St Peter’s Square joining Bad Uncle for a trip into the weird and wonderful world of children’s television. Presenting the lowest form of entertainment in a place of high learning, showcasing often overlooked, and sometimes bizarre clips and shows.
At the Portico Library, Andrew McMillan teams up with contemporary dancer and choreographer Joshua Hubbard for an intimate performance of reading and dance inside the exquisite Georgian library.
John Rylands Library celebrate William Shakespeare with light, music and movement as the Royal Northern College of Music perform original compositions inspired by the Library’s Shakespeare collection, while Castlefield Food Festival will be serving up street food, a farmers/producers market, food demos, master classes and live music.
There is much more with events being added so check out the webpage
