Festival
17th May 2024 | By Rebecca Mills
Whalley Range Festival removes cost barriers, offering affordable fun for allThe annual Whalley Range Celebrate Festival has overcome barriers posed by the cost-of-living crisis, offering an affordable day out for the local community.
15th May 2024 | By Amber Brooks
RADAR Festival supports grassroots venues with a £1 levy fundA Trafford festival is to be the first in the country to donate a percentage of ticket profits to grassroots venues in need.
13th May 2024 | By Zoe Spencer
Plans Underway for Longsight Festival in time for SummerPlanning has commenced for the Longsight festival, which aims to bring groups of the community together for a summer celebration. The festival will be hosted...
1st December 2023 | By Matthew Barber
Manchester festival announces Christmas show to help the homelessAfter All festival has announced a Christmas show with all of the profits going to musicians against homelessness.
22nd November 2023 | By Rebecca Mills
Manchester welcomes the UK Jewish Film Festival this November.The 27th annual UK Jewish Film Festival returned to cinemas across Manchester. Featured venues included Parrs Wood Cineworld cinema in Didsbury, Home in the city...
14th June 2022 | By Tyrese King
Manchester’s Festival of Libraries returnsThe Festival of Libraries returns to Greater Manchester to celebrate all 133 of the public libraries in the region. Since the pandemic the importance of libraries and literature in general have...
10th April 2022 | By Tyrese King
Sounds From The Other City announces full line-up for 2022 editionSalford’s Sounds From The Other City (SFTOC) festival has announced its full line-up ahead of its eagerly awaited live return on 1 May. Sounds From The Other City is...
16th March 2022 | By Tyrese King
“We’ve done six films in six days”:Filmlocos does the impossible in their aim to shine a light on the lack of representation in the industryThe Filmlocos Festival are hosting a film screening run by a team of Latin American filmmakers in the UK who have made it their mission to showcase diversity...
18th June 2021 | By Hannah Terry
The festival run by students is back but things are a bit different this year…Art School Live (ASL) has returned but with a twist as the festival will be live-streamed on 25 and 26 June, hosting an array of...
18th October 2020 | By Hayley Grice
Manchester mental health charity launches online festival to highlight the ‘Manc Spirit’A Manchester mental health charity is hosting an online festival to showcase the diversity of culture across Trafford. The #OurTrafford festival will be the first of...
22nd September 2020 | By Divine Vika
Cheetham Hill cultural festival’s virtual celebrationsThe annual Cheetham Hill culture festival, took a different approach this year to celebrate and keep the life of the festivities going. On Sunday things...
9th December 2018 | By Isaac Jordan
Media City invaded by Daleks as part of Lightwaves 2018This weekend saw Media City and Salford Quay taken over by a group of Daleks. Their cries of ‘Exterminate’ can be heard along the noise of arriving trams and...
4th December 2018 | By Sam Peckett
Manchester’s Grassroots Music and Arts Festival FOUNDATIONS Returns This DecemberFOUNDATIONS Festival is returning to Manchester this December to celebrate the city’s grassroots alternative music and art scene. Focusing on recognising the talent beyond the...
12th November 2018 | By Andrew Wong
From cosplay to lessons in traditional Japanese etiquette – Doki Doki Japanese festival comes to ManchesterDoki Doki is yearly Japanese festival held in Manchester Sugden Sports Center that is open to people of all ages who have an interest in...
16th May 2017 | By nq_admin
‘Abracadabra’ announced as theme for Manchester DayThe official countdown to this year’s Manchester Day has begun with this year's theme being announced today. Now in its eighth year, 'Manchester Day' has helped...
31st March 2017 | By nq_admin
For the Love of England and St. George Festival coming to ManchesterA new festival celebrating everything English is coming to Manchester. For the Love of England and St. George Festival is coming to the Bowlers Exhibition...
15th March 2017 | By nq_admin
The perfect Festival for students, Sick! Festival, returns to Manchester this summerIf you are a student in Manchester, it has been hard to avoid the banners placed along Oxford Road promoting Sick! Festival. To most, a...
17th January 2017 | By nq_admin
Manchester festival hopes to end homelessnessManchester is currently in the midst of a homelessness crisis. The numbers of homeless in the city have been rising since 2010, and it does...