The hugely popular Manchester Comedy Festival returns for the ninth year to put a smile on your face! The festival is a celebration of the vibrant comedy scene in Manchester and the city's appetite for laughter. One man shows, sketches, films, improvisation and much more will be packed into t...

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The Manchester Velodrome is the National Cycling Centre, the primary indoor Olympic cycle track in the UK and widely regarded as one of the world's finest and fastest board tracks. As the host for the cycling at the 2006 Commonwealth Games, the velodrome is the home to the Great Britain Cycl...

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CUBE, the Centre for the Urban Built Environment in Manchester is one of the most exciting art, architecture, and design centres in Europe. Located in the heart of Manchester on Portland Street, the CUBE occupies a 500 square metre gallery and seminar space for exhibitions, events, debates, e...

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The Manchester Aquatics Centre is a world-class facility built for the XVll Commonwealth Games held in Manchester in 2002. In addition to being the only complex in the UK with two 50 metre pools - used for both training and competitions - there is a specialist diving pool and a range of excep...

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The annual Caribbean Carnival of Manchester is a vibrant celebration of Caribbean music, dance, theatre and costume. This year's carnival, held over two days in Alexandra Park, will celebrate the Caribbean tradition of the steel pan. The venue will be brimming with the infectious rhythms of s...

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The Quarry Bank Mill and Styal Estate in Manchester is one of the country's greatest industrial heritage sites, including cotton mill with working machinery, restored Apprentice House, mill workers' village and country estate. Amongst the venue's highlights include the Mill owner's private ga...

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The Manchester Evening News Arena aka M.E.N. Arena is the largest indoor arena not just in Manchester, but in the whole of Europe. The famous arena opened its doors in 1995 and have since hosted some of the biggest names in live entertainment. The likes of U2, The Rolling Stones, Madonna, Ric...

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Mancunian's flock to Heaton Park when they want to escape the daily grind of their busy city lifestyles and it's easy to see why because located just 4 miles north of the city centre and there is just so much to see and do that it keeps people coming back again and again. The park is one of t...

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The Urban Moves International Dance Festival returns to Manchester for the 2nd year to wow crowds with its unique blend of outdoor dance and spectacle once again. Some of the best companies from Brazil, France, Spain and Britain will be out on the town to entertain and astonish - in the parks...

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Manchester's Blyth Gallery is a long established family business supplying fine art and graphics materials and accessories, and a gallery specialising in quality contemporary art including original contemporary paintings and sculptures. The Gallery has been noted in the North West for its reg...

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Manchester's Castlefield Gallery is a gallery and resource for contemporary visual artists and their work both in the city, and the North West as a whole. The Gallery presents 6 main exhibitions per year ranging from solo to curated group shows on its exhibition spaces which includes a mezzan...

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The Manchester Buddhist Centre is dedicated to the application of Buddhist principles in contemporary society as part of the Friends of the Western Buddhist Order, an international movement founded in London in 1967 by Sangharakshita, an English Buddhist monk who had returned from twenty years o...

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Multi-platinum singersongwriter, James Blunt, will perform his debut M.E.N Arena show this October following his Summer tour of the US, Asia and South Africa. After the international success of his debut album, Back To Bedlam, which sold in excess of 11 million copies and spawned the smash h...

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The Manchester Jewish Museum is housed in a beautiful Moorish style building built in 1874 and features a permanent exhibition consisting of a kitchen in Red Bank, with the table set for the Sabbath meal; a waterproof garments maker's factory, and the office of early Zionist Joseph Massel, have ...

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Manchester's Imperial War Museum North is located in an award-winning building by international architect Daniel Libeskind at The Quays, a waterfront destination 2 miles from Manchester city centre. The museum is dedicated to war and conflict and about how lives have been, and still are, shap...

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