Life

As part of Refugee Week, HOME and Community Arts North West (CAN) have collaborated to present Horizons Festival, a full programme celebrating global arts and culture.

Overlooking a wet and dreary Manchester, the comfort of Cloud 23 makes you feel a world away from the hardships of normal life.

Young people from award-winning theatre ensemble Contact Young Company will take over Manchester Art Gallery this week to explore the role of art in the 21st century.

May 30, 2017 – During the most emotional period the city’s seen since the Manchester Blitz, 18-year-old me queued to see Liam Gallagher play the first show of his comeback at the Ritz.

Ethical clothing organisation MCR Love Your Clothes have launched #nonewjune, a campaign challenging people to spend a month without buying new clothes.

The debut feature-length documentary from Libyan/British director Naziha Arebi is a beautifully shot and incredibly moving portrait of a country torn apart by war, and everyone should see it.

In light of the first co-production between the National Theatre of Scotland and HOME, we talked to Jackie Kay about her memoir, its stage debut and how much she loves Manchester.

When Fereshteh Mozaffari Vanani​ attended a national conference on cultural diversity, she was shocked to be the only black person in a room of 200 attendees. So last May she founded Sheba Arts, a Manchester-based collective tackling this problematic representation of migrant communities in the arts.

With a climate emergency officially declared in the UK, protesters taking over London streets, and pupils on strike across the globe, environmental activism has clearly reached a new height in 2019.

As the son of Manchester legend and Hacienda founder Tony Wilson, music has always been close to Oli Wilson’s heart – now his passion for rave culture will turn a disused Ancoats warehouse into a daytime eatery and night-time party zone.

With the Cricket World Cup just around the corner, the nation waits with bated breath for England’s dynamic young side to commence their campaign against South Africa in the tournament’s opening game on May 30.