The Lost Worlds of Ray Harryhausen, a must-see exhibition for film and animation lovers, has just opened at Sale’s Waterside

Ahead of releasing his new album this week and his upcoming talk at the launch of a new animation exhibition

Altrincham-based animation studio Mackinnon & Saunders have launched an exhibition of some of their most iconic puppets and models –

This week the annual Manchester Animation Festival is taking place with a range of events on offer. Over the week

With series like Danger Mouse, and Chorlton and the Wheelies, and with their animated film of Kenneth Graham’s The Wind in the Willows, Brian Cosgrove and Mark Hall made a pioneering and lasting contribution to the animation industry in Manchester and in Britain as a whole.

We Can’t Live Without Cosmos bears both the warm comfort of the Saturday morning cartoons of youth and the wonder and depth of the cosmos themselves.

Kinofilm, Manchester’s longest-running international short film and animation festival, is set to return on Monday 28th February for a weeklong display of shorts and animations.

Children will be able to make their very own Shaun the Sheep cartoon as part of the Manchester Day celebrations at Central Library.

‘Keep On Keeping On’ will be an ‘interview style’ documentary, portraying five puppet characters who are all affected by the disease in their own way.

Revellers are treated to a stunning display of light and fire as animation and art intertwined to kick off the Chinese New Year celebrations at Manchester’s St. Ann’s Square.

Community artists reach out to Manchester’s homeless with Matchbox City art project to explore notions of home and place within a city and raise awareness