Innovative theatre company Señor Serrano return to ¡Viva! Festival this April with their hotly-anticipated performance Kingdom.

The picture is always grim when you think Somalia, with headlines of civil war and Hollywood blockbusters focussing on piracy, but an exhibition at HOME called See My Dunya hopes to shed a new light on the Somali community in Manchester.

It’s been two decades since Sudanese political activist Yagoub Matar, 49, first became a refugee when escaping the clutches of the one-party, oppressive state of Sudan.

Mayor Andy Burnham has announced radical plans to strengthen Greater Manchester’s music scene.

For actress Arielle Haller-Silverstone life almost seems like one long romantic comedy.

Cooper’s comments came after Arts Council England revealed it is intending to hold discussions with the government about the introduction of a tax relief for independent book publishers.

Humans Being Digital, an exhibition at the Lowry in Salford, both challenges and embraces changes brought about by the digital age.

As ever HOME have plenty of highlights scattered across their February-September schedule from the world of film, theatre and visual art.

Manchester has twinned with a number of cities or towns over the years.

Origins tells the biblical tale of brothers Cain and Abel, and the world’s first murder.

The women of Women’s Asylum Seekers Together (WAST) are united by a common past.