The final night of the Manchester International Film Festival saw the great and good receive much-deserved awards for their endeavours. But because we know it’d be tough to find the time to watch them all we’ve put together a list of our favourites.

Shocking short stories of human trafficking from around the world are brought together in one educational and inspiring theatrical performance set to hit the stage at the Greater Manchester Fringe Festival.

The director of Museum of the Year 2015, the Whitworth Gallery, attributes the museum’s recent triumph on the international stage to the people of Manchester, vowing to inject prize fund back into the community that sculpts its success.

Manchester-based artist and photographer Rod Kippen chats to MM about his first major solo exhibition and give us a glimpse of what’s beneath the Surface.

Kate Marlow – dubbed ‘the scariest woman in showbusiness’ by TV mogul Simon Cowell – will be premiering her anti-austerity play at the Manchester Fringe Festival this weekend.

MM’s Cornerhouse loyalist reluctantly headed to Manchester city centre’s new thriving art space HOME and even more reluctantly warmed to its galleries, theatres, cinemas and architecture

After undergoing the ‘largest transformation in its history’, the Whitworth Art Gallery’s £15million redevelopment project has paid off as it has won the biggest museum prize in Britain and earnt the prestigious title of ‘Museum of the Year’ 2015.

At the manchester Fringe Festival launch MM caught up with performer and co-creator of FoolSize Theatre Joanne Tremarco to chat about her upcoming show Women Who Wank.

Young people from all over the UK will congregate in Manchester for the country’s only National Youth Market to be staged in the city this weekend.

It’ll be a weekend of champagne, crepes, baguettes and croque-monsieur, truly la vie en rose, at this year’s Altrincham French Festival – and just like Ediath Piaf, you will regret nothing!

Preparations are already underway for this year’s event, which takes place at Old Granada Studios from September 24 to 27