Take a ride on a magic carpet and let your mind wander at a new exhibition and panel discussion about art and ADHD this Thursday.

Whether it’s ice skating, gorging yourself on chocolate or sipping a pint and watching the boxing, there’s something for everyone this December in Manchester. So here’s our advent guide (spoiler alert – we may have spilled over into January, there’s THAT much going on…)

Manchester is notorious for its incredible art scene, including three different galleries and even art painted over walls in places like the Northern Quarter.

This year’s event is the first under new artistic director John McGrath and will feature more than 20 world premieres

A Danish-style breakfast bike ride to Whitworth Art Gallery is taking place on International Women’s Day, celebrating safer cycling in Manchester.

The best and worst made decisions of our city planners have been named at the first ever Manchester Shield Awards.

The Whitworth Art Gallery claimed the ‘Large Visitor Attraction of the Year’ at the Greater Manchester Tourism Awards ceremony at Hotel Football on Thursday.

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.

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.