Jen Kirkman at the Pub/Zoo

Jen Kirkman is making her Manchester debut on Sunday the 24th of July at the Pub/Zoo. She’ll be performing her stand-up show for one night only, with jokes and stories about turning forty, getting a tattoo, hypochondria, yelling at strangers and more.   Tickets for… Read more »

The Hard Stop at HOME

For 28 months, director George Amponsah filmed around Broadwater Farm in Tottenham, where Mark Duggan – shot and killed in a ‘Hard Stop’ police procedure in 2011 – grew up. Amponsah captures his family’s distress and focuses on two of Duggan’s best friends: Marcus Knox… Read more »

Greater Manchester Culture Debate at Central Library

Author and DJ Dave Haslam has a love of Manchester and all it has achieved culturally. He works with and has always celebrated the likes of Manchester International Festival, and the Whitworth Art Gallery. But in a provocative essay last year he argued that we… Read more »

The Neon Demon at HOME

This supremely visual horror film from director Nicolas Winding Refn focuses on an aspiring model and her move to Los Angeles, where she encounters a group of beauty-obsessed women who will take any means necessary to get what she has.   The film currently has… Read more »

Greater Manchester Fringe 2016

The Greater Manchester Fringe first took place in 2012 with six different venues and a handful of shows in each. Now in it’s 5th year, there will be hundreds of performances taking place in 23 venues across Greater Manchester. The festival runs from the 1st… Read more »