Lacoste at Oi Polloi

The history of Lacoste is the story of a tennis legend whose inventions changed the entire sport and revolutionized the clothing industry forever. René Lacoste founded La Chemise Lacoste in 1933 with André Gillier, the owner and president of the largest French knitwear manufacturing firm… 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 »

Art Battle Manchester VII at Mantra Warehouse

Art Battle Manchester VII will take place in Ancoats at Mantra Warehouse on Saturday the 9th of July. In addition to 10 artists competing against clock in front of the live audience, there will also be some of the UK’s top street artists taking part… 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 »