THE WEEKENDER 14 th/15 th/16 th/OCT

Primitive Streak Happy Hour with SFX Dr. Dee and the Manchester All The Way Home Infinite Monkey Cage Time: Fri 9.30-7.30pm, Sat 9.30-3.30pm Time: 5.30-7pm Venue: Royal Exchange Underworld walking tour Time: Fri 7.15pm, Sat 2.30pm & 7.15pm Time: 7.30pm Venue: University Place, & Sun 11-5pm Venue: Royal Exchange Theatre, St Ann’s Square M2 7DH. Time: 6-7.30pm Venue: Tour begins at Venue: The Lowry, The Quays M50 University of Manchester M13 9PL. Theatre, St Ann’s Square, window display Cost: Free, drop in. Harvey Nichols, 21 3AZ. Cost: £17.50-£19.50. booking via Cost: Free, Booking essential through viewable at any time at Debenhams, M1 1AD. Cost: Ticketed, book through librarytheatre.com, Tel. 0843 208 6010. manchestersciencefestival.com. 123 Market Street. Cost: Free. jonathanschofieldtours.com. Paris on the Irwell Good Adolphe Valette’s Manchester Time: 6.30-8.30pm Venue: The Lowry, The Quays M50 3AZ. Cost: Free, Víctor Rodríguez Núñez Time: Fri 7.30pm, Sat 4pm & 8pm Time: 4-5.30pm Venue: Tour begins at booking essential thelowry.com. Time: 6.30pm Venue: Instituto Cervantes, Venue: Royal Exchange Theatre, , , 326-330 M3 4FN. Cost: Free, St Ann’s Square M2 7DH. Cost: £9-£33, M2 4JA. Cost: Ticketed, book through booking essential on 0161 661 4200. book through royalexchange.org.uk. jonathanschofieldtours.com.

Culture Gym Unlocking Salford Quays Subversive Stitching Alternative Camera Club Crafternoon Tea Time: Various Venue: The Quays Cost: Time: 11am Venue: Meet in the foyer Time: 10am-12pm & 3-5pm Venue: Time: 11am-1pm Venue: Whitworth at The Whitworth £2.50. Over 16’s only, booking essential of The Lowry, The Quays. Cost: Free, People’s History Museum, Left Bank, Art Gallery, Oxford Road M15 6ER. Time: 2-4pm Venue: Whitworth Art via quaytickets.com or Tel. 0843 208 0500. booking essential 0843 208 6010. Spinningfields M3 3ER. Cost: £10 Cost: £5, pay on door. Gallery, Oxford Road, M15 6ER. (includes banner kit, tea or coffee Cost: Free, booking essential and cake). Places limited so please through 0161 275 7450. An Exhibition in a Day MediaCityUK Community book in advance at [email protected] LipService: Hysterical Gospel Choir or Tel. 0161 838 9190. Historical Time: 10am-3pm Venue: The Egg, Family Friendly  EthniCITY University of Salford, The Piazza, Time: 11.30am-1pm & 2pm-4.00pm Family Friendly  MediaCityUK, The Quays. Cost: £20 (£10 Time: Throughout the day Craft Fair Venue: Meet in the foyer of the Royal concessions). Booking via quaytickets. Venue: The Quays. Family Friendly  Exchange Theatre, St Ann’s Square. Time: 2-4pm Venue: Manchester Craft com or Tel. 0843 208 0500. Over 16s only. Cost: First tour £15, second tour £30 - and Design Centre, Oak Street M4 5JD. Time: 10am-5pm Venue: People’s History includes afternoon tea at The Midland Cost: Free, drop in. Photography POD Museum, Left Bank, Spinningfields Hotel. Book through quaytickets.com or A Taste of Modern History Family Friendly  M3 3ER. Cost: Free, drop in. Tel. 0843 208 0500. A Floating Family Day Out Constructing Cities Family Friendly  Time: 1-4pm Venue: Imperial War Art workshop Museum North, The Quays. Sounds Like A Gallery Crafty Arty Manchester Tour Time: 11:30am, 1.15pm, 3pm (journeys last Cost: Free, drop in. Family Friendly  Time: 2-3.30pm Venue: , approx. 30-40 mins) Venue: Tour starts Time: 1pm Venue: Manchester 70 Oxford Street M1 5NH. Cost: Free, at The Mark Addy, Stanley Street, Salford Time: 10-12am and 2-5pm Venue: Town Hall Steps, Albert Square, booking essential through cornerhouse. M3 5EJ. Cost: £6 per person (includes Big Saturday: Unearthed Manchester Art Gallery, Mosley Street, M2 5DB. Cost: Book through org or Tel. 0161 200 1500. snacks) outward journey only. Book via Family Friendly  M2 3JL. Cost: Free, drop in. [email protected] or 07905 110197. ticketline.co.uk. Return by boat (12.30pm, 2.15pm and 4pm, but it is first come first Time: 10am-5pm Venue: Manchester served – return fare included for ticket Museum, Oxford Road M13 9PL. Cost: Free, drop in. holders or £1.50 without). Continued overleaf

Manchester Football tour Sheer Poetry A Taste of Modern History Hey! Manchester presents… BBC Philharmonic presents Family Friendly  Time: 3-5pm Venue: Tour begins at Visitor A Festival Floating Feast Denis Jones Shostakovich Information Centre in Time: 5pm Venue: Manchester Time: Dinner cruise departs 6.30pm Time: 7.30pm Venue: The Deaf Time: 7.30pm Venue: Bridgewater and ends at M4 3BG. Cathedral, Cathedral Gardens, Venue: Leaving from The Mark Addy, Institute, 135 Grosvenor Street M1 7HE. Hall, Lower Mosley Street M12 3WS. Cost: £6, pay on arrival. M4 3TR. Cost: Free, drop in. Stanley Street, Salford M3 5EJ. Cost: £48. Cost: £7, book through seetickets.com Cost: £10-£33.50, book through Booking essential via ticketline.co.uk. or tickets available at the Deaf Institute. bridgewater-hall.co.uk.

CONTINUED Lost and Found beneath Beating Wing Orchestra the Bridgewater Hall at Gallery After Hours presents Portrait of Music and Words  Time: 5-6.30pm Venue: Bridgewater Family Friendly BlackLab Time: 7.30pm Venue: Royal Northern Hall, Lower Mosley Street M12 3WS. Time: 6pm Venue: Castlefield Time: 7.30-10.30pm Venue: Whitworth College of Music, 124 Oxford Road Cost: £5 (£4 concessions), book through Gallery, 2 Hewitt Street M15 4GB. Art Gallery, Oxford Road M15 6ER. M13 9RD. Cost: From £10. Book on bridgewater-hall.co.uk. Cost: Free, booking essential Cost: Free, drop in. 0161 907 5555 or rncm.ac.uk.

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Gothic Splendour Theatre Explorers Underground Manchester Ordinary Rebels Ancoats Peeps   Time: 9am-5pm Venue: Manchester Family Friendly with New Manchester Walks Family Friendly Time: Departs 3.45pm Venue: Meet at Town Hall, Albert Square, M2 5DB. Time: 11.30-12.30pm Venue: Royal Time: 12 noon Venue: Meet on the Time: 2-3.30pm Venue: People’s History the Queen Victoria statue in Piccadilly Cost: Free, drop in. Exchange Theatre, St Ann’s Square, Midland Hotel steps. Cost: £8, booking Museum, Left Bank, Spinningfields Gardens. Cost: Free, booking via Manchester M2 7DH. Cost: Free, only, via quaytickets.com, 0843 208 0500. M3 3ER. Cost: Free, booking essential. quaytickets.com or Tel. 0843 208 0500. booking essential through Tel. 0161 838 9190. Suitable for all ages. Access All Areas Blueprint royalexchange.org.uk or 0161 833 9833. Studios tour The John Rylands Film Club: Lost Worlds screening Howl’s Moving Castle Curiosities at Chethams with live accompaniment Time: 10am Venue: Meet outside The Biggest Room in the World    Travelodge hotel, Blackfriars Bridge, Family Friendly Family Friendly Family Friendly M3 5AL. Cost: Free, booking essential Time: 11.30am, 12.30pm, 1.30pm & 3.30pm Time: 1-4.30pm Venue: Begins at The Time: Tours at 2pm and 3pm Time: 4.20pm Venue: Cornerhouse, via 07853 181 299. Venue: Royal Exchange Theatre, St Ann’s John Rylands Library, 150 Deansgate Venue: Chetham’s Library, Long 70 Oxford Street M1 5NH. Cost: £10.50

Square M2 7DH. Cost: Free, booking M3 3EH. Cost: Booking essential as Millgate, Cathedral Gardens, M3 1SB. (£8.50 members/ concessions), Smartest Giant in Town advised through royalexchange.org.uk or places are limited. Film and drop in Cost: Free. Booking essential via book through cornerhouse.org or  0161 833 9833. Suitable for young people activities free, animation workshop [email protected]. Tel. 0161 200 1500. Family Friendly and those with mobility issues. £5. Book on 0161 306 0555 or email

Time: 11am Venue: MOSI, Liverpool [email protected]. Storytime: The Boy ‘Close Up’ featuring Street M3 4FP. Cost: Free, booking SCRUM! Who Couldn’t Dream Jarvis Cocker advised via [email protected], Family Friendly  Garland Procession and  0161 606 0177. Family Friendly Time: Doors open at 6 to start at Dance Performance Time: Noon Venue: Quay House, Family Friendly  Time: 3-4pm Venue: Royal Exchange 7pm Venue: Great Hall, Manchester Waterways Cycle Trail: MediaCityUK, The Quays M50 2LH. Theatre, St Ann’s Square M2 7DH. Town Hall, Albert Square, M2 5DB. Cost: Free, booking advised. Time: 1.00pm gather and depart from Cost: Free, booking advised Cost: £7. Book through quaytickets.com to Mediaopolis Book on 0843 208 0500 or The John Rylands Library, 2.30pm royalexchange.org.uk. or Tel. 0843 208 0500. manchesterliteraturefestival.co.uk. Time: 11am-1pm Venue: Tour begins performance at Royal Exchange Theatre. at Stretford Metrolink Car Park, Edge Venue: Starts at the John Rylands Library, Hey! Afternoon Sacred Hearts Lane M32 8HN. Cost: Free, book in Shock City 150 Deansgate M3 3EH, finishes at Royal advance through [email protected] Exchange Theatre, St Ann’s Square, Tea with Liz Green Time: 7.30pm Venue: Manchester or 07905 110197. Time: 12noon, 1pm, 2pm & 4pm Venue: M2 7DH. Cost: Free, drop in. Time: 3.30pm Venue: Portico Library, Cathedral, Victoria Street M3 1SX.

Each tour begins at the Royal Exchange 57 Mosley Street, M2 3FF. Cost: £12 Cost: £12 (£10 concessions), book Theatre. Cost: Free, booking advised on Colourful Sunday: includes afternoon tea. Book through through manchesterliteraturefestival.co.uk Sheer Poetry 0161 833 9833. quaytickets.com or Tel. 0843 208 0500. or Tel. 0843 208 0500. Family Friendly  Dark Drawings Family Friendly  Time: 11am Venue: Triangle, Cathedral Urban Harvest Gardens, M4 3TR. Cost: Free, drop in. Family Friendly  Time: 1.30pm-3.30pm Venue: , Oxford Road M15 6ER. Time: Noon-3pm Venue: Manchester Cost: Free, drop in. Museum, Oxford Road M13 9PL. Cost: Free, drop in.