Art with Heart’s roving art gallery, The Golden Years Caravan, extends a warm welcome wherever it parks, and we caught it as it rolled-up for the final day of its tour at Waterside Arts, as part of 10-day festival, Refract19. The experience...
On a city break to Copenhagen, Liz Ratcliffe discovers hygge might be the real secret to Danish happiness. I decided to book a city break for my partner’s birthday and wanted to go somewhere that neither of us had been to before. A Copenhagen city...
I feel lucky to have been at the debut performance of Wolf Hours, Minute Taker, aka Manchester-based Ben McGarvey, superb soundtrack to a series of short-film clips, made by a variety of film makers. The show is designed to give a depiction of the...
With her body, a tightwire and a physical composition that draws on the Japanese rope art of Shibari, Hanna Moisala’s WireDo tells a mesmerising story of stepping out into the unknown. Moisala is a Finnish tightwire dancer and has...
The Re:Fract Festival at Waterside Arts Centre, Sale kicks off 10 days of experiential performance, music and events, aiming to challenge the audience to see things differently, with the Re:Flect exhibition. Re:Flect is a ‘please do touch’...
This summer We’re Going on a Bear Hunt Live, based on the much-loved picture book by Michael Rosen and Helen Oxenbury, returns to the Lowry direct from London’s West End. We sat down with the cast – Tim Hibberd, Benjamin Hills, Hannah Donelon, and...
Is there anyone who hasn’t wished for a different ending to Romeo and Juliet? Well, what if when Juliet wakes she decides there can be life after Romeo, and flees to Paris with Nurse on a whirlwind trip of self-discovery? That’s the premise of new...
Claire Gaydon’s See Through was voted by Time Out as one of the top 10 weirdest shows at Edinburgh Fringe. The one-woman show examines identity, validation and the cost of sharing in the digital age. Quays Life meets Claire ahead of her performance...
We are giving away two tickets to see Claire Gaydon’s weird and wonderful one-woman show, See Through that takes a humourous look at identity, validation and the cost of sharing in the digital age. A must for YouTubers, their followers and...
Manchester Jewish Museum in Cheetham Hill is housed in what was the city’s oldest synagogue, a Grade II listed building built by Jewish textile merchants in 1874. To return the architecture to its original splendour the museum is closed for 18...