The largest ever exhibition of contemporary portrait photography, Portrait of Britain returns in September for a third year – and you don’t even have to visit a gallery to see it. The nationwide exhibition uses digital screens in everyday places...
Read onKara Lily Hayworth talks to Quays Life about playing a British entertainment icon in Cilla The Musical. What can you tell us about Cilla The Musical? In essence, it’s a beautiful love story. It follows Cilla Black’s rise to fame, but underneath it’s...
Read onCritically-acclaimed Manchester dance company, Company Chameleon is giving home audiences a chance to view its new work, Amaranthine for free, in a trio of pop-up street performances in September. The company are known for combining a rich mix of...
Read onThis August bank holiday will see a huge red and white Big Top erected on The Lowry Plaza as French contemporary circus company Circa Tsuica take residence at the Quays. Circa Tsuica is part of the Cheptel Aleȉkoum collective, around 20 circus...
Read onSchool’s out for summer. The school should be empty. A desolate prison. No more rules. But wait, what’s that on the CCTV? A person, a spirit, a mystical creation? Something strange is happening at Abraham Moss School. Rules are broken, souls are...
Read onTV presenter and naturalist Chris Packham is a passionate advocate of the benefits of getting out and about in the great outdoors. Living with autism he understands sometimes there can be barriers to accessibility that aren’t always obvious...
Read onThe Goose who thinks he’s a Swan The large brown Canadian Geese and graceful white swans have become a familiar sight on the Quays. But have you noticed a single white domestic goose among them? We don’t know how he arrived here...
Read onManchester-born, DJ Paulette has curated the latest of the Lowry’s Edit series of gallery projects, with a new art installation titled, Homebird. The name was chosen because although her music has taken her around the world, Manchester has a pull...
Read onOliva Tweest was ground-breaking when it debuted as the UKs first Afrobeats musical in 2013. Since then the African-born, global genre has grown in popularity to become increasingly more known on the mainstream, being hailed by BBC Radio as the...
Read onManchester 2018 is celebrating the year of the giant bee and the city is buzzing on it. Across the region more than 230 colourful sculptures are waiting to bee discovered and at Quays Life we are loving the hunt. Each sculpture on the trail is...
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