It is not uncommon in Manchester to find different kinds of performers side by side on the same night. You might see a performance poet followed by a singer-songwriter at Fuel in Withington, or a burlesque dancer upstaged by a six-piece blues band at Islington Mill. Rarely, though, does a night come along that aims to fuse different media and with such interesting and successful results as Video Jam at Antwerp Mansions.

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Howard Brenton’s stage adaptation of The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell’s classic novel regarded as a seminal piece of working-class literature, comes to the stage this week at the University of Salford.

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On 19 December Manchester’s own Dub Phizix and Skeptical released Marka. With it’s hypnotic, creepy minimalism and atmospheric groove, it’s clocked up nearly 400,000 hits on youtube and become an instant favourite for drum and bass fans everywhere. Last week, MULE magazine caught up with Dub Phizix to see what he made of all the hype…

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Amid the Gothic splendour of the reading room in the John Rylands Library, poets Chris McCully and Michael Schmidt gave free readings of work spanning the range of their careers and mapping out their lives as, to quote Schmidt, “rootless cosmopolitans”.

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From the Arab uprisings to Occupy, 2011 has been a year of global unrest. Activist Tim Gee’s book Counterpower: making change happen was written to review the past history of these struggles against oppression with an eye to uncovering the secrets of their success, or lack of it.

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A local arts project is seeking the stories of people who have left and then returned to Manchester. Dubbed (re)integration, the project aims to explore returnee’s experiences in a way that represents the city’s diverse communities.

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On Monday 21 November hip-hop artist Lowkey will be launching his highly anticipated second album Soundtrack to the Struggle at the Manchester Academy 2 alongside Logic, DJ Awate, and Crazy Haze. Also present will be local talent from the Manchester Hip-Hop Society in the form of Dante, Bamo and Abdus. So who is this, and why should you care?

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