Manchester is putting on Close Knit, a year-long festival dedicated to the art of knitting. Sarah Adie attended the latest of their events to find out more about the ongoing theme inspired by the recent discovery of boxes full of knitting patterns in a cupboard at the Whitworth Art Gallery, some dating back at least 100 years.
This Sunday saw the launch of the very first Afflecks Fringe Festival. Hosted mainly by the purpose-built Three Minute Theatre, the extensive programme of events also covers Matt and Phreds, The Frog and Bucket and Nexus Art Café.
Manchester based not-for-profit arts collective Blank Media launches its latest exhibition with a preview event on Thursday 29 March. Ian Pennington finds out more.
Chinese artist Chen Man broke into the art world with her otherworldly photography for Vision, a Shanghai-based fashion and arts magazine, and has since continued to work with fashion giants such as Vogue. Now, a selection of her work is on display in the Chinese Arts Centre, tucked away in Manchester’s Northern Quarter.
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.
Upper Space is a not-for-profit, European street art organisation that has been working in Manchester for the last 6 months. It dedicates itself to “deconstructing the myths” forced upon us by the beautiful, smiling forms that haunt us from advertising billboards.
Tim Hunt is given a tour of Manchester with a difference by Morag Rose of the Loiterers Resistance Movement.
