Wed 4 – Sun 8 November: The largest and most imaginative documentary festival in the UK returns to the Steel City this Wednesday. Organisers have been building on the successes of previous years with one eye on social interest and the other on participation and education.
Siobhan McGuirk takes a look at October’s ‘cultural calendar’ and finds more than ever to hail at the grassroots.
Another year, another Annual Party Conference sets up camp in Manchester. The draped banners are not the red we’ve come to expect, however, and this time the selection of Manchester as host is itself politically significant. The Conservatives are coming up North and are seeking to destroy Labour’s last remaining strongholds in the urban centres […]
Down off Deansgate, behind the mighty John Rylands Library, lies Spinningfields, according to developers, an über-cool yuppie village. According to me, it’s the concrete and glass, personality-free banker’s graveyard where chain restaurants go to die.
New culture co-editor Siobhan McGuirk rounds up the festival fun available to fill these long, rainy summer days…
