FREE SHOWS & EVENTS IN MANCHESTER
Most Popular Free Shows & Events in Manchester
Sat 27 Apr - Sun 29 Sep 2024
Sat 27 Apr - Sat 6 Jul 2024
Sat 27 Apr - Sat 20 Jul 2024
Sat 27 Apr - Sat 4 May 2024
Thu 2 May - Thu 18 Jul 2024
Tue 7 May - Tue 2 Jul 2024
Wed 22 May - Wed 26 Jun 2024
Northern Publishers' Fair
Saturday 27 April 2024
Join readers and writers alike at this free event celebrating independent publishing. Peruse books from 16 publishers across genres including literary fiction, genre fiction, middle-grade and children's, poetry and memoir. Watch a printing ...
Saturday Club - Society and Change
Saturday 27 April - Saturday 6 July 2024
Society and Change Are you aged 13-16? Are you interested in creatively exploring how we can work together towards a fairer and more sustainable future? In partnership with the National Saturday Club, the Society & Change Saturday Club...
The Lowry Gallery
Saturday 27 April - Sunday 29 September 2024
The Lowry Gallery has a permanent L.S Lowry exhibition which is open to all, and free to enter. The Lowry is named after Laurence Stephen Lowry (1887 - 1976) - an artist who spent much of his life in Salford and whose work is strongly ass...
Crafty Families
Saturday 27 April - Saturday 4 May 2024
Suitable for under 11s, little ones and their grown-ups can get crafty with a professional artist who will lead you through some fun, creative and colourful arts activities. ...
Phil Collins & Oleksiy Radynski - Intervention
Saturday 27 April - Tuesday 31 December 2024
A collaborative project by Berlin and Wuppertal-based moving-image artist and filmmaker Phil Collins and Kyiv-based filmmaker and writer Oleksiy Radynski, co-commissioned by HOME and Manchester International Festival, re-contextualising th...
Family Art Stars
Saturday 27 April - Saturday 20 July 2024
Families that learn together, grow together. We are very excited to continue our Family Art Stars sessions every Saturday! Come down, muck in and make some art as a family, spending quality time and learning new techniques. No skill is requ...
Pride Tours
Sunday 28 April - Sunday 25 August 2024
Celebrate identity, sexuality, gender and community with our regular Pride Tours of the museum. Join a member of our Visitor Team who will take you on a journey through the museum, bringing new voices to the collections. Presented through s...
Jokes at The Oaks
Tuesday 30 April 2024
Every Tuesday, an award-nominated Stand-Up Comedy show hosted by Jordan Ducharme and Charlie Lewis, featuring your favourite TV comedians and the best new acts. Reserve your FREE tickets now before its too late! ...
Mothers Who Make
Wednesday 1 May - Monday 1 July 2024
A peer support group and creative exchange session for mothers who are artists - professional and/or passionate - writers, painters, actors, dancers, filmmakers, photographers... every kind of maker welcome, and every kind of mother. The se...
History Lab Plus - History Open Mic
Thursday 2 May 2024
Historians and heritage enthusiasts, archivists, librarians, and all other willing volunteers are invited to take the stage for a History Open Mic night - a History Lab Plus event. Spotlight an exhibition or an area of research. Tell a shor...
Wool Comedy
Thursday 2 May - Thursday 6 June 2024
A night of live comedy from the countries best acts, the longest running night of stand up comedy in St. Helens hosted by resident MC and local act Cameron Jones ...
Rhyme Time
Thursday 2 May - Thursday 18 July 2024
Rhyme time is a fun group singing session for babies and toddlers (0-4 years) and their grown-ups. Singing together and repeating rhymes helps your child develop listening, visual and memory skills, which will help them develop. Rhyme t...
The Mancunium Consort
Friday 3 May 2024
Founded in February 2023, The Mancunium Consort have been described as "one of the rising stars of the Choral Music scene" by world-renowned ensemble, The Gesualdo Six. The Manchester-based choir are led by Harry Mobbs and Joseph Taylor, wi...
Friends of Z-arts
Tuesday 7 May - Tuesday 3 December 2024
Friends of Z-arts is where the grown-ups of the Z-arts community meet each other, socialise and help decide what happens to Z-arts. You can ask the Z-arts team questions, tell us what you think, and have your say on what happens at Z-arts i...
Little Reads
Tuesday 7 May - Tuesday 2 July 2024
Little Reads with Manchester Literature Festival. Join Ged for an interactive Storytelling session in our new Children's Library. 10am session - Pre-school/Family session 11am- Inclusive session (If you require a BSL interpreter please do l...
Chetham's School of Music Students
Friday 10 May 2024
Once again, The Bridgewater Hall welcomes talented young musicians from Chetham's School of Music, the specialist music school with its home in the heart of Manchester. This performance features a range of small school ensembles from the sc...
NOMAD
Friday 17 May 2024
NOMAD are a prize-winning, shape-shifting Manchester-based ensemble, crafting music that moves your heart, moves your feet and moves you around the world. Though co-founded in 2021 by three classically trained musicians - Ailsa Burns, Iona ...
Baby Book Club
Wednesday 22 May - Wednesday 26 June 2024
Baby Book Club is a wonderful way to spend time together with your baby (0-2 years) and develop their love of books, stories and reading. Baby Book Club helps parents develop skills in how to make reading fun for their babies and help d...
Mali Hayes
Friday 24 May 2024
Mali Hayes's music is perfumed with vibrant real-life stories and coloured with honesty and soul. Described by Jamie Cullum as "A really great new British female vocalist from Manchester. She's got a real un-flashy kind of approach which I...
Julieth Lozano & Ricardo Gosalbo - An Introduction to Zarzuela
Friday 31 May 2024
The Instituto Cervantes Manchester, in collaboration with The Iberian and Latin American Music Society, is pleased to present a concert dedicated to Zarzuela, a unique lyrical genre with its roots in 17th Century Spain. On this occasion, we...
RNCM Opera Scenes
Thursday 6 - Thursday 20 June 2024
FREE EVENT. RNCM vocal and conducting students present excerpts from some of opera's greatest moments in this free series of staged scenes. A perfect way to feed your curiosity! Click on tickets link for the perfromers and excerpts presente...
A Family Adventure in Opera
Saturday 8 June 2024
Dive into an exciting journey through the world of opera with a free event that blends music, storytelling and fun for the whole family! An interactive concert and workshop, designed for families with children aged 7 and older, promises to ...
Guiliano Modarelli & Kousic Sen
Friday 14 June 2024
Originally from Italy, Giuliano Modarelli is a London-based guitarist, composer and producer. Having studied Jazz at University, he went on to develop through the Indian classical tradition, studying under renowned sitarist Dharambir Singh,...
We Invented The Weekend Festival
Saturday 15 - Sunday 16 June 2024
For 2 days the We Invented the Weekend festival takes over MediaCity UK and Salford Quays. As part of the festival The Lowry will open its doors for free special performances, backstage tours and workshops. After a hugely successful launch...
Emily Mercer
Friday 21 June 2024
Emily Mercer is a Manchester based indie artist who boasts some serious range, her genre-defiant music revealing a naturally questioning nature, with ongoing themes of truth seeking, self sabotage, and all that make us messy and human. With...
Queens: The Exhibition
Saturday 20 July - Sunday 3 November 2024
Curated by The Lowry, this exhibition will be the first of its kind and has been produced with the support of SIX and its creators Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss. This new exhibition will ask "What kind of Queen are you?" and will start with a c...
SIX Dance Party
Wednesday 24 July - Sunday 1 September 2024
Don't lose your head! Join the Lowry's SIX inspired dance party to learn some of the famous moves from the show. In this free 45 minute session you will work with a professional dancer to learn some of the legendary SIX choreography. Recomm...
Bay Bryan
Friday 2 August 2024
Manchester-based singer, songwriter and multidisciplinary artist Bay Bryan has been compared to artists like Laura Marling, Rufus Wainwright and Anais Mitchell. Stripped down to the roots and performing as a duo with guitarist Matthew Camp...
National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain
Wednesday 7 August 2024
FREE FOR UNDER 19s. Feel the sound, free your spirit with this fearless performance by the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain with conductor Andrew Gourlay, where hundreds of teenagers passionately share their love of music NYO's mu...
Jazzette with Carol Jason
Friday 30 August 2024
FREE Lunchtime concert. Jazzette are led by Carol Jason, a bassist and vocalist specialising in traditional Jewish music and jazz standards. She'll be joined by pianist and vocalist Andy Gleave. Born in Withington, Carol grew up in a fa...
Ahmed Dickinson - The Guitar World of Maria Camahort
Friday 6 September 2024
The Instituto Cervantes Manchester and The Iberian and Latin American Music Society present Ahmed Dickinson and the Guitar World of Maria Camahort by Cuban guitarist Ahmed Dickinson Cardenas, one of the finest performers of the Cuban clas...
So Many Beauties Collective
Friday 20 September 2024
A spectacular world premiere performance of the So Many Beauties Collective celebrating the power of creativity. With new music co-created by a culturally diverse groups of people living with dementia and performed by some of the North Wes...
Dilettante
Friday 27 September 2024
Dilettante is the brainchild of longtime BC Camplight member Francesca Pidgeon. The Manchester-based art-rock collective serves up a live genre-phobic loop-fest, featuring everything from fuzzy guitar licks to five-part saxophone harmonies....
