FAMILY EVENTS IN MANCHESTER
FAMILY EVENTS IN MANCHESTER
Most Popular Family Events in Manchester
Tue 3 Dec 2024 - Sun 12 Jan 2025
Tue 30 Jul - Sat 10 Aug 2024
Tue 13 Aug - Sun 1 Sep 2024
Sun 28 Jul - Sun 1 Sep 2024
Wed 31 Jul - Sun 11 Aug 2024
Sat 27 Jul - Sun 3 Nov 2024
Batman Unmasked - The Exhibition
Saturday 27 July - Wednesday 14 August 2024
Mark the 85th Anniversary of DC's most iconic Super Hero, Batman in an all-new experience showing never-before-seen UK collection of original props, vehicles, and costumes direct from the archives at Batman Unmasked. Fans of all ages will b...
Jurassic World - The Exhibition
Saturday 27 July - Sunday 3 November 2024
Welcome to Jurassic World Get closer to dinosaurs than ever before at Jurassic World: The Exhibition! Based on one of the biggest blockbusters in cinema history, the exhibition will immerse audiences of all ages in scenes of the beloved mov...
Charlie Cook's Favourite Book
Saturday 27 July - Sunday 4 August 2024
Based on the original book written by Julia Donaldson and illustrated by Axel Scheffler, delve into a range of books with Charlie Cook, which are brought to life with puppetry and enchanting songs. Charlie loves reading. Especially books ab...
The Best Movies in Cinemas & Streaming
Saturday 27 July - Sunday 20 October 2024
If you are looking for a film to watch, ManchesterTheatres. com have rounded-up the best movies currently showing at Manchester's cinemas, and we are offering £5 off tickets too. We've also compiled the best releases new to the streaming s...
The 100 Story Hotel
Saturday 27 July - Thursday 31 October 2024
Created with bestselling, multi-award-winning author and illustrator Rob Biddulph and Discover Children's Story Centre. This interactive world of play and storytelling has something for everyone aged 1-8 and their families. Hello and welc...
Red Rose Diners
Saturday 27 July - Friday 22 November 2024
The perfect steam train dining experience for two, or an indulgent treat for a group of friends, our Red Rose Diners are the ultimate foodie experience in Lancashire. Enjoy a delicious four-course meal with an unbeatable atmosphere, ideal f...
Indoor Skydiving
Saturday 27 July - Thursday 1 August 2024
Safely float in an 800-horsepower vertical wind tunnel that generates a wall-to-wall cushion of air commonly used by professional skydivers at iFLY Manchester without having to jump from a plane. Once inside the flight chamber, a tunnel ope...
CPHT Manchester Hypnotherapy Diploma Course 2024
Saturday 27 July - Wednesday 27 November 2024
Book a call on Zoom to chat about the next Solution Focused Hypnotherapy course, starts February 2024 in Manchester. One weekend per month x 10 months...
SIX Dance Party
Sunday 28 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...
101 Dalmatians
Tuesday 30 July - Saturday 10 August 2024
The smash hit musical 101 Dalmatians is going on tour, starring Kym Marsh (Coronation Street, Hear'say) as the greatest villain of them all, Cruella De Vil. When fashionista Cruella de Vil plots to swipe all the Dalmatian puppies in town to...
Lowry Workshops - Dance & Drama (Morning)
Tuesday 30 July 2024 - Thursday 31 July 2025
The Lowry offers a diverse and inclusive creating learning offer. With a variety of workshops linked to curriculum areas, mental health and wellbeing and project work. All workshops and projects are tailor made to support your objectives an...
Bluey's Big Play
Wednesday 31 July - Sunday 11 August 2024
When Dad feels like a little bit of Sunday afternoon time out, Bluey and Bingo have other plans! Join them as they pull out all of the games and cleverness at their disposal to get Dad off that bean bag. Bluey's Big Play is a brand-new thea...
Family Magic Show With Robbie Star
Wednesday 31 July - Wednesday 14 August 2024
Thrilling magic, side-splitting comedy, mind-blowing illusions followed by a disco and party games. Fun For All The Family...
Haunted Manchester City Exploration Game
Thursday 1 August 2024 - Monday 1 December 2025
Choose your date and time after you purchase. Explore the most frightful places in Manchester, with their stories of restless spirits, cruel murders and menacing ghouls. Solve 13 creepy clues to find out the true story of Loky. Loky was a M...
Day Out With Thomas at East Lancashire Railway
Saturday 3 August - Sunday 6 October 2024
Peep! Peep! Join Thomas & Friends for a day of family fun at East Lancashire Railway. Take a train ride with Thomas, meet Sir Topham Hatt and join Sodor Station Sweepers Rusty & Dusty for a trainload of excitement. There will be lots to enj...
Summer Bounce
Saturday 3 August 2024
New to Inflatable Heaven Introducing our community Big Summer Bounce event. Bring the family along to our unmissable inflatable fun sessions....
The Ultimate Party
Saturday 3 August 2024
The ultimate childrens party. Meet our princesses, Dolls and Superheroes....
Horrible Histories - Rotten Royals
Sunday 4 August 2024
We all want to meet people from history. The trouble is everyone is dead! So Horrible Histories is back in 2024 with revolting rulers and mad monarchs from Britain'sbarmypast! Would you be wooed by Richard the Lionheart? Are you ready for a...
Family Friday: Theatre Discovery Tour
Friday 9 - Friday 16 August 2024
Family Friday is here! We're throwing open our doors this Friday in August to welcome families to explore our building on an family friendly tour!Palace Tours are a great way to for little ones to explore the Grade II listed theatre, hear a...
Travel to Wonderland
Friday 9 - Friday 30 August 2024
You're late, you're late, for a very important date! It's time to take a tumble down the Rabbit Hole for a curious adventure through Wonderland with Alice and her friends. This perfect Alice in Wonderland themed adventure for the whole fami...
Kensuke's Kingdom (PG)
Friday 9 August 2024
Based on the book by Michael Morpurgo, Kensuke's Kingdom follows Michael, a young boy who is washed up on an island in the Pacific after falling from his parents' yacht. Struggling to survive with no food or water, he and his dog are help...
Magic of Thailand Festival - Manchester
Saturday 10 - Sunday 11 August 2024
A two day Thai Festival to experience the taste of Thailand this summer at Platt Fields Park is brought to you by Magic of Thailand, previously known as Manchester Thai Festival. Treat yourself to a weekend wonder and bring along your famil...
Milkshake Live - Milkshake on Holiday
Sunday 11 August 2024
Milkshake! Live is back with a brand-new show! Join your favourite Milkshake! friends on Holiday with Dora, Pip and Posey, Blue from Blues Clues and You!, Milo, Milkshake! Monkey plus two of your Milkshake! presenters for an all-new adventu...
SIX
Tuesday 13 August - Sunday 1 September 2024
The international smash hit musical SIX is back! Multi award-winning with a spectacularly successful studio album adored on playlists across the globe, this sell-out Tudor take-off has 'an incredibly strong and powerful message. Boundary-pu...
Hot Wheels City Experience
Tuesday 13 August - Thursday 12 September 2024
The Hot Wheels™ City Experience will be opening at its first European venue, the B.E.C Arena, Manchester. The 6,000 square metre experience, will provide fans of all generations with the opportunity to step through a nostalgic and educati...
The 13-Storey Treehouse
Thursday 15 - Sunday 18 August 2024
Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton's hilarious, multi award-winning book The 13-Storey Treehouse comes to life on stage!Who wouldn't want to live in a treehouse? Especially a 13-storey treehouse that has everything including a bowling alley, a...
The Pop Party
Thursday 15 August 2024
Get ready for a dazzling explosion of music, dance, and excitement as children's concert sensation, Pop Party, takes the stage! This exhilarating live concert, made especially for kids, brings the latest trending TikTok hits to life in vib...
The Dino Adventure
Thursday 15 - Wednesday 28 August 2024
Get your teeth into this Jurassic Lark. Join an eccentric expedition on a time travelling steam train to meet with a herd of adorable baby dinosaurs. Get up close with the cute cretaceous critters and maybe even give the T-Rex a tickle unde...
Fireman Sam
Friday 16 August 2024
rand New for 2024. Norman wants to go on an adventure to impress his friends, so when two famous animal explorers arrive in Pontypandy, he decides to follow them into the mountains. But when Norman discovers a rare red squirrel, one of the...
Wonderland In Alice
Friday 16 - Saturday 17 August 2024
Ready to fall down the rabbit hole? British Youth Musical Theatre, in collaboration with Christopher Tendai Company present Wonderland In Alice, a brand new musical that re-imagines Lewis Caroll's classic tale of self-discovery and escapism...
The Wizarding Adventure
Friday 16 August - Wednesday 23 October 2024
It's a kind of magic! Are you ready to attend your first day at the Grand Old School of Wizardry. Join the madcap mages and wacky witches of the faculty on a spellbinding adventure to work on your wand waving, brush up on your broomstick sk...
Pop Princesses
Tuesday 20 August 2024
This is the children's pop concert with a big difference. A musical spectacular starring four fabulous Fairy tale Princesses who just love to sing! It's the perfect mix. Featuring a soundtrack of top pop hits from artists such as Little Mix...
Peppa Pig & Family Fun Day
Thursday 22 - Friday 23 August 2024
The East Lancashire Railway is thrilled to welcome back everyone's favourite cheeky little piggies. Come and meet Peppa and George at intervals throughout the day in the fantastic Bury Transport Museum. You can also take part in Peppa Pig's...
Fearne Cotton's Happy Place Festival
Saturday 31 August - Sunday 1 September 2024
Fuel your thoughts and find your sanctuary this summer at the UK's biggest space dedicated to feeding both body and mind. A creative space for self-love and happiness. We can't wait to see you there, and remember - the magic really happens ...
Enchanted Afternoons - Princess Concert
Saturday 31 August 2024
The Enchanted Afternoons' Princess Concert is a magical journey into the world of enchantment! Step into a world where fairy tales collide with pop sensations. Be enchanted by the heartwarming story of six princesses who dared to dream beyo...
Mothers Who Make
Monday 2 September 2024 - Monday 6 January 2025
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...
Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse - Live In Concert
Tuesday 3 September 2024
Following on from sold out shows throughout the world for Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse - Live In Concert in 2023, the second chapter of the Oscar-winning Spider-Verse saga: Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse makes its debut tour....
BTW Face Off
Friday 6 September 2024
Family friendly professional wrestling returns to bolton...
Pro-Wrestling NOAH
Saturday 7 September 2024
Pro Wrestling NOAH, Japan's leading wrestling promotion, returns to the UK. Their top wrestlers, including Marufuji, Kiyomiya, Hayata and will be showcasing their skills, along with many more. They will be joined by the current Progress Men...
Annie (The Drama Dept Amateur Production)
Tuesday 17 - Saturday 21 September 2024
Bredbury's award-winning performing arts Academy, The Drama Dept, present their amateur production of Annie. Set in 1930s New York during The Great Depression, brave young Annie is forced to live a life of misery at Miss Hannigan's orphanag...
War Horse
Wednesday 18 - Saturday 28 September 2024
The Global Phenomenon Returns. The National Theatre's acclaimed production returns in an all-new UK tour. War Horse is an unforgettable theatrical experience which takes audiences on an extraordinary journey from the fields of rural Devon ...
Garry Starr - Monkeys Everywhere
Friday 20 - Sunday 22 September 2024
Join award-winning performer Damien Warren-Smith as he tries to find a calmer place to be amongst the madness of the monkey business that fills his mind in this show for all ages - but especially for those who can't always keep their monke...
COMEDYSPORTZ
Saturday 21 September 2024 - Saturday 22 February 2025
You've seen football. You've seen tennis. But have you seen Comedy as a sport? Then you don't want to miss this all ages, all action, all improvised competitive comedy show! Two teams battle it out for laughs with quick-witted gags, games, ...
Loaded
Saturday 21 September 2024
Loaded Festival Comes to Sedgley Park Rugby Club celebrating 90's era Music. 90's Dress to impress, Dig out your baggy jeans, Shell Suit Fancy Dress...
King Arthur
Tuesday 24 - Saturday 28 September 2024
Award-winning funny men, Le Navet Bete, return to the stage with a a brand-new laugh-out-loud show for theatre. This hilarious retelling of the Arthurian legends, suitable for the whole family, will have audiences crying with laughter and b...
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