This week marks the start of an arts and culture re-set for Manchester with the launch of a brand-new decade long cultural strategy for the city.
Always, Everywhere: Manchester’s Cultural Ambition 2024 – 2034 has been shaped following conversations with local people living and working in the city, as well as input from cultural organisations, creatives, and others directly involved in culture and the arts.
To celebrate its launch, members of the public are being invited to get out over the coming weeks and months and try some of the city’s amazing cultural offer – much of it free – for themselves.
The new cultural ambition set out in the strategy for the city is based on three different themes – everyone, everything, everywhere – aimed at giving everyone across Manchester the opportunity to enjoy and participate in culture and the arts.
Widening access to culture for all, recognising the people that make culture happen, and creating a ‘cultural welcome’ to the city are at the heart of the ‘everyone’ theme.
Due to high demand, GRAMMY®-winning, multi-Platinum band Imagine Dragons announce extra Tottenham Hotspur Stadium show to their colossal LOOM World Tour. With Declan McKenna announced as special guest for both London shows. Produced by Live Nation, the 2025 run will see the Las Vegas outfit take to European stages for their first ever full stadium tour, with stops scheduled in 16 countries including; Estonia, Czechia, Italy, Spain, France, Netherlands, France and UK plus many more. Check out the full confirmed itinerary below.
Gone are the days of the ‘And they lived happily ever after’ trope and reality setting in. Bombarded with representations of love throughout the ages, notions of what love looks like are currently being dismantled. Relationship gurus perhaps the closest we’ll get currently to addressing what it takes to make a relationship last. Back with their second musical which I’m sure will be a hit, Lucy Moss and Toby Marlow of Six the Musical fame pen Why Am I So Single?, a self deprecating reality check of the dating scene in the early 21st century.
GRAMMY®-winning, multi-Platinum band Imagine Dragons announce the European leg of the LOOM World Tour. Produced by Live Nation, the 2025 run will see the Las Vegas outfit take to European stages for their first ever full stadium tour, with stops scheduled in 16 countries including; Estonia, Czechia, Italy, Spain, France, Netherlands, France and UK plus many more. Check out the full confirmed itinerary below.
3x GRAMMY and 7x BRIT Award-winning global pop powerhouse Dua Lipa announced a global 2025 run on her Radical Optimism Tour with over 40 new dates across Australia, New Zealand, North America, Europe, and the UK next year. Additionally, South America shows will be announced at a later date.
British rap legend Nines has announced his monumental tenth project, Quit While You’re Ahead—his sixth and final album—set for release 
The Stage Debut Awards are today announcing a stellar line-up of guest presenters and performances from the West End’s most popular musicals for their annual ceremony, in association with ATG Entertainment. As the UK’s only awards dedicated to celebrating breakthrough theatre talent, this prestigious event shines a spotlight on the industry’s rising stars from performers, directors, writers, composers and lyricists to set, costume, lighting, sound and video design.
