Festivals

Every year in May, venues and galleries around the country come to life after hours as part of Museums at Night. Here's our guide to activities in Leeds, Liverpool and Manchester Read more »

This year’s Edinburgh International Film Festival will close with England Is Mine, which is based on the early life of The Smiths frontman Morrissey Read more »

Assembly Festival will present over 200 comedy, theatre, music and dance shows at the 70th anniversary of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe; the return of Whose Line is it Anyway? and Yael Farber’s Mies Julie are among its highlights Read more »

Summerhall have unveiled their programme for the 2017 Edinburgh Fringe, with 140 new and returning shows for the Fringe's 70th anniversary year Read more »

With 100 gigs and 100 hours of entertainment, the 2017 Manchester Jazz Festival celebrates the centenary of the first jazz recording in fitting style Read more »

The theme for this year's LightNight festival is 'Time', so we asked some of the commissioned artists how they've responded to the brief. DJ Greg Wilson of The Super Sonic Assembly tells us what he'd put in a time capsule Read more »

We asked the commissioned artists for this year's LightNight how their work responds to the festival's theme, 'Time'. New-media artist Andy McKeown tells us about his ambitious recreation of the Metropolitan Cathedral's 'crown' Read more »

The theme for this year's LightNight festival is 'Time', so we asked some of the commissioned artists what (or who) they'd put in a time capsule. No prizes for guessing who multidisciplinary artists Friend or Foe nominated... Read more »