What's On North 13-20 Apr: Egg-cellent Easter events
Easter weekend offers many delights in the North. Put down the chocolate egg, get off the couch and head to this little lot, including Salford's Fat Out Fest, Transform in Leeds, and Liverpool Food, Drink and Lifestyle Spring Festival
Each week The Skinny team hand-pick a selection of the best events from the North's cultural calendar to provide you with this 'ere top ten guide to the most exciting goings-on for the week ahead. From gigs, plays and exhibitions to spoken word, pop-up foodie events and one-off film screenings, we give you the insider's guide to things to do in Liverpool, Manchester and Leeds every Thursday morning.
Party Time, Egg-cellent
For the past few months we've been told countlessly how Easter falls early this year, and you've nodded along in agreement without really having a clue what the hell people are on about (summat to do with the moon?) But lo and behold, she's here! And outside of all of that early/late rigmarole all you really care about is the fact that you'll get a SUPER LONG WEEKEND. Not just a three-day weekend, but a four-day whopper. What a time to be alive.
How you gonna fill so much free time, buddy? Luckily for you, we have the answer, with guides to the best Easter bank holiday events in Leeds, Liverpool and Manchester – as well as a guide to the best eggs in Manchester (because when we say brunch, what we really mean is eggs, right?)
Also this week:
Liverpool Food, Drink and Lifestyle Spring Festival
Sefton Park, Liverpool. Sat 15-Sun 16 Apr, 10.30am
Ain't no better way to celebrate the arrival of spring than by eating and drinking your way through a weekend at Liverpool's favourite food and drink festival, all out en plein air with the likes of Salt Dog Slims, Mela, Piggie Smalls, Mac in a Box, Liverpool Gin, Thistly Cross cider and much more . Photo: Antonio Franco
Fat Out Fest
Islington Mill, Salford. Fri 14-Sun 16 Apr, times vary
The annual party from Salford-based promoters Fat Out is back for more this month, as Fat Out Fest rolls into Islington Mill for three days of live music, workshops, stalls, conversation and all the glitter. The line-up features the likes of Trans Am, Blood Sport, Ill (pictured) and Mums, but click here to see the five acts we're most looking forward to catching, or check out the full bill here. Photo: Alexander Bell
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Riley Theatre, Leeds. Thu 27 Apr, 7.30pm
Northern School of Contemporary Dance presents Northern Connections: a triple bill of bold and thought-provoking new dance by emerging, Northern choreographers, the first of two such events this year. Selected from an open call to the region, Akeim Toussaint Buck, Keira Martin and Daniel Phung Dance are currently in residence at NSCD and Yorkshire Dance and will perform at Riley Theatre, Yorkshire’s largest dedicated dance house, on 27 April 2017.
Hop City
Northern Monk Brew Co, Leeds. Thu 13-Sat 15 Apr, times vary
Hop City is the UK's first hop-led beer festival, coming to you from the good people of Northern Monk Brew Co. Alongside them, you'll find beers from Magic Rock, Cloudwater, Siren Craft Brew, The Kernel, Verdant and more, plus international breweries like the USA's Other Half and Sweden's Stigbergets. Hop to it, brah! 13-15 Apr, Northern Monk Brew Co., Leeds, times vary. Photo: Sam Needham
Transform
Various venues, Leeds. Wed 19-Sat 22 Apr, times vary
Billing itself as a celebration of bold, local and international theatre, this year's Transform festival ups its game with its "boldest festival yet" – the first citywide edition. Coursing through theatres, arts venues and outdoor spaces, performances and events will highlight activism, community collaboration, the digital age, gender politics and, perhaps the most topical of all, the future of Europe.
When in Manchester
Various venues, Manchester. Sat 15 Apr, 2.30pm
Taking over Night and Day Cafe, The Castle, Gullivers and new Northern Quarter gig hole Jimmy's, When in Manchester Festival takes some of the city's best small venues and packs them with big sounds from The Tuts, Ethan and The Reformation, Asylums, White Room, South Island Son, The Strawberries, Sapho, Rood and many more. Photo: Jack Kirwan
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