What’s on

Makers Market

Last weekend of every month, free entry. The Lowry Plaza, Salford, M50 3AZ Local makers, bakers and artisans with food, drink, art, vintage and modern crafts. www.quaysidemediacityuk.co.uk

Salford Literacy Trail

Thursday 14 July to Friday 9 September, various locations across Salford, free. Explore your city and discover new adventures through the power of stories and reading. The Salford Literacy Trail is a stunning collaboration between the National Literacy Trust and the Bupa Foundation to create 20 Book Bench sculptures in the heart of Salford. www.salfordliteracytrail.org.uk

We invented the weekend

Saturday 10 and Sunday 11 September, free entry, booking required for some activities. MediaCity and Salford Quays, Salford, M50 2NT A new and imaginative free festival from Salford - one massive, colourful, exciting weekend of music, theatre, sport, workshops, dancing, laughs, and more to celebrate the joy of free time. www.weinventedtheweekend.com

The Tiger who came to Tea

Thursday 27 October to Sunday 30 October, tickets from £18. The Lowry, Salford, M50 3AZ Join the tea-guzzling tiger in this delightful family show; packed with oodles of magic, sing-a-long songs and clumsy chaos. Don’t miss this stunning stage adaptation of the classic tale of teatime mayhem… expect to be surprised! thelowry.com/whats-on/the-tiger-who-came-totea

Langworthy Live

Saturday 16 and Sunday 17 September, Tickets £5.50. Langworthy Road, Salford M6 7AQ Langworthy Live features bands and music artists performing in shops, businesses and community centres down Langworthy Road and surrounding area. For full line-up visit: www.langworthy.live

Independent Salford Beer Festival 2022

Thursday 17 to Saturday 19 November, tickets from £23. Hemsley House, 41- 42 The Crescent, Salford, M5 4PE Bringing some of the UK’s best breweries into Hemsley House in Salford. Enjoy great beer, beautiful juicy ciders and wonderful company - with all profits going to Independent Salford Beer Festival friends and local charity START Inspiring Minds. www.salfordbeerfest.com

We Shall All Be Brothers and Sisters - the Communist Party in Britain 1920-2020

Until Thursday 22 December, Free entry. Working Class Movement Library, 51 Crescent, Salford M5 4WX Through objects, sound and photographs, explore the history of the Communist Party in Britain. Originally on display at the Marx Memorial Library in London, this exhibition marks the centenary of the founding of the Communist Party in Britain (1920). www.wcml.org.uk

Rachel Goodyear: Stirrings

Until Sunday 26 February 2023, free entry. Salford Museum and Art Gallery, Peel Park, The Crescent M5 4WU ‘Stirrings’ is the first major solo exhibition by Rachel Goodyear in a North-West museum and art gallery, it includes new large-scale drawings and a new animation. salfordmuseum.com/event/stirrings

Zoetrope Workshop

Sunday 11 September, 1pm and 2.30pm. Tickets £Free, booking essential. Salford Museum and Art Gallery, Peel Park, The Crescent, Salford M5 4WU This year Heritage Open Days is celebrating inventions. A zoetrope is a device that allowed people to animate images prior to the invention of film. Join local artist Caroline Coates to make your own Zoetrope from old CDs. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/zoetrope-workshopheritage-open-days-tickets-381259155397

Life Drawing Lates (Steampunk Special)

Wednesday 21 September, 6pm to 7.45pm. Tickets £8, booking essential. Salford Museum and Art Gallery, Peel Park, The Crescent, Salford M5 4WU Explore the amazing world of Steampunk where Victorian invention meets Science Fiction. The model for this evening eventwill be a wheelchair user who has adapted his wheelchair specially to reflect the Steampunk aesthetic. There will be support and tuition from illustrator/ animator, Paul Pickford. All materials provided. www. eventbrite.co.uk/e/life-drawing-lates-steampunkspecial-tickets-381214150787

Ben Frost

Friday 21 October, 7.30pm to 11pm. Tickets £18. The White Hotel, Dickinson Street Salford M3 7LW. Australian Reykjavik based composer, Ben Frost, performs minimalist, instrumental music at Salford’s underground venue. Frost most recently composed scores for Ridley Scott’s ‘Raised by Wolves’, and Netflix series ‘Dark’. thewhitehotel.club