The world is in chaos. The cure is community.

Radioactive sees New Animals descend into nuclear meltdown for a seven-hour collision of art, sound, and strange encounters. Twenty artists and eight DJs come together for a night built around visual spectacle, heavy sounds, and the kind of shared chaos New Animals does best.

Expect SFX painting, tarot readings, immersive visuals, and a space transformed for Halloween. Forget the safe and the standard. Step inside, embrace the fallout, and join the meltdown.

Flesh takes over our haunted Victorian mansion for a night of Halloween art, horror, and transformation. At its heart is a large-scale exhibition exploring the grotesque, the uncanny, the undead, and everything that refuses to stay buried.

Across the night, the mansion will be filled with ghost hunting, interactive comedy-horror, performance art, tarot, workshops, live mural painting, market stalls, raffles, and more. Dress for the apocalypse, bring your nerve, and step inside.

The Open is back at Salford Museum & Art Gallery, bringing together more than 150 works and a huge mix of creative voices from across Salford.

From painting and drawing to print, textiles, photography, sculpture, and mixed media, the exhibition is a bold celebration of the artists who live, work, study, or were born in the city. The show also puts the power in visitors’ hands with the People’s Choice award — so come, explore, and back your favourite.

September 19th - November 29th 2026

The New Mills Open Art Exhibition returns bigger than ever, taking over Milestone Studios and Gallery with work from more than fifty artists and makers from across the UK.

Now in its third year, the exhibition brings together painting, print, photography, textiles, sculpture, and more in a packed salon-style display. Running from 17 September to 31 October 2026, it’s a celebration of contemporary creativity in all its forms: bold, varied, unexpected, and made to be explored.

Bringing together 22 artists, The Uncanny Feminine explores femininity, emotional repression, and identity through the unsettling lens of the uncanny. Drawing on feminist interpretations of Freud’s Unheimliche, the exhibition considers how hidden emotions and identities resurface in contemporary culture.

Across painting, photography, video, sculpture, performance, and installation, artists examine transformed bodies, distorted domestic spaces, memory, doubles, abjection, and reimagined feminine archetypes.

New Animals and Union Soundsystem have joined up!

A special event: the heartical steppas don himself, Killamanjaro, celebrated his birthday with an event full of art, music, and chaos, with New Animals and the Union Soundsystem powering the night. Multigene music, all styles of art, performances, photography and much more.

A unique night where two top Manchester crews put their minds together and blend music and visual artistry for one night of pure madness.

We live in the surreal. A collective reality warped beyond denial: noise, spectacle, collapse, comedy, dread. So, we gather anyway. Not to escape what’s happening, but to confront it together, under a banner of chaos, with the lights dimmed and the music loud.

We're here to find those who still want to love and live in the moment.
We’ve waited long enough. Are you ready to embrace the Surreal?

West Art Collective returns to the Antwerp Mansion for the fifth edition of our sex-positive, kink-themed art event. At its heart is a large-scale exhibition exploring kink, fetish, sex-positivity, and desire through bold, boundary-pushing work.

The night will be packed with immersive experiences: creative performances, workshops, life drawing, and market stalls. Plus 360° pole and performance shows, The Deranged Puppet Show: 50 Shades of Felt Edition, and more.

Join fellow feline lovers and us in our Escape to the Cat-eau exhibition!

A celebration contained within four walls of artwork that are all cat-themed. Whether you're a devoted cat enthusiast, an art lover, or simply looking for a unique cultural outing, this exhibition has something for everyone. Come along and immerse yourselves in a world where creativity and feline fascination collide.

Shenanigans At the Shed is back! With A Rebel with A Cause!

A one-night event reflecting on ‘In our modern an error of rising conservatism, we look back to the rebels of the 1950s, who went against the strict social norms of the era, with their rock n roll music, defiant fashion, and political view.’

The 1950s called: they want their rebels back, but they are all coming to Shenanigns at The Shed!

Do we choose convenience, or do we choose struggle? 
Struggle that leads to art, to music, to the expression of the true human spirit. 

New Animals bring together their signature blend of multi-genre music, art, and expression. A rebellion from the use of artificial art and music by showcasing their community’s unbelievable talent.

Welcome to a night that will bring together art and music created by human intelligence.

Immortal transforms Manchester’s most haunted mansion into a Halloween spectacle of art, ritual, and revelry. At its heart lies a vast exhibition themed to the season; works that embrace the gothic, the grotesque, and the mournful, including a room devoted to grief itself.

The night will be full of immersive experiences: ghost hunting, interactive theatre, tarot, workshops, performance, market stalls, and more.

A multi-genre gathering of artists, DJs, photographers, and cross-disciplinary creatives channeling the ancient tenets of Ritual.

From a summer steeped in love, the season turns to fire, shadow, and communion—surreal art, immersive installations, and unsettling music in honor of the strange, the beautiful, and the uncanny.

Shenanigans At the Shed is a one-night event filled with everything from music to poetry, drag, comedy, and burlesque: Shenanigans at the Shed is a performance extravaganza!

Built upon the principles of tomfoolery, queerness, and fun! Shenanigans was created to be a safe haven for weirdos, geeks, and eccentrics. To quote Alice in Wonderland, 'we're all mad here'!

Constructed Reality is a curated digital exhibition by Alice Browning that explores the blurred lines between perception and presentation, reality and representation, truth and construction. Featuring bold, thought-provoking works from emerging artists, this show unpacks the complexity of our lived experiences — especially around identity, power, and agency

A high-energy celebration of Manchester’s creative spirit, brought to life by New Animals through their signature blend of multi-genre music, art, and joyful chaos. Drawing on the rebellious legacy of past Summer of Love movements, the event channels the power of collective expression and resistance and that history doesn't repeat, but it does rhyme. Reminding us that in hard times, people always find a way to come together.

A bold, multi-arts event presented by 99 Reasons and Chorlton Arts Festival. It invites artists and non-artists alike to explore unusual, unexpected, and unconventional forms of love through a mix of visual art, music, film, and live poetry performance.

A multi-genre showcase of artists, DJs, photographers, and cross-disciplinary creatives exploring the theme of dreams and nightmares. The event featured surreal art, interactive exhibits, performance pieces, face painting, sensory experiences, and twisted photography—blurring reality with imagination in a bold, immersive celebration of the strange, the beautiful, and the uncanny.

A dynamic, interactive takeover exhibition that blurs the line between artist and audience, featuring participatory pieces from the Fruity Frenzy Collective alongside unique individual artworks. Make Your Mark was created with neurodivergence in mind, addressing barriers that can make traditional art spaces feel overwhelming or inaccessible.