Cultural Shenanigans

In Paradise Heights on Hallowe’en everyone is watching… looking out for whoever or whatever is round the next corner. Those braving the streets are eyeballed by masked gangs, or a figure lurking in the shadowy half light. The Watcher from Tales from Paradise Heights on Vimeo. Filmed in the dark streets of Manchester and Salford, [...]

Shock City – Writing about Manchester Ann our tour guide helped us discover how Manchester has shaped, and been shaped by, writing. Taking a gentle stroll from the Royal Exchange, past the Hidden Gem church, down to Spinningfields and up past Wood Street Mission – taking in some history and weaving in stories of the [...]

I was commissioned by All Points North to write about my cultural shenanigans at the brilliantly quirky Manchester Weekender from Creative Tourist. Here’s what I got up to on day 2, 15 October 2011… Unlocking Salford Quays In a very short time (the space of a weekend, in fact) I’ve become a big fan of [...]

I was gutted when I read the plans for Creative Tourist’s Manchester Weekender 2011. (Bear with me!). So much great stuff and I was due to be 200 miles away from Manchester that weekend. But then the good folks at All Points North twisted my arm when they asked me to blog about some of [...]

A wet and windy October evening saw the launch of a brand new exhibition at Manchester’s tiny hidden gem, The Portico Library. A Journey Through Wonderland: Alice in Multimedia, which is a free exhibition open until 30 November. My own Alice in Wonderland memories include being glued to my double cassette 1965 audio version narrated [...]