Fans of the big screen are being invited to take part in an action packed day to celebrate Manchester's film industry.

Located in the centre of the city, the UK's largest Hard Rock will rock your senses serving what can only be described as "The Official Food of Rock", generous drinks and an awe-inspiring collection of rock memorabilia. Priceless pieces from legends The Beatles, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Oasis, and Elvis Presley grace the cafe walls along with more contemporary items including stage costumes worn by Natasha Bedingfield and the Arctic Monkeys.

This month they'll be joined by the girls from Heaven V at Virgin Active who will be showing you the latest in hair removal plus the ESPA skincare range. Benefit will be on hand to give you a free makeover and GHD will be there to sort your hair out.  If that wasn't enough, Anne Summers will be there to show you their latest ..er...ranges.

The world-famous Winter Ale Festival is running again at The Smithfield Hotel & Bar.

Dame Edna Everage and Sir Les Patterson alight to Manchester’s biggest venue for an evening of cultural refinement, elegance and duck-billed platypuses…

Hardman Square in Spinningfields becomes a free cinema for the summer…

Get your hands on discounted tickets for the UK’s biggest dance music festival.

The UK’s favourite medium brings audiences messages from beyond the grave.

The most relaxed festival on the circuit celebrates 15 chilled out years..

The Streets, The Zutons and Andrew Wetherell headline a huge outdoor park in the Lake District.

If you thought that you’d never be face-to-face with a T-Rex, think again…  

Another season of firsts for Manchester as the Manchester International Festival kicks off again in July. We've got the highlights here on Manchester Events Guide:

The family friendly extravaganza returns to Manchester International Festival this July.

Tickets go on sale for this year’s Wireless Festival, headlined by Kanye West and Basement Jaxx.

The homegrown festival is back for a second year with a lineup you won’t believe…

Greenroom hosts some of Manchester's favourite home-grown talent in a celebration of seminal open mic night Manchester Busker.

The best family-friendly event of the year takes over Platt Fields Park this June.

Russia's most spectacular circus performers spring into action at Bolton’s Reebok Stadium.

Derren Brown pushes the limits of the possible with this brand new show.

As Torvill and Dean celebrate the 25th anniversary of Bolero and their Olympic gold medal, the Dancing on Ice Tour 2009 looks bigger and better than ever.

Join the literati at the Royal Northern College of Music as the winners of the inaugural Manchester Poetry Prize are announced at Manchester Literature Festival’s most glittering event.

One of Manchester's most famous poets appears at the Chorlton venue for an evening of poetry, comedy and songs.

Politician, anti-Iraq War activist and all round pussycat George Galloway spends an evening at Chorlton's newest venue.

Manchester Writing School has announced the launch of the Manchester Poetry Prize, a new literary award  with a first prize of £10,000.

The University of Manchester presents an early evening burst of poetry and prose.

The author of My Beautiful Laundrette and The Buddha of Suburbia appears at Manchester University to read from his new novel, Something to Tell You.

If you ever thought poetry was boring, you've probably never seen slam poetry in action. With Contact Theatre and Commonword presenting the first heat of the North West Poetry Championship 2008, it is time to discover a whole new side to poetry...

Manchester Libraries has just launched its own literature blog, called Manchester Lit List.

The last of this year's Raw Jam sessions at Contact Theatre will be held on 13th December.

Not content with touring his latest show, Russell Brand will be appearing at Virgin Megastores in the Arndale Centre on 1st December to promote his autobiography, My Booky Wook.

The appearance of Peter Benson as part of the Writers at MMU series has been rescheduled to 29th November.

Following on from the success of last year's readings, MMU have begun a new series of readings from leading poets and writers.

US fantasy author Stephen Donaldson will be appearing at Waterstones to promote his new book Fatal Revenant.

The Manchester Literature Festival is more popular than ever with five events already sold out...

Preparations are now well under way for this year's Manchester Literature Festival.

Manchester Literature Festival present the world's first reggae poet at Contact Theatre.

The winners of the Manchester Blog Awards 2007 have been announced...

Following the success of their critically acclaimed show Poetry Boyband, hilarious award-winning poetry group Aisle 16 return to Manchester's Royal Exchange...

At the age of 22, Braham Murray decided that his future lay not in commerce, as his parents hoped, but in the theatre. He took over Century Theatre, a theatre company in Manchester, and in doing so started out on a career path that would lead him to the Royal Exchange Theatre.