What to do in Manchester, England in November 2026

145 events from Sunday, November 1 to Monday, November 30, 2026. Free: 18. Busiest venues: Manchester Art Gallery, Stoller Hall, The Deaf Institute.

Sunday, November 1, 2026

Visual arts
until Dec 31

Out of the Crate

Manchester Art Gallery · City Centre
- Visual arts
Free
Visual arts
until Mar 31

Trading Station: How Hot Drinks Shape Our Lives

Manchester Art Gallery · City Centre
- Visual arts
Free
Visual arts
until Dec 31

What is Manchester Art Gallery?

Manchester Art Gallery · City Centre
- Visual arts
Free
Visual arts
until Dec 31

Room to Breathe

Manchester Art Gallery · City Centre
- Visual arts
Free
Visual arts
until Dec 31

Rethinking the Grand Tour

Manchester Art Gallery · City Centre
- Visual arts
Free
Visual arts
until Dec 31

What’s New? Collecting for Manchester

Manchester Art Gallery · City Centre
- Visual arts
Free
Visual arts
until Apr 30

Anindilyakwa Arts: Stories from our Country

Manchester Museum · Oxford Road
- Visual arts
Free
Visual arts
until Apr 4

Performing Trees

The Whitworth · Oxford Road
- Visual arts
Visual arts
until Nov 30

Things of the Least: lively exhibition-making with children under-3

Manchester Art Gallery · City Centre
- Visual arts
Free
Visual arts
until Feb 28

Splendours of the Sikh Raj: Arms and Armour

Manchester Art Gallery · City Centre
- Visual arts
Free
Visual arts
until Jan 3

2026 Banner Exhibition

People's History Museum · Spinningfields
- Visual arts
Free
Visual arts
until Jan 3

Re/Assemble

People's History Museum · Spinningfields
- Visual arts
Free
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Visual arts
until Jan 3

Horrible Science: Cosmic Chaos

Science and Industry Museum · Castlefield
- Visual arts
£10 Tickets
Visual arts
until Nov 15

Beneath the Great Wave: Hokusai and Hiroshige

The Whitworth · Oxford Road
- Visual arts
Visual arts
until Nov 2

On The Line: 100 years of strikes & solidarity

People's History Museum · Spinningfields
- Visual arts
Free
Visual arts
until Mar 28

Won’t Sit Still

Manchester Art Gallery · City Centre
- Visual arts
Free
Visual arts
until Feb 13

WORN: the life within clothes

Manchester Art Gallery · City Centre
- Visual arts
Free
Visual arts
until Nov 1

Human Natures

Manchester Museum · Oxford Road
- Visual arts
Free
Visual arts
until Jan 3

Hyundai Translocal Series: Entangled and Woven

The Whitworth · Oxford Road
- Visual arts
Comedy
until Nov 27

Comedy at Contact

Contact Theatre · Oxford Road
- Comedy
Tickets
Visual arts
until Dec 31

Collection Spotlight case: Remembering Peterloo

People's History Museum · Spinningfields
- Visual arts
Free
Visual arts
until Aug 29

Reflections: Sangat and the Self

The Whitworth · Oxford Road
- Visual arts
Visual arts
until Aug 29

The Labour of Care

The Whitworth · Oxford Road
- Visual arts
Visual arts
until Mar 31

The Warp / The Weft / The Wake: Speaking Back

Manchester Art Gallery · City Centre
- Visual arts
Free
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Visual arts
until Sep 30

Escapes

Manchester Art Gallery · City Centre
- Visual arts
Free
Visual arts
until May 7

Our Collections, Reimagined

The Whitworth · Oxford Road
- Visual arts
Music
4 PM

Fever Original – The Jury Experience: Frankenstein on Trial

Stoller Hall · Cathedral Quarter
- Music
Tickets
Music
7 PM

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Manchester Academy · Oxford Road
- Music
£3–£8 Tickets
Theatre
Time not announced

Joe Marler Will See You Live

Opera House Manchester · City Centre
- Theatre
Tickets

Monday, November 2, 2026

Music
7:30 PM

Rocketsuit Rogue

Night & Day Cafe · Northern Quarter
- Music
£12 Tickets

Tuesday, November 3, 2026

Music
7:30 PM

can't be blue at Club Academy

Manchester Academy · Oxford Road
- Music
Tickets
Theatre
until Nov 14

Legally Blonde

Opera House Manchester · City Centre
- Theatre
Tickets

Wednesday, November 4, 2026

Music
7:30 PM

Franck Carducci

Band on the Wall · Northern Quarter
- Music
£21.50 Tickets
Music
7:30 PM

Mercy Kelly

Night & Day Cafe · Northern Quarter
- Music
£10 Tickets
Music
11 PM

NOW PLAYING: Playboi Carti, Travis Scott & Ken Carson

Gorilla · City Centre
- Music
£1–£6 Tickets
Theatre
until Nov 6

Coram Shakespeare Schools Festival

Contact Theatre · Oxford Road
- Theatre
Tickets
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Thursday, November 5, 2026

Music
7 PM

Chanel Beads

Gorilla · City Centre
- Music
£21.25 Tickets
Music
7 PM

Eat Static

Rebellion · City Centre
- Music
£20.50 Tickets
Music
7 PM

Laura Kuenssberg

Stoller Hall · Cathedral Quarter
- Music
Tickets
Comedy
7 PM

PLANE COMEDY

Tony Basnett · Vince Atta

The Bread Shed · Oxford Road
- Comedy
£15 Tickets
Music
7:30 PM

Gidiki

The Carlton Club · Whalley Range
- Music
£22.60 Tickets
Music
7:30 PM

Romare (Live)

Romare

Band on the Wall · Northern Quarter
- Music
£21.50 Tickets
Music
11 PM

Whip-Round | THURSDAYS AT DEAF INSTITUTE

The Deaf Institute · Oxford Road
- Music
£1–£5 Tickets

Friday, November 6, 2026

Music
6:30 PM

Damnation presents: A Night of Salvation

Gorerotted · The Berzerker · Ultha · Undeath

The Bread Shed · Oxford Road
- Music
£35 Tickets
Music
7:30 PM

Shaking Hand

The White Hotel · Salford
- Music
- Nights out
£12.50 Tickets
Music
9 PM

Harvey Rushmore & The Octopus (CH) // Woioi

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Big Hands · Oxford Road
- Music
£5 Tickets
Music
10 PM

Hannah Wants x counter culture

Hannah Wants

Joshua Brooks · City Centre
- Music
- Nights out
£8–£18 Tickets
Music
10 PM

Mechano Presents Nastia + Support

Nastia

Joshua Brooks · City Centre
- Music
- Nights out
£7.50–£16 Tickets
Music
11 PM

CubCru presents: Origin, Pluggerz, Half Broken Kru & more

Amelia Leigh

Hidden
- Music
- Nights out
£8.50–£15 Tickets
Music
11 PM

Warehouse Rave w/ FOLD & ESC

Fold (DJ)

Hidden
- Music
- Nights out
- Rave
£5 Tickets

Saturday, November 7, 2026

Music
1 PM

M&P's Jazz Brunch

Matt & Phred's Jazz Club · Northern Quarter
- Music
- Jazz
£5–£7 Tickets
Music
1 PM

Stoller Story Sounds: Helena the Horse Finds Her Courage

Stoller Hall · Cathedral Quarter
- Music
Tickets
Music
5 PM

LIMEWIRED: A 2000s Nostalgia Party

The Bread Shed · Oxford Road
- Music
£8–£14 Tickets
Music
7:30 PM

Cola

The White Hotel · Salford
- Music
- Nights out
£16 Tickets
Music
10 PM

101 Jams - Joshua Brooks 7th November

Joshua Brooks · City Centre
- Music
- Nights out
£0–£22 Tickets

Sunday, November 8, 2026

Music
10 AM

MAVO Live in

Mavo

Manchester Academy · Oxford Road
- Music
£40 Tickets
Music
7 PM

Black Orchid Empire / Terminals + Support

Black Orchid Empire · Terminals

Gulliver's · Northern Quarter
- Music
£12.50 Tickets

Monday, November 9, 2026

Music
7:30 PM

Shabaka

Band on the Wall · Northern Quarter
- Music
£29.50 Tickets
Cabaret
until Nov 10

Las Vegas in Manchester: Siegfried + Joy

Contact Theatre · Oxford Road
- Cabaret
Tickets

Tuesday, November 10, 2026

Comedy
6 PM

Forever Funny Comedy Night

Frog and Bucket Comedy Club · Northern Quarter
- Comedy
£20 Tickets

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