Greater Manchester Fringe is back for its third year in July and looking for writers, artists, comedians, musicians, producers and event organisers to put on shows.
Eighteen venues around the city took part last year, hosting more than 200 events, from innovative art exhibitions to award-winning plays and comedians. Big names mixed with new talent trying something out for the first time.
Scientist Rosalind Franklin's innovative experimental work on the structure of DNA is celebrated in Rob Johnston’s play An Extraordinary Light on July 17 and 18 at Taurus Bar on Canal Street, Manchester.
Comedian Phill Jupitus is returning as Porky the Poet with two brand new shows Shrinking Progress and Juplicity on July 8 and 9 at the King’s Arms in Salford.
Life Cycle, presented by Sticks Theatre at the Swan Inn in Saddleworth, celebrates this summer’s Tour de France in Yorkshire by using interviews with high profile cyclists to create a physical journey of a lone cyclist's past.