What’s on: Happy Hours, Ruth Jones, Bottomless Curry and the Beeb
| 6th October 2022
What’s on in Manchester this week: Whether you’re an avid reader, curry fan or a tech nerd, there’s lots to do this coming week in city of Manchester and beyond.
Happy times at Rendition
Cocktails at Rendition Bar
Manchester’s speakeasy style cocktail bar Rendition, on Deansgate, is injecting some happiness. They’ve just launched their Happy Hour on drinks from Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays, between 5pm-8pm which means two cocktails for £12 and three beers for £10. You can choose any two from their full cocktail menu.
VIVA likes the sound of a Peach Pornstar, Cigarettes and Alcohol is also intriguing, but we might give Angel P*ss a miss!
Bottomless curry and a free Kingfisher beer
Bottomless curry and a free Kingfisher beer at Zouk.
This week is National Curry Week and Zouk have got something a little bit special planned. From Monday (October 3) to Thursday (October 6) they will be offering bottomless curry for only £20 per person.
It’s every day from 4pm to 10pm with one meat curry and one veggie or vegan curry to choose from. Simply make a reservation for your preferred time and enjoy as much curry, rice and naan bread as you can find room for.
This event is part of Kingfishers National Curry Week and our friends and for every guest dining the price per head also includes a 330ml bottle of Kingfisher on the house. What’s not like.
Ruth Jones open MLF – Lush
Ruth Jones Truth Untold at MLF.
BAFTA award-winning Welsh screenwriter, actor and novelist Ruth Jones, best known for the Television dramas Gavin and Stacey, is opening Manchester Literature Festival.
Ruth will be in conversation with host Julia Wheeler about her career, creating and playing characters, and her incredibly funny and uplifting new novel, Love Untold.
Manchester Literature Festival runs from Friday (October 7) to Sunday (October 23) and features an exciting line-up of incredible writers, actors, broadcasters, comedians, poets, change-makers and emerging talent.
Guests include Monica Ali, Rob Delaney, Inua Ellams, Edward Enninful & Bernardine Evaristo, Mariana Enriquez, Damon Galgut, Sheila Hancock, Natalie Haynes, Nick Hornby, Maggie O’Farrell, Ardal O’Hanlon, David Olusoga, Ian Rankin & Jackie Kay, Roger Robinson & Johny Pitts, Kamila Shamsie, George Saunders, Susanna Clarke & Max Porter and many more. For full programme details visit manchesterliteraturefestival.co.uk
100 Years of the BBC in Manchester at The Science and Industry Museum
100 Years of the BBC in Manchester at The Science and Industry Museum
Experience Manchester through the lens of the BBC, as this temporary exhibition showcases the journey the city has been a part of, from the 1920s to the innovation seen today.
To guide visitors through the history of the iconic network, the exhibition will feature objects, photographs and their accompanying stories, combined with historic never-before-seen objects and cutting-edge new technologies.
Discover Manchester’s first radio station 2ZY and its link to the BBC, early radio experimentation projects, what it was like to work and perform at the studio, and developments over the past decade at MediaCityUK.