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A candlelit Queen tribute concert is coming to Manchester Opera House

Queen by Candlelight features a live cast of West End singers. (Contains affiliate links)

Daisy Jackson Daisy Jackson - 29th September 2023

One of the world’s greatest rock bands will be honoured with a candlelit tribute concert in Manchester next week. 

Queen By Candlelight will return to our city after selling out venues across Britain, Australia and New York City. 

The hugely popular event will see an incredible live band and a cast of singers from the West End performing Queen’s biggest hits. 

It’ll all take place at Manchester Opera House – but the stage lights will be switched out for thousands of flickering candles.

Queen by Candlelight is returning to Manchester
Queen by Candlelight is returning to Manchester. Credit: Supplied

Queen – formerly fronted by the late Freddie Mercury – are behind some of the most iconic rock songs in history. 

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The tracks featured in the Queen By Candlelight concert will include Bohemian Rhapsody, It’s A Kind of Magic, We Are The Champions, Who Wants to Live Forever, and more.

Previous events have been reviewed as being ‘the best tribute to Queen’ and a ‘must-see’. 

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Tickets are on sale now for this special night of Queen anthems by candlelight, which will take place on Friday 6 October at Manchester Opera House. 

You can book tickets now at ATG Tickets here. 

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Manchester’s historic connections to slavery will be at the heart of a major new exhibition

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Manchester’s historic connections to slavery are to be explored during a major new exhibition coming soon to the city.

The Science and Industry Museum, in the heart of our city centre, is already known and loved for telling the story of the ideas and innovations that transformed Manchester into the world’s first industrial city.

But now, a new free exhibition is set to “enhance public understanding” of how transatlantic slavery actually shaped the city’s growth.

Produced by the Science and Industry Museum, in partnership with The Scott Trust Legacies of Enslavement programme, and developed with African descendent and diaspora communities through local and global collaborations, this landmark project will put Manchester’s historic connections to enslavement at the heart of a major exhibition at the museum for the first time.  

Featuring new research, it will also explore how the legacies of these histories continue to impact Manchester, the world, and lives today.

Set to open in early 2027, the exhibition will run for a year in the museum’s Special Exhibitions Gallery.

Alongside that hub at the Science and Industry Museum itself, the project is also set to have a collaborative city-wide events programme, and a lasting legacy – with a new permanent schools programme, and permanent displays in the future too.

As mentioned, the new exhibition is part of The Scott Trust Legacies of Enslavement programme, which is a 10-year restorative justice project launched in 2023.

Manchester’s historic connections to slavery will be at the heart of a major new exhibition / Credit: Science Museum Group Collection

Through partnerships and community programmes, the project aims to improve public understanding of the impact of transatlantic slavery on the UK’s economic development, and its ongoing legacies for Black communities – with a strong focus on Manchester, the city in which The Guardian was founded back in 1821.

The museum’s existing gallery content and ongoing work around sharing the inextricable links between Manchester’s growth into an industrial powerhouse and a textile industry reliant on colonialism and enslavement will be developed through the project.

Through a “collaborative re-examination of the past”, the exhibition will also share a more inclusive history of a city that prides itself on being at the forefront of ideas that change the world.

It’s opening at the Science and Industry Museum in early 2027 / Credit: Science and Industry Museum

Speaking ahead of the exhibition’s arrival in early 2027, Sally MacDonald, who is the Director of the Science and Industry Museum, says: “This will be an exhibition about important aspects of our past that are profoundly relevant to the world we live in today.

“Revealed from the perspectives of those who experienced enslavement and whose lives have been shaped by its legacies, we will foreground stories of resistance, agency, and skill.

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“The exhibition will explore themes of resilience, identity and creativity alongside exploitation and inequality, and will feature a specific focus on the ways that scientific and technological developments both drove and were driven by transatlantic slavery.”

Further details on the project will be announced in due course, so stay tuned.

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Charlotte Dawson will be handing out compliments and big prizes in Manchester to brighten Blue Monday

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TV star Charlotte Dawson will be cheering up Blue Monday in Manchester, dishing out compliments to strangers and awarding some big prizes too. 

The actress, who is the daughter of the legendary late Les Dawson, will be bringing her signature sunny energy to Printworks on Monday 20 January. 

Otherwise known as Blue Monday, it’s believed that the third Monday in January is the most depressing day of the year – so she’s here to nip that in the bud. 

Between 1pm and 3pm on the huge gaming screen inside Printworks – part of its £21m transformation that included adding a huge digital ceiling – Charlotte Dawson will be spreading joy and laughter. 

She’ll be live streaming straight to passers-by, spreading smiles and dishing out compliments. 

Charlotte will also be treating visitors to some amazing prizes from Printworks’ collection of bars, restaurants and leisure venues. 

These prizes will include free brunch for four at Walkabout, gaming sessions at Bierkeller, or family cinema tickets with Ice Blasts at VUE. Other prizes include Nando’s vouchers, a drink and activity for two at the new Trax Social, and much more.

And the top prize will be a luxury overnight stay for two at Hotel Indigo, just across the road in the very heart of Manchester.

Charlotte Dawson will take part in Blue Monday at Printworks, Manchester
Charlotte Dawson will take part in Blue Monday at Printworks, Manchester

There’ll even be free coffee vouchers for Todd St Cafe on offer to brighten your Blue Monday.

Kristian Brennan, Marketing Manager at Printworks, said: “We couldn’t be more excited to have Charlotte at Printworks this Blue Monday. 

“As a true Mancunian icon, her vibrant personality is exactly what we need to brighten up the most depressing day of the year and we know she’ll bring plenty of laughs and smiles to everyone who stops by.

“What makes this event truly unique is the opportunity for the public to chat with Charlotte under Europe’s largest digital ceiling, which will showcase new mood-boosting content.

“It’s an innovative and exciting way for people to connect, and we can’t wait to see families and friends come together to create joyful memories in this truly unique setting!”

For more information, head HERE.

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