Free things to do in Manchester this week FT Station South, Bar Shrimp & more

Check out Letters to Our Mothers, Factory International’s multidisciplinary exhibition exploring mothers, mother figures and ancestors, which is curated by Brown Kuri Productions.

Through visual art, film, photography, sound, spoken word, textiles, movement and performance, Letters to Our Mothers is a powerful archive of tenderness, silence, grief, celebration and everything that lives in between.

Swing by Bar Shrimp this Thursday to see Manchester-based DJ, collector, presenter and producer Rhod Parry take to the decks.

Rhod has a varied style of club sets that often include classic Techno, House and Soul, whilst often including Disco, Electro, Soca, Afrobeats and more.

Sam Pratt, the ABB Events owner, is set to head over the Pennines this Friday night to Ramona, where you can expect a deep dive into his music collection spanning Chillout, Electronica, Minimal, House, Disco and Funk.

Expect all sorts of chaos as the genre-bending maestro Nikki Nair drops in for an extended set in the Cupra City Garage basement this weekend, with a full-evening set blasting all the best experimental and electronic music.

Head to Levenshulme’s Station South for a chill day of browsing cool reads at the Jot: Pop Up Bookshop.

Jot is a South Manchester based pop-up bookshop project offering a carefully selected assemblage of the best contemporary fiction and essay from predominantly independent publishers and presses.