Whitworth Art Gallery Pub Crawl launch ft. Honeyfeet at First Chop Brewing Arm

If you were wondering what all those creative sorts are up to while the Whitworth Art Gallery is getting a bit of a refurbishment then wonder no more, for they’ve gone to the pub. The Whitworth Art Gallery Pub Crawl is an effort to bring together Manchester’s thriving creative arts scene with some of the gallery’s favourite drinking holes. The perfect place to hole up while waiting for the paint to dry back at the Oxford Road institution (due to re-open in autumn of this year), events in this ongoing series include life drawing at whiskey haven Briton’s Protection and a ‘live music knit hack’ at Big Hands, alongside monthly courses from the Workers’ Educational Association at The Anchor (previously known as The Whitworth). More pub/art mash-ups are planned – and you can find out all about them at the launch of this four-months series of art, performance, workshops and courses in that most fitting of places for a pub crawl launch: a brewery. More accurately, First Chop Brewing Arm in Salford, which will open its doors to the public for the launch on Friday 31 January with a free beer on arrival, a look at what’s to come and a special performance from Manchester’s finest ethio-trad folk-hop band, Honeyfeet. A pub crawl has never been so creative.

Fri 31 Jan, First Chop Brewing Arm, Unit 3 Trinity Row, Trinity Way, M3 5EN, 7.30pm, FREE, www.facebook.com