Fun
Feast! Picnic by the lake – clips from 2008 (video)
Feast! is one of the best summer events in Manchester. It happens over three days around the lake in Platt Fields Park in Rusholme. You can take along a picnic and enjoy a wide range of performances and other fun. Best of all it’s completely free. Here’s a clip from last year.
The Voca People – vocal sounds and acapella singing
The Voca People is an international vocal theater performance that combines vocal sounds and acapella singing with the art of modern beat-box.
Ugly utility boxes in the street are disguised by pasting photographs
The urban art of Joshua Callaghan: the man who can turn street objects invisible.
Comedian Jim Bowen uses 1,600-year-old jokes in act
‘An ancestor of Monty Python’s famous Dead Parrot comedy sketch has been found in a joke book dating back to Greece in the 4th Century… [The ancient gags] have been published into a multimedia online e-book, which features video of veteran comic Jim Bowen bringing the old jokes back to life in front of a … Comedian Jim Bowen uses 1,600-year-old jokes in act
Bingo-playing Manchester flashmob (video)
At Manchester’s latest flashmob event a crowd played bingo in Piccadilly Gardens.
Manchester flashmob tomorrow
There will be a flashmob somewhere in Manchester city centre tomorrow lunchtime. I’m hoping to be there to shoot a video of whatever happens.