Your summer community festival launch alongside Makers’ Market with live music. Find out what’s on at local indoor and outdoor venues. Festival brochures available for all.

We will create a round birdfeeder using sticks of willow and twine. A perfectly natural birdfeeder for your garden. You will be provided with three fat balls so you can hang your birdfeeder in your garden as soon as you get home. (All materials and equipment will be provided.)

Age (accompanied by adults) 6 to 12 years.

Tickets: £20 per child with accompanying adult

‘Family Cup Cake Decorating Workshop’ with Bibble Bakes HIYA Room, Stanley Square

See how cake decorating works and create your own decorations for a box of 4 cupcakes to take home.

All materials supplied

First come first served- 10 child places only

Flat Pack Opera return to Sale Festival 2026 with their production of Tosca at St. Paul's Church on Springfield Road on Saturday 30 May

‘In a bleak authoritarian future, an all-seeing regime crushes individuality and dissent. Celebrated singer Floria Tosca and her lover, the rebellious artist Mario Cavaradossi, find their love tested by tyranny. When Cavaradossi secretly helps a fugitive dissident, he draws the attention of Baron Scarpia, the ruthless Chief of Security. Scarpia engineers a trap to control Tosca, forcing a vicious bargain: her lover’s freedom in exchange for her submission. With integrity and survival at stake, Tosca faces an impossible choice—sparking a descent into betrayal, sacrifice, and defiant resistance in a city where hope is a crime.’

Sale Folk Club is open every Tuesday evening at 8.00pm for an Acoustic Folk Night.

The trio will bring a taste of Italy to Sale with contemporary pop songs, arias from opera and music from the cinema. Italy's most important jazz magazine Musica Jazz describes Manunza's music as 'deep and original in style with knowledge of the great masters of the jazz guitar'. Join Simone Manunza (Guitar), JohnSandham (Double Bass), and Phil Bennett (Drums) for an evening to remember.

Join the Mayor, Consort and special guests the 7th Dr Who Sylvester McCoy and screen partner Ace Sophie Aldred and help to provide practical support and opportunities for Trafford’s young people in care and care leavers.

3 course meal with table drinks, bar, raffle and music

Wow Events in association with Sale Festival, Stanley Square and Trafford Council present Sale Comic Con, a free, fun, family day out. The event is now in its 4th year, and this time will be bigger than ever in various locations across the town centre. Expect to see lots of people in fancy dress!

Guest stars former Dr Who Sylvester McCoy and actress Sophie Aldred who played his companion Ace will be in Sale Library from 10.30 alongside the Comic Creator Zone. Here you can meet writers and artists behind the comics you love, whilst on the Waterside Plaza there will be lots of children’s activities taking place throughout the day.

In Stanley Square comedian Chris Lumb and colleagues from The Discount Comedy Store will perform their family comedy show at 11.30 and 2.30 pm. Bring the kids along for a fully interactive event.

If the sun shines Stanley Square will host the popular cosplay competitions from 3.00pm (If it rains, then cosplay will switch to the library). Competitions will run for under 12s, 12 to 16s and adults, so make sure you get your best fancy dress kit ready. Come as your favourite comic, anime, film, tv, book or game character for a chance to win a prize.

In Market Way’s Traders Zone there will be lots of traders with unique items for sale as well as The Doctor’s Tardis, Daleks, Cybermen and lots more to enjoy.

Sale Cruising Club start the Mayor’s parade near the Bridge Inn on Dane Road and sail down to Timperley Bridge before returning to the Plaza. View the parade and relax on the Plaza.

Watch Sale Cruising Club’s welcome to the newly installed Mayor of Trafford

If you look after someone who couldn’t manage without you, Trafford Carers Centre is here to support you.

Carers Week is taking place from 8th–14th June, and we’re working with organisations across Trafford to offer a range of activities to support your wellbeing.

Meet Manchester based author, Carolyn O'Brien to discuss her latest book ROSE & RENZO set in 1936 Manchester as fascism looms over Europe. Carolyn is the author of THE SONG OF PETERLOO, a story of hope, sacrifice and courage set in Manchester in 1819.

Join Trafford Hongkongers for a morning of mahjong and calligraphy alongside accomplished players and writers. Beginners of all ages are welcome to a fun morning.

A special showing to celebrate the Sale Poetry Trail

A group of students in a highly conservative boarding school learn to rebel against the status quo and find deeper meaning in life with the help of their new poetry teacher

‘Tapas and Flamenco’, with guitarist Nick Wilkinson and dancers

An evening of relaxed eating with Flamenco guitarist Nick Wilkinson who studied at the Rotterdam Institute under Paco Peña, one of the world’s finest flamenco guitarists. He has appeared live on Dutch national radio, Granada television, BBC Radio Manchester and at Glastonbury Festival. His teaching is widely recognised and respected. And there could be some surprise dancing as well!

A cynical expatriate American café owner struggles to decide whether to help his former lover and her fugitive husband escape the Nazis in French Morocco.

Sam and Ravi first met as students at the Royal Northern College of Music. Their musical friendship developed into the Duo Jota that takes its name from the traditional Spanish dance. Bonding over their love of Manuel de Fallia’s folk songs they have created their own arrangements exploring folk music from a wide range of traditions through the unique colours of the violin and guitar.

This year the choir is joined again by Sweet Rhythm Big Band.

B for Butterfly Book Launch with Sale born Nicholas Royle, novelist / creative writing lecturer with his new book ‘FINDERS KEEPERS: THE SECRET LIFE OF SECOND-HAND BOOKS.

Finders, Keepers tells the stories that hide between the lines of the second-hand books that fill the shelves of charity shops and second-hand bookshops up and down the country.

In collaboration with Manchester School of Architecture Live this is a day to remember for everyone – lawn games, church tower tours, film exhibition, brass band, organ recital, models of Sale through time, talks, crafts, food then and now and tea-room.

Church Tower tours will be available to book on the day in church, first come as there are limited places.

We will have a very special guest Steve Guinness (The Brick Consultant) who co-won the Channel 4 TV competition “Lego Masters UK”.   Steve will run 4 ‘Make and Take’ Lego workshops during the day at 10.30,11.30,1.30 and 2.30 with a specially designed custom model available to take home. Steve is a Lego trained educator with a particular interest in science, technology, engineering and maths.  Workshop places are £10 per child and limited to 15 children aged 6-16 years accompanied by a parent.  Go to https://square.link/u/hIC74NJ1 to choose a workshop and book a place.

A chilled out and eclectic mix of acoustic guitar and vocal covers from Clapton, Dylan, Bowie, Paul Simon to name just a few.

The hugely popular market brings together craft stalls together with the finest food and drink to suit all tastes and ages.

Sale Lions Charity Father's Day Fete & Family Fun Day with bouncy castles and fairground rides.

CALLING ALL DADS! If you're looking to spend time with the kids this Father's Day, but are worried about blowing your budget, GRIPADVENTURE.co.uk in Sale is offering dads the chance to paddle for FREE with a mininmum family of three.. Just text to book and enjoy some family time on the canal.

Filled with original music, audience interaction, and a host of larger-than-life characters, you are invited to join Mowgli and his friends, Baloo the bear and Bagheera the panther, on a madcap jungle adventure as they meet and attempt to outwit a slithering snake, some cheeky monkeys, and the fierce tiger, Shere Khan!

Hootin’ Annie’s takes on the ultimate big band challenge of recreating a programme of Duke Ellington’s music.
Experience the timeless swing, rich harmonies, and electrifying energy of one of jazz’s greatest legacies brought vividly to life.

Refreshments available in the interval.

Sale Choral Society present ‘A Summer Chorus’, Featuring a varied mix of popular choral works.

Conductor: Russell Medley

Eat, drink and relax to the music of this talented young musician.

For lovers of trad jazz this a great evening’s entertainment. A great foot tapping evening with a band that has graced Sale’s Railway Inn for more than 25 years.

To round off the 2026 Sale Poetry Trail, please join us for an evening celebrating poetry. Local poet and actor Charles Swift will host the evening, expect poetry readings and a collaborative poem

Cake stall, cream teas and jam for sale etc

A bake and decorate a cup cake competition for 6–16-year-olds

For full details visit www.salefestival.org 

Competition Rules

Entry Form

Come along and make your own shaker, enjoy rattling to make rain sounds and experience a mini forest bath in the glorious grounds of Walkden Gardens. Three sessions 11.00-12noon, 12.15- 1.15pm and 1.30-2.30

Flower Demonstration by Kate Russell who will bring her fresh flowers to create beautiful arrangements.

Sit back, tap your feet and enjoy Irish traditional songs and tunes with Mat Walklate (vocals, flute, harmonica, tin whistle uilleann pipe), Grace Kelly (an All-Ireland tin whistle champion on the fiddle) and Richard Moss (vocals and guitar)

Celebrating the ‘Year of Reading’ there will be reading and writing stalls, as well as charity stalls, a Winnie the Pooh Trail, music and choirs on the bandstand, a dance troupe and dog show in the arena, circus skills and  food stalls.

An eccentric lottery winner who lives on a remote island tries to make his fantasies come true by getting his favourite musicians to perform at his home.

Two Hearts. One Fate. A Timeless Love Reborn. Directed by Joseph Pitcher and featuring original music by composer Rob Millett, this retelling blends dynamic staging, evocative sound, and the enduring power of Shakespeare’s verse, that illuminates the passion, peril, and youthful intensity at the play’s core. Please bring something to sit on!

Join the Manchester Hong Kong Community Singers, the Meadway Singers, Sale Daytime Singers and Sale U3A Singers for an evening of song and audience singalong.