Manchester is a city that knows how to throw a party.

Festivals may have been cancelled and events postponed, but there's still plenty of nightlife and entertainment to be enjoyed - online.

We've rounded up some of the best virtual events and live streams to tune in to this weekend.

Manchester Food and Drink Festival cookalong

Chef Mary-Ellen McTague

Manchester Food and Drink Festival is taking over United We Stream this weekend for a hangover-themed virtual cookalong.

With a little help from top chefs including Mary-Ellen McTague, Robert Owen Brown and Andrew Nutter, MFDF will be showing you how to cook up some ultimate comfort food to soothe any Sunday headaches (perhaps created by Sticky Heat's 11-hour virtual party on the streaming platform the night before).

Rachel Stockley, from Ramsbottom tapas bar Baratxuri, Tampopo founder David Fox, Maurizio Cecco from Salvi's, Robyn Marsh from Herbivorous, and Alberto Mombelli from Basilico will also be cooking up a storm.

The event will be filmed at Stretford Foodhall at Stretford Mall and is free to watch, though viewers are asked to make a donation, if they can. All the money raised will go to support Greater Manchester's lockdown-hit nightlife businesses, the Mayor's homelessness charity and the Nordoff Robbins music charity.

Tune in on Sunday May 17, from noon until 5pm, at unitedwestream.co.uk.

Manchester Pride: Queens In Your Living Room

Cheddar Gorgeous

Manchester Pride may be postponed until 2021, but that still doesn’t mean the fun can’t continue.

For the last few weeks, organisers have been airing previous performances from the archives - and now they've announced a brand new show celebrating Manchester’s drag scene.

Hot on the heels of organising a drag rendition of Vera Lynn’s ‘We’ll Meet Again’, Cheddar Gorgeous has curated and created the show.

It will feature performances from Anna Phylactic, Liquorice Black, Giselle, Miss Blair, Saki Yew, Laurie & Rhi Psycle, Beau Azra, Marylyn Misandry and House of Noir member CC Noir, all filmed by the queens in their own homes.

Divina De Campo, who recently appeared as a contestant on RuPaul’s Drag Race UK, will also perform during the show.

The Queens In Your Living Room show takes place on Manchester Pride’s YouTube channel on Friday May 15 from 8pm.

MIF Live: FKA twigs

FKA Twigs

Manchester International Festival's free at-home programme of events continues with a streaming of FKA twigs' Soundtrack 7.

Created and filmed during the artist and singer's MIF15 residency at Old Granada Studios, the abstract autobiographical piece includes performances set to How's That, Ultraviolet and Good to Love, bound together by a repeated recitation of Thomas Wyatt's poem I Find No Peace.

FKA twigs describes the project as 'flesh, sweat, feeling, muscle, and a live movement, no air brushing, no frills’.

The film will be followed by an exclusive in-conversation between FKA twigs and Hans Ultrich Obrist, artistic director of the Serpentine Galleries.

Tune in via MIF's YouTube channel on Friday May 15 from 7.30pm.

Trafford Pride Inside

Trafford Pride organisers are bringing the festival into people's homes for a weekend of entertainment.

Originally due to be held at Sale arts centre Waterside, the event features plenty of family fun on Friday with storytelling from Manchester drag queen collective Family Gorgeous.

Saturday will see a DJ set celebrating cult 90s film Romy and Michele's High School Reunion from electro-pop artist Bright Light Bright Light, followed by a one-off vogue dance class from Darren Pritchard, mother of Manchester's House of Ghetto.

There'll also be a more family-focused vogue class on Sunday.

All events are free but audiences can contribute to Waterside's Pay It Forward campaign to buy theatre tickets for NHS workers and their families once the venue reopens.

Visit prideintrafford.org for more information.