A contemporary biennial arts festival in South Manchester. 24th June- 2nd July Don't miss out on 9 jam-packed days of 100+ events! Get your tickets now. Didsbury Arts Festival (DAF) is a leading arts biennial festival in Manchester celebrating creative culture - indoors, outdoors and online. Look out for our series of art happenings in 2021. The next DAF full festival will be in June 2022. DAF's primary activities are the design, development and delivery of a community arts festival and related events in Didsbury in accordance with its charitable objects which are to promote, improve and advance the arts in Didsbury including education about and the encouragement of the arts.