August 2002 and Later
- 1 August - Tony Kofi and his Afro-Jazz family, Band on the Wall
- 2 August - Nucleus Roots, Band on the Wall
- 2 August - Special Sportsmans Dinner Meeting, with footballer Martin Clarke, Swinton Park Golf Club
- 2 August - A Classical Evening in an Urban Park, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Longford Park
- 3 August - "G Percussion", Commonwealth Games Percussion, Castlefield
- 3 August - City Centre Secrets, Victorian Society guided-walk around Manchester City Centre
- 3 August - More than Gold Final Festival, Salvation Army Hall Rochdale
- 3 – 5 August - Flower Festival, Horwich Moor Methodist Church
- 4 August - Hyndburn Mela
- 4 August - Preston Mela
- 4 August - Mujo, the Big Band Sound for the Big Games Finale, Manchester Hard Rock Cafe
- 11 August - Rock in the Park, Queen's Park Heywood
- 11 August - East Feast Festival - Fire & Water Festival, Ashton Canal, Philips Park
- 11 August - The Comedy Store's Post Commonwealth Cabaret
- 11 August - Commonwealth Black Pudding Throwing Championships, Ramsbottom
- 12 August – 26 November - "Spirit of the Games", Manchester Museum of Science and Industry
- 16 – 18 August - Bolton Show, Leverhulme Park, Bolton
- 26 – 30 August - Commonwealth Tenpin Bowling Championships, Stirling
- 9 October – 9 November - "Swim" - an exhibition about the Culture of Moving in Water - Lancaster City Museum
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Famous quotes containing the word august:
“To go by the asters
and breathe
the sweetness that hovers
in August about the tall milkweeds,
without a direct look ...”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)