June 2002
- 1 June - Streetlife, Bolton Town Centre
- 8 June – 20 July - "Spotlight:Paintings by the Singh Twins, Mid Pennine Gallery, Burnley
- 13 June - Bob Phillips book signing, Commonwealth Games Store, The Arndale Centre
- 13 June - Creative Commonwealths: Cinema Culture & Community in the Age of Globalisation, The Cornerhouse
- 14 – 30 June - An exhibition of the Postal History of the Commonwealth Games, Manchester Town Hall
- 15 – 16 June - Aqua-Pura Commonwealth Trials, City of Manchester Stadium
- 16 June – 3 August - Bolton's Festival of Cycling 2002
- 17 June - Andrew Motion In Conversation, Manchester Central Library
- 17 – 23 June - Literatures of the Commonwealth Festival
- 18 June – 20 August - Visible Cities exhibition, Cube Art Gallery
- 20 June - Jamaican poet Lorna Goodison, Manchester Central Library
- 20 June - Gay Commonwealth Panel, discussion including novelist and critic Paul Bailey, New Zealand poet John Galtas, Scots poet David Kinloch, fiction writer Adam Mars-Jones, Canadian poet Norman Sacuta and Egyptian-born Ghanaian poet Gregory Woods, Manchester Central Library
- 22 June - Design a T-shirt competition, Commonwealth Games Store Arndale
- 22 – 27 June - Carnival Messiah, West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds
- 22 June – 2 October - "Swim" - an exhibition about the Culture of Moving in Water - Turton Tower, Bolton
- 23 June - Children's Workshop: Explore the Commonwealth, The Green Room
- 25 – 29 June - David Hermanstein's "A Caribbrean Abroad", Manchester Library Theatre
- 26 June - Prayer Network presents "Manchester: City of the Moment", The Lowry
- 27 June - A Taste of New Zealand, Museum Gallery, Bolton
- 28 June – 7 July - Commonwealth Film Festival
- 29 June - One World Festival 2002, New Mills
- 29 June – 21 July - Keyfest festival
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