Here’s an event that’s been cleverly marketed over the past few weeks, with vague stickers in shop windows and such throughout Manchester city centre:

I’m Here, a 30-minute short film; is at the heart of the new Absolut campaign, ‘In An Absolut World, Ordinary Is No Place To Be’. I’m Here, a robot love story ‘In An Absolut World’, is set in LA and celebrates a life enriched by creativity.

The highly anticipated film collaboration with Spike Jonze will be launched nationwide this month, with a series of exclusive screenings in London, Manchester and Edinburgh. Across the UK, billboards and graffiti sites have subtly built intrigue around the collaboration, offering consumers the chance to attend exclusive preview screenings of the film ‘in no ordinary places’.

In Manchester, ‘no ordinary places’ equates to a car park – the shiny, round, silver one in Shudehill to be exact. At 7pm and 8.45pm tonight, Jonze’s film will play out to an invite-only audience. Visit the I’m Here site for more information.

Happy 2010 readers! I hope you had a good break, and are enjoying slipping and sliding all over Manchester. Best snow-based construction this week? Easy: the king-sized throne outside Ridelow on Dale Street.

I’m getting back into the swing of Mancubisting – and one thing that has drawn my attention lately is this:

Stuart Maconie, co-host of the Radcliffe and Maconie Show on BBC Radio 2 and host of The Freak Zone on 6Music, will give a reading from his latest book, Adventures on the High Teas, and talk about the quirks and delights of his travels in the pursuit of Middle England … via Manchester.

High Tea with Stuart Maconie takes place at Mosi on Liverpool Road this coming Sunday. It’s £8 for a ticket – and with that you get a traditional English cream tea. Click here to book online, or call 0844 847 2261.

[I spotted this event via the increasingly useful Visit Manchester Blog.]

Urbis’ Videogame Nation ended yesterday – surely one of the Urbis exhibition centre’s most successful outings to date – but another great-looking show is little over a week away:

Show & Tell is an exhibition by the Urbis Creatives art collective; a collective comprised of Urbis staff. The exhibition will give the Urbis team a chance to show their work and tell the visitors about what they do outside of the creative environment of Urbis. It will comprise of many different disciplines from photography to illustration, painting and also projects the members are involved in such as community work and music events.

You can get a sneak peak of the kind of talent on show by reading more about Urbis Creatives artists. Show & Tell opens on Tuesday 29 September and runs until 12 October.

Meanwhile, I couldn’t write about Urbis without mentioning the potential transfer of one of Preston’s star attractions, the National Football Museum, over here in 2010. I’m sure it would be a great addition to this football-rich city – although Kate over at the Manchizzle expressed the other side of the argument concisely: ‘Art 0, Football 1′.

Aaaand relax! That was kind of the feeling when I finally finished fiddling with CreativeTourist.com, a new website for Manchester that launched earlier today. Here’s what it’s all about:

This website has been lovingly crafted by Manchester Museums Consortium, a group of nine museums and galleries in Manchester, separate venues that have a single vision: the desire to stage intelligent, thought-provoking exhibitions and events. Oh, and to celebrate the city in which we live, work and play.

We are rightly proud and passionate about this city of ours; we hope that, by reading about some of the things happening here, and finding out more about our outstanding historic collections, you’ll start to feel the same.

This celebration of our fair city is what has particularly drawn me to the project – the promise of original, substantial editorial coverage of Manchester, the likes of which is a rare treat right now. The launch content ties in with Manchester International Festival of course – Marina Abramovic and Jeremy Deller both make appearances – but there’s also a feature connected to the Videogame Nation currently on at Urbis, for example, and another about ‘Manchester hermit’ Ansuman Biswas.

The blog section is shaping up nicely too, with the Manchizzle’s Kate Feld doing a MIF ‘cultureometer’ roundup, among other posts. Kate’s another member of the CreativeTourist team, which is being overseen by editor Susie Stubbs – winner of last year’s Manchester Blog of the Year no less. Check out the site now, and if you find it interesting sign up for regular email updates, follow it on Twitter, or become a fan on Facebook.