Central Library’s Big Language Celebration

Do you speak more than one language? Want to find out more about the languages spoken in Manchester? Then join us for an engaging exploration of our foreign language archives, where visitors can uncover stories, documents, and cultural treasures from Manchester’s amazingly diverse communities.

Performance Schedule

1.30pm Welcome by the Portuguese Consulate

1.45pm Irish storytelling with Neysa Killeen

2pm Portuguese poetry reading with Eugénia Azevedo and José Dias

2.15pm Irish storytelling with Neysa Killeen

2.30pm Greek poetry reading with Mandy Kotsopoulou, Iason Andreadakis, Doreta Boultouka and Spyros Pantos

2.45pm Irish storytelling with Neysa Killeen

3pm Prose and poetry reading in Hungarian with Dr Szilvi Naray and Zotmund Jakab

3.15pm Irish storytelling with Neysa Killeen

Free – please drop in

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