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Manchester Indie Film Makers Group

Media Lounge

We are a group of collective creatives who use film and media to produce original productions which are hopefully both thought provoking and offer a fresh view of how film […]

Manchester Voices – Interactive Exhibition

Archives+ Ground Floor

Manchester Voices is an ongoing project investigating and celebrating the accents, dialects, and people of Greater Manchester. It looks at the ways in which our use of language makes us […]

ME – Portrait Exhibition

First Floor Display Cases

This special exhibition features work from artists taking part in creative workshops at the Booth Centre, which aims to bring about positive change in the lives of people who are […]

Piccadilly Gardens Exhibition: How Did Your Garden Grow?

Lower Ground Floor Exhibition Space

The Architecture School for Children have worked with 4 local schools from the Moss Side and Hulme area of Manchester, St Marys C of E Primary, Claremont Road Primary, Webster […]

Read Manchester BookBench Trail 

Come into Central Library to pick up your Trail map and plan your summer activities around our BookBenches!  Venues across the city are hosting 58 BookBench sculptures - all decorated […]

Deities at the Bottom of the Garden

First Floor Exhibition Hall

In this fascinating exhibition, artist Richard Bartle explores in minute detail the customs and icons of major world religions and belief systems. Manifested in a series of 12 scale modelled garden […]

Central Library in LEGO

Pop in and see this wonderful LEGO model of Central Library, which was built by Robert Clarkson for ‘Bricktastic’ at Manchester Convention Centre in 2015.  It has been shown around […]

every thing every time

Lwr Ground floor - City Library

What stories can be uncovered from a city? every thing every time, a new flip-dot artwork by Naho Matsuda, takes information from our interactions within the city to tell a […]

Jazz North northern line: Archipelago

Performance Space

Faye MacCalman (clarinet, tenor saxophone)/John Pope (electric bass)/Christian Alderson (drums) Faye MacCalman fronts Newcastle sax-bass-drums trio, Archipelago, drawing on garage rock, minimalism and free improvisation: riffs, silence, noise and grooves create a […]

Jazz North northern line: Early Nite

Performance Space

Otto Willberg (double bass)/Harry Smith (tenor saxophone)/Alexander Tod (drums) A fiery take on the sax-bass-drums trio format, favouring short and snappy tunes in the spirit of punk: free improvisation delivered […]