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Sex Pistols in Manchester – Exhibition

First Floor Display Cases

On 4 June 1976, the Sex Pistols played for the first time in Manchester at the Lesser Free Trade Hall. The gig is seen as the catalyst for the Manchester […]

From Millworkers to Millennials: Jean Hobson

First Floor Exhibition Hall

From Millworkers to Millennials: paintings, drawings and screen prints by Jean Hobson When Jean Hobson started drawing Manchester’s old buildings in 2007, she did not realise she was charting a […]

Manchester Loving Earth Project – Textile Exhibition

Ground Floor

This exhibition of over 70 Loving Earth Project textile panels will be at six city centre venues in Manchester. Central Library is one of these venues and has 10 panels […]

Dominic Berry & John Darwin Book Launch

Performance Space

Flapjack Press and Manchester Libraries invite you to the book launch of new poetry collections of two of Manchester's finest. John Darwin: Ultrasilence From the provincial peccadilloes of Prestwich in […]