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Digital Home Movie Day

Archives+ Ground Floor

  Home Movie Day is an annual worldwide celebration of family films – the North West Film Archive is looking for those more recent home movies which were ‘born digital’ and might be trapped in an old device.  Bring us your gadgets, cards and phones and our experts will do their best to retrieve your […]

Our Manchester: A Creative Hackathon

Performance Space

During April we're asking people to send us their photos, videos, stories, sounds and audio about life in Manchester so we can create a record of the month of April across the whole city. At this event we’ll use the information we’ve collected to create the record. You'll be able to see the results on […]

Another England: Mapping 100 Years of Our Black and Asian Heritage

AIU Race Relations Centre

Join us for a special drop-in session to find out about and share information on the buildings, places and spaces that have had the greatest impact to people of Black & Asian Heritage in Manchester and Greater Manchester. Experience an engaging day of music, art and discussions. Ideal for families, budding cultural historians, community groups […]

¡No Pasarán! – North West International Brigade Memorial Group

Performance Space

North West International Brigade Memorial Group invite you to join us for ¡No Pasarán!, a day of commemoration of those Greater Manchester men and women who fought against Franco, Hitler and Mussolini in the Spanish Civil War. 11.30- 1PM 85th anniversary commemoration of the battle of Jarama. In February 1937 around 500 men of the […]

Breaking the News Exhibition and Archive Handling Sessions

Archives+ Ground Floor

The news has the power to make or break elections, to change the course of history or to alter our perspective on the city and country we live in. We expect the news to speak truth to power, but can it ever really be objective? Is your news the same as everyone else’s? How do […]

Conserving Manchester Town Hall’s heritage: Restoring the Town Hall Clock. Afternoon Session.

Performance Space

Manchester Town Hall has been closed since January 2018 for an extensive restoration programme that will repair and upgrade the building to modern standards. The work will include the conservation of many heritage features. Our series of Heritage Lectures aims to shine a light on some of the fascinating work that’s been going on behind […]

Conserving Manchester Town Hall’s heritage: Restoring the Town Hall Clock. Evening Session

Performance Space

Manchester Town Hall has been closed since January 2018 for an extensive restoration programme that will repair and upgrade the building to modern standards. The work will include the conservation of many heritage features. Our series of Heritage Lectures aims to shine a light on some of the fascinating work that’s been going on behind […]

Conserving Our Town Hall’s heritage: Pulling out all the stops – restoring the Town Hall organ

Performance Space

AFTERNOON SESSION 1PM EVENING SESSION 5.30PM Manchester Town Hall has been closed since January 2018 for an extensive restoration programme that will repair and upgrade the building to modern standards. The work will include the conservation of many heritage features. Our series of Heritage Lectures aims to shine a light on some of the fascinating […]

Behind the Scenes Tour of Central Library

Entrance Hall

Which musician was once thrown out of the Language and Literature Library? What would you find now in the space where Patrick Stewart and Helen Mirren – amongst many others – played their first roles? All these questions – and many more – are answered on a tour of Manchester Central Library which will take […]

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