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Shirley Baker: Airport ’87

First Floor Exhibition Hall

A poignant look back at at Manchester Airport as seen through the lens of acclaimed photographer Shirley Baker, thirty years ago, having spent a day at the airport in 1987 capturing […]

Portrait Youth Exhibition

Wolfson Reading Room

Manchester Metropolitan University’s Manchester Fashion Institute is involved in an exciting new project that explores the individual and civic identities of Greater Manchester’s young people through style, fashion and dress. Academics Jo Jenkinson, John […]

The Writing Squad

Performance Space

THIS EVENT IS FULLY BOOKED Is reading for six minutes as good for you as five a day or a brisk walk? We think so, especially if it is about you, about where you […]

Howard Jacobson

Performance Space

Join us for an evening with award-winning Mancunian writer and critic Howard Jacobson, in conversation with MLF Patron and host Rachel Cooke about the art of satire and writing as resistance. Written […]

£8

Hollie McNish & Jackie Hagan

Performance Space

THIS EVENT IS NOW FULLY BOOKED Join two captivating artists for an unforgettable evening of performance poetry. The winner of The Poetry Society’s 2017 Ted Hughes Award for New Work, Hollie returns to MLF to read from […]

£10

Michael Symmons Roberts

Performance Space

In his eagerly anticipated seventh collection, Michael Symmons Roberts shows us a place at once familiar and strange. Mancunia is located where real crosses unreal, a Manchester of the mind: […]

£7

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’ […]

Family Learning Festival: Animation Workshop

Start your adventure here! This practical workshop introduces parents and children to the wonderful world of animation, and shows how to work together to create basic stop frame animation. What […]

Science@Central

Central Library is a mysterious, secret-filled place. Who knows what hidden knowledge lies between the pages of its many books? Read up on the spirit of scientific investigation and come […]

Creepy Crypt Halloween Activity

Darken the doors of Central Library for our spooky Halloween event. Dare to visit the creepy crypt and take part in a ghastly game, hear chilling rhymes from the creature […]