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  • Made in Manchester Exhibition

    Children's Library

    Visit our art installation which was commissioned to celebrate the multilingual poem ‘Made in Manchester’.  Local artist, Emma Martin worked with nine schools to create this artwork, with around 200 […]

  • Manchester College Student Exhibition

    Wolfson Reading Room

    Students from The Manchester College’s UAL Diploma in Foundation Studies Art and Design were given random Dewey numbers (the most widely used method for classifying books in libraries) from Central […]

  • Whose Knowledge Matters

    First Floor

    Whose knowledge matters when we represent the city? Who decides what land to protect or destroy, whose heritage to celebrate, whose stories to tell and who gets ‘seen’ in the […]

  • Women of Aktion

    Archives+ Ground Floor

    An exhibition sharing the story of the German Revolution 1918 and reclaiming the voices of the female revolutionaries who have, until now, been hidden from the official narrative. In November […]

  • The Hidden Tableaux’s Peterloo Massacre 1819

    First Floor Exhibition Hall

    Hidden’ is an ongoing series of photographic tableaux by internationally acclaimed Artist and a Founder of ‘Rock Against Racism’, Red Saunders The Hidden Project shines photographic light on great moments […]

  • Peterloo Now: The Gaps in Representation

    Performance Space

    In partnership with the University of Manchester and the Guardian, we will be hosting a panel, including Professor Francesca Gains, as they discuss representation in politics. On 16 August 1819, the […]

    £5

  • Make Music Day 2019

    Performance Space

    This event celebrates the diverse and inclusive nature of music making in Manchester. Showcasing the musical talent of our visitors to Central Library, and demonstrating the range of musical instruments […]

  • Peterloo in Sound

    Performance Space

    Sound as Being will present ‘Peterloo in Sound’ a 5.1 sound composition by Mark Pilkington inspired by a historical event that came to be known as ‘The Peterloo Massacre’, that […]

  • Peterloo Now: AI and the Fourth Industrial Revolution

    Performance Space

    Manchester Histories, in partnership with the University of Manchester and the Guardian, our panel, which includes Professor Deborah Howcroft, will be discussing the fourth industrial revolution and asking whether the rise […]

    £5

  • Our Town Hall Project – the transformation

    Timescales: next steps Meet the Team and find out more We’re now onto the next stage of the renovations, partial restoration and refurbishment of The Town Hall, and are inviting […]

  • Our Sam, The Middleton Man

    Performance Space

    Our Sam follows the story of a teenager, Samantha (a secret poet), who travels around her home Town of Middleton observing and writing of the exclusion and voicelessness of the […]