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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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • Peterloo 1819-2019 – A Talk by Robert Poole

    Performance Space

    A timely illustrated lecture on the Peterloo massacre of 1819, with the emphasis on new findings and on connections with the local area. Robert Poole Professor of History at the […]

  • Peterloo – Te Read, to Hear, to Feel

    Performance Space

    We will perform dramatic readings from a book called Mules Masters and Mud by local author G.J.Griffiths. Graham captures the Zeitgeist of the times and will read from a chapter […]

  • Peterloo Now: Is Devolution the Way to a Healthier Democracy?

    Performance Space

    In partnership with the University of Manchester and the Guardian, join our panel chaired by Guardian northern editor Helen Pidd and including Professor Andy Westwood and Lisa Nandy MP, as they discuss the devolution of […]

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  • Generation Revolution

    Performance Space

    As part of this years Peterloo bicentenary, the Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Race Relations Resource Centre invite you to a screening of Generation Revolution, a feature-length documentary film that brings to […]

  • People’s Landscapes – Unearthing Passion and Protest

    Performance Space

    Developed out of their work at local National Trust properties with a connection to Peterloo, artists Grace Surman, Gary Winters and their children will lead a creative family workshop exploring […]