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  • The Door Opened: 1980s China

    Lower Ground Floor Exhibition Space

    One can argue that nostalgia is the strongest emotion, a pure mixture of wistfulness and melancholy. Adrian Bradshaw, an English photographer, brings that sense of yearning into full focus in […]

  • A Northern Life – it’s not all about Margaret

    First Floor Display Cases

    Welcome to the wonderful world of local artist Lorraine Rudyard. Lorraine creates three-dimensional sculptures using recycled materials and vintage finds. Her work is colourful, humorous, warm and engaging, and reflects […]

  • Every Picture Tells a Story

    Archives+ Ground Floor

    Heritage Schools (part of Heritage England), Archives+ and artist Lorraine Rudyard, have created an exhibition working with 12 year-5 classes from Manchester schools. The schools have created figures for scenes […]

  • Art Assembly: City as Art School Exhibition

    Wolfson Reading Room

    Foundation Art and Design Students from The Manchester College have brought the Art School’s ethos of research to the iconic circular reading room with a series of stunning works. Each […]

  • The Darker Side of Pink

    A Breast Cancer Awareness Exhibition Tour Patient advocacy group METUPUK, is hosting a pop-up exhibition throughout the venue to highlight the need to improve care and research around secondary (metastatic) […]

  • ‘Musick’ in Manchester 1744/45

    Henry Watson Music Library

    Musick in Manchester 1744/45 recreates the first ever public concert series known to have been given in Manchester, prefiguring the remarkable musical tradition that accompanied Manchester’s development into one of […]

  • Word Central – Now We Are Six! Birthday Special!

    Performance Space

    Word Central Open Mic Night Hosted by Tony Curry Presented by Manchester Libraries & Flapjack Press Join us at Manchester Central Library on Tues 26th July for our Now We Are […]

  • Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan – Workshop and Book Launch

    Performance Space

    Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan is a writer, poet, educator and activist, disrupting ideas of history, race, knowledge and violence, co-author of A Fly Girl’s Guide to University  (Verve Poetry Press, 2019) and […]

  • Holiday Activities for 11-16 years

    Join us at Central Library for free summer holidays activities for 11-16 year olds at Manchester Central Library - including a free lunch! 1/8/22 - Media Cubs pop-up TV studio […]