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  • The Prostate Gap

    Lower Ground Floor Exhibition Space

    Photographer Ian Smith presents this exhibition with the objective of raising awareness of prostate cancer in the under-represented. It focuses on the lack of understanding of how prostate cancer affects […]

  • Sex Pistols in Manchester – Exhibition

    Featured
    First Floor Display Cases

    On 4 June 1976, the Sex Pistols played for the first time in Manchester at the Lesser Free Trade Hall. The gig is seen as the catalyst for the Manchester […]

  • From Millworkers to Millennials: Jean Hobson

    First Floor Exhibition Hall

    From Millworkers to Millennials: paintings, drawings and screen prints by Jean Hobson When Jean Hobson started drawing Manchester’s old buildings in 2007, she did not realise she was charting a […]

  • We Are Carnival! Party

    Performance Space

    Explore historical carnival memories through archives via an exhibition, film provided by North West Film Archive, music by Manchester Carnival affiliated DJ and host Kemoy Walker, a family arts workshop […]

  • Manchester Loving Earth Project – Textile Exhibition

    Ground Floor

    This exhibition of over 70 Loving Earth Project textile panels will be at six city centre venues in Manchester. Central Library is one of these venues and has 10 panels […]

  • Dominic Berry & John Darwin Book Launch

    Performance Space

    Flapjack Press and Manchester Libraries invite you to the book launch of new poetry collections of two of Manchester's finest. John Darwin: Ultrasilence From the provincial peccadilloes of Prestwich in […]

  • Crime Central

    Performance Space

    Crime Central returns in November with three more amazing writers! Lauren North - writes psychological suspense novels that delve into the darker side of relationships and families. Lauren’s love of psychological […]

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  • Launch of the Grass Roots Books Archive

    Archives+ Ground Floor

    Grass Roots Books was Manchester's radical bookshop from 1971 to 1990, becoming the largest outside London and a worker's co-operative. Former workers have collected memories and archive material about it. At this […]

  • BBC100 in Greater Manchester

    Archives+ Ground Floor

    This year the BBC celebrates its centenary. Archives+ has partnered with the BBC Archives and Greater Manchester’s ten archives services to select interesting local items from the BBC’s radio and […]

  • Cosgrove Hall Classics & Lupus Films on Loop

    Performance Space

    Join Manchester Animation Festival for a selection of special free animation screenings on loop. Jump into classics from the iconic Manchester studio Cosgrove Hall such as Danger Mouse & The Wind in the […]

  • Animated Immersive Experiences

    Performance Space

    As part of Manchester Animation Festival 2022, some of the best immersive animated films and experiences from around the world are on offer. This programme is full of virtual reality […]

  • Rooms of Our Own

    Lwr Ground Floor - Manchester Histories Hub

    A National Lottery Heritage Funded project to reveal the hidden ‘herstory’ of the Pankhurst Trust. Delivered in partnership with Manchester Histories. This exhibition displays the Pankhurst Trust’s organisational archive, now […]