Paper Piano Exhibition
Henry Watson Music LibraryPaper Piano – A Retrospective For the last 10 years, Paper Piano have been creating music related artwork and packaging. More recently they have focused on hand-made books; this combination […]
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Marketing the Manchester Ship Canal 1919-1939
Archives+ Ground FloorThis new exhibition showcases a range of original publicity material and print adverts created as marketing for the Port of Manchester. This saw a revolution in publicity with modern ideas […]
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When the Dust Settles – Exhibition
Archives+ Ground FloorThere are currently thousands of refugees in the UK waiting for decisions on their family reunion applications. Forced migration and the traumatic consequences of separation, as well as of the […]
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Paper Piano Presents: DJ Goalpost
Henry Watson Music LibraryAnyone who has visited the Paper Piano exhibition may have wondered who or what DJ Goalpost is. To answer that, and to mark the end of the exhibition, Paper Piano […]
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Terrance Hayes, Anthony Anaxagorou & Selina Nwulu
Performance SpaceThree dynamic poets perform work from their latest collections, exploring identity, heritage and injustice. Terrance Hayes returns to MLF with his blistering new work So to Speak. Exploring what it means to be […]
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Robert John Watson: The Sky Above Her
First Floor Exhibition HallExhibiting work spanning 20 years, Robert Watson (one of the country’s leading documentary and contemporary photographic artists) returns to Central Library. This free exhibition features images of Manchester Pride and […]
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Little Reads Family Day with Nathan Bryon & Dapo Adeola
Performance SpaceAuthor Nathan Bryon and illustrator Dapo Adeola’s loveable character Rocket has already taught us about space in the award-winning Look Up! Then she tackled ocean pollution in Clean Up! Now, […]
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Gaia Vince in Conversation
Performance SpaceEVENT POSTPONED: Please note that due to travel disruptions we are having to postpone this event. Details of the new date will be confirmed shortly and our box office will […]
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Simon Armitage
Performance Space‘Perhaps have something that the poems don’t. Or perhaps they don’t have something that the poems do’. Where do song lyrics and poetry converge? Poet Laureate Simon Armitage has always […]
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Karl Ove Knausgaard in Conversation
Performance SpaceKarl Ove Knausgaard, author of My Struggle, ‘the greatest literary invention of the 21st century’, makes his MLF debut to discuss his dazzling new novel The Wolves of Eternity (translated by Martin Aitkin). In Southern […]
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Decolonising My Body with Afua Hirsch
Performance SpaceWe’re channelling our ancestors, crediting our ancestors, claiming we are our ancestors “wildest dreams”, and cautioning against our ancestors’ deepest nightmares.’ As she turned forty, broadcaster and journalist Afua Hirsch […]
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Lisa Nandy
Performance SpaceTHIS EVENT IS NOW SOLD OUT ‘I am determined that we seize this moment and rise to meet the challenge of our age: to build a country in which everyone has a stake and a […]
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