What's on

Angel Delight’s Eurovision Drag Party

Performance Space

The perfect party to make your Eurovision week go with a boom bang a bang! Join the dream diva, Angel Delight, for an evening of singalongs, card games, bongo bingo, music quizzes and lots of surprises, all with an added Eurovision sparkle! Doors open at 7.30pm. Bar will be open all evening. Over 18's only.

£5 – £24

A Lifetime in Music with producer Mark Cooper & Jill Furmanovsky

Performance Space

In celebration of her first retrospective at Manchester Central Library, music photographer Jill Furmanovsky is joined by long-term friend and former head of music at the BBC Mark Cooper comparing stories of their life in the music industry. Mark Cooper began his career as a music journalist in the pages of Record Mirror, Q and […]

£8

Silk Painting Workshop with Aysha Yilmaz

MAFCFEST presents a creative session with Aysha on silk painting! In this workshop, motifs and designs from The Silk Road ( Iran, Uzbekistan, Turkey etc) will be used to produce a Silk Painting. Aysha will demonstrate how to apply the design to the Silk fabric from a drawing, followed by techniques of filling in with […]

£5

Local Community History Month-Archives+ Workshop

Ground Floor

Learn how to use local maps, street directories, censuses and various other archives to identify a local person - Free - please drop in  Other Local Community History Month events include: 1921 Census talk by Leslie Turner (free) - Friday 26 May, 11am - Book your place here Handling session - Rates and Electoral Registers […]

Word Central with special guest Leon the Pig Farmer

Performance Space

Leon the Pig Farmer is a Manchester-based Yorkshire beat poet. An ex-serviceman who began writing verse to help him deal with a PTSD diagnosis, he has an assertive take on spoken word with fast firing rhythmic verse and a sharp outlook on both his mental health recovery, social observation and political imbalance. Leon has two […]

Crime Central

Performance Space

  PLEASE NOTE: Tickets for this event are on a “pay what you can” basis.They range from £2 – £8 plus the Eventbrite booking fee. All tickets allow the same access to the event. This is a just a pricing system to accommodate for individual financial circumstances. Signed books will be available to purchase after […]

£2 – £8

Conserving Manchester Town Hall’s heritage: Restoring the Town Hall Clock. Afternoon Session.

Performance Space

Manchester Town Hall has been closed since January 2018 for an extensive restoration programme that will repair and upgrade the building to modern standards. The work will include the conservation of many heritage features. Our series of Heritage Lectures aims to shine a light on some of the fascinating work that’s been going on behind […]

Conserving Manchester Town Hall’s heritage: Restoring the Town Hall Clock. Evening Session

Performance Space

Manchester Town Hall has been closed since January 2018 for an extensive restoration programme that will repair and upgrade the building to modern standards. The work will include the conservation of many heritage features. Our series of Heritage Lectures aims to shine a light on some of the fascinating work that’s been going on behind […]

An Evening with bestselling author TJ Klune

Performance Space

Manchester Libraries and Queer Lit Bookshop present An Evening with TJ Klune. Meet bestselling author TJ Klune for a captivating discussion about his writing process and latest works, followed by a Q&A and book signing. Join us for a book author event featuring the talented TJ Klune, bestselling author of "The House in the Cerulean […]

£8

“You can see me, but I don’t exist”

Wolfson Reading Room

While photographing refugees in France, Belgium, Austria, and Sweden in 2018, Alan Gignoux noticed that a recurring theme among them was the gradual erosion of self, resulting from prolonged periods of living at the fringes of society. Similarly, he heard many of them talk of being invisible both to the immigration bureaucracies and to the […]

Michael Burns

Henry Watson Music Library

Join us for this live performance by an experienced folk musician who draws inspiration from local and family history. Michael Burns’ repertoire incorporates music from a wide timespan and he is interested in music pertaining to social commentary and how it relates to the present day. Click on the links to hear some of Michael's […]

New Drum Kit!

Henry Watson Music Library

We have a new electronic drum kit, which will be available from this day! Our old kits have been popular features of the department and we’ve had lots of enquiries about when to expect a new one. It’s finally here, and bookings can be made at the Henry Watson Music Library desk or over the […]