• 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 […]

    £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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

    £2 – £8
  • 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 […]

    £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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • Writing Workshop with Anjum Malik

    Performance Space

    Join Manchester UNESCO City of Literature Multilingual City Poet Anjum Malik for a celebration of South Asian culture. Combining rich conversation, classical Indian dance and poetry (plus samosas), the award-winning […]