Imagination Gaming
Lower Ground Floor LinkLearn to play-play to learn! Taking gaming to a different meaning. These games are designed to challenge your brain with stimulating mental challenge across all ages and abilities. Can you beat […]
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National Playday
Performance SpaceWant a challenge over the summer? Join our big play day event and find out what challenges you can take on this summer. We will have an extra Lego club […]
Music Days: Born and Bred
Performance SpaceJoin us for Music Thursday at Central Library! Doodle Dance is a workshop that combines mindful doodling techniques with movement. Create doodles and dance moves of your own in this […]
Reimagined City 2024: Summer Art Workshop
Performance SpaceJoin us for a painting workshop exploring Manchester migrant culture and sharing migrant story through art! Reimagined City: Summer Art Workshop is a painting workshop exploring international influence on local […]
Wisdom is the Principal Thing
Wolfson Reading RoomManchester artist, Fiona Donald, has created an installation of drawings documenting the impermanence of the changing seasons. Initially Inspired by the quote around the dome of the Wolfson Reading Room […]
Vinyl Listening Group
Performance SpaceJoin us to listen to and discuss our favourite records and slabs of vinyl. Next listen: Person Pitch by Panda Bear. All welcome! Free - just drop in
Soundtrack to Your Life
Chief Librarian's OfficeWhat would be your track? What's the story behind the tune? What would be your album and what would the sleeve notes say? Come along and let us hear your […]
Summer Silent Disco!
Performance SpacePLEASE NOTE - THIS EVENT HAS BEEN DELAYED TO A FUTURE DATE (TO BE ANNOUNCED) Forget the weather! We'll have no summertime sadness here. You'll be walking on sunshine at […]
Family Film Club
Performance SpaceJoin for themed crafts and showcased books linked to this month’s film. The club is free to join and we may even have popcorn! Bring the family for a free […]
Ear Soup – Acoustic Food for the Soul
Henry Watson Music LibraryJoin us in the Henry Watson Music Library for a beguiling hour of acoustic magic from three local performers. Free - drop in. Please make a donation to support our […]
Scrumptious!
Performance SpaceAll is well at Sylvie’s Scrumptious Sweet Shop, P.C. Lee can’t resist the fruit cake, Stanley the Horse loves peppermint creams, and the Talkative Twins only cause a crumb of […]
Love Science
Join ‘Love Science’ this summer as part of the Marvellous Makers Club Summer Reading Challenge. Design and make light up pictures, use friction to defy gravity, and make a climbing […]
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