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Deaf Education & Audiology: A Journey through Artefacts, Archives and Creativity

First Floor Display Cases

The histories and lived experiences of deafness are rich and complex. Extraordinary technological advances have been made in the exploration of hearing, alongside a better appreciation of the social and psychological impact of sensory perception on learning. The materials displayed offer an insight into the varied historical and contemporary approaches in deaf education and audiology, from […]

Jung Chang

Performance Space

Manchester Literature Festival presents...                               ‘One loved money, one loved power and one loved her country’. International bestselling Chinese author, Jung Chang discusses her gripping new biography Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister: Three Women at the Heart of Twentieth-Century China. The […]

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Howard Jacobson

Performance Space

Manchester Literature Festival presents...                               Is it possible to find love in your nineties? In Howard Jacobson’s hilarious new novel Live a Little, nonagenarians Beryl Dusinbery and Shimi Carmelli reflect on their lives. Beryl’s problem is that she’s forgetting things – particularly […]

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Deborah Moggach

Performance Space

Manchester Literature Festival presents...                               In her witty and poignant new novel, The Carer, much loved novelist and screenwriter Deborah Moggach tells the tale of James, his new carer Mandy, and his middle-aged children, Phoebe and Robert. Has the arrival of Mandy […]

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creative:connection

Performance Space

Manchester Literature Festival presents...                               In partnership with Create, disabled and non-disabled students from Chatsworth High School & Community College, Grange School, Loreto High School and New Park Academy will come together to take part in an award-winning music project designed to […]

Down and Out in Scotland

Meeting Room 1

Dr Chris Paton explores some of the areas of ancestral hardship, to allow us to truly understand the situations that our forebears had to endure and overcome. An Anglo-Scottish Family History Society event.

Family Reading Day

Performance Space

Manchester Literature Festival presents...                               Join us for a day of fictional fun! Enjoy FREE arts and crafts in our marketplace, and let your imagination run wild in our special story den… Ready Steady Lift Off!: 10.30 – 11.30am Navigate, sing, paint […]

Roving Robots Coding Workshop

Media Lounge

Do you want to learn how to code? Come along to our new series of coding workshops for all. Families, adults, grandparents, in fact anyone aged 8 years and above is welcome to join us in learning how to code these cute and friendly robots. Free – please drop-in

Heather Morris: Cilka’s Journey

Performance Space

Manchester Literature Festival presents...                               ‘She was the bravest person I ever met’ – Lale Sokolov. Heather Morris’s debut novel, The Tattooist of Auschwitz, became an international bestseller as it moved and uplifted readers across the world. New Zealand author, Heather joins […]

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It’s Not About the Burqa

Performance Space

Manchester Literature Festival presents... Raifa Rafiq, Salma El-Wardany, Yassmin Midhat Abdel-Magied & Afshan D’souza Lodhi In 2016, former Prime Minster, David Cameron, said he considered Muslim women to be traditionally submissive. Frustrated by constantly being told what Muslim women were like, It’s Not About the Burqa anthology editor Mariam Khan wanted Muslim women to voice […]

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Jackie Kay Presents

Performance Space

Manchester Literature Festival presents... Exceptional times call for exceptional writers. Scottish Makar, poet, and novelist Jackie Kay introduces her selection of ten of the most exciting BAME (black, Asian and minority ethnic people) writers working in the UK today. Experience incredible writing, and find out why Jackie feels these are the writers who are influencing […]

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She Kreativ

Performance Space

European expat women share their experience of being a woman, an immigrant, and a business leader in creative industries. We will welcome 4 European expat women who run a creative business in Manchester to share their experience of being a woman, an immigrant, and a leader in creative industries. Our speakers will present a range […]

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