Library Live

Greenham Women Everywhere
2019-08-14 12:00 - 16:00 UTC
This year, The Heritage Lottery Fund South West funded a partnership project between Scary Little Girls and The Heroine Collective to gather the in-depth oral testimonies of almost 100 Greenham Women. The team have travelled up and down the country interviewing the women, taking original photographs and collecting material from a variety of archives. This exhibition offers an intimate look at the sights and sounds of the camp, gives voice to these radical women and asks you what change you want to see in the world.

A partnership project between Scary Little Girls Association and The Heroine Collective. Funded by Heritage Lottery South West. Supported by The University of The West of England in Bristol, Cornwall Council, Falmouth University, The Women’s Library at The London School of Economics, The East End Women’s Museum, Goldsmiths University of London, The Hypatia Trust, The Feminist Library, the UK Parliament Vote 100 Project and Dreadnought South West.
Images supplied by Sandie Hicks for Exeter Women for Peace
Free – please drop in

Peterloo Film Screening
2019-08-15 13:00 - 16:00 | Performance Space
Join us for relaxed screenings of the Peterloo Film every month from June – August.
The Peterloo Massacre was a defining moment in British democracy which also played a significant role in the founding of The Guardian newspaper. Written and directed by Mike Leigh, Peterloo is an epic portrayal of the events surrounding the 1819 Peterloo Massacre, where a peaceful pro-democracy rally at St Peter’s Field in Manchester turned into one of the bloodiest and most notorious episodes in British history. Each month we’ll be screening Mike Leigh’s Peterloo to mark 200 years since this watershed moment.
Suitable for ages 12+
Pay what you can – £3 / £5 / £8

Peterloo Page and Screen. Professor John Belcham and Dr Jacqueline Riding In Conversation
2019-08-15 18:00 - 19:00 | Performance Space
Historians Jacqueline Riding and John Belchem explore the events and characters behind Mike Leigh’s epic feature film ‘Peterloo’ and the process of transferring history from books and archives to the big screen.

Jacqueline Riding was the production historian and head of research on Mike Leigh’s ‘Peterloo’ (2018) and author of the highly acclaimed tie-in narrative history ‘Peterloo: The Story of the Manchester Massacre’ (hardback 2018, paperback May 2019) described by The Guardian as “Gripping … quite simply magnificent: splendidly researched, thoroughly well written, and very difficult to put down.” She is also the author of the award-winning ‘Jacobites: A New History of the ’45 Rebellion’ (Bloomsbury 2016) and is currently writing a biography of William Hogarth.
John Belchem is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Liverpool, chair of the Society for the Study of Labour History and a member of the Mayor’s Task Force for the Liverpool World Heritage Site. He has published and broadcast extensively on the history, culture and character of his adopted city where he aspires to the title of honorary scouser. The bicentenary of Peterloo, however, has prompted him to return to his initial area of research expertise: popular radicalism in the early 19th century. His biography of ‘Orator’ Hunt: Henry Hunt and English working-class radicalism, first published in 1985, was reprinted in 2012. For those prepared to sit through to the bitter end, you will notice his name in the credits for Mike Leigh’s ‘Peterloo’.
Image: Jacqueline Riding speaking to the “Manchester Female Reformers” during filming of ‘Peterloo’. Photo: Simon Mein © Thin Man Films
Free – booking required

Ellen's Longest Night
2019-08-17 14:00 - 15:30 | Performance Space
Ellen’s Longest Night dramatises the amazing life, thoughts and achievements of “Red” Ellen Wilkinson: one of Manchester and Britain’s best loved, most iconic, personalities.
From poverty stricken Ancoats to one of the world’s most influential women, we visit great events in Ellen & our city’s history. Particularly 7th November 1923 at The Free Trade Hall– built on the site of Peterloo. 3000 Mancunians crowd in to see two extraordinary, charismatic politicians. Ellen, stunted by poverty and illness, yet commanding a fierce intellect and fun loving empathy that endeared her to the public. A relentless commitment to social justice and female equality making her our first woman Minister for Education & Shapurji Saklatvala. Scion of the fabulously wealthy Tata dynasty of India. Politicised by the terrible lives of Manchester workers, “Sak” was elected as Britain’s only Communist MP in October 1922. Later imprisoned for incitement in a Trafalgar Square speech for the General Strike 1926; banned from his birth land India and had a Spanish Republican Regiment named after him.
During the performance there will be AV elements with Images and video of the great events with which they were involved.
Written & Directed by Nakib Narat who previously worked with Royal Exchange Theatre, Home, BBC Radio 4 and Granada Television.
Ages: 13+

LGBT Foundation Archive Handling Session: Pride Special
2019-08-22 12:00 - 14:00 | Archives+ Ground Floor
Celebrate Pride with us at this special archive handling event with our wonderful LGBT Foundation volunteers.
Free – please drop in

Queer August - remarkable stories that made Manchester and Global Pride possible
2019-08-23 18:00 - 20:00
Queer August – remarkable stories that made Manchester and G Pride possible
The huge, inclusive success of the global Gay Pride was made possible by extra-ordinary people standing-up and being counted in the ongoing struggle for fairness and truth that is the human rights movement. Those extra-ordinary people are rarely acknowledged then and especially now that the political, legislative and cultural momentum has picked-up. Those inspirational queer pioneers now marginalised by professional politicians seeking popularity, powerful commercial interests carving-up their shares of the ‘pink pound’, all falling over each other to jump on the ‘respectable’ parts of the queer bandwagon. A deliberate silence has fallen on the courageous journey and stories of those extra-ordinary people and their/our supporters.
Queer August on the eve of Manchester Pride is an attempt to shine light and provide insights into the remarkable history that got us here: a celebration of our still hidden queer past. Paul Fairweather a pioneer of Gay Politics in the city from the 1970s will give a short introduction to the hard-fought campaigns to get the first local government funded Gay Centre built in All Saints, Manchester.
The second speaker will chart the journey within her workplace and trade union to get employers and her union (UNITE the Union) to recognising and now increasingly embracing the Trans agenda.
After a short break Inkbrew Productions, will present a read-through of “The Lesbian Liberator” a dramatisation of when in 1978 the Burnley bus driver Mary Winter was sacked for wearing a Lesbian Liberator badge at work. The play looks at the reactions to the sacking and the role of the emerging women’s movement in supporting the reinstatement campaign.
By showcasing this brief insight into the extra-ordinariness of the remarkable stories that made Manchester and Global Pride possible the hope is that more people will better understand the wonderful, remarkable and sheer hard work over decades that made it all possible.
Manchester Central Library, St Peters Square, City Centre, M2 5PD
Friday 23rd August 2019
Doors Open and light refreshments served 6pm
Start 6:15 pm
Finished time to 7:45pm
Ticketed seats can only be held until 10 minutes before the commencement of the event. Any unclaimed ticketed places will be offered to the last minutes unticketed.

Colson Whitehead
2019-08-28 19:00 - 20:15 | Performance Space
‘You can change the law but you can’t change people and how they treat each other.’ American author Colson Whitehead won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Underground Railroad. We’re thrilled to welcome him with Manchester Literature Festival to discuss his stunning new novel The Nickel Boys. In Jim Crow era Florida, teenager Elwood Curtis is about to start taking advance classes at college when he’s prosecuted for a crime he didn’t commit. Sent to Nickel Academy reform school, Elwood tries to hold on to the words of Martin Luther King, but soon he has to learn how to survive in a school that’s trying to break him. Colson Whitehead will be in conversation with author Dave Haslam.
Image copyright: Chris Close

Word Central Open Mic Poetry and Spoken Word
2019-09-05 18:00 - 20:00 | Performance Space
Hosted by Melanie Rees with special guest poet copland smith.
copland smith, a mathematician and ecologist, is a poet (three times being amongst the runners-up in The National Poetry Competition), fiction writer, songwriter, playwright, translator, essayist, naturalist and photographer. Born and adopted in Liverpool, brought up in Wallasey and North Wales, he now lives in Manchester, where he runs Manchester Poets.
Open mic slots for September are fully booked, but to get your name on the reserve list please email mail@flapjackpress.co.uk.
In association with Flapjack Press and Manchester Library & Information Service.
www.flapjackpress.co.uk | www.facebook.com/WordCentral | www.twitter.com/@WordCentralMcr
Manchester Central Library, St. Peter’s Square, Manchester M2 5PD. 6pm – 8pm [doors open 5.30pm] – Free Entry.

Treasures of Manchester Central Library: two Nuremberg Chronicles (1493) and their early modern readers’.
2019-09-09 13:00 - 14:00 | Seminar Suite, Floor Two
Dr Nina Adamova presents ‘Treasures of Manchester Central Library: two Nuremberg Chronicles (1493) and their early modern readers’.
The talk will explore the most famous early-printed world chronicle – the Nuremberg Chronicle by Hartmann Schedel (1493). The presentation will focus on how the Nuremberg Chronicle was read and perceived in Europe in the age of Reformation, featuring two copies held by Manchester Central Library. The both books bear the marks of being read and used by several readers, representing different reading practices in early modern Europe.
Dr Nina Adamova is an Associate Professor at St Petersburg State University and a Visiting Fellow of the British Academy at Manchester Metropolitan University. She specialises in early modern cultural and religious history, with a special focus on the book history and reading. Her current research project ‘Reading sacred history in Reformation Europe’ explores how people in early modern Europe used to read and interpret the books on church history.

Libertalia
2019-09-10 08:00 - 2019-10-12 17:00 | Lower Ground Floor Exhibition Space
On the anniversary of Peterloo, we want to transport you to the world of ‘Libertalia’ a place where all are free and equal, a ‘way of being’ the people of Peterloo wanted so much for Manchester.
‘Libertalia’ was a city founded by Madagascan pirates in the 17th century. Here the pirates acted as “vigilant guardians of the people’s rights and liberties” against wage labour and capitalism. 100 years later the people of Peterloo became the just same guardians for Manchester, their actions heralding a new era towards social justice.
This exhibition will see Manchester as the new ‘Libertalia’. Weaving tales of ‘liberty’ guardians and launching a new manifesto to help set ourselves free.
Led by an international collective of artists, educators and academics from three continents formed in 2017 to protest the gender gap. Coordinated by Isabel-Alexis productions and Huddersfield University. With the support of Canadian Connections.
Photo: Libertalia Pirate House 2 by Isabel Lagos
Free – please drop in

Spy Kids
2019-09-10 18:00 - 20:00 | Performance Space
Spy Kids, the last feature Robert Rodriguez ever shot on film, tells the tale of Carmen and Juni Cortez who must save their parents from danger upon discovering they are secretly ex-spies. The 2001 film, which features stars such as Antonio Banderas, Alan Cumming and Danny Trejo, grossed more than triple its budget at the worldwide box office and resulted in a memorable trilogy.
Join us for a special screening introduced by film journalist and self-proclaimed Spy Kids fanclub president Millicent Thomas, to celebrate the unique creativity of this modern classic.
Doors open at 5:30pm. Film starts at 6pm.

Walk Without Fear
2019-09-13 08:00 - 2019-10-12 17:00 | Lower Ground Floor Link
MAG (Mines Advisory Group), a Manchester-based landmine clearance charity, is celebrating 30 years of life-saving work across the globe. The Walk Without Fear exhibition tells the stories of people affected by landmines in Angola, and MAG’s campaign for a world without landmines by 2025.

THE MINISTRY OF LOST AND FOUND
2019-09-14 11:00 - 16:00
A LONG, LONG TIME AGO, THE GOVERNMENT COMMISSIONED THE MINISTRY OF LOST
& FOUND — A SECRET DEPARTMENT TASKED WITH PROTECTING THE MOST CURIOUS AND PRECIOUS OBJECTS EVER LOST OR FOUND.
Calling all secret agents, the Ministry has been thrown into chaos and Frankie Found needs your help to find Leo Lost. Frankie has called everyone she knows, and Leo still can’t be found!
Since the Ministry’s 123rd anniversary in 2018, Leo hasn’t been seen and we think he’s somewhere in Central Library. Is he lost, hiding somewhere or has something more mysterious happened? All in all, we need your help on the mission to find him!
Join Frankie and all our Ministry friends for quests, adventures, fun and games on an expedition around Central Library. For one day only, not to be missed!
P.S. With so much to see, do, make and play, you’ll most certainly find an appetite along the way. So, don’t forget your picnic and stay for the day.
FREE FAMILY EVENT, NO NEED TO BOOK*
*some activities have limited capacity and required booking on the day at the venue.

Banned Books Week: Walled In
2019-09-23 19:00 - 20:30 | Seminar Suite, Floor Two
THIS IS A LIVE SCREENING FROM THE BRITISH LIBRARY
Writers consider walls in literature and in our lives
With David Hare and Ben Okri. Chaired by Samira Ahmed.
David Hare is a playwright and film-maker. He has written over thirty plays which include Plenty, Racing Demon and Skylight. His many screenplays include The Hours, The Reader and the Worricker trilogy.
Ben Okri is a poet, novelist, essayist, short story writer and playwright. His novels include the Booker Prize-winning The Famished Road, the first in a trilogy, and The Freedom Artist, published in 2019.
Samira Ahmed is a freelance journalist, writer and broadcaster at the BBC, where she has presented Radio 3’s Night Waves and Radio 4’s PM, The World Tonight, and Front Row. She presents the Intelligence Squared podcast ‘How I Found My Voice’.
This is a Banned Books Week event in partnership with the British Library, English PEN, Free Word, Hachette UK, Index on Censorship, Islington Council’s Library and Heritage Service, Libraries Connected, Media Diversified and The Publisher’s Association.

Swinging 60's Party
2019-09-28 13:00 - 15:00 | Performance Space
SORRY, THIS EVENT IS NOW SOLD OUT.
You are invited to a poptastic afternoon celebrating Older People’s Day and everything 1960’s..

Featuring the fabulous Poppy Holiday!
Downtown
These Boots are made for Walking
My Boy Lollipop
Stupid Cupid
Jimmy Mack
and many more…
So get your beehives perfected, platforms polished and get ready to shimmy, twist, frug and hitch-hike the afternoon away!
Tickets are limited so please book early by calling us on 0161 234 1932.
GROOVY BABY!

Food Mania!
2019-10-03 17:30 - 19:00 | Performance Space
Let our expert Speed Mentors help you turn your new food business into a tasty success

The UK’s food and drinks sector is going from strength to strength with developments in street food and markets, pop-up catering, hospitality and myriad innovative new product launches all contributing to our growing reputation as a nation of foodies. With almost 7,000 micro, small and medium businesses in the food and drinks manufacturing sector last year, there’s certainly no shortage of new brands eager to take a bite out of the market.
Whether you’ve got an idea for a new product or service that will shake-up the sector, or you’re already small business owner in the sector with ambitions to take a bigger piece of a profitable pie, don’t miss this opportunity to chat to our seasoned food sector experts.
This fun and informal event brings together a team of experts in the food, drink and hospitality sectors to provide insight, support and guidance on everything from funding to flavour, product to packaging and seasoning to sales!
Mentors include:
Edwin Booth CBE, Chairman & CEO of Booth’s supermarkets
Emma Wren from Geordie Seoul, Korean street food
Joe Harper from Just Bee Drinks
Jason Bailey from Grub Manchester
Yetti Tabai, founder of Yetti’s Kitchen (Caribbean fusion restaurant) and author of Food Business From Home
Claire Kelsey from Ginger’s Comfort Emporium
Rachel Gilkes, Senior Enterprise Co-ordinator Back On Track
Nick Jeffs from Plant Meats Food
Alex Shaw from Kickback Coffee
If you’re a food business owner with an appetite for success, don’t miss this event.

Word Central Open Mic Poetry and Spoken Word
2019-10-03 18:00 - 20:00 | Performance Space
Hosted by Paul Neads with special guest poet Gerry Potter.
October’s guest Gerry Potter is a poet, playwright, director, actor, and both creator and destroyer of the infamous gingham diva, Chloe Poems. A favourite son of Manchester and his home town Liverpool, he trained at Everyman Youth Theatre and National Museums Liverpool lists him amongst the city’s leading LGBTQ+ icons. The portrait documentary My Name is Gerry Potter premiered at Homotopia in 2015 and his published works are included in both the poetry and philosophy collections at Harvard University. Gerry (and Chloe) has nine collections of poetry and plays published by Flapjack Press, the most recent being Manchester Isn’t the Greatest City in the World: The Rise and Rise of The Bourgeois Zeitgeist (2018). A new collection is due in 2019.
You can book your open mic slot from Thursday 12th September via mail@flapjackpress.co.uk.
N.B. Open mic slots are 3 minutes maximum and allocated on a ‘first come first served’ basis. If the open mic slots are already filled you will be offered a space on the reserve list.
In association with Flapjack Press and Manchester Library & Information Service.
www.flapjackpress.co.uk | www.facebook.com/WordCentral | www.twitter.com/@WordCentralMcr
Manchester Central Library, St. Peter’s Square, Manchester M2 5PD. 6pm – 8pm [doors open 5.30pm] – Free Entry.

Clementine Ford: Boys Will Be Boys
2019-10-04 19:00 - 20:00 | Performance Space
Manchester Literature Festival presents…
‘The status quo might revere men as a class, but it destroys them as individuals.’ In Boys Will Be Boys, Australian feminist Clementine Ford’s furious and funny new book, she considers why toxic masculinity isn’t just bad for women, it’s also bad for men and boys. Through research, culture and anecdotes, Clementine looks at our approach to gender, and how it represses children and the adults they become. Rather than discussing how to arm and protect girls, Clementine flips the question and asks how should we protect boys from masculine stereotypes and raise them to be feminist allies? Hosted by Anita Sethi.
For tickets call the MLF box office on 0843 208 0500 or use the link below

Dashehra Diwali Lantern Making Workshops
2019-10-05 00:00 - 2019-10-12 23:59 | City Library
In preparation for the Dashehra Diwali celebration on 12 October, we will be holding lantern making workshops for those wishing to be a part of the lantern parade on the evening of 12 October.
There are three sessions to choose from –
Saturday 5 October 11am–1.30pm
Saturday 5 October 2 – 4pm
Saturday 12 October 1 – 5.30pm
Free event. Suitable for ages 7+, places are limited.

Cathy Newman: Bloody Brilliant Women
2019-10-06 14:00 - 15:30 | Performance Space
Manchester Literature Festival presents…
Bloody Brilliant Women, Channel 4 journalist Cathy Newman’s fascinating history of British women, asks two important questions: what were the sources of female power in the 20th century?, and what have women used this power to achieve? Cathy introduces us to women who’ve been long overlooked – from bookbinder Emma Paterson (founder of the Women’s Protective and Provident League) to engineer Beatrice Shilling, who invented a brass collar to prevent fuel flooding RAF plane engines. From journalist Claudia Jones (founder of Notting Hill Carnival) to those who are leading the march onwards in the 21st century. Cathy will be in conversation with host Alex Clark.
For tickets call the MLF box office on 0843 208 0500 or use the link below

Caroline Criado Perez: Invisible Women
2019-10-06 16:30 - 18:00 | Performance Space
Manchester Literature Festival presents…
It really is a man’s world. In her latest book Invisible Women, writer and feminist campaigner Caroline Criado Perez (Do It Like a Woman) considers how the perspective we have of the world has been recorded and shaped by men, leaving silence and gaps when it comes to the stories and needs of women. From the temperature in the office and the height of shelves, to smartphones and fitness monitors, work-related cancers and crash-test dummies, Caroline reveals how the data bias impacts in hidden ways on women’s health, well-being and how we live our everyday lives.
Caroline’s most notable campaigns have included getting Jane Austen – the first woman other than Queen Elizabeth II – to appear on Bank of England banknotes, and successfully campaigning for a statue of suffragist Millicent Fawcett to be erected in Parliament Square. Caroline will be in conversation with host Alex Clark.
For tickets call the MLF box office on 0843 208 0500 or use the link below

Celeste Ng in Conversation
2019-10-07 19:00 - 20:30 | Performance Space
Manchester Literature Festival presents…
Celeste Ng, author of the critically acclaimed bestsellers Everything I Never Told You and Little Fires Everywhere, joins us to talk about her work. Her gripping novels explore themes of race, class and privilege through family dynamics, and ideas of home and exile, both in 1970s America and the present day. Celeste questions what it means to belong, asking what happens if long-held beliefs are challenged by new events. A writer of short fiction and essays, as well as a multi-award-winning novelist, Celeste will discuss her craft, her literary influences and what it’s like to have your work adapted for television. Hosted by Anita Sethi.
For tickets call the MLF box office on 0843 208 0500 or use the link below

An Evening with Jim Kay: The Art of Harry Potter
2019-10-08 18:30 - 20:00 | Performance Space
Jim Kay will be talking about his inspiration behind the art for the book and what it was like to illustrate J.K. Rowling’s words. Jim will reveal some of the stories behind his work, the artists that have inspired him and how he goes about creating images of the key characters from the Harry Potter novels. This is a chance to get a fascinating insight in to Jim Kay’s work directly from the artist himself.
Jim Kay’s inspired reimagining of J.K. Rowling’s classic series has captured a devoted following worldwide. This stunning new fully illustrated edition of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire brings more breathtaking scenes and unforgettable characters to life – including Cedric Diggory, Fleur Delacour and Viktor Krum. Fizzing with magic and brimming with humour, this full-colour edition will captivate fans and new readers alike as Harry, now in his fourth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, finds himself competing in the legendary Triwizard Tournament and facing death-defying tasks, dragons and Dark wizards.
Jim will be signing copies of the books after the event but due to time restrictions we ask that anyone attending doesn’t ask for illustrations or doodles in their book. An exclusive dragon print by Jim Kay will be available free to everyone attending each event.

Legna Rodríguez Iglesias, Abigail Parry & Serafina Vick
2019-10-09 13:00 - 14:30 | Performance Space
Manchester Literature Festival presents…
Celebrated Cuban writer, Legna Rodríguez Iglesias launches her bi-lingual poetry collection A little body are many parts. Legna has won a number of prestigious national and international prizes including the Premio Paz for her collection, Miami Century Fox. Her intense, often confrontational, poetry irreverently skewers the hypocrisies of the Catholic church, and challenges social mores with an uncomfortable focus on the human body. Legna will read alongside Abigail Parry, who will share English translations of Legna’s poems, and they will be joined in conversation by bridge-translator Serafina Vick. Presented in partnership with the Poetry Translation Centre.
Tickets FREE – booking advised
For tickets call the MLF box office on 0843 208 0500 or use the link below

Kerry Hudson: Lowborn
2019-10-09 18:30 - 20:00 | Performance Space
Manchester Literature Festival presents…
“I decided that I’d start to try to acknowledge the strength it had taken for me to get through, and over, my upbringing and become the woman I am today.”
Kerry Hudson grew up in a succession of council estates and B&Bs in some of the UK’s poorest towns. In her timely and heart-breaking memoir, Lowborn, she recounts her experiences of growing up in poverty in the 80s and 90s, returning to each of the places she was raised in – from Aberdeen to Canterbury – to see the effects of Tory austerity in the present day. Kerry is the author of two award-winning novels, Tony Hogan Bought Me An Ice-Cream Float Before He Stole My Ma and Thirst. She will be in conversation with Naomi Frisby.
Tickets FREE – booking advised
For tickets call the MLF box office on 0843 208 0500 or use the link below

Elif Shafak
2019-10-10 18:30 - 20:00 | Performance Space
Manchester Literature Festival presents…
Does anyone care about a sex worker, murdered and abandoned in a bin in Istanbul? Tequila Leila’s friends do. In her superb new novel 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World, Elif Shafak considers the meaning of family – the one we’re born into and the one we create – the restrictions society places on anyone deemed different, and what it really means to live.
Elif is an award-winning British-Turkish novelist (Honour, The Bastard of Istanbul) and the most read female author in Turkey. An advocate for women’s rights, LGBTQ+ rights and freedom of speech, Elif is an inspiring public speaker. Presented in partnership with the Centre for New Writing and Creative Manchester.
For tickets call the MLF box office on 0843 208 0500 or use the link below

Dashehra Diwali Celebration
2019-10-12 13:00 - 18:00
Visit Central Library during the afternoon to start the celebrations off with performances, crafts and much more.
Free for everyone. No need to book just drop in.

Deborah Levy
2019-10-13 14:00 - 15:30 | Performance Space
Manchester Literature Festival presents…
‘You are history.’ In her stunning new novel, The Man Who Saw Everything, Deborah Levy considers duality: duality of time, of place, of people. She explores how those dualities might affect our perspective – personally and politically – and how time might not be linear at all.
An acclaimed British playwright, novelist and poet, Deborah has twice been shortlisted for the Booker Prize with her novels Swimming Home and Hot Milk. Her superb recent ‘living autobiographies’ Things I Don’t Want to Know and The Cost of Living explore what it means to be a woman and a writer in the 21st century. Hosted by Kate Feld.
For tickets call the MLF box office on 0843 208 0500 or use the link below

Mona Eltahawy: The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls
2019-10-13 16:00 - 17:30 | Performance Space
Manchester Literature Festival presents…
Leading feminist activist Mona Eltahawy (Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution) is on a mission to arm women and dismantle the patriarchy. Through her new manifesto, The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls, Mona plans to teach women and girls to harness their power through embracing the sins they’re not supposed to commit: to be angry, ambitious, profane, violent, attention-seeking, lustful and powerful. Join her at Manchester Literature Festival to be part of the feminist revolution.
Mona is an Egyptian-American author, broadcaster and social commentator. She has been acknowledged as spearheading the #MosqueMeToo movement and has won a number of prizes including the Women’s Media Centre Speaking Truth to Power Award. Hosted by Mariam Khan, Editor of It’s Not About the Burqa.
For tickets call the MLF box office on 0843 208 0500 or use the link below

Deaf Education & Audiology: A Journey through Artefacts, Archives and Creativity
2019-10-14 09:00 - 2019-12-14 17:00 | 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 a range of perspectives. The exhibition also provokes questions around how we understand, collect and communicate D/deafness in a dominant hearing world. The exhibition is part of the 100 year anniversary celebrations of Deaf Education and Audiology at The University of Manchester.
Curated by Dr Jenna C. Ashton
Lecture and Programme Director of Heritage Studies, The University of Manchester
Free – please drop in

[image – Complexities of Lived Experience (2019), by Lawiza Tahir]
