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  • Mindful Writing Workshop

    Chief Librarian's Office

    Mindfulness and creativity are combined in this unique workshop. Taking inspiration from nature, the senses, colour, texture and natural objects (rock, shells, driftwood etc), we will learn to free our […]

    £20

  • Matt Cain – Book Launch and Disco!

    Featured
    Performance Space

    Strike a pose, let's get to it! The brilliant author Matt Cain will be launching the paperback of his bestselling novel 'The Madonna of Bolton' at Central Library! Join us […]

    £5

  • Saturday Spectacular: When I Was a Child

    Performance Space

    To celebrate the Get Creative Festival, join us for an afternoon of inter-generational family activities. Why not share some of your skills or have a go at creating vintage inspired […]

  • Made in Manchester Exhibition

    Children's Library

    Visit our art installation which was commissioned to celebrate the multilingual poem ‘Made in Manchester’.  Local artist, Emma Martin worked with nine schools to create this artwork, with around 200 […]

  • Northern Publishers’ Fair

    Performance Space

    Browse and buy books from a range of exciting new poets and authors from over 10 publishers including, Carcanet, Comma Press, and Fly on the Wall Press. Meet friendly independent […]

  • An Evening with Simon Armitage

    Performance Space

    THIS EVENT HAS NOW SOLD OUT Simon Armitage presents a new collection of poems, Sandettie Light Vessel Automatic. Book launch followed by book signing. Celebrated as ‘the most popular and […]

    £5

  • Lindsey Kelk, Paige Toon and Louise Pentland.

    Featured

    Join us for a wonderful, unique event showcasing best-selling authors Lindsey Kelk, Paige Toon and Louise Pentland in a discussion of their dazzling new fiction. Lindsey Kelk is an author, […]

    £8

  • Manchester College Student Exhibition

    Wolfson Reading Room

    Students from The Manchester College’s UAL Diploma in Foundation Studies Art and Design were given random Dewey numbers (the most widely used method for classifying books in libraries) from Central […]

  • Whose Knowledge Matters

    First Floor

    Whose knowledge matters when we represent the city? Who decides what land to protect or destroy, whose heritage to celebrate, whose stories to tell and who gets ‘seen’ in the […]

  • Women of Aktion

    Archives+ Ground Floor

    An exhibition sharing the story of the German Revolution 1918 and reclaiming the voices of the female revolutionaries who have, until now, been hidden from the official narrative. In November […]

  • The Hidden Tableaux’s Peterloo Massacre 1819

    First Floor Exhibition Hall

    Hidden’ is an ongoing series of photographic tableaux by internationally acclaimed Artist and a Founder of ‘Rock Against Racism’, Red Saunders The Hidden Project shines photographic light on great moments […]