Angel Delight’s Eurovision Drag Party
Performance SpaceThe perfect party to make your Eurovision week go with a boom bang a bang! Join the dream diva, Angel Delight, for an evening of singalongs, card games, bongo bingo, […]
£5 – £24
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A Lifetime in Music with producer Mark Cooper & Jill Furmanovsky
Performance SpaceIn celebration of her first retrospective at Manchester Central Library, music photographer Jill Furmanovsky is joined by long-term friend and former head of music at the BBC Mark Cooper comparing […]
£8
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 FloorLearn 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 SpaceLeon 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 SpacePLEASE 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
Conserving Manchester Town Hall’s heritage: Restoring the Town Hall Clock. Afternoon Session.
Performance SpaceManchester Town Hall has been closed since January 2018 for an extensive restoration programme that will repair and upgrade the building to modern standards. The work will include the conservation […]
Conserving Manchester Town Hall’s heritage: Restoring the Town Hall Clock. Evening Session
Performance SpaceManchester Town Hall has been closed since January 2018 for an extensive restoration programme that will repair and upgrade the building to modern standards. The work will include the conservation […]
An Evening with bestselling author TJ Klune
Performance SpaceManchester 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 RoomWhile 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 LibraryJoin 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 LibraryWe 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 […]
From dedicated performance spaces to stairwells, screens, nooks and domes, Central Library might directly inspire your next event or intervention. Contact us to arrange a tour.
