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Swinging 60’s Party

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 […]

Food Mania!

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 […]

Word Central Open Mic Poetry and Spoken Word

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, […]

Clementine Ford: Boys Will Be Boys

Performance Space

Manchester Literature Festival presents...                               ‘The status quo might revere men as a class, but it destroys […]

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Dashehra Diwali Lantern Making Workshops

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 […]

Cathy Newman: Bloody Brilliant Women

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Manchester Literature Festival presents...                               Bloody Brilliant Women, Channel 4 journalist Cathy Newman’s fascinating history of British […]

£10

Caroline Criado Perez: Invisible Women

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Manchester Literature Festival presents...                               It really is a man’s world. In her latest book Invisible Women, […]

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Celeste Ng in Conversation

Performance Space

Manchester Literature Festival presents...                               Celeste Ng, author of the critically acclaimed bestsellers Everything I Never Told […]

£8

An Evening with Jim Kay: The Art of Harry Potter

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 […]

£6

Legna Rodríguez Iglesias, Abigail Parry & Serafina Vick

Performance Space

Manchester Literature Festival presents...                               Celebrated Cuban writer, Legna Rodríguez Iglesias launches her bi-lingual poetry collection A […]

Kerry Hudson: Lowborn

Performance Space

Manchester Literature Festival presents...                               “I decided that I’d start to try to acknowledge the strength it […]

Elif Shafak

Performance Space

Manchester Literature Festival presents...                               Does anyone care about a sex worker, murdered and abandoned in a […]

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