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SUMMARY:Shakespeare: The Comedy of Errors
DESCRIPTION:TheatreMCR presents The Comedy of Errors: a compact hour-long slapstick rollercoaster ride of Shakespeare’s most ridiculous comedy. \nExpect comic capers\, original music and acapella singing from the talented ensemble in the beautiful wood panelled setting of the Henry Watson Music Library. \nShakespeare’s classic comedy will be performed live at Central Library’s Henry Watson Music Library at these dates and times as follows: \nTuesday 4 August @ 6pm \nThursday 6 August @ 6pm \nSaturday 8 August @ 1pm + 3pm \nTickets are simply ‘pay-what-you can’. Available below\, or via Eventbrite here.  \nAll donations go to Manchester Libraries to support future activities. \nInstagram: theatre.mcr
URL:https://librarylive.co.uk/event/theatre-the-comedy-of-errors/2026-08-06/
LOCATION:Henry Watson Music Library
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SUMMARY:Shakespeare: The Comedy of Errors
DESCRIPTION:TheatreMCR presents The Comedy of Errors: a compact hour-long slapstick rollercoaster ride of Shakespeare’s most ridiculous comedy. \nExpect comic capers\, original music and acapella singing from the talented ensemble in the beautiful wood panelled setting of the Henry Watson Music Library. \nShakespeare’s classic comedy will be performed live at Central Library’s Henry Watson Music Library at these dates and times as follows: \nTuesday 4 August @ 6pm \nThursday 6 August @ 6pm \nSaturday 8 August @ 1pm + 3pm \nTickets are simply ‘pay-what-you can’. Available below\, or via Eventbrite here.  \nAll donations go to Manchester Libraries to support future activities. \nInstagram: theatre.mcr
URL:https://librarylive.co.uk/event/theatre-the-comedy-of-errors/2026-08-08/
LOCATION:Henry Watson Music Library
CATEGORIES:Theatre
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SUMMARY:Shakespeare: The Comedy of Errors
DESCRIPTION:TheatreMCR presents The Comedy of Errors: a compact hour-long slapstick rollercoaster ride of Shakespeare’s most ridiculous comedy. \nExpect comic capers\, original music and acapella singing from the talented ensemble in the beautiful wood panelled setting of the Henry Watson Music Library. \nShakespeare’s classic comedy will be performed live at Central Library’s Henry Watson Music Library at these dates and times as follows: \nTuesday 4 August @ 6pm \nThursday 6 August @ 6pm \nSaturday 8 August @ 1pm + 3pm \nTickets are simply ‘pay-what-you can’. Available below\, or via Eventbrite here.  \nAll donations go to Manchester Libraries to support future activities. \nInstagram: theatre.mcr
URL:https://librarylive.co.uk/event/theatre-the-comedy-of-errors/2026-08-08/2/
LOCATION:Henry Watson Music Library
CATEGORIES:Theatre
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SUMMARY:Intergenerational Music Making: Access All Ages Creative Community Hub
DESCRIPTION:Intergenerational Music Making invites you to join our age inclusive creative sessions\, designed to bring communities together. Every session will include opportunities to get creative through music\, art\, poetry\, movement\, storytelling\, and meaningful conversations that bring people together. Held in the beautiful Henry Watson Music Library within Manchester Central Library\, the sessions are relaxed\, flexible\, accessible and welcoming to everyone. \nFree – just drop in. \nPlease consider making a donation if you can here or at one of our cash or contactless donation boxes in Central Library
URL:https://librarylive.co.uk/event/intergenerational-music-making-access-all-ages-creative-community-hub/2026-08-10/
LOCATION:Henry Watson Music Library
CATEGORIES:Music
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SUMMARY:The Puppet Folk Experience!
DESCRIPTION:The Puppet Folk Experience is a joyful live show combining acoustic music and beautifully crafted puppetry. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nManchester Libraries are so excited to welcome the wonderful Puppet Folk Experience to Central Library this August. It’s going to be the most sensational\, inspirational\, celebrational show!! \nThe Puppet Folk Experience is a joyful live show combining acoustic music and beautifully crafted puppetry. \nMusician Andy and puppeteer Liam bring songs\, characters\, and playful storytelling together in a performance full of humour\, nostalgia\, and warmth. Featuring lively banjo-led music and an ensemble of expressive puppet characters\, the show celebrates the charm of classic puppetry and musical storytelling. \nThe Puppet Folk Experience delights audiences young and old with a performance that is heartfelt\, imaginative\, and full of fun. \nDoors opem 6.30pm \nPerformance starts 7pm \nCafe and bar will be open all evening. \nTickets are only £5 plus booking fee. There is also a buy 4 tickets for the price of 3 offer! \n\n\n \n 
URL:https://librarylive.co.uk/event/the-puppet-folk-experience/
CATEGORIES:Culture,Performance
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SUMMARY:Manchester Literature Festival presents An Evening with Mieko Kawakami
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an unmissable evening with one of Japan’s most celebrated young novelists.   \nThe Booker-shortlisted author of Heaven and Breasts and Eggs\, Mieko Kawakami makes a rare visit to the UK to launch Sisters in Yellow\, a gripping\, stylish noir set in Tokyo’s shadowy underbelly.   \nHana is fifteen\, hopeful and living in a tiny Tokyo apartment with her mother\, with no money and no security. Then Kimiko enters her life – a bright\, magnetic force who offers escape. Together they open Lemon\, a shabby bar that becomes a fragile haven of friendship\, independence and possibility. For a moment\, Hana feels invincible. In the narrow alleys of Sangenjaya however\, nothing is as it seems\, and hope can quickly turn to danger.   \nTwenty years later\, Kimiko stands trial for a shocking crime\, and Hana must confront her own past and its devastating consequences.  \nDark\, hypnotic and utterly compelling\, Sisters in Yellow confirms Mieko Kawakami as one of the great writers of her generation.  Join us as she discusses sisterhood\, betrayal and the stories that haunt us.  \n‘This is not the Japan you find in novels about cats\, cafés and bookshops. Kawakami draws back this cosy façade to reveal the grimy reality underneath — and she does it with consummate style. With Sisters in Yellow\, she proves she is still the most exciting Japanese novelist at work today’ The Times  \n‘I can never forget the sense of pure astonishment I felt when I first read Mieko Kawakami’ Haruki Murakami  \nMieko Kawakami is the acclaimed author of the internationally best-selling novel Breasts and Eggs\, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and one of Time’s Best 10 Books of 2020. Her other novels\, translated by Sam Bett and David Boyd\, include Heaven\, shortlisted for the 2022 International Booker Prize\, and All the Lovers in the Night. In 2024\, Sisters in Yellow won the Yomiuri Prize for Literature in Japan. Her books\, translated into over forty languages\, are known for their insights into the female body\, and philosophical questions surrounding gender\, class\, and ethics in modern society. Born in Osaka\, Kawakami lives in Tokyo\, Japan.  \nA Manchester Literature Festival event supported by Library Live.  \nBooking tickets here or ‘Book Now’ below
URL:https://librarylive.co.uk/event/manchester-literature-festival-presents-an-evening-with-mieko-kawakami/
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