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SUMMARY:Art of Oesophageal Cancer
DESCRIPTION:Art of oesophageal cancer is a visual representation of one patient’s experience of going through treatment\, surgery and then coming to terms with a new normal. \nThe subject matter touches on wider public health issues and covers the pre-cancer condition Barrett’s oesophagus\, as well as the artist’s experience of chemotherapy\, surgery and post-operative period in a High Dependency Unit.  Although the images refer to oesophageal cancer\, several can relate to any cancer or life changing illness or experience. The more recent pieces\, including two short\, illustrated poems\, point to personal issues that require management despite an otherwise good level of health. \nManchester-born artist\, Ann Wood\, first started to draw to pass the time during long chemotherapy sessions. She is self-taught and like many\, enjoys using art to express feelings on scenarios and life in general. The images in this exhibition are mainly figurative art using the portable media of pencils and fine liners. \nThe aim of the exhibition is to raise awareness of oesophageal cancer and how it can be treated if caught in its early stages. The exhibition coincides with Oesophageal Cancer Awareness Month in February and the artist will also be running a virtual exhibition on Instagram to mark this month. Throughout February an image will be posted every day and will be a combination of those from the live exhibition and some of her earlier work. \nA summary of the earlier cancer series is available as a free e-book downloadable from oesophagectomylife.co.uk/artbook \nInstagram @annorthernlass. \nFree – drop in – please consider making a donation if you can either online or at one of our cash or contactless donation boxes in Central Library
URL:https://librarylive.co.uk/event/art-of-oesophageal-cancer/
LOCATION:First Floor Display Cases
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
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SUMMARY:The Door Opened: 1980s China
DESCRIPTION:One can argue that nostalgia is the strongest emotion\, a pure mixture of wistfulness and melancholy. Adrian Bradshaw\, an English photographer\, brings that sense of yearning into full focus in this exhibition presented by the Confucius Institute at The University of Manchester. Featuring a blend of candid and posed photographs which explore China in the 1980’s; from opulent fashion extravaganzas to sentimental family excursions\, Bradshaw captures the fleeting beauty and simplicity of everyday life. \nFree – drop in – please consider making a donation if you can either online or at one of our cash or contactless donation boxes in Central Library
URL:https://librarylive.co.uk/event/the-door-opened-1980s-china/
LOCATION:Lower Ground Floor Exhibition Space
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
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SUMMARY:Don't worry\, we will survive!
DESCRIPTION:Come and reflect on these vibrant abstract and portrait paintings by artist\, Sarbjit Johal. Have a dialogue with our past and present in Britain and beyond. \nBuy a painting and support Saheli Asian Women’s Project.  Prices start from £10. Telephone 07944 565620 for more details. \n  \nFree – drop in – please consider making a donation if you can either online or at one of our cash or contactless donation boxes in Central Library
URL:https://librarylive.co.uk/event/dont-worry-we-will-survive/
LOCATION:First Floor Exhibition Hall
CATEGORIES:Art
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SUMMARY:Breaking the News Exhibition and Archive Handling Sessions
DESCRIPTION:The news has the power to make or break elections\, to change the course of history or to alter our perspective on the city and country we live in. We expect the news to speak truth to power\, but can it ever really be objective? Is your news the same as everyone else’s? How do you use the news to navigate the world around you? \nCentral Library will be hosting a series of pop-up handling sessions tied in with the new Breaking the News Exhibition at the British Library.The sessions will be looking at how major local\, regional and international events have been reported using the original newspapers and magazines from the time. Come and see how the major events of the last 200 years were reported. \nHow did local and national newspapers reflect the two World Wars and the struggle for Women’s Rights. \nHow did the Manchester Evening News report significant local events from the Munich Air Crash to the Manchester Blitz. \nHow does a newspaper’s own perspective (Socialist Worker\, Gay Times\, Private Eye affect the way it reports on the world). \nThe display runs from February 24th until August 21th 2022 and alongside the display panels we will be running regular weekly handling sessions. Dates for the handling sessions will be announced very soon. \nBreaking the News: The Launch Debate will be live streamed from Leeds Central Library this Thursday 24th February at 7pm. You can register for this FREE event here. \nThe major new Breaking the News Exhibition will be at the British Library from 22 April to 21 August 2022. \n#BreakingTheNews
URL:https://librarylive.co.uk/event/breaking-the-news-exhibition-and-archive-handling-sessions/
LOCATION:Archives+ Ground Floor
CATEGORIES:Archives,Exhibition
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SUMMARY:International Women's Day: Songbird
DESCRIPTION:Join us in the oculus area on the ground floor for this short concert by the RNCM Chamber Choir\, in celebration of International Women’s Day. Inspired by birdsong\, ‘Songbird’  is an all female composer programme. The programme will include works by Fanny Mendelssohn\, Sarah Quartel and Roxanna Panufnik. \nThe RNCM Chamber Choir is an auditioned ensemble of 24 voices and is open to students of all Schools of Study. The Chamber Choir regularly participates in projects with the Hallé\, recently as the semi-chorus in Berlioz’s Romeo and Juliet and alongside the chorus in Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. They also have a close relationship with the Edvard Grieg Kor\, a professional vocal ensemble based in Bergen\, Norway. In 2019 the Chamber Choir travelled to Bergen to perform Stravinsky’s Symphony of Psalms with the EGK and Bergen Philharmonic under the baton of Thierry Fischer. The choir benefits from the involvement of David Hill\, the RNCM’s International Chair in Choral Conducting\, who visits several times a year\, and Stuart Overington\, who directs the ensembles. \nFree- please drop in
URL:https://librarylive.co.uk/event/international-womens-day-songbird/
LOCATION:Archives+ Ground Floor
CATEGORIES:Music
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SUMMARY:Intro to art\, Augmented Reality (AR) and NFTs in the Metaverse
DESCRIPTION:Virtual Lab are holding a talk on Wednesday as part of the Digital Festival. Join the dots between immersive technologies\, blockchain and the metaverse in a talk by Dr Jessica Symons\, Director of Visioning Lab and Research Fellow at the University of Manchester. The presentation combines insight from projects\, research and networking across the immersive\, NFT\, Augmented/Virtual Reality and contemporary art spaces. After the talk\, come along for drinks at HOME Manchester as part of the monthly Immersive Northwest get together. This is a great opportunity to exchange ideas with people working at the intersection of art and emerging technologies. \nFree – please drop in
URL:https://librarylive.co.uk/event/intro-to-art-augmented-reality-ar-and-nfts-in-the-metaverse/
LOCATION:Ground Floor Search Room
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SUMMARY:Okechukwu Nzelu - HERE AGAIN NOW Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:Join us at Manchester Central Library for the launch of Okechukwu Nzelu’s new book HERE AGAIN NOW.\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this event\n\n\nWe’re delighted to be working with Blackwells Books to host the launch of Okechukwu Nzelu’s latest book HERE AGAIN NOW – a heart-breaking and immensely uplifting novel about lovers\, fathers and sons which shows the power of family – both the one into which we are born and those we choose for ourselves. Okechukwu will be in conversation with Andrew McMillan. \nAbout the book: \nAchike Okoro feels like his life is coming together at last. His top-floor flat in Peckham is as close to home as he can imagine and after years of hard work\, he’s about to get his break as an actor. He’s even persuaded his father\, Chibuike\, to move in with him\, grateful to offer the man who raised him as a single parent a home of his own. \nBetween filming trips\, Achike is snatching a few days in London with Ekene\, his best friend of twenty years\, the person who makes him feel whole. Achike can put the terrible things that happened behind him at last; everything is going to be alright. Maybe even better. \nBut after a magical night\, when Achike and Ekene come within a hair’s breadth of admitting their feelings for each other\, a devastating event rips all three men apart. In the aftermath\, it is Ekene and Chibuike who must try to rebuild. And although they have never truly understood each other\, grief may bring them both the peace and happiness they’ve been searching for… \nAbout the author: \nOkechukwu Nzelu is a writer and teacher. In 2015 he was the recipient of a New Writing North Award. In 2020 his debut novel\, The Private Joys of Nnenna Maloney\, won a Betty Trask Award and was shortlisted for the Betty Trask Prize\, the Desmond Elliott Prize\, and the Polari First Book Prize. He lives in Manchester and is a Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Lancaster. \nThis event is being held at Manchester Central Library. \nDoors: 18.00\, event starts: 18.30 \nTickets are £3.00 or free when pre-ordering a copy of the book. HERE AGAIN NOW will also be available to purchase on the night and Okechukwu will be signing copies after the talk. If you would like a signed copy but cannot make the event\, please contact Blackwell’s Books on 0161 274 3331 or manchester@blackwell.co.uk and we can arrange this for you.
URL:https://librarylive.co.uk/event/okechukwu-nzelu-here-again-now-book-launch/
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CATEGORIES:Book Launch
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SUMMARY:Crime Festival
DESCRIPTION:A CELEBRATION OF THE BEST CRIME WRITERS IN MANCHESTER\nWednesday 16th March – Cath Staincliffe\, Joseph Knox and Karen Woods.\nThursday 17th March – Mandasue Heller\, Alex Caan\, Chris Simms and S J Watson.\nFriday 18th March – After Dark Entertainment presents: ‘An Invitation to Murder’ Murder Mystery Night\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHosted by the brilliant author Rob Parker.\nRob Parker lives near Warrington\, UK. The author of the Ben Bracken thrillers and the standalone post-Brexit country-noir Crook’s Hollow. \n​Rob writes full time\, as well as organising and attending various author events across the UK. Passionate about inspiring a love of the written word in young people\, he spends a lot of time in schools across the North West\, encouraging literacy\, storytelling and creative-writing. ​He is also a co-host of the For Your Reconsideration film podcast\, and a regular voice on the Blood Brothers crime book podcast. \n​Here’s some more information about the authors appearing.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCath Staincliffe\nCath was brought up in Bradford then moved to work as a community artist in Manchester where she now lives with her family. \nLooking for Trouble\, published in 1994\, launched private eye Sal\, a single parent struggling to juggle work and home\, onto Manchester’s mean streets. Cath has published a further seven Sal Kilkenny mysteries. \nCath is also a scriptwriter\, creator of ITV’s hit police drama\, Blue Murder\, she was also commissioned to write the Scott & Bailey books and writes for Danny Brocklehurst’s Stone detective drama. \nShe is now writing a series of stand-alone novels where ordinary families find themselves caught up in extraordinary events. Cath is a founder member of Murder Squad\, a virtual collective of northern crime writers. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoseph Knox\nJoseph Knox was born and raised in and around Stoke-On-Trent and Manchester\, where he worked in bars and bookshops before moving to London. He runs\, writes and reads compulsively. \nSirens\, his debut novel\, was a Sunday Times bestseller\, and his work has now been translated into 18 languages. \nHis latest novel ‘True Crime Story’ was published in 2021. The Times described it as ‘Scandalously entertaining…Knox is a fantastic writer. His ambitious fourth novel satirises and celebrates the true-crime genre with glee … by turns horrific and hilarious’ – Mark Sanderson. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKaren Woods\nKaren was born and raised in the City Of Manchester and is proud to be a Mancunian! Being raised within an inner city area inspired Karen to take an unorthodox and very well received approach within her writing. \nKaren left school without any formal qualifications and obtained her inspiration from attending an adult literacy course which was offered by her former employers. \nKaren writes from the heart and always keeps it real to life\, and she writes about subjects we can all relate too. Having lived a colourful life she uses her own experiences to write her books. Her fan base is growing every day and soon everyone will know the name Karen Woods. \nKaren believes that everyone has the power to to change their lives around with self belief and determination. “Life doesn’t give. We have to take what we can.” . \n \nMandasue Heller\nAfter moving to Manchester in the early 80’s\, Mandasue immersed herself in the underground music scene. Forced by illness to temporarily quit singing in the 90’s\, she turned her hand to writing\, using the notorious Hulme Crescents\, where she had spent her first 10 years in Manchester\, as the backdrop. \nHer first written piece concerned a real-life incident\, when a man had broken into her house in the early hours and attacked her with a claw-hammer\, fracturing her skull. But it was the psychological after-effects that affected her most deeply\, and she hoped that writing about it would exorcise the hold it still had over her. The finished piece was too personal for anybody else to read\, but she had enjoyed the process of writing\, so decided to try her hand at fiction instead – and her first book\, The Front\, was snapped up by Hodder & Stoughton. She has written 13 books since then\, and is currently working on the 14th. \nMother to 3 grown children\, and grandmother of 3\, Mandasue still lives in Manchester\, and spends her time between books and family commitments locked away in the studio\, writing and recording music albums. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAlex Caan\nAlex Caan has spent over a decade working in Information Systems Security for a number of government organisations\, and is currently specialising in Terrorism Studies. A lifetime passion for writing was sparked by the encouraging words of an English Teacher in school\, and eventually led to Alex successfully completing an MA in Creative Writing\, and write Cut to the Bone. \nCut to the Bone has been a Kindle Number 1 bestseller\, was picked as a WH Smith ‘Everyone’s Talking About’ book of the week\, chosen as Sainsbury’s best of summer reads and was Angela Marson’s pick for crime novel recommendation of the year. Alex Caan was also a rising star on Amazon in 2016. \nFirst To Die\, the shocking sequel to Cut to the Bone\, was released June 14th 2018. \nHis latest novel The Unbroken is out now. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nChris Simms\nChris Simms has worked in airports\, nightclubs\, post offices and telesales centres. Along with nominations for Crime Writers’ Association Daggers and the Theakston’s Crime Novel of the Year award for his novels and short stories\, Chris was selected by Waterstones as one of their ’25 Authors for the Future’. \nThe idea for his debut novel\, Outside the White Lines\, came to him in the early hours of the morning while broken down on the hard shoulder of the M40. \nHis series of DI Spicer novels – psychological thrillers set very firmly in Manchester – follow the police detective’s fortunes as he pursues mad\, bad and deadly individuals through the city’s ever-evolving landscape. \nIn October 2012\, Scratch Deeper was launched – a new series featuring Detective Constable Iona Khan of Manchester Police’s Counter Terrorism Unit. This was followed-up by another DC Khan novel\, A Price To Pay. \nDark Angel\, the 9th DI Spicer novel was published in January 2021. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nS J Watson\nS J Watson’s first novel\, Before I Go To Sleep\, became a phenomenal international success and has now sold over 6\,000\,000 copies worldwide. It won the Crime Writers’ Association Award for Best Debut Novel and the Galaxy National Book Award for Crime Thriller of the Year and has been translated into more than 40 languages. \nThe film of the book\, starring Nicole Kidman\, Colin Firth and Mark Strong\, and directed by Rowan Joffe\, was released in September 2014. S J Watson’s second novel\, Second Life\, a psychological thriller\, was published to acclaim in 2015. His new novel Final Cut is out now.
URL:https://librarylive.co.uk/event/manchester-libraries-crime-festival/
LOCATION:Performance Space
CATEGORIES:Author Event,Book Launch,Performance,Readings
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SUMMARY:Murder Mystery Night
DESCRIPTION:SOLD OUT\nManchester Libraries Crime Festival \nAfter Dark Entertainment present: An Invitation to Murder \nWill you find a body in the library? \nWhen famous golden age detectives are invited to a remote mansion by a reclusive author they get more than they bargained for as he reveals that one of them is the mysterious thief ‘The Falcon’. Before he can reveal which one of them it is\, he ends up dead. \nCan you play detective and uncover the truth before it’s too late. Questions the suspects and discover which of these super sleuths is really a super villain?
URL:https://librarylive.co.uk/event/murder-mystery-night/
LOCATION:Performance Space
CATEGORIES:Party,Performance,Workshops
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SUMMARY:WORD CENTRAL Open Mic Night
DESCRIPTION:Open Mic Poetry and Spoken Word hosted by Tony Curry. \nPresented by Flapjack Press & Manchester Libraries. \nNext event: Tues 22nd March\, 6.00pm (doors 5.30pm) with special guest Mantz Yorke. \nMantz Yorke trained as a scientist\, gaining a degree in industrial metallurgy before taking up a career in teaching. Later\, he switched to educational research. Now retired\, he has been able to spend more time writing poetry that reflects his interest in science and human behaviour as well as his enjoyment of\, and concern for\, the natural environment. His poems have been published widely\, both in the UK and internationally\, and his collections Voyager and Dark Matters are published by Dempsey & Windle. \nBook your open mic slot from noon on Tues 8th March via mail@flapjackpress.co.uk. \nN.B. Open mic slots are 3 minutes per performer. Performance slots are allocated on a ‘first come first served’ basis from the stated booking day. If they are already filled you will be offered a space on the reserve list. \nYou can catch up with our lockdown live streams and special guests’ sets on Word Central’s Facebook page. Word Central Facebook Group | Twitter: @WordCentralMcr | Library Live flapjackpress.co.uk/pages/word-centra
URL:https://librarylive.co.uk/event/word-central-open-mic-night-12/
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CATEGORIES:Performance,Readings
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