Events
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Future of Opera: Human-AI Improvisation
16:00 - 19:00 19 May 2026
An experimental workshop exploring digital inclusion and innovation through human–AI improvisation. This workshop, part of Tuning into Opera, a research and engagement initiative from English National Opera and The University of Manchester, and the OperAI: Future of Opera series, invites you to experience live opera reimagined through human–AI...
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Manchester Literature Festival presents Douglas Stuart
19:00 - 26 May 2026
We’re delighted to welcome back to Manchester Literature Festival Booker Prize-winning novelist Douglas Stuart, to discuss his profoundly moving new novel John of John, set on the Isle of Harris. Returning home after his art school years on the mainland, John-Calum Macleod is drawn back into a tightly bound Hebridean community shaped by faith,...
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Manchester Literature Festival presents Tayari Jones
19:00 - 2 June 2026
Manchester Literature Festival is delighted to welcome bestselling author Tayari Jones to discuss her highly anticipated new novel Kin. Born days apart in Honeysuckle, Louisiana, Vernice and Annie grow up inseparable, bound by a shared loss: neither will ever know her mother. Coming of age in segregated America in the 1950s and 60s, their lives...
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Writing for Wellbeing (1)
14:00 - 15:00 9 June 2026
Creative writing workshop for the Festival of Libraries 2026 Expressing yourself and crafting an object have long been studied and considered a way to relieve stress and emotional turbulence. We are told that “talking helps” and that making “something out of nothing” can make us feel better. Writing is a form of speech. And so, as part...
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Roots, Resistance, Reinvention: Exploring Jamaican Patois/Patwah (Creole)
18:00 - 19:30 10 June 2026
A workshop celebrating Jamaican Patwa / Patwah / Patois, sometimes also called ‘Creole’. As part of our Festival of Libraries Programme. A workshop celebrating Jamaican Patwa / Patwah / Patois, sometimes also called ‘Creole’. What is Jamaican Patois/Patwah? How much variation is there between different regions of Jamaica and /or across...
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