Past events
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BEYOND Conference 2025
24 - 26 November 2025
Creative Manchester are delighted to be a partner of BEYOND 2025 conference again, where we will share some of the innovative research by early career researchers in digital and creative technologies. We will also provide insights into projects that are shaping the future of the creative and cultural...
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Creative Health: Supporting older adults to live well in Greater Manchester
14:00 - 17:00 19 November 2025
Creative Health: Supporting older adults to live well in Greater Manchester Join us for an afternoon exploring creative health approaches to supporting older adults to live well in Greater Manchester, with a particular focus on the link between creative health and brain health. The event is co-convened...
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Reflecting on Manchester Criminal Prosecutions: A panel event
17:00 - 19:00 17 November 2025
Participants Jade Akoum, sister of Yousef Makki, campaigner David Conn, The Guardian Professor Eithne Quinn, The University of Manchester Pete Weatherby KC, Garden Court North Dr Patrick Williams, Harm to Healing Coalition About the event This panel centres the...
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Jeanette Winterson (Manchester Literature Festival in partnership with Centre for New Writing and Creative Manchester)
19:00 - 20:15 11 November 2025
Forty years after her era-defining debut Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, Jeanette Winterson returns with One Aladdin Two Lamps - a bold, brilliant celebration of the transformative power of storytelling and a radical look at the future. Written in Jeanette’s unique style, One Aladdin Two Lamps, cracks...
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Building Futures, Thinking Long-Term: Insights on Collaborating with Those Impacted by Long-Term Imprisonment to Shape Policies That Affect Them
09:00 - 17:00 6 November 2025
The Prison Reform Trust (PRT) is an independent UK charity working to create a just, humane and effective penal system. Building Futures – PRT’s six-year programme funded by the National Lottery Community Fund – has explored the experiences of people serving long prison sentences. The programme...
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You Ought To Know – Reclaiming Black British Music His and Herstories
18:00 - 19:30 6 November 2025
Join us as we share the findings from a recent research project, “You Ought To Know – Reclaiming Black British music His and Herstories”. You will learn more about the stories of artists underrepresented in the history of the Manchester music and cultural scene, through an in-conversation with...
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Zadie Smith (Manchester Literature Festival in partnership with Centre for New Writing and Creative Manchester)
19:30 - 20:45 4 November 2025
Zadie Smith, one of the most beloved writers of her generation, joins us to discuss her illuminating and keenly-awaited new essay collection Dead and Alive. Written with her usual wit and insight, Zadie takes us from an exploration of artists – including Kara Walker and Celia Paul – to Glastonbury...
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Mimi Khalvati: Rylands Poetry Reading (Manchester Literature Festival in partnership with Centre for New Writing and Creative Manchester)
18:00 - 19:15 23 October 2025
Join us for the annual Rylands Poetry Reading, this year delivered by one of our best-loved poets Mimi Khalvati. Her award-winning lyrical poetry has been inspired by everything from her Persian background to her travels in the Mediterranean. She employs a variety of poetic forms from sonnets to ghazals...
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The Poems of Seamus Heaney (Manchester Literature Festival in partnership with Centre for New Writing and Creative Manchester)
18:30 - 19:45 20 October 2025
Don’t miss this special evening celebrating the life and work of Seamus Heaney, as five acclaimed poets gather to mark the publication of The Poems of Seamus Heaney. The definitive edition of his work, it encompasses all the poems that Seamus published in his lifetime (from Death of a Naturalist (1966)...
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Marcus du Sautoy (Manchester Literature Festival in partnership with Centre for New Writing and Creative Manchester)
15:30 - 16:45 19 October 2025
In this fascinating talk, celebrated mathematician and leading scientist Marcus du Sautoy invites us to explore his new book Blueprints: How Mathematics Shapes Creativity and rethink the boundaries between art and mathematics. From prehistoric stone circles to Zaha Hadid’s sweeping curves, to Shakespeare’s...
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