Past events
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Creative Health Research Symposium
09:30 - 15:30 27 June 2024
Since the publication of Creative Health: The Arts for Health and Wellbeing by the All Party Parliamentary Group on Arts, Health and Wellbeing in 2017 there has been a significant development of practice, policy and research around the concept of creative health. At The University of Manchester we have...
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The Three Cultures? Alan Garner: Art, Myth, Science
09:30 - 16:30 21 June 2024
Celebrate the Summer Solstice with a day of panels, discussions and workshops celebrating renowned novelist and Cheshire local Alan Garner; one of the most significant and interesting writers of our generation. A long-time resident of Alderley Edge, his work is inspired by its history, drawing on its...
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An Evening with Sarah Perry
17:30 - 19:00 21 June 2024
Celebrate the Summer Solstice with an evening discussing Enlightenment, the spell-binding new novel from renowned author, Sarah Perry. The newest story from award-winning novelist Sarah Perry, Enlightenment weaves a web of entangled relationships and emotion, its characters trapped within the conflict...
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Tasting Children's Literature - An Edible Readathon (Festival of Libraries 2024)
12:00 - 13:00 16 June 2024
From the apple that Snow White should not have bitten and the drink that makes Alice’s trip to Wonderland possible to the feast gobbled by the very hungry little caterpillar in Eric Carle’s now classic 1969 story and the nut that the mouse finally gets to savour in Julia Donaldson’s contemporary...
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Writing for Wellbeing (Festival of Libraries 2024)
10:00 - 12:00 15 June 2024
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 of the Festival...
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Writing for Wellbeing (Festival of Libraries 2024)
12:00 - 14:00 14 June 2024
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 of the Festival...
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Blackout the Jargon (Festival of Libraries 2024)
14:00 - 16:00 14 June 2024
Although scientists publish their work in academic journals or others to read, these can often be difficult to understand due to the type of language used. Join us for a session of blackout poetry, where participants can find meaning in a scientific text by selecting certain words and redacting the rest...
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Writing for Wellbeing (Festival of Libraries 2024)
17:00 - 18:50 13 June 2024
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 of the Festival...
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One In Ten (Festival of Libraries 2024)
12 - 13 June 2024
One in Ten is a listening experience that will take you on a journey into the mysteries of the human body. Immerse yourself in this eye-opening, powerful soundscape and walk in the shoes of people whose lives are deeply affected by a complex and misunderstood condition. Inside your body, in every moment,...
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What's in a word, and what's in a dictionary? (Festival of Libraries 2024)
14:00 - 15:30 12 June 2024
How would you describe the meanings of everyday English words such as rose, aunt, or giggle? You have probably come across words in one language that have several translations in another – how can that be? How do dictionaries define words? What about idioms such as spill the beans? How do children...
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