Past events
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Manchester Literature Festival 2024 poetry reading with Gillian Clarke
18:00 - 19:15 10 October 2024
‘Clarke has a direct line to the natural world. She paints the Welsh landscape without idealising or romanticising, and in the process shows that nature doesn’t need to be elevated to inspire a quiet awe.’ – Financial Times Join us for the annual Rylands Poetry Reading, this year delivered by...
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MLF 2024: An Evening with Meera Sodha
18:30 - 19:45 9 October 2024
‘The ability to put a good dinner on the table has become my superpower and I want it to become yours too.’ Bestselling, multi-award-winning cook Meera Sodha joins us to share her passion for East and South Asian cuisine and her most personal recipes to date. Dinner contains the food she makes for...
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MLF 2024: Humanise with Thomas Heatherwick
18:00 - 19:15 8 October 2024
‘Humanise is a masterwork.’ Alain de Botton One of the world’s most prolific designers, Thomas Heatherwick is fighting ‘an epidemic of boringness’ and demands that we put human emotion back at the heart of building design. With Humanise: A Maker’s Guide to Building Our World, Thomas draws...
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Manchester Literature Festival: Lindsey Hilsum
15:30 - 16:45 6 October 2024
‘I was standing outside an apartment block that had been split apart by a missile. The words of a poem came to me when I could no longer find my own.’ In the four decades she’s spent as a foreign correspondent, Lindsey Hilsum has always carried a book of poetry with her. Poetry has helped her...
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Manchester Literature Festival: David Peace at HOME
18:00 - 19:15 6 October 2024
Limbs and hearts may be broken, but the spirit remains. Their message is that the club is not dead. Manchester United lives on. In February 1958, BEA Flight 609 crashed on take-off at Munich Airport. On board were the Busby Babes, the young, gifted Manchester United team, along with journalists and...
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Manchester Literature Festival 2024: Caroline Lucas
13:30 - 14:45 5 October 2024
‘Engaging, illuminating and ultimately uplifting, Another England opens the path to a renewed country with real reasons to be proud of itself.’ Fintan O’Toole Caroline Lucas, former leader of the Green Party, looks at the elements that make us English – our beautiful countryside, our literature,...
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MLF 2024: Jackie Kay: A Life in Poetry and Protest
18:00 - 19:15 5 October 2024
Festival favourite Jackie Kay (Red Dust Road) returns to celebrate her new poetry collection May Day. From Reclaim the Streets to Pride to Greenham Common to Black Lives Matter, Jackie traces a line in protest. It’s a line that connects her life to that of her beloved parents who were committed socialists...
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pro-manchester Creative Conference 2024
08:00 - 14:30 20 September 2024
Creative Manchester is delighted to be partnering with pro-manchester for the Creative Conference 2024 again! Join us for a digital, creative and media knowledge-share that will set you up with all the insights, ideas and practical advice you need to be successful in the year ahead. Speakers from the...
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Creative Healthy Brains Research Café
10:15 - 11:15 20 September 2024
Creative Manchester are pleased to present a morning research café as part of the So Many Beauties Dementia Friendly Music Festival, taking place at Bridgewater Hall on 20th September. This free event will feature a short panel discussion and Q&A with Academics from the University of Manchester on...
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'Pandemic Culture' Book Launch & Symposium
11:00 - 15:00 17 September 2024
Join us for an afternoon of discussions and panels celebrating the launch of the book Pandemic Culture: The Impacts of Covid-19 on the UK Cultural Sector and Implications for the Future, published by Manchester University Press. Help us revisit and reinvestigate local, regional and national impacts and...
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