Past events
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Vale? Is it worth it? UK premiere and panel discussion
11:00 - 13:30 25 October 2023
Please join us for the UK premiere of the documentary Vale? Is It Worth It? Five artists in the front line against Brazil’s worst environmental crime. The screening will be preceded by lunch and networking and followed by a panel discussion and Q&A session. Through music, poetry and circus performances,...
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Engaging Stakeholders in Building Climate Resilience
14:30 - 16:00 25 October 2023
The Sustainable Futures Challenge Area, Resilient Futures, and Creative Manchester present this special event exploring how the arts and sciences can collaborate in addressing the challenge of climate resilience. A short theatre performance will be followed by a Q&A discussion with an inter-disciplinary...
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Jeanette Winterson (Manchester Literature Festival 2023)
22 October 2023 - 15 October 2024
Who’s afraid of ghosts, ghouls and the occult? While our lives have become digital, exposed and always on, ghosts have been finding new ways to connect to us, to reach us, to haunt us. One of our most prolific and inspiring storytellers, Jeanette Winterson returns to MLF to launch her new book, Night...
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Creative Writing workshop with Lemn Sissay OBE
14:00 - 15:30 19 October 2023
A CPD event for school teachers. Discover ways of using creative writing to spark creativity and wellbeing in the classroom. A teacher professional development workshop Join us for an exciting workshop with poet and former University of Manchester Chancellor, Lemn Sissay OBE. The workshop will...
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PNR at 50 (Manchester Literature Festival 2023)
19 October 2023 - 15 October 2024
7pm (Drinks Reception from 6pm) Join us for the annual Rylands Poetry Reading and raise a toast to PN Review, celebrating 50 years of publishing some of the most vital, diverse and provocative poetry, essays, interviews and reviews from around the globe. Contributing...
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New Commission: Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir (Manchester Literature Festival 2023)
15 October 2023 - 15 October 2024
‘Ólafsdóttir’s specialty is the small journeys we take to save ourselves and the ones we care for. She is the heart’s finest map-maker.’– Sjón Icelandic novelist, poet and lyricist Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir?returns to the city to share new work inspired by her Writers Residency in Manchester...
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"The Book of Beijing" at the Manchester Literature Festival
15:00 - 16:30 15 October 2023
The Confucius Institute is co-hosting a discussion as part of the Manchester Literature Festival with two authors from China. Gu Shi and Wen Zhen will be reading from and discussing their contributions to The Book of Beijing, an anthology of short stories published by Manchester-based Comma Press in...
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New Commission: Jason Allen-Paisant
14 October 2023 - 15 October 2024
‘It is beautiful, oh my god it is.’ To mark the 200th anniversary of Manchester Art Gallery, award-winning poet Jason Allen-Paisant has created a trio of exquisite, luxurious, sensual and playful poems inspired by paintings and garments in the gallery’s collection and recent Dandy Style exhibition.?At...
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