Events
Manchester Literature Festival: David Peace at HOME
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 supporters. 23 passengers died, 21 survived...
Manchester Literature Festival: Lindsey Hilsum
‘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 to make sense of the world and acted ‘as a..
Mandarin Corner (EVERY WEDNESDAY)
THIS IS A RECURRING EVENT - EVERY WEDNESDAY at 4:30PM – 5:30PM Mandarin Corner is back for another term and we're delighted to bring you more language practice and some cultural activities. Mandarin Corners are informal conversation sessions at Beginner (HSK 1-3) and Advanced (HSK 4-6) level that are designed to allow Mandarin learners to..
MLF 2024: Humanise with Thomas Heatherwick
‘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 on neuroscience and cognitive psychology t..
Enrique Jongbloed (Cardiff): "From plagiarism to a vehicle for peace: one hundred years of comics in Colombia"
Part of the University of Manchester's Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies' research seminar series: Wed 9 October 2024, 5pm (UK time). This event will be in person, in Samuel Alexander Building, room A214. It can be followed online here: https://zoom.us/j/95860231166 Abstract: This presentation reviews the history of the relati..
MLF 2024: An Evening with Meera Sodha
‘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 pleasure. The dishes she creates when she..
Manchester Literature Festival 2024 poetry reading with Gillian Clarke
‘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 the former National Poet of Wales, Gillian..
MLF 2024: Gillian Clarke poetry masterclass
Poet, playwright and educator Gillian Clarke is one of the most acclaimed and widely read poets of recent decades. In this workshop, she will share insights into the craft of poetry, and how to bend language into original and musical verse. Gillian is the former National Poet of Wales and president of the Ty Newydd writers’ centre which she..
WCLC: A Curious Mind: Ensemble Augelletti (New Generation Baroque Ensemble)
Ensemble Augelletti tell the unique story of 18th-century Yorkshireman Edward Finch and perform music by Purcell, Handel and Corelli which Finch played with his friends. The Thursday lunchtime concerts are part of the Walter Carroll Lunchtime Concert Series, which is supported by the Ida Carroll Trust. They provide a wide-ranging programme to..
MLF 2024: Joe Boyd
“New technologies may divert our attention, but music created in the moment can still be found where it always has been, in the feet, fingers, voices and spirits of musicians in every corner of the world.” Legendary music producer Joe Boyd (White Bicycle: Making Music in the 1960s) invites you to open your ‘minds and ears to a wider, r..