Past events

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...

Lunchtime concert: Manchester University Music Society’s Piano Showcase

12:10 - 12:55 4 October 2024

Manchester University Music Society’s Piano Showcase is the first weekly lunchtime concert of the...

WCLC: The Lucky Dog Picturehouse – silent movie screening with live musical accompaniment

12:10 - 12:55 3 October 2024

Experience silent comedies from over 100 years ago with era-authentic scores, performed live by the...

The Man who Photobombed De Gaulle

15:00 - 17:00 3 October 2024

The 80th anniversary of the Liberation of Paris offers an opportunity to explore the discrepancy bet...

Mandarin Corner (EVERY WEDNESDAY)

2 October - 4 December 2024

THIS IS A RECURRING EVENT - EVERY WEDNESDAY at 4:30PM – 5:30PM Mandarin Corner is back for anoth...

Welcome Concert: Manchester University Music Society and Chorus

12:10 - 13:00 30 September 2024

Manchester University Music Society (MUMS) host this special performance to welcome a new cohort of...

Quatuor Danel Evening Concert: Bruckner 200 years Special

18:30 - 20:30 27 September 2024

Anton Bruckner (1824–1896) Six Scherzi for String Quartet, WAB 209 (1862) Theme and variations...

WCLC: The Quatuor Danel with Richard Whalley (piano) - Bruckner 200 years Special

12:10 - 12:55 26 September 2024

Part of the Bruckner 200 years celebration, Richard Whalley joins the strings for a piano quartet by...

Autumn Open Day at the Manchester Confucius Institute

13:00 - 15:00 21 September 2024

Interested in learning a new language and always wondered what learning Mandarin would be like? Want...

Drama Welcome Week Show: Pliable present...NEAR TO

18:00 - 19:00 20 September 2024

Pliable present NEAR TO, devised by the company My mum’s life is like a dress she wears proudly....