Past events
MLF 2024: Gillian Clarke poetry masterclass
Poet, playwright and educator Gillian Clarke is one of the most acclaimed and widely read poets of r...
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...
Enrique Uribe 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 sem...
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 yo...
MLF 2024: Humanise with Thomas Heatherwick
‘Humanise is a masterwork.’ Alain de Botton One of the world’s most prolific designers, Thoma...
Manchester Literature Festival: Lindsey Hilsum
‘I was standing outside an apartment block that had been split apart by a missile. The words of a...
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 Literature Festival 2024: Caroline Lucas
‘Engaging, illuminating and ultimately uplifting, Another England opens the path to a renewed coun...
MLF 2024: Jackie Kay: A Life in Poetry and Protest
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
Manchester University Music Society’s Piano Showcase is the first weekly lunchtime concert of the...