Past events

MLF 2024: Gillian Clarke poetry masterclass

15:00 - 16:15 10 October 2024

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

18:00 - 19:15 10 October 2024

‘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"

16:00 - 17:30 9 October 2024

Part of the University of Manchester's Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies' research sem...

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 yo...

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, Thoma...

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...

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 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 coun...

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...